Program Book - page 124

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tivity is extremely challenging, Here, we present the SURFE2R technology
– an easy-to-handle, highly sensitive and very efficient screening platform
for direct measurements of ion transporters and ion channels in diverse
and heterologous membranes. Since 2012, Nanion offers the SURFE2R
product line in two formats: SURFE2R N1 and the higher throughput
platform SURFE2R N96.
The SURFE2R N1 which we will present at the workshop is a small
footprint, fully automated device recording from membrane preparations,
with proven success using native tissue, mammalian and insect cell lines,
bacteria, organelles, and proteoliposomes. Come to our workshop and
learn from LIVE-experiments how to make measurements of transporter-
protein functionality efficient and reliable!
Presenters:
Andrea Brüggemann, CSO, Nanion Technologies
Maria Barthmes, Nanion Technologies
12:00 pm–2:00 pm, Room 124/125
Postdoc to Faculty Q&A:
Transitions Forum and Luncheon
This question-and-answer luncheon, sponsored by the Committee for
Professional Opportunities for Women, is designed for postdocs finishing
and actively applying for academic faculty positions. New faculty and re-
cently tenured faculty in basic science and/or medical school departments
will lead the discussion as well as experienced senior-level faculty who
have served as department chairs and/or part of faculty search committees.
Topics for discussion include how to prepare the curriculum vitae, the in-
terview process, how to negotiate the job offer, and advice for new faculty
as they balance research with their department obligations. Pre-registration
was required for lunch. If you are interested in attending and did not
register in advance, you are welcome to participate in the discussion on a
space-available basis.
Speakers:
Elizabeth Villa, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Sarah Bondos, Texas A&M Health Science
Gabriel Lander, The Scripps Research Institute
David Rueda, Imperial College London
Catherine Royer, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute
12:30 pm–2:00 pm, Room 310
Career Opportunities at Primarily
Undergraduate Institutions:
Finding a Job and Finding Success
This session, sponsored by the Education Committee, provides graduate
students, postdocs, and current faculty with information and resources on
career options at PUIs. Speakers are faculty members at PUIs who have
been successful in their positions.
Moderator: Scott Feller, Wabash College
Speakers:
Julia Koeppe, Ursinus College
Paulo Almeida, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Edwin Li, Saint Joseph’s University
1:00 pm–2:00 pm, Room 302
Networking with Minority Biophysicists:
Resources and Opportunities
This networking event, sponsored by the Minority Affairs Committee,
provides minority students and scientists the opportunity to network and
discuss challenges and resources with other minority biophysicists.
Speaker:
Kamal Shukla, NSF, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
Parag Chitnis, NSF
1:00 pm–2:30 pm, Room 123
Exhibitor Presentation
Molecular Devices, LLC
Axon Electrophysiology Symposium: Getting the Most out of
pCLAMP Software
pCLAMP™ is a powerful data acquisition and analysis software and is
widely used for a variety of electrophysiological recordings. In the first
tutorial of this workshop, Jeffrey Tang will highlight a few features used to
create a customized acquisition protocol in Clampex. In the second tuto-
rial, Burt Maertz will share tips in single-channel analysis using Clampfit.
These include burst analysis, latency analysis and P(open) analysis.
Presenters:
Jeffrey Tang, Product Marketing Manager, Axon Conventional
Electrophysiology, Molecular Devices, LLC
Burt Maertz, Technical Support Specialist, Axon Conventional
Electrophysiology, Molecular Devices, LLC
1:30 pm–2:30 pm, Room 304
Science and Policy with Steven Chu
Steven Chu, former US Secretary of Energy, has returned to academia and
Stanford University. During this session he will discuss his current research
and biophysics research in general, and also reflect on science policy in the
United States.
1:45 pm–3:00 pm, Hall D
Snack Break
1:45 pm–3:45 pm, Hall D
Poster Presentations and Late Posters
(For a complete listing of regular Tuesday Poster Presentations, see page 129.)
The list of Tuesday Late Posters is in the Program addendum.
Posters will be on display all day long. Authors with odd-numbered boards
will present from 1:45 pm–2:45 pm, and those with even-numbered boards
will present from 2:45 pm–3:45 pm. Additional hours (day or evening)
may be posted by the authors as desired. Paper may also be left on the
board so that visitors may request an appointment.
Posters should be mounted at 6:00 pm on Monday and removed NO
LATER THAN 4:30 pm on Tuesday evening. Posters will be on view until
10:00 pm the night before presentation. Poster numbers shown refer to
the program order of abstracts as they appear in the online Abstracts Issue.
Board numbers indicate where boards are located in the Exhibit Hall.
2:15 pm–3:30 pm, Room 301
The Basics, the Discoveries,
and the Controversies:
Membrane Protein Structure and Dynamics
Attendees at this session will learn about super resolution microscopy
techniques for studying membrane proteins and macromolecular com-
plexes in cells, and the type of information this technique can provide a
researcher. This session is sponsored by the Education Committee and
is intended to introduce the most important ideas, breakthroughs, and
outstanding questions of a specific field of Biophysics to help those that
do not work directly in that area gain a perspective on what is known and
what is unknown.
Speaker:
Bo Huang, University of California, San Francisco
The Science of Counting: a Super-Resolution View of Membrane Protein
Dimerization