- Sunday 3 evening
- Lluis M. Mir - Welcome and remarks
- Endogenous and exogenous electric fields : (I) The transmembrane potential difference, basics and new facts
Chair : Eberhard Neumann
- Paul Gailey - Basics of the TMP difference in excitable and non excitable cells
- David de Pomerai - Non-thermal heat-shock response to microwaves
- Monday 4 morning
- Endogenous and exogenous electric fields: (II) Role in cell and tissue morphogenesis
Chair : Richard Nuccitelli
- Rick Borgens - Endogenous currents and limb morphogenesis in mice and chicken
- Colin McCaig - Cell behaviour in physiological electrical fields
- Richard Davies - Transepithelial and cell membrane depolarization of breast epithelial cells and its possible application to breast cancer diagnosis - Depolarization of breast epithelial cells and possible applications to breast tumor diagnosis
- Monday 4 evening
- Endogenous and exogenous electric fields: (III) Artificial synapses and signal transmission through living cells
Chair : Jim Weaver
- Peter Fromherz - Electrical interfacing of nerve cells and silicon chips
- Boris Rubinsky - Micro-electromechanical technology for the study and control of electroporation processes in single cells and in tissue
- Tuesday 5 morning
- Experimental modifications of the TMP difference using high voltage electric pulses : (I) fundamentals, from lipid bilayers to new data and models of cell electro(-permeabilisation)(-poration)
Chair : Dean Astumian
- Yuri Chizmadzhev - Single lipidic pores in planar bilayers
- Damijan Miklavcic - The role of cell density and orientation in cell electropermeabilization
- Mark Prausnitz - Prediction and optimization of gene transfection and drug delivery by electroporation
- Tuesday 5 evening
- Endogenous and exogenous electric fields: (IV) methodologies and new facts
Chair: Jan Walleczeck
- Leslie Loew - Linear and Non-Linear optical imaging of potentiometric membrane probes
- POSTERS - Oral presentation of selected posters
- Wednesday 6 morning
- Experimental modifications of the TMP difference using high voltage electric pulses : (II) biological consequences and biotechnological applications
Chair : Véronique Préat
- Justin Teissié - Electric pulses mediated sterilization
- Sek Wen Hui - Time- and temperature-dependent electrical and ultrastructural changes of the skin subjected to electroporation
- Julie Gehl - In vivo electroporation of skeletal muscle tissue: threshold and level of permeabilization in relation to electric parameters, and correlation to alterations in blood flow and nerve function
- Wednesday 6 evening
- Experimental modifications of the TMP difference using high voltage electric pulses: (III) preclinical and clinical applications
Chair : Richard Heller
- Gregor Sersa - Present, past and future of electrochemotherapy
- Robert Malone - DNA electrotransfer into tissue : theory and applications
- Thursday 7 morning
- Physiological roles of the trans-membrane potential difference: (I) role in the sensing of electric fields, magnetic fields and warm and cold
Chair: Martin Blank
- Denis Willows - Evidence for ciliated cells mediating geomagnetic transduction and behavioral orientation in a mollusc
- Ad. J. Kalmijn - Transduction of electric and magnetic fields in shark and rays (elasmobranch fishes)
- Robert K. Adair - Detection of warm and cold through cutaneous voltage-gated membrane channels
- Thursday 7 evening
- Physiological roles of the trans-membrane potential difference: (II) role in non-mammalian cells
Chair: Lei Zhang
- Rainer Hedrich - Information and Solute Management in Plants - Molecular Mechanism of Membrane Potential Changes
- Guido Kroemer - Mitochondrial transmembrane potential difference in the control of programmed cell death
- Concluding remarks
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