International Workshop on Biomembranes: The consequences of complexity

Sponsored by CECAM, Finnish IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland. August 16 – 19 2016

Chemical interactions, lateral heterogeneity, and the lipid zoo. Lipidomic studies of membranes reveal a huge diversity of lipid types, the composition of which varies with cell and membrane type. All-atom models have recently been shown to quantitatively capture the chemistry of laterally heterogeneous mixtures, and a coarse-grained representation of the plasma membrane has just been published.

Organisers

• Mikko Karttunen (Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands).
• Ilpo Vattulainen (University of Helsinki, Finland).
• Jan Astrom (CSC – Finnish IT Centre for Science, Finland).
• Edward Lyman (University of Delaware, USA).

Deadline

There is no formal deadline, but there is a lmit of 100 participants and thus early applications are encouraged.

Program, application instructions and further information

Please, visit the Workshop Web Site.