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01. April 2022

Bi-annual Meeting of Biophysics Austria

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09 – 11 July 2022

Bürglstein 1, 5360 St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut

 

Conference fees:

Early registration:

Biophysics Austria Members: Student 270 € and Standard Fee 350 €

Non-Members: Student 320 € and Standard Fee 450 €

 

Late registration:

Biophysics Austria Members: Student 320 € and Standard Fee 450 €

Non-Members: Student 370 € and Standard Fee 550 €

 

All Inclusive:  Costs include two overnight stays, food (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner & coffee breaks)

Cancellations earlier than 4 weeks will incur 50% of the costs, later than 4 weeks 100%. No costs are charged in case of cancellation >12 weeks before the event

                                     Saturday, July 9th, 2022

11:00-12:30

Registration / Rooms

12:00-13:00

Lunch

                                          Session 1: Channel and Transporter

13:00-13:45

Gerhard Hummer (Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik)

Molecular simulations in the era of AI and exascale computing: are we ready?

13:45-14:15

Susanna Zierler (JKU Linz)

Two-Pore & Transient-Receptor-Potential Channels as Regulators
of Calcium and Immune Homeostasis

14:15-14:35

Isabella Derler (JKU Linz)

Novel molecular insights in the Orai1 pore opening mechanisms using light‐sensitive

14:35-14:55

Kristina Zuna (Vetmeduni Vienna)

Insight into the molecular mechanism of the deadly anti-obesity drug 2,4-dinitrophenol

14:55-15:15

Tony Schmidt (Medical University Graz)

Light stimulation of neurons organic semiconductors determines action potential firing

15:15-15:45

Coffee Break

 

15:45-16:15

Bernhard Flucher (Medical University Innsbruck)

 How four structurally and functionally distinct voltage sensors control a calcium channel?

16:15-16:35

Erika Lazzarin (Medical University Innsbruck)

Characterizing sodium binding to the human GABA transporter hGAT1

16:35-16:55

Oleksandra Tiapko (Medical University of Graz)

New insights into DAG and PIP2-mediated control of TRPC channels

16.55-17:15

Clarissa Eibl (Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems)

Cryo-EM structure of a non-desensitizing AMPA-type glutamate
receptor mutant

17:15-17:35

Ferdinand Hovarth (JKU Linz)

Voltage sensing in protein-conducting channel SecYEG

17:35-17:45

Sponsor talk

18:00-19:00

Dinner

                                      Plenary Evening Talk

 

19:00-19:45

Raimond Dutzler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Regulators of cell volume: The structural and functional properties of anion channels of the LRRC8 family

19:45 – 22:00

Posters

Beer and Wine

 

                                 Sunday, July 10th, 2022

08:00-09:00

Breakfast

                                       Structure

09:00-09:30

David Haselbach (IMP, Vienna)

Time resolved cryo EM of the proteasome

09:30-09:50

Enrico F. Semeraro  (University of Graz)

Lactoferricins access the cytosol of Escherichia coli within few seconds

09:50-10:10

Johannes Preiner (FH Linz)

How multivalent interactions trigger immune responses

10:10-10:30

Florian Weber (FH Linz)

The biophysical properties of the target membranes have a major
impact on the interactions with HDL particles

                              Break

                                Nanoscale Biophysics

11:00-11:30

Yoo Jin Oh (JKU Linz)

Binding mechanisms of pathogens investigated by scanning probe microscopy

11:30-11:50

Eva Sevcsik (TU Vienna)

Spatial requirements for T-cell receptor triggering probed via DNA origami-based
biointerface

11:50-12:10

Bence Ezsias (Linz)
Reconstituting membrane proteins from native nanodiscs into giant unilamellar
vesicles

12:10-12:30

Walter Sandtner (Vienna)
Locating the potassium binding site in the human serotonin transporter

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-17:00

Hiking

17:00-18:00

Biophysics Austria – Generalversammlung

 

18:00-19:00

Dinner

                                  Plenary Evening Talk

19:00-19:45

 Plenary Lecture

Peter Dedecker (Leuven)
‘Smart’ labels and instrumentation for high-content fluorescence imaging

19:45 – 22:00

Posters

Beer and Wine

 

Monday, July 11th, 2022

08:00-08:45

Breakfast

                              Protein/Peptid/RNA/Lipid interactions

08:45-09:15

Bojan Zagrovic (University of Vienna)

On the widespread autologous mRNA/protein interactions and their biophysical foundation

09:15-09:35

Andreas Horner (JKU Linz)

Lipid bilayer phase state modulates ammonia and water
permeability through AtTIP2;1

09:35-09:55

Sandro Keller (University of Graz)

New native nanodiscs for membrane-protein biophysics

9:55-10:25

Ruth Prassl (Medical University Graz)

Revisiting the Structure of Low Density Lipoproteins

10:25-10:55

Coffee Break

10:55-11:15

Gerhard König (Portsmouth)
Fighting antibiotic resistance with a physics-based approachShort talk

11:15-11:35

Josef Lazar (Budweis)
A Simple and Obvious (in Retrospect) Method for Microscopy Imaging of
Molecular Events of Cell Signaling

11:35-12:20

Plenary

Francisco Bezanilla (University of Chicago)

Neuron stimulation with light and without genetics. 

12:20-12:25

Farewell

  

12:30-13:15

Lunch

 

End of Meeting and Departure