The lectures will be organized according to three themes:
Single Molecule Micromanipulation
Optical tweezers
Magnetic tweezers
Atomic Force Microscopy
Molecular Modeling
Visualisation of macromolecules
Simulation techniques
Biomacromolecular interactions
Single Molecule Visualization Techniques
FCS, Fret,
Two photon fluorescence
TIR illumination ...
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Detailed Program
July 11th
Monday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
David Jones
Protein architecture and function
11h00 to 12h30
Herman Gaub
Introduction to AFM in single molecule
July 11th
Monday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
Steve Smith
Introduction to Optical Tweezers
16h00 to 17h30
Herman Gaub
Introduction to AFM in single molecule
II
July 12th
Tuesday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
Richard Lavery
Introduction to simulations (force fields,
MM, MC, MD)
11h00 to 12h30
David Jones
Protein architecture and function II
July 12th
Tuesday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
Arthur Olson
Macromolecular interactions and advanced
visualisation methods
16h00 to 17h30
Sunnie Xie
Single-Molecule Enzymatic and Conformational Dynamics
July 13th
Wednesday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
Sunnie Xie
Single Molecule Studies in Living Cells
11h00 to 12h30
Klaus Schulten
Connecting molecular simulations to experiment
July 13th
Wednesday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
Poster Session
16h00 to 17h30
Arthur Olson
Macromolecular interactions and advanced
visualisation methods II
July 14th
Thursday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
11h00 to 12h30
July 14th
Thursday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
Steve Smith
Biophysics with optical tweezers
16h00 to 17h30
Klaus Schulten
Connecting molecular simulations to experiment
July 15th
Friday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
11h00 to 12h30
July 15th
Friday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
Keir Neuman
Introduction to optical trapping: the single beam gradient trap
16h00 to 17h30
François Amblard
Cytoskeleton dynamics I: single molecule and light scattering approaches.
July 16th
Saturday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
Terence Strick
Introduction to the magnetic trap and its application to the study
of DNA structures and the action of DNA topoisomerases.
11h00 to 12h30
Gilad Haran
Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy
July 16th
Saturday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
François Amblard
Cytoskeleton dynamics II: analysis of intracellular transport.
16h00 to 17h30
July 18th
Monday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
Maite Coppey-Moisan
Protein-protein interactions measurements in living cells. How FLIM and Fluorescence Anisotropy Decay Microscopy provide reliable data for the determination of hetero- and homo-dimerization of proteins in living cells, respectively.
11h00 to 12h30
Elmar Krieger
Building, viewing and manipulating biomolecules
on the computer
July 18th
Monday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
Gilad Haran
Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy
16h00 to 17h30
Maxime Dahan
Cell dynamics studied by single quantum dot tracking
July 19th
Tuesday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
Elmar Krieger
Building, viewing and manipulating biomolecules on the computer II
11h00 to 12h30
William Moerner
Single-Molecule Imaging in Living Cells
July 19th
Tuesday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
Poster Session
16h00 to 17h30
Helene Saibil
Macromolecular structure determination by cryo-electron microscopy I
July 20th
Wednesday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
Helene Saibil
Macromolecular structure determination by cryo-electron microscopy II
11h00 to 12h30
William Moerner
Novel Approaches to Single-Molecule Detection and Trapping
July 20th
Wednesday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
Wolfgang Baumeister
Cryo Electron Tomography - Method
16h00 to 17h30
Antoine Triller
Dynamic organization of a multi-molecular assembly: the post-synaptic machine
July 21th
Thursday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
Steve Harvey
Modelling large systems with coarse grain techniques
11h00 to 12h30
Daniel Choquet
Single molecule imaging to reveal the dynamic organisation of excitatory synapses
July 21th
Thursday
Afternoon
14h00 to 15h30
Terence Strick
Real-time analysis of the full transcription cycle.
16h00 to 17h30
Wolfgang Baumeister
Cryo Electron Tomography - Applications
July 22th
Friday
Morning
9h00 to 10h30
Joseph Zyss
Nonlinear Optics in molecular and bio-molecular media: from macroscopic to nanometer scales
11h00 to 12h30
Steve Harvey
Modelling large systems with coarse grain
techniques II
July 22th
Friday
Afternoon
14h00 to 17h00
Departure
School ends
Location
The first three days, in particular also the very first day, Monday 11th, the lectures
will take place at the Jules Ferry lecture theatre (29 rue d'Ulm). Starting from 14th
of July the rest of the school takes place at Salle Dussane of the ENS (ground floor) at 45, rued'Ulm.