Tuesday, 5th August 2014 International Biophysics Congress

• Membrane proteins - The lipid connection - Carol Robinson

• Structural biology for fun and fund: DNA mimic proteins and proteins relevant in drug discovery - Andrew H.-J. Wang
• Structure of the SNX27:VPS26 complex reveals mechanistic details of endocytic recycling - Brett Collins
• Bacterial disarmament: DSB proteins as anti-virulence targets - Roisin M. McMahon
• Ultrasonic and densimetric characterization of the association of cyclic AMP with the cAMP-binding domain of the exchange protein EPAC1 - Ikbae Son
• NMR structural characterization for Flavivirus proteases and its insight into drug discovery targeting Dengue Virus - Congbao Kang
• Structural analysis of the 26S proteasome by cryo-electron microscopy and single-particle analysis - Zhuo Wang
• Computational design of a self-assembling symmetrical β-propeller protein - Arnout R.D. Voet

• Deficiency of HID-1 leads to impaired proinsulin processing - Tao Xu
• Photochromic fluorescent protein with fast on-off switching for versatile nanoscopy - Takeharu Nagai
• Superresolution imaging of the function and localization of IP3 receptor calcium channels - Ian Parker
• Zooming in on the transverse tubules: dSTORM imaging of human cardiac junctions - David Crossman

• Following the gating of a mechanosensitive ion channel: From patch clamp to ion mobility-mass spectrometry - Armagan Kocer
• Actin filaments work as a mechanosensor by transducing tension into their structural dynamics - Masahiro Sokabe
• Mechanical stress in cells, tissues and animals: Physiology and pathology  - Fred Sachs
• Oscillatory phase separation accompanies spontaneous osmoregulation in giant vesicles - Atul N. Parikh
• Modulation of the Mechanosensitive channel of small conductance by cardiolipin - Andrew R. Battle

• Advanced bone biomaterials with nano structure for osteoimmunomodulation - Yin Xiao
• Multifunctionalized Biocompatible Nanoscale Materials for Controllable Drug Delivery System - Xing-Jie Liang
• Modulating peptide self assembly - Chen Wang
• Live-cell synthesis of fluorescent semiconductor quantum dots: How to have cells do what they cannot do? - Dai-Wen Pang
• Heterogeneity of the binding of aptamers to thrombin revealed by a single-molecule nanopore study - Veerle Van Meervelt
• A nanopore machine controls the vectorial transport of DNA across membranes - Lorenzo Franceschini
• Modelling on dynamics of magnetotactic bacteria in a high-gradient magnetic field - Hao Yu
• Design of fluorescent carbon dots and their application for mitochondrial-specific imaging in live cells - Mingqian Tan

• Molecular mechanism and physiological role of mitochondrial calcium uptake in skeletal muscle - Robert T. Dirksen
• Mitochondrial flashes: New insights into mitochondrial ROS signaling and beyond - Heping Cheng
• Impaired relaxation in human diabetic atrial myocardium - Regis Lamberts
• Determining the reactive cysteines on the L-type Ca²⁺ channel responsible for altered function during oxidative stress - Livia C Hool

• Possible mechanism of photosynthetic water-splitting based on atomic structure of photosystem II - Jian-Ren Shen
• Structure and dynamics of rotary ATPases - Daniela Stock
• Structure of the bovine heart F1Fo-ATP synthase determined by sub-tomogram averaging of 2D crystals - Christoph Gerle
• Phospholipid-specific reconstitution of electron transfer activity in lipid-depleted rhodobacter sphaeroides cytochrome c oxidase - Lawrence J. Prochaska
• The proton pump mechanism of bacteriorhodopsin: New insight from the comparison with archaerhodopsin 4 - Zhen Cao

• Tuneable light harvesting and folding of a photosynthetic antennae protein - insights into photoprotection - Alistair J. Laos
• Sensitive detection of human glypican-3 for hepatocellular carcinomas diagnosis by using peptide-based nano-label - Hao Li
• Can enterovirus 71 induced IgG cross-react with the mouse skeletal muscle? - Peixin Lin
• The thioredoxin reductase inhibitor B5 induces apoptosis in human cervical cancer cells through mitochondrial pathway with the involvement of thioredoxin-mediated ASK1/MAPK pathways and the induction of autophagy - Zhong Liu
• Thermal regulation model of human lower limb of Uighur medicine sand therapy - Dilinaer Mahemuti
• Structure and dynamics studies of biopolymer networks - Bradley W. Mansel
• On biophysical fundamentals of combined radio-oncotherapy - Michael Ch. Michailov
• BSA hydrogels: From the early aggregates to the final novel biomaterials - Valeria Militello
• Macromolecular interactions facility: Biophysical analysis of proteins and macromolecules for academia and industry - Y Mok
• Interaction of a model antimicrobial peptide with bacterial cells - Anna Mularski
• Synergic effect of chitosan and ampicillin on Staphylococcus aureus - Yaesung Mun
• Investigation of omega-3 as a marker of oxidative stress and protector in rats exposed to microwave radiation - Ghada M. Nabil
• On integrative biophysics in genito-urology on example of vesical detrusor and trigone - Eva Neu
• A microfluidic device for studying cell signaling with multiple inputs and adjustable amplitudes and frequencies - Zubaidah Ningsih
• Nucleic acid assembly at the aqueous-lipid interface - Tommy Nylander
• The electrophoretic mobility of anionic polysaccharides with different charge distributions - Jessie Owen
• Imaging biopolymer networks: Characterization using statistical distributions - Pablo Hernandez-Cerdan
• Imaging the interaction of fluorescent melittin in contact with live cells and model membranes - Elahehsadat Jamasbi
• Structure(d) illumination - using high resolution structured illumination microscopy for detailed analysis of replication pattern dynamics - Felix Kraus
• Characterizing the anisotropic micro structure of living biological samples using polarized photon scattering - Hui Ma
• Semi-automated analysis of myocardial fibrosis by fractal characterization of histological images - Michael Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber
• Imaging of temperature in a living cell using a fluorescent polymeric thermometer - Kohki Okabe
• Dynamic partitioning of LCK kinase measured by image correlation spectroscopy applied to photo-activation microscopy time series - Elvis Pandžić,
• Mass-production, characterization, functionalization and imaging of nanoruby photoluminescent probes towards imaging of GPCR-signaling events, with single-particle precision - Varun K.A. Sreenivasan
• Effect of partial H₂O/D₂O replacement on the anisotropy of transverse proton spin relaxation in articular cartilage - Sirisha Tadimalla
• Rational engineering defines a molecular switch that is essential for activity of spider-venom peptides against the analgesics target Na_V1.7 - Julie K. Klint
• Dopamine inhibits excitatory synaptic transmission in the premotor nuclei via activating D1 receptor in adult male zebra finches - Dongfeng Li
• Mutagenic effects on seedling growth and drought tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana induced by carbon ion irradiation - Wenjian Li
• Mechanosensitive acid-sensing ion channel 3 in the mouse DRG proprioceptors - Shing-hong Lin
• γ-glutamyl transpeptidase suppresses green-light avoidance via GABA_A receptor in Drosophila - Li Liu
• TRPV1-dependent mechanism for flushing side-effect of niacin - Linlin Ma
• Permeation of sodium ions through mammalian voltage-gated sodium channels - Sahar Mahdavi
• Modulation of hERG gating kinetics via binding of the N-terminal tail  - Stefan A. Mann
• Studying allosteric transitions of the pentameric ligand-gated ion channel GLIC using site-directed fluorescence - Anais Menny
• Severity of trafficking defects caused by Kv11.1 mutations correlates with the severity of the long QT syndrome type 2 presentation in patients - Chai Ann Ng
• Molecular basis of the receptor binding specificity switch of the hemagglutinins from both the 1918 and 2009 pandemic influenza a viruses by a D225G substitution - Jianxun Qi
• The interaction of π-TRTX-Pc1a with acid-sensing ion channel 1a. Mutagenesis studies against rat ASIC1a in light of a co-crystal structure and molecular dynamics with chicken ASIC1 - Lachlan D. Rash
• Tone-Entropy analysis on odor-evoked neuronal activities in the procerebral lobe of a slug - Minoru Saito
• Analysis of the N-terminal domain of bacterial mechanosensitive channel MscL using molecular dynamics simulations - Yasuyuki Sawada
• A startling mutation: The α1Q226E glycine receptor - Suzanne J Scott
• Using 3D based phylogenetics to explore the relationship between Cys-loop receptor binding sites - Troels E Sorensen
• Membrane lipid demixing by the C2 domain of PKCα - Juan C. Gomez-Fernandez
• N-Nervonoylsphingomyelin (C24:1) in cholesterol-containing membranes. An AFM study of bilayer heterogeneity - Felix M Goni
• Thermodynamics of SDS-induced unfolding of helical membrane proteins - F Luis Gonzalez-Flecha
• The interaction of G-protein coupled receptors with a sweet tasting protein and other gustatory delights - Robert Healey
• Floating bilayers as cell membrane mimics - Stephen A. Holt
• A novel small-and-fast exocytosis process revealed by amperometry - Ren Hu
• Effects of diacylglycerols (DAGs) on the physical properties of model lipid bilayers: A molecular dynamics simulations study - Marja Hyvönen
• Entry of cell-penetrating peptide transportan 10 into a single vesicle by translocating across lipid membrane and its induced pores - Md. Zahidul Islam
• Stretch-activated pore of the antimicrobial peptide, magainin 2 - Mohammad Abu Sayem Karal
• Polar interactions trump hydrophobicity in stabilising an integral membrane protein - Sandro Keller
• The permeation behavior of beta cyclodextrin through lipid bilayer   - Wasinee Khuntawee
• Drug-membrane interactions probed using model membrane systems - Ingo Koeper
• Functional analysis of domain structure of the bacterial mechanosensitive channel MscCG - Reinhard Kraemer
• RH421 binding to Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase analyzed using FRET and molecular docking - Martin Kubala
• The molecular basis of the interaction between spider toxins and the voltage sensor domain of voltage-gated ion channels - Carus Lau
• The structure of lipopolysaccharide from rough strains of Escherichia coli at the air – liquid interface - Anton P. Le Brun
• Multi-state mechanisms of membrane destabilisation induced by antimicrobial peptides - Tzong-Hsien (John) Lee
• Effects of lipid composition on biological membrane electrostatics - Bogdan Lev
• Molecular dynamics simulations of GPCR: The effect of different protein-lipid force field parameters - MD. Iqbal Mahmood
• The effect of metal ions on the properties of supported bilayer and single leaflet membranes - Adam Mechler
• Actin scaffolding assembly at center cave of isolation membrane drive autophagosomal membrane curvature formation - Na Mi
• The relative ion permeability of artificial “Selemion©” hydrocarbon membranes used to simulate the properties of biological membranes in undergraduate physiology classes - Andrew J. Moorhouse
• Evaluation of protein-mediated intervesicular lipid transfer by time-resolved neutron scattering - Minoru Nakano
• GGIP: GPCR-GPCR interaction pair predictor - Wataru Nemoto
• A tale of three structures: Examining the crystal structures of P-glycoprotein - Megan A. O'Mara
• Initial step of low pH-induced lamellar to bicontinuous cubic phase transition in dioleoylphosphatidylserine/monoolein - Toshihiko Oka
• Probing and perturbing the lateral organization of cell-surface proteins with plasmonic nanoparticles - Chiara Paviolo
• Insight into the selectivity of α conotoxin BuIA on the nAChR α6 subunit studied by molecular dynamics simulations - Thi Hong Tham Phan
• Structure determination of functional membrane proteins using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) with small, mixed-lipid liposomes: Native beef heart mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase forms dimers - Lawrence J. Prochaska
• Effect of oligonucleotide on bilayer structure of cationic DODAB vesicles - Julio H.K. Rozenfeld
• Nuclear spin catalysis in living cells: Premises and promises - Vitaly K. Koltover
• Computational measurements of spontaneous oscillatory contractions in human cardiomyocytes - Amy Li
• Knockout of smoothelin-like 1 is associated with enhanced myogenic tone in mesenteric arterioles - Justin A. MacDonald
• Retrograde effect of RyR1 on voltage-dependent L-type Ca²⁺ current inactivation - Werner Melzer
• Insight into the toxic effects of cis-dichloridoplatinum(II) complexes containing 7-azaindole halogeno derivatives in tumor cells - Tereza Muchova
• Effect of fluid shear stress intensity and duration time on the expression of Fractalkine in endothelial cells - Yongmei Nie
• Structural investigations of COP9 signalosome binding to Cullin-RING ligases: Promiscuous interactions sharing common regulatory principles - Kenneth Goldie
• The role of β2-microgloulin amyloid-induced membrane disruption in fibril mediated cytotoxicity - Sophia C. Goodchild
• RNA-LIM: A novel optimization procedure for coarse-grained structural prediction of single-stranded RNA bound to a protein interface - Damien Hall
• The crystal structure of the cytochrome P450 enzyme TxtE - Jianhua He
• Molecular deuteration enabling structural studies of proteins and biomembranes using neutron scattering and NMR - Peter J Holden
• Structural analysis of AEP reveals activation mechanism and reversible maturation intermediate - Tian Hua
• Crystals of the Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase with bound cisplatin - Miroslav Huliciak
• Structural rearrangements of DNA associated with transcriptional regulation with GabR - Robert M.G. Hynson
• Relationship between chain collapse and secondary structure in a partially folded protein - Masamichi Ikeguchi
• How do peptidyl-prolyl isomerases rescue tau protein from aggregating? - Teikichi Ikura
• Model of hybrid-proteasome for the efficient hydrolysis of substrates analyzed using molecular dynamics simulation - Hisashi Ishida
• Synchrotron radiation CD conformational studies on hydroxyapatite statherin binding in solution - Robert Janes
• Molecular mechanism of the long-chain n-alkane terminal oxidation pathway from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans NG80-2 - Yurui Ji
• Crystal structure of  ExoX, a distributive 3′–5′ exonuclease - Tao Jiang
• Selective binding modes and allosteric inhibitory effect of lupane triterpenes on protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B - Tiantian Jin
• The survival strategy in bacteria under the starvation stress - Takayuki Kato
• A FRET-based DNA biosensor tracks salmonella cytoplasmic pH during macrophage infection - Linda Kenney
• Crystal structures and biochemical studies of human lysophosphatidic acid phosphatase type 6 - Jun Li
• Using noble gas xenon as a heavy atom for phase determination of protein trichosanthin structure - Minjun Li
• Crystal structure of the aromatic amino acid aminotransferase from Streptococcus mutans - Shentao Li
• Structure analysis of the extracellular domain reveals disulfide bond forming-protein properties of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv2969c - Xuemei Li
• Effects of 4-thiaproline substitution on polyproline conformation and stability - Yu-Ju Lin
• Structural studies on oxalate decarboxylase from Photorhabdus luminescens - Subashini Mathivanan
• Non-uniform sampling in multidimensional NMR; enabling fast and automated protein structure determination - Mehdi Mobli
• Mechanism of the Rpn13-induced activation of Uch37 - Songying Ouyang
• P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Spontaneous conformational change of human angiotensin-I converting enzyme (ACE) studied by molecular dynamics simulations - Thi Tuong Vy Phan
• Screening for novel antibacterial compounds targeting the Disulfide Bond proteins DsbA and DsbB, using a fluorescence-based assay - Maria A. Halili
• A novel EGFR-targeted gene delivery system based on h-R3 conjugated PAMAM-DNA complexes: In vitro and in vivo evaluation - YanLi Hao
• Dynamics and organization of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) investigated by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy - Shuangru HUANG
• Investigation of apoA-I /ABCA1 specific interaction on living cells - Ludi Jin
• Micro- and nanochamber array chips for a single enzyme activity assay and nucleus analysis - Noritada Kaji
• Effect and mechanism of amino acid modified fullerene (C60) derivatives anticancer activities in SGC-7901 or MCF-7 cell lines - Zhi Li
• Binding biophysics of single beta 2 integrin-ICAM-1 molecular pair - Mian Long
• Modes of diffusion of Cholera toxin bound to GM1 on live cell membrane by image mean square displacement (iMSD) analysis - Pierre Moens
• Biomolecular recognition ability of RecA proteins for the DNA on the single-walled carbon nanotubes - Shusuke Oura
• Photoluminescent nanodiamonds for single molecule imaging - Ishan Das Rastogi
• QM/MM docking method for GPCRs - Minsup Kim
• Theory of reliability in systems biology: Aging versus reliability - Vitaly K. Koltover
• Validation and development of the force field parameters for drug and drug-like molecules - Katarzyna B. Koziara
• Two pulse-coupled non-identical, frequency-different BZ oscillators with time delay - Anastasia Lavrova
• Study on the relationship between histone modifications and gene expression levels in the human H1 cell line - Qian-Zhong Li
• Identification of antifreeze protein sequences by sequences compositions - Junjie Liu
• The complex effects of AgNPs on the maturation of dendritic cells - Ying Liu
• Imaging Ca²⁺ nanosparks in heart with a new targeted biosensor - Fujian Lu
• Validation of ligands in X-ray crystal structures - Alpeshkumar K. Malde
• The influence of image denoising on granulopoietic cell recognition using echo state networks - Michael Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber
• FIREBALL/AMBER: QM/MM method for biomolecular systems - Jesús Mendieta-Moreno
• Refinement of the dihedral potential functions for nucleic acids backbone - Takashi Mitsui
• Structural changes of helical peptides under high-pressure conditions studied by molecular dynamics simulations - Yoshiharu Mori
• Molecular dynamics simulations to estimate the concentration dependence of amyloid peptide aggregation - Naohiro Nishikawa
• New insights into insulin binding with its receptor from molecular dynamics simulations - Anastasios Papaioannou
• Influx and temperature control of glycolytic dynamics: Simulation vs. experiment - Eugene Postnikov
• Simulation of photosynthetic electron transport processes in time and space - Galina Yu Riznichenko
• Computer simulation of lipopolysaccharide membrane - Galina Riznichenko
• Influences  on the expression of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes in NIH/3T3 cells induced by 1800 MHz electromagnetic radiation  - Minglian Wang
• Characterising the solution structure and dynamics of the Pneumococcal surface adhesin A protein by MD simulations and EPR spectroscopy - Evelyne Deplazes
• High-density 3D single molecular analysis based on compressed sensing - Tao Xu
• An ALS-mutant TDP-43 neurotoxic peptide adopts an anti-parallel β-structure and induces TDP-43 redistribution - Li Zhu
• A biophysical study of partially fluorinated phosphatidylcholine: Membrane physical properties and reconstitution of bacteriorhodopsin into its liposome - Masaru Yoshino
• Characterization of synthetic Ircinianin analogues as a potent and selective modulators of A3 glycine receptor - Sahil Talwar

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

• How to Make Progress in Medical Biophysics Research on a Limited Budget - Cristobal Dos Remedios
• On biophysical education and research: Interdisciplinarity in an integrative biophysics and physiology - Michael Ch. Michailov

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• Chiral proofreading during translation of the genetic code - Rajan Sankaranarayanan

• Molecular chaperones – cellular machines for protein folding - Johannes Buchner
• Identification of auxiliary sites in the relaxin/RXFP1 activation complex - Emma J. Petrie
• Crystal structures of sorting nexin 10 and 11 - Jinsong Liu
• Structural basis of MLL methyltransferase activity regulation by Ash2L and RbBP5 - Ming Lei
• Now I know my ABCs: The composite structure of a novel actin-targeting virulence factor in bacteria. - Michael J. Landsberg
• An improved integration method in serial femtosecond crystallography - Yuhui Dong

• Structure of TRPV1 ion channel by single particle cryo-EM - Yifan Cheng
• Neurosensory mechanotransduction through acid-sensing ion channels - Chih-Cheng Chen
• Transactivation of TRPV4 by GPCR activation, hypotonic stress and shear stress - Peter McIntyre
• TRPM2 channels as mediators of paracetamol-induced liver damage - Grigori Rychkov

• Role of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase in regulation of nociceptive afferent transmission - Xu Zhang
• Different autophagy gene knockout mice show distinct neurodegenerative defects - Hong Zhang
• Regulation of Growth Hormone Pulsatility by Metabolic Homeostasis through Hypothalamic-Pituitary Somatic Axis - Chen Chen
• PIP₂ alters pharmacological selectivity for epilepsy-causing KCNQ channels by dynamically interacting with voltage sensor elements - Zhaobing Gao
• Modulating the active periods of GABA_A receptors - Angelo Keramidas
• Regulation of forward trafficking and membrane insertion for P2X3 receptor - Lan Bao
• It looks scattered but sounds wonderful: Structure and function characterizations of voltage-gated sodium channels in cochlear basilar membrane - You Zhou
• Modulation of Cav2.2 and Cav2.3 channels via GABAB receptor activation by analgesic α-conotoxins - David Adams

• Challenges in modeling nanoparticles for drug delivery, and lessons from biophysics - Amanda S. Barnard
• Simulation studies of voltage gated sodium channels: From ion selectivity to drug targets - Ben Corry
• Contributions of different protein-protein interactions to the mechanical stability and assembly pathways of CCMV capsids — a multiscale simulation study - Christine Peter
• Nanozyme: New property and application in medicine - Xiyun Yan
• Advanced simulations of peptide-surface interactions at the aqueous titania interface - Anas Sultan
• The Protein Circular Dichroism Data Bank (PCDDB): A data sharing resource for structural biology - Robert W. Janes

• Inverse mesophases of lipids and membrane curvature - John M. Seddon
• How proteins modify and sense membrane curvature - Saša Svetina
• Lipid and protein aggregates activate receptors of the innate system - Jean-Marie Ruysschaert
• Cyclotides use specific lipids as a switch to internalize inside cells - Sonia T Henriques
• Engineering lipid nanoparticles for multimodal delivery of hydrophobic pharmaceutical drugs - Peter J. Judge
• Structure and membrane topology of the pore-forming peptide maculatin 1.1 depend on lipid composition - Marc-Antoine Sani

• Active junctions: Reconciling contractility and actin homeostasis - Alpha Yap
• Using pluripotent stem cell to study and treat aging-associated diseases - Guanghui Liu
• Coculture stem cells and cardiomyocytes through microsystem technology and study on their electrical coupling - Qiuying Liu
• Cellular actin cortex composition and homeostasis resolved by integrating quantitative imaging and proteomics - Maté Biro
• The differential effect of matrix elasticity on cartilage endplate-derived stem cells behavior during disc degeneration - Minghan Liu
• Dynamic viscoelastic changes of Arabidopsis protoplasts following osmotic contractions and expansions monitored by quartz crystal microbalance - Tiean Zhou

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