Program

NOVEMBER 2015, 18-19     -    ORSAY, FRANCE            
     

LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS AND PROGRAM

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

   Dr. Alain Bergel (Center for Chemical Engineering, ENSIACET, Toulouse, France)

   Dr. Dominique Chapelle (INRIA, Palaiseau, France)

   Dr. Pierre Charnet (Research Center on Macromolecular Biochemistry,Montpellier, France) 

   Dr. Pascal Darbon (Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, Strasbourg, France)

   Dr. Jean-Marie Frachisse (Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

   Dr. Manon Guille-Collignon  Department of Chemistry, ENS, UPMC, Paris, France

   Dr. Rüdiger Krahe (Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

   Pr. Derek Lovley (Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)

   Pr. Daniel Robert (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, England)

   Dr. Tomaso Zambelli (Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

 Wednesday, November 18.

9h15-10h00        Registration and welcome coffee

Session: subcellular systems.

10h00-10h40     Invited speaker: Pierre Charnet ; "Voltage-gated Ca²⁺ channels: structure, permeation and inactivation properties"

10h45-11h25     Invited speaker: Tomaso Zambelli ; "Force-controlled electrophysiology"

11h30-11h55     Coffee break

Session: tissues, organs, biofilms.

12h00-12h40     Invited speaker: Dominique Chapelle ; "Multi-scale modeling of chemo-mechanical coupling in muscle contraction and applications to cardiac modeling"

12h45-14h15     Lunch

14h20-14h40    Oral conference:

Christian Marlière ; "A direct and at nanometer scale study of electrical charge distribution on membranes of alive cells."

14h45-15h25     Invited speaker : Derek Lovley ; "Electromicrobiology: Electron Transfer via Biowires in Nature and Practical Applications" 

Session: animals, plants.

15h30-16h10     Invited speaker: Jean-Marie Frachisse ; "Ion channels in mechanosensing and electrical signaling in plants"

16h15-16h45     Exhibitors

16h50-17h30     Beer and poster session

17h35-18h15     Invited speaker: Daniel Robert ; "The bee, the flower and the electric field"

Thursday,  November 19.

9h00-9h25       Tea-Coffee

Session: subcellular systems and cells.

9h30-10h10         Invited speaker: Manon Guille-Collignon ; "More Transparency in BioAnalysis of Exocytosis: Coupling of Electrochemistry and Fluorescence Microscopy at ITO Electrodes"

10h15-10h35       Selected conferences

Michal Cifra ; "Cellular electrodynamic activity"

10h40-11h10     Coffee break

Session: cells and networks.

11h15-11h55     Invited speaker: Pascal Darbon ; "Spinal cellular and network properties modulate pain perception"

12h00-12h20     Selected conferences

 Clément Lafargue ; "Electro-Optic Microscopy (EOM) for cell biology"

12h25-13h55     Lunch

Session: tissues, organs, biofilms.

14h00-14h40     Invited speaker: Alain Bergel ; "How could chemical engineering help in deciphering electro-microbial mechanisms?"

 Session: animals, plants.

14h45-15h25     Invited speaker: Rüdiger Krahe ; "The active electric sense of weakly electric fish: from electric organ discharge to sensory processing and behaviour.”

15h30-15h50     Selected conferences

 Thomas Boulier ; "A mathematical model for electrolocation in weakly electric field"

15h55-16h25     Coffee break and posters

16h30-17h15     Selected conferences

 Gregory Sutton ; "Bumble Bees (Bombus terrestris) use mechanosensory hairs to detect electric fields" (16h30-16h50)

 Eric Herbert ; "Green Thermoelectricity: Observation and analysis of plant thermoelectric response" (16h55-17h15)