BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
14
NOVEMBER
2014
Motility
Samantha Harris
, University of Arizona, and
Jeffrey R. Moore
, Boston University School of
Medicine, Subgroup Co-Chairs
Erika Holzbaur
, Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania
Both Competition and Coordination among
Opposing Motors Regulate Organelle Motility
Richard McKenney
, University of California,
San Francisco
Multiplex Regulation of Cytoplasmic Dynein
Motility
Joe Muretta
, University of Minnesota
Mapping Myosin’s Structural Kinetic Landscape for
Basic and Therapeutic Discovery
3:30
pm
Subgroup Business Meeting
Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan
, University of Michigan
Nano-patterning Myosin Motors to Dissect
Collective Cellular Function
Christine Cremo
, University of Nevada School
of Medicine
The Kinetics Underlying the Velocity of Smooth
Muscle Myosin Filament Sliding on Actin Filaments
in Vitro
David Warshaw
, University of Vermont
Crossing the Bridge Between Muscle Contraction
and Intracellular Cargo Transport
Nanoscale Biophysics
Laura Finzi
, Emory University, Subgroup Chair
Jeff Gelles
, Brandeis University
Nanoscale control of Actin Polymerization by a
Formin-Capping Protein ‘Decision-Making’
Complex at the Filament Barbed End
Victoria Birkedal
, Aarhus University, Denmark
Single Molecule FRET Analysis of Nucleic Acid
Structures
Tom Perkins
, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ultrastable AFM: Improved Stability, Precision, and
Bandwidth for Bio-AFM
Hong Wang
, North Carolina State University
Revealing Structure and Dynamics of Telomere
Maintenance Proteins on DNA: One Molecule at a
Time
Wesley Wong
, Harvard University/Boston
Children’s Hospital
Revealing the Mechanical Regulation of Hemostasis
with Novel Approaches in Single-Molecule
Manipulation
Amit Meller
, Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology
Native Proteins Characterization Using Nanopores
Vahid Sandoghdar
, Max Planck Institute for the
Science of Light, Germany
Label-free Optical Detection of Single Nanoscopic
Bioparticles
Permeation and Transport
Emad Tajkhorshid
, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, Subgroup Chair
Bonnie Wallace
, University of London
Voltage-gated Sodium Channels: Structure and
Function of Complexes with Sodium Channel
Blockers
Rajini Rao
, Johns Hopkins University
An Inside Job: Na
+
/H
+
Exchangers Link Endosomal
pH to Neurological Disorders
Mounir Tarek
, CNRS/ University of Lorraine,
France
Conduction in Connexin Hemichannels from
Molecular Dynamics Simulations
