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Biophysical Society 58
th
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California
Tuesday, February 18
7:30
am
–5:00
pm
, N
orth
L
obby
Registration/Information
7:30
am
–10:00
pm
, R
oom
112
Family Room
8:00
am
–9:00
am
, R
oom
302
Biophysical Society Business Meeting
The annual business meeting is open to all Society members.
8:00
am
–4:30
pm
, H
all
D
Poster Viewing
8:00
am
–5:30
pm
, R
oom
300
Career Center
8:00
am
–6:00
pm
, M
arriott
M
arquis
, P
acific
H, I, J
Child Care
8:00
am
–6:00
pm
, R
otunda
, 300 L
evel
Undergraduate Student Lounge
This special space is reserved for undergraduate meeting attendees looking
for a place to relax or catch up on coursework they may be missing while
at the Annual Meeting. Members of the Education Committee, which
sponsors this lounge, will stop by to answer questions student attendees
may have about career paths and opportunities.
8:15
am
–10:15
am
, R
oom
134
Symposium
Biophysics in Industry:
Putting Evolution in Practice
Co-Chairs
Kenneth Dill, Stony Brook University
Timothy Gardner, Amyris, Inc.
2137-S
ymp
8:15
am
TRANSFORMING YEAST FROM MOONSHINERS INTO OIL
BARONS.
Timothy Gardner
N
o
A
bstract
8:45
am
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY.
Christopher Voigt
2138-S
ymp
9:15
am
HARNESSING NATURE’S DIVERSITY FOR PRODUCTION OF
UNIQUE TRIGLYCERIDE OILS.
Peter Licari
2139-S
ymp
9:45
am
PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON PROTEOMES IMPOSE LIMITS
TO BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION.
Kenneth Dill
8:15
am
–10:15
am
, R
oom
135
Symposium
Mechanosensing in Eukaryotes
Co-Chairs
Jeffrey Holt, Harvard University & Boston Children’s Hospital
Valeria Vasquez, Stanford University
2140-S
ymp
8:15
am
ZEN AND THE ART OF MECHANOSENSATION: HOW MSCS-
LIKE MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNELS HELP EUKARYOTIC
CELLS AND ORGANELLES REDUCE STRESS.
Elizabeth Haswell
,
Kira Veley, Grigory Maksaev, Margaret Wilson, Gregory Jensen, Eric Hamilton
2141-S
ymp
8:45
am
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU: SEARCH FOR ION CHANNELS
THAT RESPOND TO PRESSURE.
Ardem Patapoutian
2142-S
ymp
9:15
am
TOUCH AS A MATTER OF FAT: THE PHOSPHOLIPIDS AND
DEG/ENAC CHANNELS NEEDED FOR METAZOAN TOUCH
SENSATION.
Miriam B. Goodman
2143-S
ymp
9:45
am
TMC FUNCTION IN HAIR CELL MECHANOTRANSDUCTION.
Jeffrey R. Holt
8:15
am
–10:15
am
, R
oom
130/131
Platform
Cell Mechanics and Motility III
Co-Chairs
Hedde van Hoorn, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Lene Oddershede, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2144-P
lat
8:15
am
THE PREDOMINANT ROLE OF TENSION IN THE NANOSCALE
MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF CELLS VISUALIZED BY A NEW
IMAGING PLATFORM. Nicola Mandriota,
Ozgur Sahin
2145-P
lat
8:30
am
INVESTIGATING FOCAL ADHESION MECHANICS USING
NANOPATTERNED MOLECULAR TENSION FLUORESCENCE
MICROSCOPY (MTFM).
Yang Liu
, Rebecca Medda,
Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam, Khalid Salaita
2146-P
lat
8:45
am
PROBING THE MECHANICAL COUPLING OF THE CELL
MEMBRANE TO THE NUCLEUS WITH VERTICAL NANOPILLAR
ARRAYS.
Lindsey Hanson
, Wenting Zhao, Ziliang Lin, Yi Cui, Bianxiao Cui
2147-P
lat
9:00
am
OUTWARD MICROTUBULE-MEDIATED PUSHING FORCES
DICTATE MITOSIS.
Hedde van Hoorn
, Martin de Valois,
Claude Backendorf, Thomas Schmidt
2148-P
lat
9:15
am
ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF DENDRITIC SPINE MORPHO-
GENESIS.
Olena Marchenko
, Charles W. Wolgemuth, Leslie M. Loew
2149-P
lat
9:30
am
TRACTION FORCE MICROSCOPY BASED ON AN ACTIVE CA-
BLE NETWORK MODEL. Jerome Soine, Christoph Brand, Jonathan
Stricker, Patrick W. Oakes, Margaret L. Gardel,
Ulrich S. Schwarz
2150-P
lat
9:45
am
MIGRATION, FORCE GENERATION AND MECHANOSENSING
OF CELLS IN COLLAGEN GELS.
Julian Steinwachs
, Claus Metzner,
Katerina Aifantis, Ben Fabry
