6th BioThermoKinetics Conference
20-24 September 1994, Innsbruck-Schroecken, Austria
Organizers:
Erich Gnaiger, Innsbruck, F.N. Gellerich, Innsbruck, G.F. Azzone, Padova
Contacts:
Gnaiger: FAX: +43 512 504 2605
Phone:+43 512 504 2343 (2603)
E-MAIL: Hans V. Westerhoff: HW at NKi.NL
Tuesday September 20
14h00 Departure from Innsbruck by coach
17h30 Arrival in Schroeken
18h30 Opening Lecture From Membrane Bioenergetics to muscular power output
MJ Kushmerick, Seattle
20h00 Dinner
21h00 Traditional Folk evening
Wednesday September 21
1. Coupling mechanisms in the regulation of ATP and ion fluxes
9h00: invited lecture (NN)
9h45: plenary presentations of posters
10h45:Poster session and coffee
12h00: Plenary discussion, hotspots in BTK
2. The microenvironment of cells and muscle tissues: Diffusion gradients,
shuttles and signals to mitochondria
15h00: invited lecture (V. Saks, Tallinn, Estonia)
15h45: plenary presentation of posters
16h45: poster session and coffee
18h00: plenary discussion, hotspots in BTK (chairman NN)
21h00: Software and instrument demonstration
Thursday September 22
3. Regulation versus control: Theory, models, and experiment
09h00: invited lecture (H.V. Westerhoff, Amsterdam)
09h45: plenary presentations of posters and computer software
11h00: poster session and coffee
BTK excursion
Friday September 23
09h00: poster session 3
10h00: Plenary discussion-hotspots in BTK (chairman R. Heinrich)
11h30: plenary presentation of computer software and instrumentation
4. The impact of bioenergetics on physiological and pathological problems
14h00: invited lecture (P. Bernardi, Padova, I)
14h45: Plenary presentations of posters
16h45: poster session and coffee
18h00: Session 4: Plenary discussion- hot spots in BTK
Saturday, September 24
5. What is negative entropy? - 50 years after Erwin Schroedinger's What's
life
09h00 Negentropy and historical arrow of time - Thermodynamic aspects
of the Darwinian revolution (G.F. Azzone, Padova, I)
10h00 Plenary presentations of posters
11h00 poster session 5 & coffee
12h00 Lectures: Integration of irreversible themrodynamics and kinetics
14h30 Lectures: Negative entropy and efficiency
17h00 Session 5: Plenary discussion - Hot spots in BTK (chairpersons
U. von Stockar, CH, G.R. Welch, New Orleans, USA)
21h00 Conclusing discussion
Sunday September 25
10h00 Departure to Innsbruck etc.
Standard conference fee: payment after July 31: ATS 5800
before July 31: ATS 5400
Student (with student certificate) before July 31: ATS 4000
Standard fees include:
5 nights accomodation and full board (shared rooms)
Coach Innsbruck Schroeken round trip
Scientific registration and participation
11.3 ATS = US$ 1
13.5 ATS = ECU 1
FINAL REGISTRATION BY JULY 31; MANUSCRIPTS BY AUGUST 08
Sattelite meeting to BTK-6:
Sunday September 25:
BERGshop on efficiency of biological energy transformations
