The overall format is a two-day workshop consisting of talks in the morning (8:30 am - 12:00 pm) and afternoon (1:00 pm-5:30 pm).
There is no registration for this workshop. All are welcome to attend.
Functional Heterogeneities and Phase Separation in Biological Membranes:
Theory, Computations, and Experiment
October 16-17, 2019
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Shull Wollan Center (ORNL Building 8630) - Room A202
Day 1 – Wednesday, October 16th
8:00am-8:30am – Registration
8:30am-9:30am – Direct Imaging of Nanoscale Lipid Organization in Probe-Free Biomimetic Membranes – Fred Heberle, University of Tennessee
9:30am-10:30am – Coarse-Grained Modeling of Morphological Heterogeneities in Biomembranes – Mohamed Laradji, University of Memphis
10:30am-11:00 – Break
11:00am-12:00pm – Membrane Protein Transport: Balancing Advection and Diffusion – Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, Lehigh University
12:00pm-1:00pm – Break
1:00pm-2:00pm – The Biophysical Consequences of the Asymmetric Mammalian Lipidome – Ed Lyman, University of Delaware
2:00pm-3:00pm – Brief Calcium Influx through the Plasma Membrane Transiently Clusters PIP2 in the Inner Plasma Membrane Leaflet of Intact Cells – Arnd Pralle, University at Buffalo
3:00pm-3:30pm – Break
3:30pm-4:30pm – Modeling Membrane Heterogeneities at Small and Large Length Scales – Lutz Maibaum, University of Washington
4:30pm-5:30pm – Insights into Solvent-Microbial Stress in Biofuel Production from Small-Angle Scattering and Complementary Molecular Dynamics Simulations – Micholas Smith, ORNL/University of Tennessee
Day 2 – Thursday, October 17th
8:30am-9:30am – Functional Roles for Lipid-Encoded Properties in Engineered Cell Membranes – Itay Budin, UC San Diego
9:30am-10:30am – All-Atom Modeling Nanometer-Scale Lateral Compositional Heterogeneity of the Liquid Ordered Phase Agrees with Small Angle Neutron Scattering Experiments – Alexander Sodt, National Institute of Health
10:30am-11:00am – Break
11:00am-12:00pm – Using 13C and 15N Isotope Tracers to Monitor Membrane Dynamics in C. elegans – Carissa Perez Olsen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
12:00pm-1:00pm – Break
1:00pm-2:00pm – Modeling Lipid Composition Dynamics on the Surface of Membranes – Frank L. H. Brown, UC Santa Barbara
2:00pm-3:00pm – The Interplay Between Lipid Cross-Linking, Phase Separation, and Diffusion with Nanoscale Membrane Curvature – Christopher V. Kelly, Wayne State University
3:00pm-3:30pm – Break
3:30pm-4:30pm – Stimuli-Responsive Liposomes Through Modulation of Membrane Properties Using Synthetic Lipid Switches – Michael Best, University of Tennessee
4:30pm-5:30pm – Neutron vs. X-ray Scattering to Address Structures of Single Model Lipid Mono- and Bi-layers – Jaroslaw Majewski, NSF
5:30pm-6:00pm – Discussion/Concluding Remarks
