Biophysical Society Newsletter - November 2014

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2014

NOVEMBER

Membrane Structure and Assembly Marjorie Longo , University of California, Davis, Subgroup Chair John Conboy , University of Utah Phosphatidylglycerol Asymmetry and Translocation in Lipid Membranes Todd R. Graham , Vanderbilt University Control of Membrane Asymmetry by P4-ATPases Peter Tieleman , University of Calgary, Canada Computer Simulations of Lipid Flip-Flop and Membrane Asymmetry Mary Kraft, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Investigating the Mechanisms of Non-Random Sphingolipid Organization in the Plasma Membranes of Fibroblast Cells Edward Lyman , University of Delaware Molecular Structure and Nanoscale Dynamics of the Liquid-ordered Phase Christoph Naumann , Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis Probing Membrane Protein Sequestration and Oligomerization in Polymer-tethered Phospholipid Bilayers Containing Raft-mimicking Lipid Mixtures Jeanne Stachowiak , University of Texas, Austin Protein Crowding Modulates the Shape and Content of Curved Membranes and Coated Vesicles Miglena I. Angelova , Pierre and Marie Curie University, France Direct Monolayer Packing Imbalance and Phospho- lipid Flip-Flop: Two Mechanisms of Local Bilayer Deformation. Application to Mitochondrial Cristae of Wild-Type and Cardiolipin-Deficient Mutant Patricia Bassereau, Curie Institute, France Protein Spatial Distribution Depends on Membrane Curvature Guillaume Drin , National Center for Scientific Research, France Structural Basis of Membrane Curvature Recognition by the ALPS Motifs

Scott Feller , Wabash College, Thompson Award Lecture Musings at Mid-Career: What Is So Special about Omega-3 Fatty Acids? 5:10 pm Subgroup Business Meeting Molecular Biophysics Zev Bryant , Stanford University, Subgroup Chair Dynamics of Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies James Berger , Johns Hopkins University Bending, Twisting, Popping: Protein and Nucleic- Acid Remodeling by ATP-dependent Machines and Switches Terence Strick , CNRS/University Paris Diderot, France Single-Molecule Analysis of Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathways Yann Chemla , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Direct Observation of Structure-Function Relationships in Nucleic Acid Processing Enzymes 11:15 am Subgroup Business Meeting Eric Greene , Columbia University Visualizing Homologous Recombination at the Single-Molecule Level Using DNA Curtains Tanja Kortemme , University of California, San Francisco Gregory Alushin , NIH Visualizing the Structural Plasticity of the Cytoskeleton Nikta Fakhri , Massachusetts Institute of Technology

High-Resolution Mapping of Intracellular Fluctuations Using Carbon Nanotubes

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