Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting

Sunday, February 28, 2016

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S U N D A Y

Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Baltimore Convention Center unless noted otherwise.

7:30 am–8:30 am Postdoctoral Breakfast

Room 404AB

7:30 am–5:00 pm Registration/Exhibitor Registration

West Lobby

8:00 am–10:00 pm Poster Viewing

West Hall

Symposium: Synthetic Biology

Petree Hall C

Chair: Pamela Silver, Harvard University TRIGGER WAVES IN MITOSIS AND APOPTOSIS. James Ferrell FEEDBACK CONTROL OF MAMMALIAN CELL DIFFERENTIATION. Mary N. Teruel COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN SYNTHETIC MICROBIAL CONSORTIA. Cynthia H. Collins DESIGNING WITH BIOLOGY. Pamela Silver Chair: Cynthia Czajkowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison PROBING CHANNEL STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, AND FUNCTION. Pei Tang CHARGE SELECTIVITY IN PLGICS: AN ASPECT OF CHANNEL FUNCTION THAT REMAINS ELUSIVE EVEN WHEN MULTIPLE STRUCTURES ARE KNOWN. Claudio Grosman INSIGHTS INTO INTRACELLULAR DOMAINS OF PENTAMERIC LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS. Michaela Jansen DETECTING LIGAND-INDUCED MOTIONS IN PENTAMERIC LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS . Cynthia Czajkowski Symposium: Pentameric Ligand-gated Ion Channels

8:15 am–10:15 am

Petree Hall D

8:15 am–10:15 am

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Alternative Protein Conformations and Function

Room 502A

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Skeletal Muscle Mechanics, Structure, and Regulation

Room 502B

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Optical Microscopy and Super-Resolution Imaging I

Room 515A

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Membrane Physical Chemistry I

Room 515B

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Bioenergetics and Mitochondrial Signaling

Room 501ABC

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: DNA Replication and Transcription

Room 511ABC

8:30 am–10:30 am CID Committee Meeting

Room 506

Room 518

9:00 am–10:00 am Career Center Workshop

Selling Yourself to the Life Sciences Industry

10:00 am–5:00 pm Exhibits

West Hall

10:15 am–11:00 am Coffee Break

West Hall

Room 518

10:30 am–11:30 am Career Center Workshop

Leveraging Social Media for Networking and Career Advancement

Room 513

10:30 am–12:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC

Technology Innovations: ZEISS LSM 880 Confocal with Airyscan and ZEISS Lightsheet Z.1

10:30 am–12:00 pm International Relations Committee Meeting

Room 410

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