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Lipid and Membrane Biophysics
Faraday Discussion 161
11 – 13 September 2012
Burlington House, London, UK

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 18 November 2011

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Lipid and Membrane Biophysics: Faraday Discussion 161 will consider recent developments in the study of biomembrane structure, ordering and dynamics, with particular emphasis on the roles of lipids in these phenomena. This meeting will focus on the following themes:

• Lipid self-assembly
• Structure, ordering and dynamics of membranes
• Lateral segregation, trans-bilayer coupling and microdomains
• Membrane curvature, micromechanics and fusion
• Lipid-protein interactions: two-way coupling
• Interactions of signalling lipids and other molecules with membranes
• Biomedical and technological applications of lipid membranes

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Professor John Nagle (Introductory), Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Professor Evan Evans (Closing), Boston University, USA
• Dr Olaf Sparre Andersen, Cornell University, USA
• Professor Alfred Blume, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• Professor Markus Deserno, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Professor Dr Reinhard Lipowsky, MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
• Professor David Needham, Duke University, USA
• Professor Thomas Schmidt, Leiden Institute of Physics, The Netherlands
• Professor Dr Petra Schwille, TU Dresden, Germany
• Professor Håkan Wennerström, University of Lund, Sweden

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 18 November 2011.

We hope that this conference is of interest and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year. For further information on attending Faraday Discussion 161, please visit www.rsc.org/FD161.

Please keep Faraday Discussions’ sister journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in mind. PCCP brings you content of the highest quality in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. With high-impact research, and a truly international readership, PCCP is the ideal place to publish. We invite you to submit your research to PCCP today.

Recent PCCP Perspective review articles in this area include:

Lipidology and lipidomics––quo vadis? A new era for the physical chemistry of lipids
Ole G. Mouritsen
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22484K

Porous biomimetic membranes: fabrication, properties and future applications
Bin Zhu, Jingjian Li and Dongsheng Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02757J

Functional liposomes and supported lipid bilayers: towards the complexity of biological archetypes
Debora Berti, Gabriella Caminati and Piero Baglioni
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02400G

Multiscale modeling of emergent materials: biological and soft matter
Teemu Murtola, Alex Bunker, Ilpo Vattulainen, Markus Deserno and Mikko Karttunen
DOI: 10.1039/B818051B

Scoring functions and their evaluation methods for protein–ligand docking: recent advances and future directions
Sheng-You Huang, Sam Z. Grinter and Xiaoqin Zou
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00151A

We would like to thank the British Biophysical Society for their co-sponsorship support of this discussion meeting.

Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects
Faraday Discussion 160
3 – 5 September 2012
Queens’ College Oxford, UK

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 11 November 2011

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Ion Specific Hofmeister Effects: FD160 aims to respond to the emerging situation in which science has matured enough to be able to provide answers about the molecular nature of ion specific effects. The meeting will address the following themes:

• Solvation of ions in the aqueous bulk and at interfaces
• Ion-ion interactions in water
• Interactions between ions and biomolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, membranes, etc.) in water
• Specific Hofmeister effects of ions and osmolytes on protein association, precipitation, folding/unfolding, and activity

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Professor Thomas Record (Introductory), University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
• Professor Robert Baldwin (Closing), Stanford University, USA
• Professor Colin Bain, University of Durham, UK
• Professor Chris Dempsey, University of Bristol, UK
• Professor Angel Garcia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Professor Daniel Harries, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
• Professor Werner Kunz, University of Regensburg, Germany
• Professor Mikael Lund, Lund University, Sweden
• Dr Phil Mason, Cornell University, USA
• Professor Douglas Tobias, University of California, Irvine, USA

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 11 November 2011

We hope that this conference is of interest and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year. For further information on attending Faraday Discussion 160, please visit www.rsc.org/FD160.

Please keep Faraday Discussions’ sister journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) in mind. PCCP brings you content of the highest quality in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry. With high-impact research, and a truly international readership, PCCP is the ideal place to publish. We invite you to submit your research to PCCP today.
Recent PCCP Perspective review articles in this area include:

Hofmeister effects: interplay of hydration, nonelectrostatic potentials, and ion size
Drew F. Parsons, Mathias Boström, Pierandrea Lo Nostro and Barry W. Ninham
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20538B

Aggregation behavior of gemini surfactants and their interaction with macromolecules in aqueous solution
Yuchun Han and Yilin Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01196G

Interactions and dynamics in electrolyte solutions by dielectric spectroscopy
Richard Buchner and Glenn Hefter
DOI: 10.1039/B906555P

Protein–water electrostatics and principles of bioenergetics
David N. LeBard and Dmitry V. Matyushov
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01004A

Or you can browse the recently published PCCP themed issue on Water in biological systems.

Molecular Reaction Dynamics in Gases, Liquids and Interfaces
Faraday Discussion 157
25 – 27 June 2012
Assisi, Italy

Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 26 August 2011

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 Molecular Reaction Dynamics: FD157 aims to define the state-of-the-art and to outline the future prospects for this whole exciting area of research, with impact in many fields of science. The discussion will follow these key-themes:

• Bimolecular reaction dynamics in the gas-phase
• Photodissociation dynamics in the gas and liquid-phase
• Reaction dynamics at interfaces (gas-liquid and gas-solid)
• Ultrafast reaction dynamics in the condensed phase         

 Confirmed invited speakers:

• Fleming F Crim (Introductory) – University of Wisconsin, USA
• Richard Zare (Closing) – Stanford University, USA
• Rainer Beck – EPFL, Switzerland
• Joel M Bowman – Emory University, USA
• Stephen Bradforth – University of Southern California, USA
• Martin Gruebele – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Kopin Liu, IAMS – Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Todd Martinez – Stanford University, USA
• Daniel Neumark – University of California, Berkeley, USA
• John Tully – Yale University, USA

Faraday Discussions are a long-established series of meetings which provide a unique international platform for the exchange of views and newly acquired results in developing areas of physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry and chemical physics. The Discussion is a dynamic forum for developing and exchanging exciting new ideas, and both the papers and discussion will be published in a final printed volume. The latest Impact Factor is 4.5.

We invite you to submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 26 August 2011 to Events adding ‘FD157 abstract’ in the subject line. We hope that this conference is of interest and that you will attend this exciting Faraday Discussion next year.