‘From Basic to Life Sciences 7’

Program of the 7th conference

Hotel ‘Croatia’, Cavtat, June 7-14, 2014 http://dubrovnik2014.epfl.ch/

NOTE: Due to speakers’ travel arrangements, some talks are not in their optimal session. Unless specified otherwise, the length of the talk is 25' plus 5’ discussion. Saturday, June 7 Arrivals & transfers from the airport all day 18:30 – 20:00 Registration at the Perfect Meetings desk in the front lobby of the hotel ‘’Croatia’’ 19:30 – 23:00 Welcome Drinks at the upper open terrace (1st floor) above the hotel lobby

with a group ‘’Vieccia Raguza’’ who sing and play traditional Croatian folk music.

Sunday, June 8 8:30

Opening Session Chairs: László Forró & Davor Pavuna Message by the President of Croatia, Ivo Josipović Official Welcome: Tome Antičić & Philippe Gillet & Aleksa Bjeliš

Plenary Session 1 Chairs: Tome Antičić & Aleksa Bjeliš

8:45 Christoph Ebell The Human Brain Project: A Flagship in the European Research Area

9:15 Stefan Haacke Ultrafast Photo-physics of organic nanostructures: Mimicking the primary processes of photosynthesis

9:45 Pal Ormos Modelling biological motion with light driven microstructures 10:15 Nataša Pržulj Mining Biological Networks 10:45 Coffee break Plenary Session 2 Chairs: Nataša Pržulj & Pal Ormos 11:00 Slaven Garaj Graphene Nanofluidics 11:30 Miklós Kellermayer Large-scale molten-globule dynamics amplify titin contractility 12:00 Jasna Peter-Katalinić OMICS molecular profiling in nutrition 12:30 Toshio Ando Mechanism of Energy Conversion in Walking Myosin V

Revealed by High-speed AFM Imaging 13:00 Wilhelm Ansorge Next Generation DNA Sequencing Techniques: Recent Progess and Applications 13:30 Lunch break: sandwiches & water served in front of ‘Bobara’ conference room Posters can be mounted on the boards, up to A1 format (120 X 90cm2)

Plenary Session 3 Chairs: Miklós Kellermayer & Stefan Haacke

14:00 Anna Fontcuberta i Morral GaAs nanowires: applications for quantum photonics and solar cells 14:30 Gyula Feigel Recent developments in Single molecule imaging by XFEL-s 15:00 Tomaso Zambelli

FluidFM: a Force-Controlled Nanopipette for Surface and Single Cell Manipulation in Liquid

15:30 Imre Derényi The internal friction and anomalous conformational diffusion of proteins

16:00 Vladimir Lorman

Antipolar and Anticlinic Liquid-Crystalline properties of Chromatin Fiber

16:30 Martin Ntwaeaborwa Improved Ultraviolet B emission from Gd3+-Pr3+ co-activated calcium phosphate based phosphors for application in phototherapy lamps

17:00 Tea Break EPFL-Croatia Teaming Chairs: Christoph Ebell & Miroslav Požek 17:30 Olivier Küttel Teaming: EPFL and Croatia to stem the “Brain drain” tide 18:00 Ratko Magjarević Integrating Medical Data from 7/24 Human Monitoring 18:30 Auke Ijspeert The biophysics of locomotion: decoding the neural circuits

underlying locomotion using oscillator models and robots 19:00 Adrijan Barić Complexity of Microelectronic Circuits:

From Maxwell’s Equations to Behavioural Modelling 19:30 1ST FLOOR TERRACE: Fresh foods & free drinks, with: 19:30 - 23:00 POSTER SESSION 1 Chairs: Krešimir Sanković & Zalan Forró

Monday, June 9

8:30 Rudjer Bošković Institute Plenary Lectures From Carbon to Nano- & Bio- Chairs: Sylvia Jeney & David Smith Harold Kroto Carbon in Nano and Outer Space

9:30 Philippe Gillet Diamond and Other Carbon Forms in the Solar System 10:00 Peter Pohl Interfacial Proton Migration 10:30 Martin Hegner Quantitative NanoMechanical Diagnostics 11:00 Coffee break From Nano- & Bio- Chairs: Tomaso Zambelli & Jenny Vinko 11:30 Suliana Manley

Organizing principles of the bacterial z-ring and the eukaryotic centriole: tiny, multi-protein machines

12:00 Petr Leiman Biological Nanomachines that Pierce Lipid Membranes 12:30 Uri Sivan On the Intricate Way by which Hydration Governs Interactions in

Aqueous Environment 13:00 Danny Porath Charge Transport in Single DNA-Based Molecules 13:30-13:35 Danijel Grgičin Dynamics and Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Salt Solutions: Influence of Counterion Valency 13:35 Lunch break with fresh sandwiches CondMat 1 Chairs: Ronny Thomale & Jeffery Tallon 14:00 Denis Sunko Zn and Sr doping in high-Tc cuprates: NMR and DFT study 14:30

Neven Barišić Universal quantum oscillations in the underdoped cuprate superconductors and their relation to the normal state properties

15:00 Zoran Radović Why is the Critical Temperature of Interface Superconductivity in Cuprates Always Maximal?

15:30

Osor Barišić

Itinerant and high-energy localized single-particle spectra in large-Ud high-Tc cuprates

16:00 Miroslav Požek Charge stripe melting in cuprates: an experimental study 16:30 Tea break CondMat 2 Chairs: Denis Sunko & Nina Marković 17:00 Ronny Thomale New perspectives on high-Tc superconductivity 17:30 Jeffery Tallon High-Tc superconductors: from physics to bio-applications 18:00 Eric Hudson Revealing Complex Inhomogeneity in the Cuprate

Superconductors by Scanning Probe Microscopy 18:30 Justin Jianting Ye Two-Dimensional Electronics based on Ion-gated Nanosheets 19:00 Hugo Dil Topology and spin; from self-protecting states to a 2D majorana platform 19:30 1ST FLOOR : Fresh food & free drinks at the outer open terrace, with: 19:30 - 23:00 POSTER SESSION 2 Chairs: Petar Popčević & Csaba Forró

Tuesday, June 10

8:30 Emerging Insights 1 Chairs: Jasna Peter-Katalinić & Olivier Küttel 8:30 Harold Kroto Science, Society and Education 9:30 Karoly Holczer University Rankings, Elite Universities and

How to Create a New “Top” University for Europe 014 P 9:30 10:00 2014 P-G. de Gennes Prize Award Lecture Chairs: Roderick Lim & Ioan Kosztin Benoit Ladoux Mechanosensing of Living Cells:

From Single Cell Response to Substrate Rigidity to Collective Cell Migration --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:30 Coffee break Emerging Insights 2 Chairs: Marija Drndić & Anna Fontcuberta i Morral 11:00 Pier Paolo Pompa Nanobiointeractions and Nanodiagnostics 11:30 Paolo Netti Engineering biological tissues in vitro by cell instructive

materials 12:00 Guglielmo Lanzani The organic approach toward an artificial retina 12:30 Sandor Bordács Landau Level Spectroscopy of Dirac Electrons in a Polar

Semiconductor with Giant Rashba Spin Splitting 13:00 Nevena Veljković Long-range intermolecular interactions and important

insights into biological processes 13:30 Lunch break with sandwiches CondMat 3 Chairs: Neven Barišić & Endre Horváth

14:00 István Kézsmárki One-way Transparency of Magnetoelectric Spin-wave

Exctations in Multiferroics 14:30 Henrik Ronnow Breaking the Waves – experiments and theories on fractional

excitations from 1D to 2D 15:00 Goki Eda Excitonic transitions in 2D semiconducting crystals 15:30 Velimir Radmilović How Much We Know about Friction at Atomistic Level? 16:00 Mihajlo Vanević Generation and control of elementary excitations in a driven quantum contact 17:00 Conference Excursion by boat to Dubrovnik, includes a guided visit of the old city

19:00 Reception at Collegium Ragusinum, the Rudjer Bošković Grammar School

Free evening in Dubrovnik: return buses at 20:30 and 23:30h from Pile station.

Wednesday, June 11

8:30 From Nano- to Bio- 2 Chairs: Nevena Veljković & Thomas Franosch 8:30 Marija Drndić Nanosculpting with Electrons and Applications 9:00 Stefano Sanvito Theory of Charge Transport in Organic Single Crystals 9:30 Patrick Batail Correlated Motion, Mutamers: Insight in the Chemistry and Physics

of Crystalline Arrays of Molecular Rotors 10:00 Takehiko Kitamori Micro and Extended-nano Fluidic Device Technology

for Chemical and Physical Study at Femto to Atto Liter 10:30 Rolf Grütter MR imaging and spectroscopy at high magnetic fields :

insights into brain function and metabolism 11:00 Coffee break BioPhysics 3 Chairs: Petr Leiman & Jérémie Léonard 11:30 Ana-Sunčana Smith The Puzzle of Membrane Adhesion 12:00 Thomas Franosch Splitting of universality class for anomalous transport in model

porous media 12:30 Roderick Lim Selective transport control outside the nuclear pore complex 13:00 Sylvain Gabriele Regulation of cell motility by matrix stiffness and confinement

13:30 Lunch break with fresh sandwiches BioMed 1 Chairs: Andrew Fraser & Anahí Hurtado-Chong 14:00 Igor Štagljar Navigating the protein interaction networks in non-small cell lung

cancer 14:30 Michael Moran Integrated omic analysis of lung cancer reveals proteome signatures

with prognostic impact 15:00 Luis Claudio Cameron Sportomics: Building a New Concept in Metabolic Studies and

Exercise Science 15:30 Sven Bergmann Knowing your size: How fission yeast determines where and when

to divide 16:00 Tijana Milenković Comparative and Dynamic Biological Network Research of Human Aging 16:30 Tea break 17:00 ConMat 4 Chairs: Henrik Ronnow & Hugo Dil 17:00 Harald Brune Quantum Properties of Surface Adsobed Atoms & Molecules 17:30 Marco Grioni Tunable Polaronic Quasiparticles in Anatase-TiO2 18:00 Tonica Valla Proximity-Induced Phenomena in Topological Condensed Matter 18:30 Tanja Ćuk

The Role of Fast Charge Dynamics in Photocatalytic Water Oxidation by Transient Spectroscopy

19:00 Sylvain Bréchet Evidence for Magnetic Seebeck Effect 20:00 Official Conference Banquet with Group ‘’Raguza’’ who sing and play local folklore songs

Thursday, June 12 8:30 Advanced Bio-challenges Chairs: Ana-Sunčana Smith & Wilhelm Ansorge

8:30 James Hudspeth Mechanical Amplification by The Inner Ear 9:00 Jung Ho Je In-vivo, real-time, 3-D imaging of live biological systems

9:30 Jong-Bong Lee Single-molecule Studies on Diffusion Mechanics of MutS during DNA Mismatch Repair

10:00 Sandor Kasas A Novel AFM Based Device to Detect Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria 10:30 Coffee break Nano- Bio- Challenges Chairs: Sandor Kasas & Sylvain Gabriele

11:00 Ioan Kosztin Predictive modeling of the dynamics of multicellular systems 11:30 Levente Herényi Millisecond timescale dynamics of globular proteins: summary

of our earlier results and a new mathematical approach 12:00 Jérôme Tribollet From qubits to structural biology: EPR under strong magnetic

field gradient 12:30 Duje Burić Hormones and Notch: Partners in mammary gland

development and carcinogenesis 13:00 Roderick Melnik Studying Properties of RNA Nanotubes via Molecular Dynamics 13:30 Lunch break BioMed 2 Chairs: Igor Štagljar & Tijana Milenković 14:00 Igor Jurisica Intelligent systems for biological pathway integration,

modeling, analysis and visualization 14:30 Andrew Fraser A whole can of worms: the effect of genome evolution on loss-

of-function phenotypes in different nematodes 15:00 Thomas Kislinger Scratching the Surface: Advances in Proteomics Approaches

for the Identification Membrane Proteins 15:30 Anthony Gramolini Cardiovascular Form and Function:

Proteomic Analysis of Cardiac Cells and Tissues 16:00 Anahí Hurtado-Chong Neural Stem Cell Heterogeneity and Plasticity 16:30 Tea Break CondMat 5 Chairs: Tanja Ćuk & Osor Barišić 17:00 Christos Panagopoulos E Emergent ferroelectricity in non-ferroelectric heterostructures 17:30 John Wei Atomic-Scale Probe of Novel Proximity Effects in

Manganite/Cuprate Heterostructures 18:00 Nina Marković The Quantum Interference Noise in Graphene 18:30 Silke Paschen Strongly correlated cage compounds as thermoelectrics 19:00 Ana Smontara Intermetallic compounds: from crystal structure to physical properties 20:00 Get together at the 1st floor terrace: fresh food, beer, wine & soft drinks including some water 22:00 ‘‘late evening session’’: Brasil – Croatia FIFA World Football Championship opening match

Friday, June 13 8:30 Latest Insights 1 Chairs: Paško Županović & Duje Burić

8:30 Aleksandra Rađenović Solid state nanopores- from glass pores to pores in 2D materials

9:00 Christian Degen Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond: Nanoscale Sensors for Physics and Biology

9:30 László Nagy Reaction center optoelectronics – couple of directions of applications

10:00 Andrzej Sienkiewicz Multipurpose magnetic-photoluminescent-photocatalytic nanostructures for biomedical applications

10:30 Coffee break

Latest Insights 2 Chairs: Eduard Tutiš & Aleksandra Rađenović 11:00 David Smith Calculating Circular Dichroism Spectra for Flexible

Biomolecules 11:30 Hans Hug Accessing the chemical information in 3D at the nanoscale via

in-situ ToF-SIMS / SFM combination 12:00 Sinéad Winters Graphene-silicon Schottky diodes for sensor applications 13:00 Matko Glunčić Kinesin-8 motors improve nuclear centring by promoting microtubule catastrophe 13:30 Lunch break Closing BioPhysics Chairs: Sinéad Winters & Danijel Grgičin

Interactions between structural and pigmentary colours in Phelsuma lizards

14:00 Jérémie Léonard Out-of-equilibrium biomolecular interactions investigated by time-resolved fluorescence in microfluidic droplets

14:30 Alessandro Barducci Hsp70 chaperones as non-equilibrium machines: ultra-affinity from energy consumption

15:00 Jérémie Teyssier Interactions between structural and pigmentary colours in Phelsuma lizards

15:30 Paško Županović RELEVANCE OF MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION PRINCIPLE AND MAXIMUM INFORMATION ENTROPY PRINCIPLE IN BIOLOGY

16:00 Ágnes Orbán Evaluation of a novel magneto-optical method for the detection of malaria parasites 16:30 Tea Break Closing ConMat Chairs: Sylvain Bréchet & Ana Smontara 17:00 Eduard Tutiš Charge and entropy flow in dense polaronic liquid near crystalization

GaAs nanowires: applications for quantum photonics and solar cells

17:30 Gyula Eres

What can we learn from cooperative behavior in 2D crystal growth?

18:00 Endre Horváth Solution-grown nanowires for energy and environment 18:30 Petar Popčević Evolution of electronic scattering on frustrated magnetic

system under pressure 19:00 Mirko Baćani Electromagnetic properties of DBSA-doped polyaniline: from

fundamentals towards application with carbon nanotubes

Free Evening … with FIFA World Championship Matches

Local restaurants sampling can be arranged by Perfect Meetings. Saturday, June 14: Departures

POSTERS Posters can be mounted on Sunday all day on the boards, up to A1 format (120vertical X 90cm2)

Chairs: Krešimir Sanković & Zalan Forró

NOTE: Additional posters may be presented ad-hoc on the spot by other participants. D. Grgičin, S. Dolanski Babić, R. Podgornik, S. Tomić

Dynamics and structure of deoxyribonucleic acid salt solutions: influence of counterion valency

Tibor Szabó, Melinda Magyar, Emil Nyerki, Balázs Endrődi, Csaba Visy, Endre Horváth, Arnaud Magrez, Klára Hernádi, László Forró, László Nagy

Organic solar cell sensitized by photosynthetic reaction center protein

Anikó Kinka, Kata Hajdu, Klára Hernádi, Endre Horváth, Arnaud Magrez, László Forró and László Nagy

Equilibrium concentration of singlet oxygen in reaction center/carbon nanotube bio-nanocomposites

Melinda Magyar, Viktor Gombos, Tibor Szabó, Péter Berki, Klára Hernádi, Endre Horváth, Arnaud Magrez, László Forró, László Nagy

Limit of detection of hydrogen peroxide determined by carbon nanotube/horseradish peroxidase/ITO enzyme electrode

Jérémie Teyssier, Suzanne V. Saenko, Dirk van der Marel, Michel C. Milinkovitch

Interactions between structural and pigmentary colours in Phelsuma lizards

Olga Jovanovic, Lars Gille, Nadine Burchardt, Elena E. Pohl

Comparison of reactive aldehyde action on the uncoupling protein 1

Csaba Forró, L. Demko, H. Dermutz, J. Voros A simple technique for directed axonal guidance on multi-electrode arrays with arbitrary topology

Mirko Baćani, Ivan Kokanović, Mario Novak, Dinko Babić

Electromagnetic properties of DBSA-doped polyaniline: from fundamentals towards application with carbon nanotubes

M. Sorić, P. Popčević, I. Batistić, A. Smontara

Intermetallic compounds: from crystal structure to physical properties

Ágnes Orbán, Ádám Butykai, Maria Rebelo, András Molnár, Tivadar Zelles, Wasan Forsyth, Thomas Hӓnscheid, Stephan Karl, István Kézsmárki

Evaluation of a novel magneto-optical method for the detection of malaria parasites

R. Ciceo Lucacel, T. Radu, O. Ponta

Selenium containing bioactive glass characterization

‘From Basic to Life Sciences 7’