Updated 5/22/07

SUNDAY
8:00 PM      Reception at La Fonda Ballroom

MONDAY
Abstracts.pdf
8:45            Alan Bishop (LANL) - Opening Remarks
9:00            Ka Yee Lee (U Chicago) - "Poking and sealing holes: Interactions of antimicrobial peptides and poloxamers with lipid membranes."
9:50            Coffee Break
10:20          Reinhard Lipowsky (MPI) - "Multiscale motility of molecular motors"
11:10          Klaus Schulten (UIUC) - "How directional translocation is regulated by a DNA Helicase motor"

12:00          Lunch

1:30            Atul Parikh (UC, Davis) - "Rupture, spreading, and healing of 2D fluid lipid bilayers at structured surfaces"
2:20            Michael Roukes (Caltech) - "Emerging nanoscale technology for single-cell and single-molecule bioscience."
3:10            Coffee Break
3:40            
4:30            Hans Frauenfelder (LANL) - "The Complexity of Proteins"

TUESDAY
Updated 5/22/07
Abstracts.pdf
9:10            Cynthia Reichhardt (LANL) - "Electrophoresis of DNA on a Two-Dimensional Disordered Substrate "
9:50            Coffee Break
10:20          Igor Aronson (Argonne) -"Continuum models of large-scale coherence in dense assemblies of self-propelled bioparticles: from shaken granular rods to molecular motors and swimming bacteria"
11:10          Roya Zandi (UC Riverside) - "Size regulation of ss RNA viruses"

12:00          Lunch

1:30            Raghuveer Parthasarathy (U Oregon) - "Curvature and spatial organization in biological membranes"
2:20            Noel Clark (U Colorado) - "Liquid Crystals and the Origin of Life: Living Polymerization and Condensation of Complementary Nanoscale DNA"
3:10            Poster Session Reception - Poster Abstracts.pdf
          

WEDNESDAY
Updated 5/22/07
Abstracts.pdf
9:00            Doug Weibel (U Wisconsin) - "Understanding the collective dynamics of motile bacteria"
9:50            Coffee Break
10:20          Angel Garcia (RPI) - "Theoretical studies of pressure effects on folding/unfolding of proteins and nuclei acids"
11:10          Kevin Sanbonmatsu (LANL) - "Movement of transfer RNA through the ribosome"

12:00          Lunch

1:30          Chris Jarzynski (U Maryland) - "Nonequilibrium thermodynamics at the microscale"
2:20          Zuzanna Siwy (UCI) - "Assisted stochastic sensing of analytes by a synthetic nanopore with adaptor"
3:10          Coffee Break
3:40          David Weitz (Harvard) - "Mechanics of active biopolymer networks"

6:00          Dinner Banquet

THURSDAY
Updated 5/22/07
Abstracts.pdf
9:00          Gerhard Hummer (NIDDK) - "Protein dynamics: from nanoseconds to microseconds and beyond."
9:50          Coffee Break
10:20        Joan-Emma Shea (UCSB) - "Simulations of peptide inhibitors of Amyloid-b aggregation"
11:10        Boris Shraiman (UCSB) - "Mechanics of growth control in animal development"

12:00        Lunch

1:30          David Lubensky (U Michigan) - "Synchronized cycles: An allosteric model of the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator."
2:20          Eric Dufresne (Yale) - "Probing the mechanics of soft matter and living cells with optical forces"
3:10          Coffee Break
3:40          William Goddard (Caltech) - "Predicting 3D structures: Membrane proteins with experimental validation against predicted effects of mutations binding sites of agonists and antagonists"


FRIDAY MORNING
Abstracts.pdf
9:00          Paul Chaikin (NYU) - "Order from chaos and irreversibility in low Reynolds number flows"
9:50          Erwin Frey (LMU) - "Floppy modes and nonaffine deformations in biopolymer networks"
10:40        Coffee
11:00        Umar Mohideen (UC, Riverside) - "Single Molecule Nanomechanics and Non equilibrium Thermodynamics of Synaptic Proteins"
11:40        Jim Werner (LANL) - "Three dimensional tracking of individual quantum dots"
12:20        Closing Remarks