Session: Physical Chemical Foundations of Biological Membrane Phenomena


PHYS		Thursday, 14 September 2006

1:20 PM-5:00 PM Grand Hyatt San Francisco -- Merced, Oral
Physical Chemical Foundations of Biological Membrane Phenomena
Lipid/Protein Interactions Modulating Membrane Heterogeneity and Function
Organizers:	Tobias Baumgart Erin D. Sheets
Presiding:	Thomas Heimburg
1:20 PM	654	The relationship between ion hydration and ion channel selectivity David L. Bostick, Charles L. Brooks III
1:40 PM	655	Arginine-lipid interactions: Free energy of a transmembrane helix through a membrane Sudha Dorairaj, Toby W Allen
2:00 PM	656	Micro domain fluctuations in membranes Enrico Gratton, Anna Celli
2:40 PM	657	Protein dynamics near substrate-supported membranes: Measurement by total internal reflection with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy Nancy L. Thompson, Jamie K. Pero, Emily M. Haas, Alena M. Lieto, Tammy E. Starr, Randall C. Cush
3:20 PM		Intermission
3:40 PM	658	Coexisting domains in the plasma membranes of live cells characterized by spin label ESR spectroscopy Musti J. Swamy, Laura Ciani, Mingtao Ge, Andrew K Smith, David Holowka, Barbara Baird, Jack H. Freed
4:20 PM	659	Reactions of merocyanine molecular switches for free volume measurements in phospholipid bilayer domains Darius Kuciauskas, Christopher J. Wohl
4:40 PM	660	NMR for detection of lipid rafts Ivan V. Polozov, Klaus Gawrisch, Joshua Zimmerberg

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