BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
10
NOVEMBER
2014
Subgroup Annual Meeting Symposia
The 12 Society subgroups will hold symposia on Saturday, February 7, 2015, in Baltimore, Maryland. For
complete session information for each subgroup visit
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groups/tabid/4872/Default.aspx.
Bioenergetics
Jan Hoek
and
Gyorgy Hajnoczky
,
Thomas Jefferson
University, Subgroup Co-Chairs
Morning Symposium
Program Chair:
Brett Kaufman
,
University of
Pennsylvania
Carlos Moraes
, University of Miami
Selective Targeting of mtDNA Sequences and
Applications to Therapy
Craig Cameron
, Pennsylvania State University
New Paradigms for Regulation of Human
Mitochondrial Transcription
Phillip West
,
Yale University
Mitochondrial DNA Stress Primes the Antiviral
Innate Immune Response
Yves Pommier
,
NIH
MtDNA Topoisomerases
Brett Kaufman
, University of Pennsylvania
New Insights into the Causes of Mitochondrial
Genome Instability
Afternoon Symposium: Mitochondrial outer
membrane transport systems: structure, prop-
erties, and physiological implications
Program Chairs:
Marco Colombini
, University of
Maryland;
John J. Lemasters
,
Medical University
of South Carolina
Shelagh Ferguson-Miller
, Michigan State
University
High Resolution Crystal Structures of Translocator
Protein 18 kDa (TSPO) Reveal Ligand Binding
Sites and Effects of a Human Single Polymorphism
Vassilios Papadopoulos
, McGill University
Translocator Protein in Mitochondrial Cholesterol
Transport and the Pharmacology of Steroidogenesis
Marco Colombini
, University of Maryland
Bax Channels: Cooperativity and Voltage Gating
Jeff Abramson
, University of California, Los
Angeles
Structure-guided Simulations Illuminate the
Mechanism of ATP Transport Through VDAC1
John J. Lemasters
, Medical University of South
Carolina
VDAC and Regulation of Mitochondrial
Metabolism
5:00
pm
Subgroup Business Meeting
7:00
pm
Subgroup Dinner
Biological Fluorescence
Enrico Gratton
, University of California, Irvine,
Subgroup Chair
Kandice Tanner
, NIH
Deconstructing Organogenesis Using Fluorescence
Microscopy
Vladislav Verkhusha
, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine
Engineering of Bacterial Phytochromes for in Vivo
Imaging
Peter Walla
, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics,
Germany
Fluorescence Nanoscopy by Polarization Modula-
tion (SPoD) and Polarization Angle Narrowing
(ExPAN)
Dan Larson
, NIH
Understanding Gene Expression Heterogeneity in
Living Cells with Single-Molecule Fluorescence
Microscopy
