INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

MEMBRANE HYDRATION: A CHALLENGE TO NANOSYSTEMS

2-3 NOVEMBER
MONDAY 2. 14.30 hs. OPENING SESSION
Presentation of the book
"MEMBRANE HYDRATION:
THE ROLE OF WATER IN THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES"
PROF. DR RAUL GRIGERA
15.00 hs. DETERMINATION OF NUMBER OF WATER MOLECULES/LIPID USING X-RAY AND NEUTRON
SCATTERING METHODS AND VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENTS
STEPHANIE TRISTRAM-NAGLE
Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15289 USA,
stn@cmu.edu
16.30-17.00 hs. Break
17.00 hs. DETERMINING THE DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN MODEL MEMBRANES
J. KATSARAS
Biology and Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, katsarasj@ornl.gov
18.00 hs. LONG-RANGE LIPID-WATER INTERACTION AS OBSERVED BY FTIR SPECTROSCOPY
Z. ARSOV.
Jozef Stefan Institute, Department of Solid State Physics, Laboratory of Biophysics,Ljubljana, Slovenia,
zoran.arsov@ijs.si
19.30 hs. Cocktail reception at the Observation Towers.
TUESDAY 3
14.30 hs. NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY AND WATER STATES IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS.
R.TSENKOVA.
Universidad de Kobe, Japn, rtsen@kobe-u.ac.jp
15.30 hs. FORCES BETWEEN LIPID BILAYERS: A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW AND A LOOK ON METHODS
EXPLORING DEHYDRATION.
HELGE PFEIFFER
University of Leuven, Belgium, helge.pfeiffer@mtm.kuleuven.be
16.30 Break
17.00 hs. THE ROLE OF WATER ACTIVITY IN THE THERMODYNAMIC RESPONSE OF LIPID MONOLAYERS
TO PEPTIDES.
S. DAMODARAN.
Department
of
Food
Science,
University
of
Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison,
WI
53706,
USA,
sdamodar@facstaff.wisc.edu
18.00 hs. HYDRATION AND NANOCONFINED WATER
G. APPIGNANESI.
INQUISUR-UNS-CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Baha Blanca, Argentina, appignan@criba.edu.ar
Auditorio Juan Felipe Ibarra, 24 de setiembre 151, Santiago del Estero
Light lunches will be offered at 13.00 hs. at the session place.
Live Streaming of the presentation session through our websites and YouTube will be telecasted.

Telecasting of the other lectures is planned at request of the authors.

Organizing Committee
Laboratory of Biointerphase and Biomimetic Systems
Dr. E. A. Disalvo, Dra. M. A. Fras, Dr. A Hollmann, Dra. Andrea Cutro, Dr Florencia Martini, Lic. Lucia Lavaisse, Lic.
Pablo Sain, Sebastian Rosa, Jimena Cejas, Patricia Maturana, Lic. Anah Soria, Sr. Carlos Uates.