Wednesday, 6th August 2014 International Biophysics Congress

• Structural basis of voltage-dependent gating in ion channels and enzymes - Eduardo Perozo

• Alternating access of MFS sugar transporters - Nieng Yan
• Voltage-gated sodium channels: Structure and function and disease - Bonnie Ann Wallace
• Kir channel regulation: A changing perspective on gating - Jacqueline Gulbis
• Structural analysis of SLAC1‐family anion channel - Yuhang Chen

• Alternative pathways of RNA recruitment in yeast exosome revealed by single particle electron microscopy - Hongwei Wang
• Cryo-em study of the chromatin fiber reveals a double helix twisted by tetranucleosomal units - Ping Zhu
• Homotypic membrane fusion by dynamin3like GTPases - Junjie Hu
• Structural basis of chronic beryllium disease: bridging the gap between allergy and autoimmunity - Shaodong Dai
• In search of infinite solutions; the inverse problem in small-angle X-ray scattering - Lachlan W. Casey
• The functional and structure study of phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase IIalpha - Chang Chen
• Structural and biochemical insights into the V/I505T mutation found in the EIAV gp45 vaccine strain - Xinqi Liu
• PYL10 modulation by ABA through structure stabilization - Juan Li

• Drug discovery insights from structural systems biology - Nagasuma Chandra
• Exploiting protein flexibility to predict the location of allosteric sites - Xavier Daura
• Dominant Reaction Pathways approach for protein folding and conformational transitions - Silvio a Beccara
• Intrinsically semi-disordered state and its role in induced folding and protein aggregation  - Yuedong Yang
• Structural annotation of genome sequences from the endophytic bacterium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus - Paulo Mascarello Bisch
• Network thermodynamic curation of eukaryotic genome-scale metabolic models - Veronica S. Martinez

• Single-molecule biophysics on ATP synthase - Hiroyuki Noji
• Molecular machinery from DNA: Synthetic biology from the bottom up - Andrew Turberfield
• DNA templated protein complex assembly - Lawrence K. Lee
• Bacterial antibiotic persistence studied by in vivo fluorescent imaging and next-generation sequencing - Fan Bai
• Analysis of bacterial type III effector secretion mechanism based on the observation of rotation of type III secretion apparatus - Takashi Ohgita

• 25 years of clinical applications of MR spectroscopy: A critical review - Patrick J. Cozzone
• Studying cerebral effects of transcranial direct current stimulation using magnetic resonance - Caroline Rae
• Measurement of pore volume fraction and its effect on compression in alginate hydrogels by MRI - Monique C. Tourell
• Theranostics based on metal oxide nanoparticles at NIMTE - Aiguo Wu
• Ultrashort microwave pumped thermoacoustic imaging for noninvasive breast tumor localization in three dimensions - Cunguang Lou
• Long-lived NIR emissive probe for cell imaging and biomolecular detection - Da Xing

• Solar energy conversion efficiencies in photosynthesis: Minimizing the chlorophyll antennae to maximize efficiency - Anastasios Melis
• Development of Microalgae Biomass Production for sustainable Biofuels - Andreas Isdepsky
• Using wavelength specific photosynthetic responses to improve algal biofuel production - Peter Ralph
• The production of energy from a biological system: A case study using the freshwater macroalga Oedogonium - Rocky de Nys

• Structural basis for cytochrome c oxidase kinetic stability – Differential scanning calorimetry study - Andrej Musatov
• NMR based metabonomics of blood plasma in celiac disease  - Deepti Upadhyay
• Biochemical characterization of urine in autoimmune disease using ¹H NMR spectroscopy - Deepti Upadhyay
• Gene X expression promotes malignant tumor growth by inducingHIF-1-mediated metabolic reprogramming and angiogenesis - Li-Hua Zeng
• Accurate charges for docking of metalloproteins - Ki Chul Park
• Can anti-mouse IgG secondary antibody directly bind to EV71 antigen? - Hong SHEN
• Power-law distribution in the cell motility of the Physarum plasmodium - Tomohiro Shirakawa
• Cellular Characteristics and Phenotypic Changes During Epithelial To Mesenchymal Transition In  Renal Carcinoma CellsCellular characteristics and phenotypic changes during epithelial to mesenchymal transition in renal carcinoma cells - Mamta Singla
• QCM-D study of the interaction of siRNA with lipidic cubic phase delivery vehicles - Behnoosh Tajik-Ahmadabad
• Protein β-interfaces as a generic source of native peptide tectons  - Celine Valery
• The damaging effects of different bands electromagnetic radiation on the rat sertoli cells - Dewen Wang
• Influence of electromagnetic radiation on the offspring sex ratios and its mechanism - Dewen Wang
• Radiation-induced senescence in uveal melanoma 92-1 cells - Jufang Wang
• Efffects of X ray on the DNA damage and cell cycle of Hela xenografts - Rui Wang
• Crystal structures and function research of cerebral cavernous malformations 2 C-domain and its complex with mitogen-activated protein kinase /extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase kinase 3 - Xiaoyan Wang
• Cell morphology analysis determines intrinsic cell modulus - Li Yang
• Adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung: Its prognosis and clinicopathological characteristics - Haili Zhu
• The neural substrate of social interactions in Drosophila - Yan Zhu
• Rapid noncontact photoacoustic tomography imaging using an interferometer with phase modulation technique - Zhilie Tang
• Two-photon photoacoustic microscopy for label-free bio-imaging based on microcavity transducer - Zhilie Tang
• Quantum enhanced imaging within a living cell - Michael A. Taylor
• Selective binding of single-stranded binding proteins to hybrids of DNA and carbon nanotubes - Kazuo Umemura
• Effects of rotating and stationary magnetic fields on iron metabolism in osteoporotic rats - Xiaomei Wang
• 3D Ultra-structural analysis of insulin granules in pancreatic β-cells using STEM and FIB/SEM - Tao Xu
• Fabrication of a novel europium chelate doped Ag@SiO2 nanocomposite with intense fluorescence for cell imaging - Dongguang Yin
• Targeting hyperphosphorylated tau is a disease-modifying treatment in a post-status epilepticus rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy - Ping Zheng
• P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Electrostatic component contribution to the energetics of ion permeation through a Na⁺ channel - Leticia Stock
• Computational study of conotoxin GID interaction with α7 and α4β2 nicotinic receptor subtypes    - Abishek Suresh
• Extracellular acidosis induces a TRPM7-like sodium current in mouse distal convoluted tubule (MDCT) cells  - Corey Valinsky
• Tissue acidosis induces neuronal necroptosis via ASIC1a channel independent of its ionic conduction - Yi-Zhi Wang
• BK channel deletions, chimaeras, and mutations, help to identify the site of action of the BK channel opener GoSlo-SR-5-6 - Tim I. Webb
• Ribosylation and neural cell death - Yan Wei
• Inhibition of acid-sensing ion channel 1A by mambalgin-1 - Ming Wen
• Measuring the electrical impedance of mouse brain cortex - Marcus T. Wilson
• The role of the N-terminus and a putative furin cleavage site in ρ1 GABA_C receptor biogenesis and function - Lik-Wei Wong
• Molecular basis for recruitment of STIM1 to the CRAC channels Orai1 and Orai3 - Fuyun Wu
• Intracellular ASIC1a regulates mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT)-dependent neuronal death  - Tian-Le Xu
• Developmental changes of TRPC6 channels during differentiation of conditionally immortalized mouse podocyte cell line - Jiajia Yang
• Effect of GABA on iron metabolism and its regulation mechanism in PC12 cells - Peng Yu
• Effect of iron liposomes on sports anemia and inflammation anemia in rats - Peng Yu
• Different KCNQ1 modualtions by KCNE1 and KCNE2 - Longhua Zhang
• Physiological properties of glycinergic synapses with defined subunit compositions - Yan Zhang
• Mechanisms of iron misregulation in hypertension induced by epinephrine and norepinephrine - Shu-E Zhao
• The role of RKIP in neural cell apoptosis induced by microwave exposure - Hongyan Zuo
• Improvements of a method to predict interfaces for GPCR oligomerization - Akira Saito
• Molecular basis for substrate selectivity of neutral amino acid transporters - Amanda Scopelliti
• Small angle neutron scattering and NMR for probing flip flop in model membranes - John M Seddon
• Structural and mechanistic insights into MICU1 regulation of mitochondrial calcium uptake - Yuequan Shen
• Effect of pH on Influenza A virus protein scaffold revealed by atomic force microscopy - Liudmila Shilova
• How nanoscale bending affects structure, dynamics, phase properties and surface electrostatics of lipid bilayers - Alex I. Smirnov
• Structure and dynamics of membrane proteins in nanopore-confined lipid bilayers of various composition by ssNMR and spin-labeling EPR - Alex I. Smirnov
• Dielectric constant and water penetration gradients along transmembrane peptide-lipid bilayer interface - Tatyana Smirnova
• The role of cholesterol in drug partitioning - Nandhitha Subramanian
• Homotypic endoplasmic reticulum membrane fusion in yeast - Sha Sun
• Heteromerization of G2A and OGR1 alters receptor location and proton-induced signaling pathway - Wei-Hsin Sun
• L3 bilayers composed of non-ionic surfactants maintain membrane protein activity - Nicolas Taulier
• Controlled reconstitution of membrane proteins by detergent extraction through cyclodextrin complexation - Martin Textor
• Effects of electrostatic interactions on tension-induced pore formation in single GUVs - Taka-aki Tsuboi
• Novel prostate cancer markers identified by antibody microarrays - Vicki Velonas
• Kinetic contribution to cation (Na⁺/K⁺) selectivity in the Na⁺/K⁺ pump - Elizabeth Vleeskens
•  A new multifunctional nanomaterial based on the self-assembly of S-Layer protein EA1 - Dian-Bing Wang
• Single molecule analysis of membrane transporter activity by using novel lipid bilayer chamber system - Rikiya Watanabe
• Modelling the interactions of Equinatoxin II with micelles - Daniel Weber
• The water pore formation in the oxidized lipid bilayer  - Jirasak Wong-ekkabut
• Lamin-A/C/LAP2a/BAF1 protein complex regulates mitotic spindle assembly and positioning - Nan Xu
• Light-induced gating of a mechanosensitive channel followed by a spectroscopic approach - Duygu Yilmaz
• Reconstitution of OmpF membrane proteins on lipid bilayers: “Perforated” hexagonal and cubic mesophases - Alexandru Zabara
• The GSK3 beta-Dzip1-Rab8 cascade regulates ciliogenesis after mitosis - Boyan Zhang
• The bacteria control lipid droplet size by regulation of microorganism lipid droplet small - Congyan Zhang
• Structure of the YajR transporter suggests a transport mechanism based on the conserved motif - Xuejun C. Zhang
• Dynamic contributions of E- and P-selectin in neutrophil transmigration - Yan Zhang
• Deficiency of HID-1 leads to impaired proinsulin processing - Maoge Zhou
• Whole-genome RNA interference screening of C. elegans with LD marker protein DHS-3 - Xiaotong Zhu
• Cholesterol enrichment causes dysfunction of Cx43 gap junction by enhancing PKC activity in H9c2 cells - Jun Zou
• Structure of the 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO) in complex with a diagnostic ligand - Markus Zweckstetter
• Calcium sensitive effects of a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation in cardiac troponin by NMR - Phani Rekha Potluri
• New photoactivatable anticancer platinum(IV) azide dipyridine complex: Interactions with DNA and inhibition of RNA polymerase II - Jitka Pracharova
• Integration- and disease-free iPSCs for modeling Fanconi anemia pathogenesis and therapeutics - Jing Qu
• Segmental labeling of multidomain proteins for structural studies by multidimensional NMR spectroscopy - Venkatraman Ramanujam
• Modulating enzymatic activity of E coli dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) by controlling dynamic motions with site-directed chemical crosslinking (SDXL) - Ken Sale
• Control of lipid phase behaviour by molecular design: Implications for membrane protein crystallization - Livia Salvati Manni
• Tripeptides - importance of amino acid composition on amyloid Aβ-peptide aggregation - Katarina Siposova
• Mechanism and regulation of intestinal cholesterol absorption - Bao-Liang Song
• Enterovirus 71 VPg uridylation uses a two-molecular mechanism of 3D polymerase - Yuna Sun
• Stabilization of human G-quadruplex DNA by anticancer drug mitoxantrone leads to inhibition of telomerase enzyme - Pradeep T Palakshan
• Insight into the origin of allostery: Stepwise reconstruction of an allosteric protein from its subunits - Antonio Tsuneshige
• Weaponization of a hormone: Convergent recruitment of hyperglycemic hormone into arthropod venoms - Eivind A.B. Undheim
• Studies of malignant tumors as Abnormal Savda syndrome in traditional Uyghur medicine: Identification of common protein markers and potential therapeutic targets of the prescriptions - Halmurat Upur
• Phytochemicals for diabetes therapy - Ranjit Vijayan
• SAXS study as a way to equation of state for a binary mixture of DNA and HA - Tomislav Vuletic
• The effect of pH value on the conformational character of the antimicrobial peptide LL-37 by molecular dynamics simulations - Jihua Wang
• Study on methodology for physical environment influence the membrane protein crystallization - Ya Wang
• Metal-dependent interactions of metallothionein-3 with amyloid-β peptide and possible physiological implications - Juan Xiang
• Structural studies on sorting nexins - Jinxin Xu
• Structural analysis of mycobacterium tuberculosis ATP-binding cassette transporter subunit UgpB reveals specificity for glycerol-phosphocholine - Qiaoling Yan
• Prediction and validation of the unexplored RNA-binding protein atlas of the human proteome - Yuedong Yang
• Crystal structure of the N-terminal ankyrin repeat domain of TRPV3 reveals unique conformation of finger 3 loop critical for channel function - Sheng Ye
• Interaction between AT1R and ACE I/D polymorphisms in essential hypertension in Uygur ethnicity - kurexi yunusi
• Crystal structure of the WOPR-DNA complex and implications for Wor1 function in white-opaque switching of Candida albicans - Shicheng Zhang
• Structural basis for the allosteric activation of the Rabex-5 GEF activity by Rabaptin-5 - Tianlong Zhang
• FtsZ specific helical polymers reveals different bending direction with tubulin - Lingyun Zhao
• Engineering and characterization of a humanized antibody targeting both TNF-α and RANKL - Wenming Zhao
• On mechanism of dephosphorylation of glycosyl-3-phosphoglycerate by a histidine phosphatase - Weihong Zhou
• The effect of XPD Lys751Gln and Asp312Asn polymorphisms on susceptibility to skin cancer: Insights from a meta-analysis - Haili Zhu
• Structure-based discovery of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus fusion inhibitor - Yun Zhu
• Three dimensional force spectroscopy of a single extended DNA molecule - Allan Raudsepp
• The biophysical aspect of the Min-nucleoid interaction - Jie-Pan Shen
• Single molecule view of actin - tropomyosin filament dynamics - Tom L. Sobey
• New paramagnetic tags in site-specific labeling of proteins with lanthanide metal ions for NMR spectroscopy - Xun-Cheng Su
• Dual colour colocalisation methods in protein clusters for coordinate-based microscopy - Thibault Tabarin
• Selective protein modification at multiple sites in L.tarentolae cell-free protein synthesis system - Zakir Tnimov
• Microfluidics at high temperature and pressure - Robert Ward
• Efficient transformation of cells into fluorescent bioprobes for pathogen detection - Ling-Hong Xiong
• Peptide assembly and its application in peptide-based biodetection - Yanlian Yang
• Key factors of arginine finger catalysis of F₁-ATPase clarified by an unnatural amino acid mutation - Ayako Yukawa
• The analysis of cell-type specificity of exosome miRNAs and proteins, and the potential utilization of exosome to be a new delivery system - Chen-Yu Zhang
• Optical and color based probes for gene-sensing - Xiaoming Zhou
• Cooperative TCR–pMHC–CD8 catch bond distinguishes thymocyte positive versus negative selection - Cheng Zhu
• Stereological study of epidermal volumes and thickness in human skin grafts on nude athymic mice - Haili Zhu
• General framework for thermodynamically consistent parameterization and efficient sampling of metabolic reactions - Pedro A. Saa
• Study on the relationship between histone modifications and gene expression levels in the human H1 cell line - Wen-Xia Su
• The interaction of boron nitride nanotubes and lipid bilayers - Michael Thomas
• Simulations of water interactions with a collagen molecule for probing anisotropic spin relaxation in articular cartilage - Monique C. Tourell
• Structure predictions for membrane proteins from amino-acid sequence with replica exchange methods, a restricted implicit membrane model and helical distortions - Ryo Urano
• Nuclear magneto-optic spectroscopy - Juha Vaara
• Optical tweezers: New tool for gene insertion in to the biological cell - Muhammad Waleed
• The study on interaction between HIV-1 protease and C₂-symmetric inhibitors by computational methods - Jihua Wang
• Exploring the free-energy profile for MDM2 in complex with a peptide using Brownian dynamics fluctuation dissipation theorem - Jihua Wang
• Generalised enzyme kinetics model for signalling systems - Martin K.L. Wong
• Dynamic systems model of the insulin signalling pathway for identifying causes of insulin resistance - Martin K.L. Wong
• Impaired tumor angiogenesis and VEGF-induced pathway in endothelial CD146 knockout mice - Zhenzhen Wu
• A molecular dynamics study on the molecular recognition and a challenge to drug design - Takefumi Yamashita
• Detecting a dynamic nature of the molecular tunnel in tryptophan synthase - Midori Yano
• Bioinformatics analyses of mRNA cleavage-polyadenylation specificity factor complex toward its structure prediction - Kei Yura
• The correlation analysis of histone modifications in Drosophila Melanogaster genome - Lirong Zhang
• Modeling the interplay between HIF-1a and p53 in hypoxia - Xiao-Peng Zhang
• Do the rotary motors that drive the spinning of bacterial flagella have auxiliary fuel injection systems? - Roy Caplan
• Entropy-driven stacking of plant photosynthetic membranes - Wah Soon Chow
• The role of water during protein binding interactions and a suggested cause of entropy-enthalpy compensation observed during isothermal titration calorimetry studies - Robert J. Falconer
• Hypochlorous acid oxidises myoglobin and inhibits the pseudo-peroxidase activity of the protein - Thomas Hambly
• Tonotopic relationships reveal the voltage at maximum gain varies with charge density in outer hair cells of the mammalian cochlea. - Varun K.A. Sreenivasan
• Molecular dnamics simulation of membrane phase diagram - Ivan Ortega-Blake
• Investigating the clustering of inwardly rectifying potassium channels by the PSD95 protein - Nazahiyah Rodzli
• Liposomal preparation as a tool to study membrane proteins under buffer gradients by cryo-EM - Kushal Sejwal

Please note this is an open workshop, all delegates are welcome to attend

• The Future of Biophysics - Martin (Bill) Williams
• On biophysical education and research: Necessity of implication of integrative physiology - Eva Neu
• On integrative biophysics in context of UNO-agenda 21 - Eva Neu

Please note this is a closed meeting

Please note this is a closed meeting

• Molecular mechanism of entry of hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) virus - Zihe Rao

• Modulation of dopamine release in the striatum by physiologically-relevant levels of nicotine - Zhuan Zhou
• Developing photoactivatable fluorescent proteins for diffraction-limited and superresolution imaging - Pingyong Xu
• Molecular regulation of receptor-mediated mitochondrial autophagy - Quan Chen
• A role for PLD in the late steps of exocytosis - Jens Coorssen
• Cooperative binding of annexin A2 to cholesterol and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-biphosphate containing bilayers - Hans-Joachim Galla
• Studying lateral organization in complex eukaryotic membrane extracts using Brewster angle microscopy - Mark Mahadeo
• Lipid droplet structure-like proteins - Pingsheng Liu

• Interface-triggered formation of functional amyloid by hydrophobin proteins - Margie Sunde
• Supersaturation-limited protein misfolding revealed by ultrasonication - Yuji Goto
• Conformational heterogeneity and dynamics of a βγ-crystallin, an intrinsically disordered protein - Kandala Venkata Ramana Chary
• Understanding the immune interactions of an unstructured protein antigen: The malaria surface protein MSP2 - Christopher A. MacRaild
• Wetting of non-conserved residues: A feature indicative of aggregation associated regions of protein - Mohan Pradhan
• A new supramolecular strategy for the inhibition of amyloid fibrillation - Hong Hee Lee

• Tethering lipid membranes to nanoparticles: Theoretical constraints and coarse-grained simulations - Markus Deserno
• Multi-scale simulations of bacterial membranes: Successes and outlook for the future - Syma Khalid
• Molecular dynamics simulation studies of the interaction of influenza hemagglutinin fusion peptide with membranes - Cláudio Soares
• Bacterial lipid rafts: Could hopanoids play the role of cholesterol in bacterial membranes? - David Poger
• Lipase enzyme interactions with lipid membranes - Nathalie Willems

• Molecular determinants for neutral and acidic amino acid transport by members of the SCL1 family of transporters - Robert J. Vandenberg
• The cyclic-GMP-gated cationic conductance of the water channel Aquaporin-1 is important for rapid cell migration - Andrea Yool
• Insights into glycine receptor activation mechanisms from startle disease mutations - Joseph W. Lynch
• Model-based assessment of Cx43 hemichannel activity - Yeri Kim
• Agonist selectivity of inhibitory pentameric ligand-gated ion channels - Brett A. Cromer

• Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia: A clinical perspective - Jon Skinner
• The arrhythmogenic human HRC point mutation S96A leads to spontaneous Ca2+ release due to an impaired ability to buffer store Ca2+ - Pete Jones
• Controlling aberrant SR Ca2+ release in the heart - Derek Laver
• Contrasting effects of flecainide on atrial arrhythmia in wild-type and RyR2-P2328S mice - Samantha C. Salvage

Warwick Hillier Memorial Lecture (Sponsored by ANU) presented by Murray Badger

• Cyanobacterial photosynthetic CO2 concentrating mechanisms and their potential application to improving C3 plant photosynthesis - Murray Badger
• A solar hydrogen-producing bio-nanoconstruct that outperforms natural photosynthesis - John H. Golbeck
• Evolution of light harvesting proteins: Single residue insertion switches the quaternary structure and exciton states in cryptophyte phycobiliproteins - Paul M. Curmi
• Three-interactions that dictate lysozyme structural stability by high and medium charge density anions - Robert J. Falconer
• Study on extracellular electron transfer mechanism of electrogenerate bacteria - Yan-Xia Jiang

Please note for those wishing to continue on after the conference dinner concludes, the CBD Cafe Bar at Rydges Hotel (adjacent to the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, on the ground level) will be open for delegates.