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

New Biological Frontiers Illuminated by Molecular Sensors and Actuators

Program

9:30 – 9:45 AM

Khalid Salaita, Emory University, USA* Optomechanical Actuators for Controlling Mechanotransduction in Living Cells Toru Komatsu, The University of Tokyo, Japan * Synthetically Rerouting Phagocytosis by Rapidly Turning Inert Cells into “Eat You” Mode Harnessing and Manipulating Cellular Processes (II) Discussion Leader: Wei-Yuan Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Hsiao-Chun Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Organization of Intracellular Reactions with Heterologous Protein Scaffold Takeharu Nagai, Osaka University, Japan Revolutionary Bioimaging with Bright Luminescent Proteins — Comparing Pros and Cons of Fluorescence and Luminescence Michael Lin, Stanford University, USA Photodissociable Photoswitchable Dimeric Fluorescent Proteins Enable Optical Control of Kinase Activity Coffee Break Socrates Lobby

9:45 – 10:00 AM

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Session 2

10:30 – 11:00 AM

11:00 – 11:30 AM

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Lunch

Chopstix Restaurant

12:00 – 1:00 PM

Poster Session I

Plato

1:00 – 2:30 PM

Session 3

Seeing the Unseen in vivo (I) Discussion Leader: Chia-Fu Chou, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Etsuko Kiyokawa, Kanazawa University, Japan FRET Imaging in Organoids and Mice

2:30 – 3:00 PM

3:00 – 3:30 PM

Ian Liau, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Multidisciplinary Optical Approach to Zebrafish Targeting Cardiovascular Research Francois St-Pierre, Stanford University, USA * Imaging Subcellular Voltage Dynamics in vivo with Improved Genetically Encoded Indicators

3:30 – 3:45 PM

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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