• 09:00 to 09:30 - Rongjun Chen (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK):
  • Designing Synthetic, Membrane-Active Polymers for Intracellular Delivery and Therapy

• 09:40 to 10:10 - Nigel Slater (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK):
  • Some Biological Applications of a Synthetic Cell Transduction Agent

• 10:20 to 10:50 - Kevin Ward (Biopharma Ltd, UK):
•  The use of novel biopolymers to mediate red blood cell membrane permeability enabling loading of intracellular protectant and long term stabilisation by freeze-drying

• 11:00 to 12:00 - Coffee Break/Poster session

• 12:00 to 12:30 - Carlos Marques (Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France):
  •  Lambda-phage DNAs close to phospholipid walls: a direct visualization of single and double end-grafted polymer conformations

• 12:40 to 13:10 - Lars Jeuken (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK): 
  • Model-membrane electrodes to study membrane-protein function and interaction with nanoparticles 

•         13:20 to 13:50 - Andrey Brukhno (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK):
  • Polypeptide aggregation in the vicinity of a lipid membrane: insights from simulations

• 14:00 to 15:00 - Lunch Break

• 15:00 to 18:00 - Free time

• 18:00 to 18:30 - Ann Zhang (University of Leeds, UK): 
  • Supported Phospholipid Monolayers on Hg Film Electrodes for On-line Biomembrane Activity Studies

• 18:40 to 19:10 - Duncan McGillivray (University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand):
  • Anti-microbial protein/membrane interactions – nature’s super-drugs?

• 19:20 to 20:00 - Discussion

• Marco Werner (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung, Dresden, Germany):
• Monte Carlo study of the influence of polymer chains on the permeability of lipid bilayers

• Girish Malhotra (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK): 
• Biomembrane interaction analysis of Cadmium telluride quantum dots

• Andrey Brukhno (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK): 
  • Charge Redistribution in Lipid Films under Varying Electric Potential: Insights from Monte Carlo Simulations

• Christopher Jayakumar (Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India):
• Studies on the interaction of scleraldehyde in stabilizing collagen for biomedical applications

• Andrea Mickova (Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic):
• Liposomes in core/shell nanofibers as a novel water retention system to preserve enzymatic activity

• Feng-Ching Tsai (Institute AMOLF, Netherlands):
• Encapsulating active cytoskeletal networks in cell-sized liposomes

• Sabyasachi Dasgupta (Institute of Complex Systems, Juelich, Germany):
• Interaction of nanoparticles with lipid membranes

• Gina Jaggernauth (University of the West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad):
•  The characterisation of a novel family of metallosurfactants

• Lorale J. Lalgee (University of the West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad):
• Synthetic ion transporters: membrane activity of amphiphilic cobalt - cage complexes with aza crown spacer

• Nitin Jain (Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India):
• Preparation and characterization of nanoemulsion of amiloride for nose to brain delivery

• Faheem Padia (Manchester University, Manchester, UK):
• The effects of surfactant structure on micellar shape and size

• Anastassia Zakhariouta, Tugce Akkas (Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey)
• Internalization of nano crosslinked protein aggregates by HeLa cells