Ana-Nicoleta Bondar | Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | Hydrogen bonding and lipid interactions in membrane protein function |
Paula J. Booth | School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, UK | Membrane protein folding |
James U. Bowie | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, USA | How do membrane proteins fold? |
David J. Brockwell | School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, UK | Investigating the effect of periplasmic chaperones on the folding of a bacterial outer membrane protein |
Amitabha Chattopadhyay | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India | GPCR-cholesterol interaction: a multidimensional approach |
Linda Columbus | Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA | Structure, dynamics, and function of Opa60: a Neisserial ß-barrel membrane protein that mediates host phagocytosis |
Grégory Durand | Equipe Chimie Bioorganique et Systèmes Amphiphiles, Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon, France | Non-ionic amphiphilic polymers and fluorinated surfactants: two convenient alternatives to detergents for studying membrane proteins |
Christine Ebel | Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France | Hydrodynamic and scattering characterisation of membrane proteins |
Karim Fahmy | Biophysics Division, Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany | Infrared spectroscopy on lipid–protein interactions: what crystals don't tell |
Karen G. Fleming | Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA | Membrane protein thermodynamic stability may serve as the energy sink for sorting in the periplasm |
Hans-Joachim Galla | Institute of Biochemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany | Transporters of the multidrug resistance: reconstitution into proteoliposomes and biophysical characterisation |
Helmut Grubmüller | Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany | Mechanoenzymatics: atomistic simulation of biomolecular nano-machines |
Joachim Heberle | Department of Experimental Molecular Biophysics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany | Surface-enhanced IR spectroscopy probes membrane protein functionality |
Heiko Heerklotz | Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Canada | Parameters governing the activity, selectivity, and concerted action of membrane-active peptides and (bio)surfactants |
Syma Khalid | Systems and Synthetic Biology Modelling Group, University of Southampton, UK | Multiscale molecular dynamics simulation studies of the E. coli cell envelope |
J. Antoinette Killian | Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands | Designed transmembrane peptides as models for membrane proteins |
Jörg H. Kleinschmidt | Department of Biophysics, University of Kassel, Germany | Folding and insertion pathways of outer membrane proteins from bacteria |
Daniel E. Otzen | iNANO, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark | Protein engineering dissection of the folding of the membrane protease GlpG in a membrane-mimicking environment |
Arianna Rath | Division of Molecular Structure and Function, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada | Optimising SDS-PAGE for membrane proteins |
Mark S. P. Sansom | Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK | Multiscale simulations of membrane systems: applications to signalling and trafficking |
Dirk Schneider | Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany | How proteins fold in lipid bilayer membranes and membrane-mimetic environments |
Petra Schwille | Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany | The role of the membrane in protein pattern formation |
Eva-Kathrin Sinner | Institute of Nanobiotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria | The inobvious challenge: deducing physiological parameters from membrane proteins isolated and reconstituted into artificial matrices |
Claudia Steinem | Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany | Pore-spanning membranes as a tool to monitor protein-mediated fusion processes |
Martin B. Ulmschneider | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA | The mechanism of channel protein gating, solute selectivity, and flux |
Anne S. Ulrich | Institute of Biological Interfaces 2, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany | Complementary applications of oriented solid-state NMR and oriented CD to membrane proteins |