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436th WE Heraeus Seminar
Biosensing with channels: faster, smaller, smarter

Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

28 June - 04 July 2009

Scientific program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday

June 28

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17:00

opening

 

 

 

17:15

opening lecture

 

 

 

 

H. Bayley/Oxford

Title to be announced

 

19:00

Welcome BBQ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday

June 29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30

A. Aksimentiev/Urbana

Deciphering DNA structure and sequence from ionic current blockades in nanopores

 

9:15

M. Burger/Münster

Fokker-Planck Equations for Ion Transport in Biological and Synthetic Channels

 

10:00

Coffee break

 

 

 

10:30

S.M. Bezrukov/NIH-Bethesda

Role of hydration in nanopore sensing: Hofmeister series, preferential solvation, osmotic stress, and all that

 

11:15

G. Schmid/Augsburg

Entropic Particle Transport

 

12:00

K. Mahendran/Bremen

Molecular quantification of antibiotic influx through Bacterial porins

 

12:20

Lunch break

 

 

 

13:45

E. Dreisigacker

 

Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Stiftung

 

14:00

A. A. Kornyshev/London

DNA “telepathy": the secret of a perfect match

 

14:45

S. Kowalczyk/Delft

Detection of local protein structures along DNA using solid-state nanopores

 

15:30

M. Ceccarelli/Cagliari

Molecular mechanism of antibiotics diffusion through porins revealed by computer simulations.

 

16:15

Coffee break

 

 

 

16:40

L. Lopez/Castellón

selectivity of a biological channel at high concentration ratio: insights on small ion diffusion and binding

 

17:20

R. Blick/Madison

Radio Frequency Rectification of Membrane Bound Pores

 

18:00

Dinner

 

 

 

20:00

J. Behrend/Freiburg

Techniques and devices for faster, easier and more sensitive sensing with channels and pores: new developments

 

21:00

Poster session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

June 30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:45

J. Robertson/NIST

Nanopores: Sensing and Structure

 

9:30

J. Schmidt/Los Angeles

Development of Practical Lipid bilayer Technologies

 

10:15

Coffee break

 

 

 

10:45

T. Heimburg/Copenhagen

Lipid ion channels

 

11:30

E. Schleiff/Frankfurt

Omp85 – a beta-barrel protein family with many names and functions

 

12:30

Lunch break

 

 

 

14:00

T. Albrecht/London

Nanopore/electrode structures for single molecule biosensing

 

14:45

J. Yang/San Diego

Detection of Chemical and Biochemical Analytes Using Semi-Synthetic Derivatives of Gramicidin A

 

15:30

I. Köper/Mainz

 

Tethered bilayer lipid membranes

 

16:15

Coffee break

 

 

 

16:30

B. Liedberg/Linköping

Nanoscale assembly of plasmonic materials

 

17:15

U. Kleinekathöfer/Bremen

Ion Transport through OmpF in Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Experiments

 

18:00

Dinner

 

 

 

20:00

Poster session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

July 01

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30

J. Homola/Prague

Biosensors Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance

 

9:15

Contributed talk

 

 

 

10:00

Coffee break

 

 

 

10:30

H. Vogel/Lausanne

Ionotropic receptors: Combined optical and electrical measurements

 

11:15

M. Mayer/Ann Arbor

Nanopores for Sensing Membrane Processes and Enzyme Reactions

 

12:00

Lunch break

 

 

 

13:00

excursion

 

Bus leaves at 13:00 from the main gate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday

July 02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:45

L. Movileanu/Syracuse

ATP-dependent Routes of Polysaccharides: ABC Transporters at Work

 

9:45

M. Pastoriza/Evry

Transport of polyelectrolytes and partially unfolded proteins through toxin channels

 

10:30

Coffee break

 

 

 

11:00

G. Schuetz/Linz

Chips, Cells and Single Molecules

 

11:45

S. Howorka/London

Chemistry can enhance nanopore analytics

 

12:30

Lunch break

 

 

 

14:00

V. Viasnoff/Paris

Towards real time monitoring of the dsDNA unzipping process using an alpha-hemolysin pore

 

14:45

A. Sonnen /Oxford/München

Cryo-electron tomography of MACPF/CDC pore-forming proteins in lipid membranes

 

15:30

U.Koert/Marburg

OmpG-based Biohybrids

 

 

 

 

 

 

16:10

Coffee break

 

 

 

16:30

J. Eisfeld/Osnabrück

Precise automated measurement of ion channel, transporter or pore activity with the bilayer technique

 

17:10

M. Kreir/München-Bremen

Pore suspending membranes: High throughput screening of ion channels and their pharmacology

 

18:00

Dinner

 

 

 

20:00

Short talks

 

 

 

 

Poster session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday

July 03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00

Z. Siwy/irvine

 

Biosensing with Ionic Diodes and Non-Equilibrium Fluctuations of Ion Currents in Single Nanopores

 

9:45

P. Pohl/Linz

 

Transport of volatile solutes through epithelial barriers

 

10:30

Coffee break

 

 

 

11:00

U. Keyser/Cambridge

Origin of the electrophoretic force on DNA in nanopores

 

11:45

F. Olasagasti/Santa Cruz

Electronic Control of DNA Polymerase Function

 

12.45

Lunch break

 

 

 

14:30

P. A. Gurnev

 

Charge Inversion at the Lipid Bilayer Surface: Probing with Single-Channel Conductance and Kinetics of Gramicidin A

 

14:50

E. Hajjar/Cagliari

Towards design of antibiotics with improved porins permeation properties

 

15:10

M. Creus/Basel

 

The properties of proteins and their interactions, as explored through synthetic nanopores

 

15:30

Coffee break

 

 

 

16:00

S. Nußberger/Stuttgart

Dynamics of the Preprotein Translocation Channel of the Outer Membrane of Mitochondria

 

16:40

A. Mubarak/Darmstadt

Functionalization and Applications of Single Asymmetric Nanochannels Fabricated in Ion-Tracked Polymer Membranes

 

17:10

I. Vlassiouk/Irvine

Biosensing with single conical nanofluidic diodes and new ways of constructing nanopores in ultrathin SiN films

 

18:00

Dinner

 

 

 

20:00

U. Bockelmann/Paris

Force measurements on the interaction between RNA and a ribosomal protein

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday

July 04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00

R. Benz/Würzburg

Major cell wall channels of Corynebacterium glutamicum, Corynebacterium efficiens, and Corynebacterium diphtheriae constitute dependent on PorH and PorA

 

9:45

M. Winterhalter/Bremen

 

 

10:30

Coffee break

 

 

 

11:00

Closing & Departure