Biophysical Society Newsletter - November 2016

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 13
NOVEMBER 2016
Sua Myong, Johns Hopkins University
RNA Remodeling Activity Reveals RNP Assembly Mechanism
Zev Bryant, Stanford University
Controllable Molecular Motors Engineered from Myosin
and RNA
Lu Rao, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dynein’s Direction-dependent Microtubule-binding Strength
is controlled via a Tension-induced Sliding of Dynein’s Stalk
Helices Mediated by the Coiled-Coil Strut
Jejoong Yoo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
High Throughput Simulations Reveal How Sequence and Meth-
ylation Control DNA Looping and Self-Association
Motility and Cytoskeleton
Subgroup Co-Chairs: Erika Holzbaur, University of
Pennsylvania, and Joseph Muretta, University of Minnesota
Melissa Gardner, University of Minnesota
Load Sharing Between Dynamic Kinetochore Microtubules
Increases Centromere Tension in Mitosis
Malcolm Irving, King's College London, United Kingdom
The Role of the Thick Filaments in the Regulation of Muscle
Contraction
Neil Kad, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Single Molecule Imaging Reveals the Mechanism of Actin.
Activation and Deactivation
E. Michael Ostap, University of Pennsylvania
Molecular Characterization of a Membrane-associated
Cytoskeletal Motor Family
Antonina Roll-Mecak, National Institutes of Health
Readout of the Tubulin Code by Cellular Effectors
Matthew Tyska, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Title not yet available
Kristen Verhey, University of Michigan Medical School
Structural and Functional Diversity across the Kinesin
Superfamily
Nanoscale Biophysics
Subgroup Chair: Julie Biteen, University of Michigan
Dorothy Erie, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Single Molecule Fluorescence and Atomic Force Microscopy
Studies of DNA Repair
Christy Landes, Rice University
Super Temporal-resolved Microscopy (STReM) for Measuring
Fast Interfacial Dynamics
Keir Neuman, National Institutes of Health
Developing Fluorescent Nanodiamonds for in Vitro and in
Vivo Biological Imaging
Ozgur Sahin , Columbia University
Studying Nanoscale Mechanics of Single Molecules and
Cells with Atomic Force Microscopy
Alice Ting , Stanford University
Spatially Resolved Mapping of Endogenous Proteins and RNA
in Living Cells
Antoine van Oijen , University of Wollongong, Australia
Single-molecule Studies of DNA Replication: the plasticity of
multi-protein complexes
Ke Xu, University of California, Berkeley
Spatially Resolved Super Resolution Microscopy
Permeation and Transport
Subgroup Chair: Olga Boudker, Weill Cornell Medical
College
Nicolas Reyes, Institut Pasteur, France
Novel Molecular Mechanism of Excitatory Neurotransmitter
Transport Inhibition
Hanne Poulsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Ins and Outs of the Na,K-Atpase
Sergei Noskov, University of Calgary, Canada
Unconventional Ion-Permeation Pathways in NavAb and
CavAb Channels from Molecular Simulations with Polarizable
Force-Fields
Jana Shen, University of Maryland
Mechanism of pH-dependent Activation of Sodium-Proton
Antiporter NhaA
Vasanthi Jayaraman, University of Texas
Dynamics of Glutamate Receptor Studied with Single Molecule
FRET
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