Relatore: Paolo Carloni - Professor of Computational Biophysics - German Research School for Simulation Sciences GmbHDirector of IAS-5: Computational Biomedicine - Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)Forschungszentrum Jülich - GermanyLuogo: Aula Newton - Plesso FisicoE-mail organizzatore: Raffaella.burioni@fis.unipr.it Abstract: The interactions between membranes and membrane proteins with chemicals are crucial processes for all forms of life. We are using a variety of computational approaches, from quantum to coarse grain, to gain insights on ion transport and ligand binding to some of these systems. Some of the results may be integrated in systems biology-based modeling in order to investigate signaling cascades.