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Sunday, February 28, 2016
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
8:15 am–10:15 am
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
8:15 am–10:15 am
Symposium: Pentameric Ligand-gated Ion Channels
Petree Hall D
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
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
9:00 am–10:00 am Career Center Workshop
Room 518
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
10:30 am–11:30 am Career Center Workshop
Room 518
Leveraging Social Media for Networking and Career Advancement
10:30 am–12:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC
Room 513
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