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Biophysical Society 59
th
Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland
10:45
am
–12:45
pm
Symposium: Epigenetics
Ballroom I
Chair:
Lene Oddershede, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
COST AND PRECISION IN SMALL GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS.
Aleksandra Walczak
METAPHASE CHROMATIN PLATES EXPLAIN THE STRUCTURE AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF
CONDENSED CHROMOSOMES.
Joan-Ramon Daban
COOPERATIVITY AND SUPERCOILING MODULATE FUNCTIONS OF HUMAN O6-ALKYLGUANINE DNA
ALKYLTRANSFERASE.
Michael G. Fried
DNA SUPERCOILING ENHANCES COOPERATIVITY AND EFFICIENCY OF AN EPIGENETIC SWITCH.
Lene B. Oddershede
10:45
am
–12:45
pm
Symposium: Mechanisms of Actin Filament Nucleation and Mechanotransduction
Ballroom II
Chair:
Roberto Dominguez, University of Pennsylvania
MECHANOSENSITIVITY OF FORMIN-ACTIN INTERACTIONS.
Guillaume Romet-Lemonne
WISH/DIP/SPIN90 PROTEINS ACTIVATE ARP2/3 COMPLEX TO CREATE LINEAR ACTIN FILAMENTS THAT
SEED ASSEMBLY OF BRANCHED ACTIN NETWORKS.
Brad Nolen
TWO TYPES OF ACTIN NUCLEATORS, THREE WAYS TO MAKE ACTIN FILAMENTS?
Margot Quinlan
MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF ACTIN FILAMENT NUCLEATION BY LEIOMODIN (LMOD).
Roberto Dominguez
10:45
am
–12:45
pm
Symposium: Molecular Basis for Mitochondrial Signaling
Ballroom III
Chair:
Tatiana Rostovtseva, NIH
SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO MITOCHONDRIAL CALCIUM SIGNALING.
Fabiana Perocchi
THE MITOCHONDRIAL CALCIUM UNIPORTER: MOLECULAR COMPOSITION AND
PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE.
Rosario Rizzuto
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MITOCHONDRIAL CA
2+
UPTAKE: ROLE OF MICU1 AND ITS PARALOGS.
György Hajnóczky
HIGH-AFFINITY INTERACTION WITH VDAC LINKS CYTOSOLIC PROTEINS TO MITOCHONDRIAL
REGULATION IN HEALTH, CANCER, AND NEURODEGENERATION.
Tatiana K. Rostovtseva
10:45
am
–12:45
pm
Platform: Electron Microscopy and Solution Scattering
Ballroom IV
10:45
am
–12:45
pm
Platform: Ligand-gated Channels
Room 307/308
10:45
am
–12:45
pm
Platform: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP)
Room 309/310
10:45
am
–12:45
pm
Platform: Cardiac, Smooth, and Skeletal Muscle Electrophysiology
Room 314/315
10:45
am
–12:45
pm
Platform: Membrane Pumps, Transporters, and Exchangers II
Room 316/317
11:30
am
–12:30
pm
Career Center Workshop
Room 301/302/303
Career Planning and Job Searching for Science Professionals: Academic Opportunities
11:30
am
–1:00
pm
Exhibitor Presentation: Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments Company
Hall C, Room A
There’s No Other AFM Like Cypher™ – High Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy Made Easier and Faster
11:45
am
–1:15
pm
Undergraduate Student Pizza “Breakfast”
Room 327/328/329
12:30
pm
–2:00
pm
Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies GmbH
Hall C, Room B
HTS-Compatible Giga-Seal Ion Channel Drug Discovery: Beyond the Bottleneck and Ready for CiPA
1:00
pm
–3:00
pm
Graduate and Postdoc Institution Fair
Hall C
1:00
pm
–3:00
pm
Grant Writing Workshop: How (Not) to Write Your NIH Grant Proposal
Room 324/325
1:30
pm
–3:00
pm
Exhibitor Presentation: World Precision Instruments
Hall C, Room A
Side-Stepping the Animal Model: Cardiac Work Loops in Human iPSC-derived Myocytes
1:30
pm
–3:00
pm
Biophysics 101: Super-Resolution Microscopy
Room 330
1:45
pm
–3:00
pm
Snack Break
Hall C
2:15
pm
–3:45
pm
How to Get Your Scientific Paper Published
Room 314/315
2:30
pm
–3:30
pm
Career Center Workshop
Room 301/302/303
Selling Yourself to the Life Sciences Industry