SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Reception |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Endogenous Electric Fields I: Roles in Developing Systems |
| Ken Robinson, Purdue University, Chair |
| Mike Levin, Forsythe Institute, Massachusetts "DEVELOPMENT OF LEFT/RIGHT ASYMMETRY" |
| Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, Salk Institute, San Diego
"NOTCH ACTIVITY ACTS AS A SENSOR FOR EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM DURING VERTEBRATE LEFT-RIGHT DETERMINATION" |
| Dick Woodruff, West Chester University, Pennsylvania "TRANSPORT OF CHARGED MOLECULES INTO THE INSECT OOCYTE" |
| Ken Robinson, Purdue University "ELECTRICAL CONTROL OF DROSOPHILA NEUROBLAST POLARITY" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Endogenous Electric Fields II: Mechanisms of Electric Field Detection and Signal Transduction |
| Colin McCaig, University of Aberdeen, Chair |
| Min Zhao, University of Aberdeen
"ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN WOUND HEALING" |
| Richard Nuccitelli, RPN Research
"NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF THE ELECTRIC FIELD IN MAMMALIAN WOUNDS" |
| Ann Rajnicek, University of Aberdeen "MECHANISMS OF NERVE GROWTH CONE GUIDANCE" |
| Peishan Liu, Purdue University "ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF SPINAL CORD REGENERATION" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Electrochemical and optical probes of cell dynamics I: monitoring metabolism |
| Peter Smith, Marine Biological Laboratory, Chair |
| Orian Shirihai, Tufts University
"IMAGING MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN IMPORT, METABOLIC ACTIVITY AND NETWORKING" |
| Raoul Kopelman, University of Michigan
"PEBBLES: IN VITRO AND IN VIVO IMAGING USING POLYMER NANOSENSORS" |
| Peter Smith, Marine Biological Laboratory
"FROM THE OUTSIDE IN: TRACKING CELLULAR METABOLISM VIA BOUNDARY LAYER ELECTROCHEMISTRY" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Electrically driven transport across biological barriers I: Cellular Targets and Mechanisms of Action |
| Lluis Mir, CNRS - Institut Gustave-Roussy, France, Chair |
| Peter Tieleman, University of Calgary "MOLECULAR DYNAMICS OF THE CHANGES IN THE MEMBRANE CAUSED BY ELECTRIC PULSES" |
| Eberhard Neumann, University of Bielefeld, Germany "ADVANCES IN PLASMA MEMBRANE ELECTROPORATION FOR DRUG AND GENE DELIVERY" |
| Lluis Mir, CNRS - Institut Gustave-Roussy, France
"TRANSPORT OF DNA IN VIVO ACROSS ELECTROPERMEABILIZED CELL MEMBRANES: MECHANISMS AND APPLICATIONS TO NON-VIRAL GENE THERAPY" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Addresses |
| Mu-ming Poo, UC Berkeley "ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEURAL CIRCUITS" |
| Lionel Jaffe, Marine Biological Laboratory "ELECTRICAL CONTROLS OF DEVELOPMENT" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Electrically driven transport across biological barriers II: Ultrashort pulses target cell organelles |
| Karl Schoenbach, Old Dominion University, Chair |
| James Weaver, MIT "MECHANISMS FOR SUBCELLULAR RESPONSES TO ULTRASHORT PULSES (INTRACELLULAR ELECTROMANIPULATION)" |
| Steven Beebe, Eastern Virginia Medical School "THE EFFECTS OF INTENSE SUBMICROSECOND ELECTRICAL PULSES ON CELLS" |
| Tom Vernier, University of Southern California
"CALCIUM BURSTS AND PHOSPHOLIPID FLOP IN ELECTROPERTURBED LYMPHOCYTES" |
| Andrei Pahkomov, University of Texas Health Center San Antonio
"TIME AND DOSE EFFECTS IN MAMMALIAN CELL SURVIVAL AFTER EXPOSURE TO 10-NS ELECTRICAL PULSES |
| Ephrem Tekle, NHLBI/NIH
"NEW APPROACHES WITH NANO-SECOND ELECTRIC PULSES: SELECTIVE ELECTROPORATION" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Optical probes of membrane electrophysiology |
| Les Loew, University of Connecticut Health Center, Chair |
| Larry Cohen, Yale University "OPTICAL MONITORING OF NEURAL ACTIVITY USING VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYES" |
| Wolfgang Frey, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
"NANOSECOND TIME-RESOLUTION MONITORING OF THE MEMBRANE CHARGING OF JURKAT CELLS" |
| Les Loew, University of Connecticut Health Center
"PROBING MEMBRANE POTENTIAL WITH SECOND HARMONIC IMAGING MICROSCOPY" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Biophysical mechanisms of cellular interactions with RF electric and magnetic fields from cell phones and MRI |
| Asher Sheppard, Asher Sheppard Consulting, Chair |
| Asher Sheppard, Asher Sheppard Consulting
"BIOPHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF CELLULAR INTERACTIONS WITH RF ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS USED IN MODERN TECHNOLOGY" |
| Charles B. Grissom, University of Utah
"MAGNETIC FIELD DEPENDENCE OF ENZYMATIC REACTIONS: HIGH FIELDS NOT REQUIRED" |
| Peter J. Hore, Oxford University "CHEMICAL EFFECTS OF WEAK RADIOFREQUENCY FIELDS" |
| Florin Despa, University of Chicago
"LINKING THE MAGNETIC RESONANCE SIGNAL TO STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS OF PROTEINS" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot topics: Last minute breakthroughs and selected presentations from posters |
| Justin Teissié, CNRS, France, Chair |
| Thorsten Ritz, University of California, Irvine
"RESONANCE EFFECTS INDICATE A RADICAL-PAIR MECHANISM FOR AVIAN MAGNETIC COMPASS" |
| Steven Schiff, George Mason University
"SENSITIVITY OF NEURONS TO WEAK ELECTRIC FIELDS" |
| Lei Zhang, Genetronics
"ASSESSMENT OF THE PAIN ASSOCIATED WITH ELECTROPORATION IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS" |
| Alan King, Cyto Pulse Sciences
"CUTANEOUS DNA VACCINE DELIVERY USING COATED MICRONEEDLE ARRAYS AND ELECTROPORATION" |
| Indira Chatterjee and Gale Craviso, University of Nevada, Reno
"EFFECT OF RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS ON CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE FROM CULTURED BOVINE ADRENAL CHROMAFFIN CELLS" |
| Additional Presentations Selected from Poster Sessions |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |