Session: Surface Chemistry, Self-Assembly and Cell Biology


COLL		Monday, 29 August 2005

8:30 AM-12:05 PM Renaissance Washington -- Room 10--11, Oral
Surface Chemistry, Self-Assembly and Cell Biology
Fusion and Lipids
Organizers:	S. A. Safran Ramanathan Nagarajan
Presiding:	Françoise Brochard-Wyart
8:30 AM		Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM	76	Theoretical model for intermediate structures of membrane fusion Michael M Kozlov
9:05 AM	77	Fusion intermediate state: Formation and structure of stalk Huey W Huang
9:35 AM	78	SNARE complex between reconstituted vesicles does not trigger but does promote PEG-triggered fusion Barry Lentz, Moses Dennison, Mark E. Bowen, Axel T. Brunger
10:05 AM	79	Role of Gaussian curvature elastic energy in membrane fusion David P. Siegel
10:35 AM	80	Membrane fusion: Universal pathways and universal inhibitors Leonid V. Chernomordik
11:05 AM	81	Morphology of the influenza hemagglutinin fusion site Joe Bentz
11:35 AM	82	Solvent free models for biomembranes Frank L. H. Brown, Grace Brannigan, Lawrence C-L. Lin

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