Conveners
W1-2 Soft Condensed Matter and Soft Interfaces (DMBP-DCMMP) / Matière condensée molle et interfaces molles (DPMB-DPMCM)
- Maikel Rheinstadter (McMaster University)
David Sivak
(Simon Fraser University)
6/17/15, 8:45 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Molecular machines are protein complexes that convert between different forms of energy, and they feature prominently in essentially any major cell biological process. A plausible hypothesis holds that evolution has sculpted these machines to efficiently transmit energy and information in their natural contexts, where energetic fluctuations are large and nonequilibrium driving forces are...
Prof.
Silvia Mittler
(University of Western Ontario)
6/17/15, 9:15 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
Organometallic chemical vapour deposited (OMCVD) gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) can be successfully used for biosensing. For the sensing mechanism an absorption feature, the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), is implemented. Typically in this bio-sensing approach is monitoring the changes in the peak position of the LSPR via absorption spectroscopy during a highly specific binding...
Dr
Raphael Turcotte
(Advanced Microscopy Program, Wellman Center for Photomedicine and Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA)
6/17/15, 9:30 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
The hematopoietic stem cell niche is a specialized bone marrow microenvironment where blood-forming cells reside. Interactions between these rare cells and their niche need to be studied at the single-cell level. While live animal cell tracking with optical microscopy has proven useful for this purpose, a more thorough characterization requires novel approaches. This can be accomplished by...
Mr
Dennis D. Fernandes
(Department of Physics, University of Toronto)
6/17/15, 9:45 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The role of oligomers in signalling via G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) has been under debate. The oligomeric size of several GPCRs has been studied using fluorescence-based techniques and have provided inconsistent results, while their attendant G proteins have received little attention. In this study, the oligomeric nature of the GPCR signalling complex comprising the M2 muscarinic...
Chris Miranda
(Memorial University of Newfoundland)
6/17/15, 10:00 AM
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Transfer of lipid material between mulitlamellar reservoirs and the surface active layer is required to maintain the functional surfactant layer in alveoli. Surfactant Protein B (SP-B) is believed to facilitate interlayer contact implicit in such activity. The way in which SP-B might promote trafficking of surfactant material was investigated using mixtures bilayered micelles containing long-...
