1 April 2011, Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society, Lecture hall U316 Symposium “Hydration of nanostructured and biological materials” 9:40- 10:00 Coffee (at the restaurant on the 1st floor) 10:00 - 10:15 Vitaly Kocherbitov Welcome 10:15 - 10:25 Thomas Arnebrant Presentation of Malmö University 10:25 - 10:50 Lars Wadsö Sorption calorimetry as a tool to study hydration 10:50 - 11:20 Gediminas Niaura Vibrational spectroscopy for hydration studies 11:20 - 11:40 Audrius Misiunas, Jekaterina Latynis Spectroscopic studies of hydration of lysozyme and cytochrome c 11:40 - 12:05 Vitaly Kocherbitov Thermodynamics of hydration of proteins 12.05 - 13:05 LUNCH 13:05 - 13:15 Valdemaras Razumas Presentation of Institute of Biochemistry 13:15 - 13:35 Justas Barauskas Hydration of lipid-based drug delivery systems 13:35 - 14:05 Håkan Wennerström Interlamellar forces and the thermodynamic characterization of lamellar phospholipid systems. 14:05 - 14:25 Johan Engblom Hydration dependence of barrier function of biomembranes 14:25 - 14:45 Vitaly Kocherbitov Driving forces of hydration of surfactants 14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break 15:00 - 15:10 Alexander Toikka Presentation of Saint-Petersburg University 15:10 - 15:30 Alexander Toikka Application of thermodynamic methods to the membrane processes: description and modeling of pervaporation 15:30 - 15:50 Irina Zvereva Processes of hydration and cation exchange in layered oxide structures 15:50 - 16:10 Sergei Gavrushov Dielectric model of hydration shells of metal ions: an impact on electrostatics of DNA/RNA 16:10 - 16:20 Final remarks 1 April 2011, Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society, Lecture hall U316 Participants: Malmö: Vilnius: Vitaly Kocherbitov Thomas Arnebrant Johan Engblom Tautgirdas Ruzgas Zoltan Blum Peter Nilsson Yana Znamenskaya Cathrine Alber Anton Fagerström Anna Holmberg Javier Sotres Justas Barauskas Valdemaras Razumas Gediminas Niaura Audrius Misiunas Jekaterina Latynis Lund: Moscow: Håkan Wennerström Lars Wadsö Mahsa Saeidpour Olle Söderman Tommy Nylander Viveka Alfredsson Sebastian Björklund Valera Veryazov Natalia Volkova Sergei Gavrushov Saint-Petersburg: Alexander Toikka Irina Zvereva Anastasia Penkova Industry: Christy Whiddon