• Biophysical Society Meeting
    20-23, 2020
    University of Konstanz, Germany

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International Workshop

Basic and Applied Ion Transport

Organized by the German Biophysical Society, section Cellular Biophysics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biophysik/DGfB)

Please find below our preliminary program, which is subject to changes.

24

Friday
May
  • Registration / Rooms

  • 12.15 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.

    Lunch
  • Proton channels

    Chair: Boris Musset
  • 1.00 p.m. - 1.10 p.m.

    Welcome note
    (Boris Musset, Nürnberg, Germany)

  • 1.10 p.m. - 1.50 p.m.

    Ferenc Papp (Debrecen, Hungary)
    Voltage Clamp Fluorometry and peptides from spider venom in Hv1 research

  • 1.50 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.

    Takafumi Kawai (Osaka, Japan)
    tbd

  • 2.30 p.m. - 2.50 p.m.

    Ilka Bischofs (Marburg, Germany)
    Electrophysiology of dormant bacterial endospores

  • 2.50 p.m. - 3.10 p.m.

    Christophe Jardin (Nürnberg, Germany)
    Mechanisms of voltage-gated proton channels

  • 3.10 p.m. - 3.40 p.m.

    Coffee break

  • Proton dynamics

    Chair: Johannes Vierock
  • 3.40 p.m. - 4.20 p.m.

    Joachim Heberle (Berlin, Germany)
    Observing ions moving across the biomembrane at highest temporal and spatial resolution

  • 4.20 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.

    Peter Pohl (Linz, Austria)
    Proton migration along membranes

  • 5.00 p.m. - 5.20 p.m.

    Stephan Block (Berlin, Germany)
    Probing the gradient-dependent activity of cytochrome c oxidases at the single enzyme level

  • 5.20 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.

    Emily Liman – Hybrid (08:30am LA/USA)

  • 6.00 p.m. - 6.45 p.m.

    Dinner

  • Plenary Evening Talk

    Chair: Ferenc Papp
  • 7.15 p.m. - 8.15 p.m.

    Thomas DeCoursey (Chicago, USA)
    Voltage-gated Proton Channels: Overview and Update

  • 8.15 p.m.

    Sophion Bioscience and Poster session with open end


25

Saturday
May
  • 7.30 a.m. - 8.00 a.m.

    Breakfast
  • Special Transport

    Chair: Melania Capasso
  • 8.00 a.m. - 8.40 a.m.

    Markus Ritter (Salzburg, Austria)
    Volume regulation of microglia

  • 8.40 a.m. - 9.00 a.m.

    Marcus Schewe (Kiel, Germany)
    From head to tail - Mechanistic insights into regulation and gating of TREK K2P channels

  • 9.00 a.m. - 9.40 a.m.

    Elena Pohl (Vienna, Austria)
    Uncoupling proteins and proton transport

  • 9.40 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.

    Jacek Kozuch (Berlin, Germany)
    Monitoring the opening of the Influenza A virus M2 proton channel: Combining surface-enhanced infrared absorption and computational spectroscopy

  • 10.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.

    Vitamin break

  • Transport in neural tissue

    Chair: Stephan Block
  • 10.30 a.m. - 11.10 a.m.

    Christoph Fahlke (Jülich, Germany)
    Vesicular glutamate transporters are H+-anion exchangers that operate at variable stoichiometry

  • 11.10 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.

    Melania Capasso (Bonn, Germany)
    The voltage-gated proton channel Hv1 regulates Ca2+ mobilization during neutrophil activation

  • 11.30 a.m. - 11.50 a.m.

    Sven Kuspiel (Aachen, Germany)
    Identification of secreted protein 1 (SEP1) as new interaction partner of ASIC1

  • 11.50 a.m. - 12.10 a.m.

    Johannes Vierock (Berlin, Germany)
    pHRoG: pH Regulating optoGenes for all-optical control of subcellular pH

  • 12.10 a.m. - 1.10 p.m.

    Lunch

  • Cellular Mechanisms

    Chair: Sven Kuspiel
  • 1.10 p.m. - 1.50 p.m.

    Peter Hegemann (Berlin, Germany)
    „Optogenetics,cell inhibition has been solved “

  • 1.50 p.m. - 2.10 p.m.

    Tobias Stauber (Hamburg, Germany)
    G protein signaling in isovolumetric activation of volume-regulated LRRC8 anion channels

  • 2.10 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.

    Iryna Mahorivska (Nürnberg, Germany)
    Impact of sugars on reactive oxygen species production during respiratory burst of phagocytes

  • 2.30 p.m.

    Leaving for Boat Cruise

  • 3.30 p.m. - 5.20 p.m.

    Boat Cruise

  • 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.

    Dinner
  • 8.00 p.m. - 11.00 p.m.

    Open End

26

Sunday
May
  • 7.30 a.m. - 8.30 a.m.

    Breakfast
  • Transport and Force

    Chair: Jacek Kozuch
  • 8.30 a.m. - 9.10 a.m.

    Felix Hohendanner (Berlin, Germany)
    Atrial and ventricular arrhythmia in heart failure – translational aspects

  • 9.10 a.m. - 9.50 a.m.

    Andreas Janshoff (Göttingen, Germany)
    Dynamics and mechanics of epithelial cells in 2D and 3D

  • 9.50 a.m. - 10.10 a.m.

    Christine Selhuber-Unkel (Heidelberg, Germany)
    3D micromaterial-based control of cellular systems

  • 10.10 a.m. - 11.50 a.m.

    Albrecht Schwab (Münster, Germany)
    Mechano-signaling in pancreatic stellate cells

  • Voltage gating

    Chair: Ilka Bischofs
  • 11.50 a.m. - 12.30 a.m.

    Gustavo Chaves (Nürnberg, Germany)
    The voltage-gated proton channel (Hv)' family: Structural and biophysical diversity

  • 12.30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.

    Closing – Boris Musset

  • 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.

    Lunch

  • End of Meeting and Departure

This schedule is still under construction and subject to changes.