BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
12
NOVEMBER
2014
Dariush Hinderberger
, Martin Luther University
Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Cooperative Effects and Structural Dynamics in the
Intrinsically Disordered Protein Osteopontin
John Bushweller
, University of Virginia School
of Medicine
Intrinsic Disorder, Epigenetics, and Leukemia —
The MLL-AF9 Saga
Edward Lemke
, European Molecular Biology
Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Decoding Protein Plasticity from Single Molecules to
Large Complexes
Philipp Selenko
, Leibniz Institute for Molecular
Pharmacology, Germany
Studying Proteins at Atomic Resolution in Live
Cells: From Science Fiction to Reality
Tanja Mittag
, St. Jude’s Children’s Research
Hospital
The Role of Protein Disorder and Self-Association in
the Formation of Cellular Bodies
Petra Levin
,
Washington University
An Intrinsically Disordered Linker Plays a Central
Role in Bacterial Cell Division
Clifford Brangwynne
,
Princeton University
Space and Time in IDP-mediated Intracellular
Phase Transitions
Ursula Jakob
,
University of Michigan,
Keynote Speaker
Conditionally Disordered Chaperones
Mechanobiology
Dennis Discher
, University of Pennsylvania,
Subgroup Chair
Douglas Robinson
, Johns Hopkins University
Molecular Mechanisms of Contractility-based
Cellular Mechanosensing
Kenneth Yamada
, NIH
Cell Migration
Roop Mallik
, Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, India
Dynein Teams Assemble on Lipid Rafts to Generate
Large Forces on Phagosomes
Ewa Paluch
, University College London, United
Kingdom
Actin Cortex Mechanics and Cell Shape Control in
Migration and Division
Ulrich Schwarz
, Heidelberg University, Germany
Stiffness Sensing Through Myosin II Minifilaments
Benoit Ladoux
, Paris Diderot University, France
Adaptative Response of Cell Cytoskeleton Rheology
and Ordering Governs Matrix Rigidity Sensing
Yong Hwee Foo
, National University of Singapore
Investigation of the EnvZ/OmpR Bacterial Signal-
ing System Using Single Particle Tracking and
Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy
Membrane Biophysics
Baron Chanda
, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Subgroup Chair
Richard Aldrich
, University of Texas, Austin
Coupled Conformational Changes and Allostery in
Channel Gating
Pierre-Jean Corringer
, Pasteur Institute, France
Allosteric Mutant Phenotypes Investigated on an
α
1
Glycine Receptor Transmembrane Structure
Hiro Furukawa
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Structural Analysis of NMDA Receptor
Anthony Auerbach
, State University of New York,
Buffalo
Thermodynamics of AChR Activation
José Faraldo Gómez,
NIH
Novel Insights into the Structure and Mechanism of
Proton and Sodium/Calcium Exchangers
Rachelle Gaudet
, Harvard University
Structural Determinants of TRPV Channel
Activation and Modulation
Brad Rothberg
, Temple University
Conformational Motions of K
+
Channel RCK
Domains
