Preliminary Program
Monday 22 of June 2009
11.00-13.00 Registration (AF-Student Union)
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00 Welcome adress by Assistant Vice-Chancellor Sven Strömqvist (Palaestra)
13.30-15.00 Session: Health and Disease (Chair Tommy Nylander)
K-Y. Lee (The University of Chicago, USA) | Beyond Wrinkles: Stress and Fold localisation in lung surfactant and other thin elastic membranes | M. Larsson (Lund University Hospital, Sweden) | Modeling the first breath using neutron reflectometry | A. Stradner (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) | Shedding light on eye lens transparency and cataract formation with neutrons |
15.00-15.30 – Coffee break (Palaestra)
15.30-17.00 Session: Biotechnological Applications (Chair: Trevor Forsyth)P. Langan (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) | Protein Crystallography using Spallation Neutrons: surprising insights into enzyme mechanism | C. Dicko (Oxford University, UK) | Silks: from structures to function | T. Nawroth (Gutenberg University - Mainz, Germany) | Target nanoparticle enhanced Radiotherapy development with Photon and Neutron capture |
17.00-17.30 Session: Young Researcher talks
A. Carminati (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany) | Imaging water distribution around roots by neutron radiography | A. Stadler (ILL, Grenoble, France) | Water and macromolecular dynamics in cells |
17.30-19.00 Poster Session
19.00-22.00 Welcome reception
Tuesday 23 of June 2009
9.00-10.30 Session: Biomembrane Structure and Function (Chair: Phil Callow)
F. Gabel (institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France) | Small angle neutron scattering for structural biology in solution | J. Lakey (The University of Newcastle, UK) | Outer membrane proteins of E. coli studied by magnetic contrast Neutron Reflectometry and SANS | S. Titmuss (University of Oxford, UK) | Using SANS to uncover stealth viruses |
10.30-11.00 Coffee-break
11.00-12.30 Session - Macromolecular Systems I (Chair: Susana Teixeira)
S. Linse (Lund University, Sweden) | Amyloid protein aggregation and the influence of surfaces | J. Cooper (UCL Department of Medicine, Royal Free Campus, London, UK) | Neutron and atomic resolution X-ray studies of the pepsin family: implications for mechanism and inhibition | M. Peyrard (École Normale Supérieur de Lyon, France) | Experimental (and theoretical) studies of the fluctuational opening and thermal denaturation of DNA | T. Hauss (HMI, Berlin, Germany) | Beyond steady-state protein dynamics |
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Session: Macromolecular systems II (Chair: Ulf Olsson)
M. Blakeley (ILL, Grenoble, France) | Neutron Macromolecular studies using perdeuterated crystals; Type-III Antifreeze protein | S. Antonyuk (University of Liverpool, UK) | Limitations of X-ray crystallography for seeing hydrogens even at sub-atomic resolution | L. Arleth (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) | BioXTAS: Combining microfluidics and SANS to study biomolecules in solution with minimal sample consumption |
15.30-16.00 Coffe break
16.00-17.30 Session: Biological fibres, membranes, model membranes (Chair: Thomas Gutberlet)
M. Rheinstadter (McMaster University - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) | Collective molecular Dynamics in Membranes and proteins | M. Tanaka (University of Heidelberg, Germany) | Modulation of Biological Interfaces via Oligo- and Polysaccharides | J. Katsaras (NRC-Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, Ontario, Canada) | Towards an understanding of biological membranes: the recent role of neutron scattering
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17.30-18.30 Posters & Poster Prize (sponsored by the Biochemical Journal)
19.30-22.00 Dinner
Wednesday 24 of June 2009
9.00-9.30 Session: Young Researcher and Contributed Talks (Chair: Regine Willumeit)
B-A. Brüning (CEA Grenoble, France) | Influence of Cholesterol on the collective dynamics of the phospholipid acyl chains in model membranes | J. Barauskas (Institute of Biochemistry, Vilnius, Lithuania) | Molecular Scale Imaging of enzymatic activity: digestion of lipid assemblies by Lipase-functionalised Gold nanoparticles | S. Holt (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK) | Orientation and surface coverage of adsorbed fibronectin cell binding domains and bound integrin α5β1 receptors | A. Rekas (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Menai, Australia) | Inhibitory effect of PAMAM dendrimers on fibrillation of α-synuclein | D. Posselt (Roskilde University, Denmark) | Mesoscale structure and Structural adaptability of Chloroplast thylakoid membranes |
10.30-11.00 Coffee-break
11.00-12.30 Session: Methodological studies and applications (Chair: Cameron Neylon)
F. Mezei (Research Institute for Solid State Physics, Budapest, Hungary) | Inelastic neutron scattering evidence on the origin of the "dynamic transition" in proteins | I. Reviakine (CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain) | Studying heterogeneous soft films with quartz crystal microbalance: hearing what one can't see and seeing what one cannot hear | C. Vettier (ESS-Scandinavia, Lund, Sweden) | ESS: New Opportunities and Old Challenges |
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Special Lecture and closure
 - A crystallographic model of DNA with anti-cancer drugs intercalated between the bases (Teixeira et al.).
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