427 Final Programme : European Science Foundation

Biological Surfaces and Interfaces

30 June - 05 July 2013

Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Catalonia, Spain

Chair: Ralf Richter CIC biomaGUNE, ES, J. Fourier University, FR and MPI for Intelligent Systems, DE

Co-Chair: Catherine Picart, Grenoble INP, FR

Vice-Chairs: Eva-Kathrin Sinner, BOKU, AT; Katharina Maniura, EMPA, CH

Final Programme

Sunday 30 June
17:00-19:30	Registration at the ESF Desk
19:00	Welcome Drink
20:00	Dinner

Monday 1 July
08:35-08:50	Welcome & Information
08:50-09:55	KEYNOTE LECTURE I - Chair: Ralf Richter, CIC biomaGUNE, ES Alain BRISSON, UMR-CBMN CNRS-Université Bordeaux 1, FR A 25-year long journey with Annexin-A5: from structure to membrane repair and applications in disease detection
Session 1: Engineering biointerfaces Chair: Catherine Picart,Grenoble INP, FR
09:55 –10:30	Janos VÖRÖS, ETH Zürich, CH Controlling the biointerface using potentials and currents
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00 –11:55	Jason BURDICK, University of Pennsylvania, US Hydrogel Interfaces to Control Stem Cell Interactions
11:55 –12:30	Karine GLINEL, Université Catholique de Louvain, BE Surfaces Engineered at the Nano/Micrometer Scale to Control Bacterial and Mammalian Cell Behaviors
12:30	Lunch & Free Time
15:45 –16:15	Coffee break
Session 2 – Glycoscience and biointerfaces Chair: Ralf Richter,CIC biomaGUNE, ES
16:15 –17:10	Anthony DAY, University of Manchester, UK Structural and functional insights into sugar-protein networks in inflammation and ovulation
17:10 –17:45	Katharina RIBBECK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Mucin polymers for bioinspired filters and coatings
17:45-18:35	Heike WALLES, University of Würzburg, DE Influence of ECM components on engineering of 3D tissue and cancer models
18:55 –20:25	Dinner
20:25 –21:20	Bruno ANTONNY, CNRS & Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR Self-organization of biochemical reactions by membrane curvature
21:20	Poster Session I & Drinks reception

Tuesday 2 July
Session 3: Fundamentals of interfacial behavior and interactions Chair: Ilya Reviakine, CIC biomaGUNE, ES
09:00-09:55	Christine ORTIZ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Morphometrically-controlled biological and bio-inspired suture joint interface in armor
09:55-10:30	Mirjam LEUNISSEN, FOM Institute AMOLF, NL The entropic impact of tethering, multivalency and dynamic recruitment in systems with specific binding groups
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:55	Mark BIGGS, Adelaide University, AU Molecular modeling of protein adsorption: from fundamentals to desing
Session 4: Contributed Talk Session I Chair: Eva Sinner, BOKU, AT
11:55-12:10	Thomas CROUZIER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US A PEG-based molecular patch for the mucosa
12:10-12:25	Biomat Grant Jasmine SEROR, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL Molecular origins of biolubrication
12:30	Lunch & Free Time
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
Session 4: Contributed Talk Session I (continued)
16:00-16:15	Sponsor Talk – TECAN – Presented by Denis Coulet Target-based drug activity and post-translational and transcriptional analysis using ex vivo Alvetex®Scaffold three-dimensional cell culture technology
16:15-16:30	Sponsor Talk – JPK INSTRUMENTS – Presented by Carmen Pettersson QI™- New generation of quantitative nanomechanical atomic force microscopy measurements in high resolution
16:30-16:45	Sponsor Talk – CYTOSURGE - Presented by Michael Gabi FluidFM Technology
16:45-17:00	Manuel SALMERON-SANCHEZ, University of Glasgow, UK Functional living biointerfaces
17:00-18:40	Poster Session I (continued)
18:55-20:25	Dinner
20:25-21:30	KEYNOTE LECTURE II - Chair: Catherine Picart,Grenoble INP, FR Dennis DISCHER, University of Pensylvania, US 'Self' versus 'Foreign' and Soft versus Stiff Interfaces - from survival to differentiation
21:30	Poster Session I (continued)/Poster Session II

Wednesday 3 July
Session 5: Biointerfaces – cells, cell targeting and medical applications Chair: Jason Burdick, University of Pennsylvania, US
09:00-09:55	THE EMBO LECTURE Fiona WATT, Kings College London School of Medicine, UK Intrinsic and extrinsic control of epidermal stem cell fate
09:55-10:30	Ilya REVIAKINE, CIC biomaGUNE, ES Form lipids to platelets: interactions between biological model systems and inorganic oxides
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:55	Andrès GARCIA, Georgia Institute of Technology, US Biofunctional materials for cell delivery and tissue repair
11:55-12:30	Jesus PEREZ GIL, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES Understanding the molecular mechanisms at the breathing air-liquid interface to develop novel therapeutic tools in respiratory medicine
12:30-12:40	Patrick van Dijk, University of Leuven, BE Presentation of FEBS
12:40	Lunch
14:00	Excursion to the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres
18:55-20:25	Dinner
20:30-20:40	ESF Presentation Rapporteur: Jakob Schweizer, University of Oxford, UK
20:40-21:30	Forward Look Plenary Discussion - Chair: Katharina Maniura, Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Science and Technology, CH and Eva Sinner, BOKU, AT With discussion input from: Jacob Israelachvili, Dennis Discher and others
21:30	Poster Session II (continued)

Thursday 4 July
Session 6: Nanoscale characterization of interfaces and bioentities Chair: Janos Vörös, Institut f. Biomedizinische Technik - ETZ F 82, CH
09:00-09:55	Yves DUFRÊNE, Université Catholique de Louvain, BE Atomic force microscopy: a nanoscopic window on the cell surface
09:55-10:30	Sylvie ROKE, EPFL STI IBI-STI LBP, CH Nonlinear spectroscopy and imaging of soft and living systems
10.30	Coffee break
11:00-11.55	Fredrik HÖÖK, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Label-free biomolecular interaction analysis and equilibrium-fluctuation-based single-molecule studies of cell-membrane mimics
Session 7: Contributed Talk Session II Chair: Katharina Maniura, Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Science and Technology, CH
11:55-12:10	Mirren CHARNLEY, Swinburne University of Technology, AU Exploring cell behaviour using microfabricated cell culture platforms
12:10-12:25	Erdem KARABULUT, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE Adhesive layer-by-layer films of carboxymethylated cellulose nanofibril-dopamine covalent bioconjugates inspired by marine mussel threads
12.30	Lunch & Free Time
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
Session 7: Contributed Talk Session II (continued)
16:00-16:15	Galina DUBACHEVA, CIC biomaGUNE, ES Host-guest model systems to understand multivalent interactions at the cell-hyaluronan matrix interface
16:15-16:30	Björn AGNARSSON, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Evanescent-wave excitation for single molecule observations and kinetics on functionalized surfaces
16:30-16:45	Giorgia BRANCOLINI, CNR - Institute Nanoscience, IT Molecular simulations of the pathological self-aggregation of β2-microglobulin
16:45-17:00	Thomas BOUDOU, CNRS - Grenoble Institute of Technology, FR Generation and optimization of engineered 3D skeletal muscle microtissues
17:00-18:55	Poster Session II (continued)
18:55-20:00	KEYNOTE LECTURE III - Chair TBA Jacob ISRAELACHVILI, University of California Santa Barbara, US Breakthroughs and belly flops in understanding biomolecules and biosurface interactions
20.00	Drinks Reception & Workshop Dinner