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

New Biological Frontiers Illuminated by Molecular Sensors and Actuators

Program

3:45 – 4:00 PM

Yu-Fen Chang, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Genetically Encoded Tools to Manipulate and Observe Cellular Dynamics in Cardiac Disease Modelling and Drug Screening

Coffee Break

Socrates Lobby

4:00 – 4:30 PM

Session 4

Seeing the Unseen in vivo (II) Discussion Leader: Ian Liau, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

4:30 – 5:00 PM

Zhihong Zhang, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, China Intravital Microscopy of Fluorescent Protein Model Antigen- elicited Specific Immune Response Oliver Griesbeck, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany Ratiometric in vivo Imaging with “Twitch” Calcium Sensors Ann-Shyn Chiang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Mapping Memory Circuits in the Drosophila Brain Short Talk Session Discussion Leader: Jin-Der Wen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Yu Chun Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan * Rapidly Rewriting Tubulin Codes inside Primary Cilia Ahmed S. Abdelfattah, University of Alberta, Canada * Expanding the Toolbox of Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators Tomoki Matsuda, Osaka University, Japan * Photo-Manipulation of Intracellular Ca 2+ by Genetically Encoded Caged Ca 2+ Shixin Liu, University of California, Berkeley, USA * Complete Kinetic Dissection Reveals the Rate-limiting Mechanism of Transcription Elongation by RNA Polymerase II Chia-Fen Hsieh, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Probing the Dynamics of Raft Lipids Induced by Receptor- mediated Signaling in Living Cells Dinner on own

5:00 – 5:30 PM

5:30 – 6:00 PM

6:00 – 7:30 PM

Session 5

7:30 – 7:45 PM

7:45 – 8:00 PM

8:00 – 8:15 PM

8:15 – 8:30 PM

8:30 – 8:45 PM

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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