Session: Physical Chemical Foundations of Biological Membrane Phenomena


PHYS		Sunday, 10 September 2006

8:15 AM-12:00 PM Grand Hyatt San Francisco -- Merced, Oral
Physical Chemical Foundations of Biological Membrane Phenomena
Cholesterol-dependent Lateral Heterogeneities
Organizers:	Tobias Baumgart Erin D. Sheets
Presiding:	Paulo F. Almeida
8:15 AM		Introductory Remarks
8:20 AM	12	Interrelated physical chemical properties of membranes containing cholesterol and phospholipids Harden M. McConnell, Arun Radhakrishnan
9:00 AM	13	Theoretical predictions of the phase diagram of ternary mixtures of cholesterol, saturated lipids and unsaturated lipids Igal Szleifer, Richard Elliot, Michael Schick
9:20 AM	14	Biophysical mechanism of raft domain coupling in planar lipid bilayers Sumit Garg, Christoph A Naumann, Juergen Ruehe, Rainer Jordan, Karin Lüdtke
9:40 AM	15	Composition and 2D diffusion of liquid domains in lipid vesicle membranes Sarah L. Veatch, Pietro Cicuta, Klaus Gawrisch, Sarah L. Keller
10:20 AM		Intermission
10:40 AM	16	Ordering and displacement of cholesterol in phospholipid monolayers by hexadecanol and octanol Maria Ratajczak, Chris Ko, Canay Ege, Jaroslaw Majewski, Kristian Kjaer, Yvonne Lange, Theodore Steck, Ka Yee C. Lee
11:20 AM	17	Two-dimensional surfactants and lipid raft organization Michael J Saxton, Paulo F. Almeida

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