Programme

The programme for Faraday Discussion 161 is as follows.

For a detailed programme, including timings, please download the pdf document from this page.

Introductory Lecture

John Nagle
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Session 1: Novel Structural, Spectroscopic, and Imaging Techniques

The role of the membrane in protein pattern formation
Petra Schwille*
Biotechnologisches Zentrum der TU Dresden, Germany

Lipid translocation and compositional asymmetry: A new perspective provided by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy
John C Conboy*
University of Utah, USA

Title TBC
Thomas Schmidt*
Leiden Institute of Physics, The Netherlands

Observing lipid-protein interactions and membrane nanodomains with far-field fluorescence STED spectroscopy
Christian Eggeling, Alf Honigmann*, Veronika Mueller, Debora Machado Andrade and Stefan W Hell
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

Dynamic phase behaviour in supported bilayers
Simon D Connell* and Peter D Olmsted
University of Leeds, UK

Session 2: Lipid Self-assembly, Structure, Ordering and Dynamics

Lipid phase behaviour under steady state conditions
Hakan Wennerström*
University of Lund, Sweden

Hydration-induced self-assembly of lipidic mesophases
Lobat Tayebi, Yicong Ma, Sunil K Sinha and Atul N Parikh*
University of California, Davis, USA

Mode specific elastic constants for the gel, liquid-ordered, and liquid-disordered phases of DPPC/DOPC/cholesterol model lipid bilayers
Mark J Uline and Igal Szleifer*
Northwestern University, USA

Title TBC
Alfred Blume*
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Multi-continuous geometries for cubic inverse surfactant phases with more than two aqueous network domains
Gerd E Schröder-Turk* Matthias Saba, Sebastian Kapfer, Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann, Liliana de Campo, Trond Varslot, Stuart Ramsden, and Stephen T Hyde
Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nuremburg, Germany

Physical properties of lamellar and inverse lipid phases: a quantitative description from coarse-grain molecular dynamics simulations
Mario Orsi* and Jonathan W Essex
University of Southampton, UK

Session 3: Curvature, Shape Changes, Lipid-Protein Coupling, Fusion

Membranes under tension
Reinhard Lipowsky*
MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany 

Membrane fusion and imaging in systems of increasing complexity
Steven G Boxer*
Stanford University, USA

Lateral sorting of proteins in multi-component model membranes
Djurre H de Jong, Bert Poolman and Siewert-Jan Marrink*
University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Title TBC
Markus Deserno*
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Elastic properties of polyunsaturated lipid bilayers control rhodospin function - an NMR study
Olivier Soubias, Walter E Teague, Kirk G Hines and Klaus Gawrisch*
National Institutes of Health, USA

Anomalous and normal diffusion of proteins and lipids in crowded lipid membranes
M Javanainen, H Hammaren, L Monticellib, R Metzlera, and I Vattulainen*
Tampere University, Finland

Session 4: Membrane Interactions and Applications

Title TBC
Olaf Sparre Andersen*
Cornell University, USA

Is homeostatic control of membrane lipid composition to stored curvature elastic energy? Evidence from lipidomics studies
George S Attard* and Marcus K Dymond
University of Southampton, UK

The role of oxidized lipids in mitochondrial apoptotic events by solid state NMR
M Wallgren, M Lidman, D Pham, L Beranova, M Hof, A Petersson, B G Karlsson,M-A Sani and  G Gröbner *
Umeå University, Sweden

Title TBC
David Needham*
Duke University, USA

Segregated ordered lipid phases and protein-promoted membrane cohesivity are required for pulmonary surfactant films to stabilize and protect the respiratory surface
J Bernardino de la Serna, Rodolfo Vargas, A Cruz, Jose M Valpuesta, Leonardo Mateu and Jesús Pérez-Gil*
Universidad Complutense, Spain

Minimization of the line energy versus lipid sorting through electrostatic interactions: Ras isoform-specific membrane interactions
Katrin Weise, Shobhna Kapoor, Alexander Werkmüller, Gemma Triola, Herbert Waldmann, and Roland Winter*
TU Dortmund, Germany

Concluding Remarks Lecture:

Evan Evans
Boston University, USA

* denotes presenting author, to whom affiliation applies