Schedule

Biological Membranes and Membrane Schedule and Titles

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Sunday, June 19th, 2022: 5:00 pm -7:00 pm: Informal Reception, The Drury

Monday, June 20th, 2022

8:45 am – 9:00 am: Opening Remarks

9:00 am – 9:30 am: Levental, Ilya

Cell Membranes Sustain Phospholipid and Tension Imbalances via Cholesterol Asymmetry

9:30 am – 10:00 am: Brown, Michael F.

Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering and Protein Quakes of Visual Rhodopsin

10:00 am – 10:30 am: Grossfield, Alan

Computing the Thermodynamics of Lipid Phase Separation using Molecular Simulations

10:30 am - 11:00 am: Coffee Break

11:00 am – 11:30 am: Budin, Itay

Under Pressure: Membrane Biophysics at the Bottom of the Earth’s Oceans

11:30 am – 12:00 pm: Brown, Frank

Correlated Diffusion in Model Membranes

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch Break

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Klauda, Jeffrey

Nearing the Final Stage in the Ongoing Saga of Pairwise Additive and Polarizable Lipid Force Field Development in CHARMM

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Lyman, Ed

Membrane Surface Viscosity from Equilibrium Simulations. Or, How I Burned a lot of Cycles to Make a Table for Rich

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Pastor, Rich

Simulations of PIP2 Clustering: Specific Cation Effects and Calcium-Potassium Synergy

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Swanson, Jessica From Bilayers to Monolayers: Exploring the Physicochemical Control of Protein Targeting to Lipid Droplets.

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Nagle, John

Double Double Toil and Trouble

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Feigenson, Jerry Improving Our Picture of the Plasma Membrane: Rafts Induce Ordered Domains in a Simplified Model Cytoplasmic Leaflet

Tuesday, June 21st, 2022

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm: Marrink, Siewert-Jan

Perspective on Simulating Entire Cells

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Bidone, Tamara Multiscale Modeling of Transmembrane Adhesion Receptors: from Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Mesoscale Approaches

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Kim, Siyoung

Seipin Nucleates Neutral Lipids and Grows Lipid Droplets

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Cafiso, David

The Target of Synaptotagmin 1 in Calcium-Regulated Synchronous Fusion: Membranes or SNAREs?

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Falke, Joe

Regulation of Membrane-Bound Master Kinases in Lipid Signaling Pathways

3:00pm – 3:30pm: Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: White, Steve

Membrane Protein Assembly via SecA: Insights into Translocon Thermodynamics

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Tristram-Nagle, Stephanie

Antimicrobial Peptide Mechanism Revealed with Scattering-guided MD Simulation

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Gumbart, J. C. Modeling the Bacterial Cell Envelope at Atomistic Resolution

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Ashkar, Rana

Domain Induced Dynamics in Phase-Separating Lipid Membranes

Wednesday, June 22th, 2022

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm: Kenworthy, Anne

Molecular Architecture of the Building Blocks of Caveolae

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Heberle, Fred

Portrait of a Raft in vitro: Optimizing cryo-EM for Imaging Membrane Domains

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Tamm, Lukas

Role of Cholesterol in the Tug of War between Viral Fusion Proteins and Cellular Restriction Factors in Virus Entry

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Kasson, Peter

Protein-Lipid Interactions in Enveloped Virus Entry

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Voth, Greg

Membrane Remodeling by Proteins via Multiscale Simulation

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Vanegas, Juan

Unraveling the Mechanical Activation of the Bacterial MscL and the Angiotensin II Type 1 GPCR with MD Simulations

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Rouse, Sarah L.

Cardiolipin Signaling in Mitochondria

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Lorent, Joseph

Lipid Oxidation and Biophysical Membrane Properties

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Gnanakaran, Sandrasegaram (LANL)

Membranes & Machine Learning: Optimizing the Transport of Signals and Drugs Across Membrane

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Happy Hour/Cash Bar

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Banquet Dinner

Thursday, June 23rd, 2022

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm: Tobias, Doug

Regulation of Aquaporin-0 Water Permeability

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Kerr, Daniel

A Holistic Mathematical Formalism for Determining Membrane Affinities of Peripheral Binding Proteins

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Stahelin, Rob

Lipid-Dependent Assembly and Budding of Emerging Viral Pathogens

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Smith, Aurelia H.

Sliding, Expanding, and Compressing: How Membranes Respond to Fluid Flow

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Sodt, Alex

Molecular Mechanisms of Material Softening in Complex Bilayers

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Monje-Galvan, Viviana

Modeling Protein-Lipid Interactions in Mechanisms of Cell Death

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Hristova, Kalina

Direct Quantification of Ligand-induced Lipid and Protein Microdomains with Distinctive Signaling Properties

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Ingolfsson, Helgi

MuMMI, a Machine Learning-Driven Modeling Infrastructure for Coupling different Simulation Scales; showcased for RAS-RAF Membrane Interactions

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Wimley, Bill

Evolution and Optimization of pH-triggered Pore-Forming Peptides for Protein Delivery to Cells.