Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - June 28-July 1, 2015

New Biological Frontiers Illuminated by Molecular Sensors and Actuators

Program

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Session 10

Physical Approaches to Illuminate Novel Cellular Properties (I) Discussion Leader: Sanjay Kumar, University of California, Berkeley, USA

8:30 – 9:00 AM

Maxime Dahan, Institut Curie, France Magnetic Control of Intracellular Signaling

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Yves de Koninck, Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec, Canada Novel Fibreoptics Probes for in vivo Optogenetics: From Single Cells to Hard-to-Get-to Areas of the Nervous System Hang Yin, University of Colorado Boulder, USA * Chemical Biology Sensors for Membrane Curvature and Lipid Composition Yi - Lan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Observing the Helicase Activity of Ribosome 30S during Translation Initiation by Using Optical Tweezers Physical Approaches to Illuminate Novel Cellular Properties (II) Discussion Leader: Maxime Dahan, Institut Curie, France Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Nanofabrication as a Tool to Study the Effects of Cell Shape on Chromosome and Protein Organization in Bacteria Sanjay Kumar, University of California, Berkeley, USA Cutting the Tension with a Laser: Biophotonic Dissection of Stress Fibers and Contractile Signaling Zoher Gueroui, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France Engineering Spatial Gradient of Signaling Proteins Using Magnetic Nanoparticles Coffee Break Socrates Lobby

9:30 – 9:45 AM

9:45 – 10:00 AM

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Session 11

10:30 – 11:00 AM

11:00 – 11:30 AM

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Closing Remarks and Biophysical Journal Poster Awards

12:00 PM

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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