BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2011 Biology Getting Physical - Physical Forces in Biology
Time Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Place Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of the Medical Campus, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Registration Teija Luoto, e-mail teija.luoto@oulu.fi tel. (08) 537 6103, fax (08) 537 6115 by March 15, 2011. Biocenter Oulu scientists and students register to contact persons in research groups Information Anthony Heape, Biocenter Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland tel. (08) 537 6102, fax. (08) 537 6115, e-mail anthony.heape@oulu.fi Credits Certificate of participation will be written Transportation There will be bus transportation from Linnanmaa to Aapistie 5A The bus will leave at 8.30 hrs at door J from Linnanmaa and return at 17.15 hrs from Aapistie 5A to Linnanmaa Place Auditorium 101A in the Main Building of the Medical Campus, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Chairpersons Anna Honkanen, Jothi Anantharajan, Subramanian Murugan
09.00 09.05 Opening remarks Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu 09.05 09.15 Welcome Professor Johanna Myllyharju, Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu 09.15 - 09.20 Welcome Professor Seppo Vainio, Director of Biocenter Oulu Graduate School 09.20 10.00 Nanomechanical footprints of tumor development in cells and tissues Dr. Cora-Ann Schönenberger M.E. Müller Institute for Structural Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 10.00 10.35 Coffee at the exhibition area (35 min) 10.35 11.15 Nanomechanics with Optical Tweezers: Kinesin Motors Work against Protein Friction Dr. Erik Schäffer Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC), TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany 11.15 11.55 Native mass spectrometry - a versatile analytical tool for the studies of biological interactions Prof. Janne Jänis Department of Chemistry, University of Eastern Finland, Finland 11.55 13.25 Lunch break and exhibition (1 h 30 min) 13.25 14.05 Modeling structure and dynamics of biomolecules on several length- and timescales Dr. Alexander H. de Vries University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 14.05 14.45 Interaction of fullerenes with biological membranes: computer simulation studies Dr. Luca Monticelli INSERM, Paris, France 14.45 15.25 Coffee at the exhibition area (40 min) 15.25 16.05 Impact of Homologous recombination on the repair of DNA damage after ionizing radiation Dr. Kerstin Borgmann Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 16.05 16.45 In search of the ultimate limit to vision Prof. Kristian Donner Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 16.45 17.00 General discussion and concluding remarks
******************************** Teija Luoto, Secretary Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu P.O. Box 5000 FI-90014 UNIVERSITY OF OULU, FINLAND Street address: Aapistie 5A, 90220 OULU, FINLAND Tel +358 8 537 6103, Fax +358 8 537 6115 e-mail: teija.luoto@oulu.fi BIOCENTER OULU URL: http://www.biocenter.oulu.fi (internal mail: 5BIOCENTER)