Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

10:45 am –12:45 pm

Platform: Protein Fold Stability

Ballroom II

10:45 am –12:45 pm

Platform: Voltage-gated K Channels II

Ballroom III

10:45 am –12:45 pm

Platform: Membrane Receptors and Signal Transduction

Ballroom IV

10:45 am –12:45 pm

Platform: DNA Structure

Room 307/308

10:45 am –12:45 pm

Platform: Exocytosis, Endocytosis, and Membrane Fusion

Room 309/310

10:45 am –12:45 pm

Platform: Force Spectroscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Room 314/315

10:45 am –12:45 pm

Platform: Protein-Small Molecule Interactions

Room 316/317

12:00 pm –1:30 pm

Funding Opportunities for Faculty at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

Room 331/332

12:00 pm –2:00 pm

Postdoc to Faculty Q&A: Transitions Forum and Luncheon

Room 318/319

Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies GmbH Measure More Membrane: Cells, Bilayers and Transporter Activity

Hall C, Room B

12:30 pm –2:00 pm

1:00 pm –3:00 pm

Industry and Agency Opportunities Fair

Hall C

Exhibitor Presentation: KinTek Corporation

Hall C, Room A

1:30 pm –3:00 pm

KinTek Explorer Software: New Advances in Fitting Kinetic and Equilibrium Data

1:30 pm –2:30 pm

Conversation with NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch

Room 309/310

1:45 pm –3:00 pm

Snack Break

Hall C

Career Center Workshop

Room 301/302/303

2:30 pm –3:30 pm

Ten Tough Industrial Interview Questions (and Ten Pretty Good Responses)

2:30 pm –4:30 pm

Grant Opportunities for Early Career Faculty

Room 330

3:00 pm –4:00 pm

Networking with Minority Biophysicists: Resources and Opportunities

Room 327/328/329

3:00 pm –5:00 pm

Education Committee Meeting

Room 333

Symposium: Nanoclustering of Membranes and Membrane Proteins

Ballroom I

Chair: Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF MEMBRANE-REMODELING ESCRT-III ASSEMBLIES. Adam Frost IN VIVO-STUDIES OF GPCR CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES USING FLUORESCENCE-BASED ASSAYS. Martin Lohse LIPID ORGANIZATION OF THE PLASMA MEMBRANE. Siewert Marrink DIFFERENTIAL PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE RECOGNITION BY THE TIM FAMILY OF IMMUNE REGULATORY RECEPTORS. Ka Yee C. Lee

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Symposium: Extremophiles: Testing the Physical Limits of Living Systems

Ballroom II

Chair: Catherine Royer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

PROTEIN FOLDING AT EXTREME TEMPERATURES: CURRENT ISSUES. Georges Feller USING SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY TO PROBE PROTEINS FROM EXTREMOPHILES. Lorna Dougan MECHANISMS OF PRESSURE EFFECTS IN BIOLOGY: FROM PROTEINS TO LIVE BACTERIA. Catherine Ann Royer WHAT LIMITS MICROBIAL GROWTH AT HIGH PRESSURE? Doug Bartlett

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Optical Microscopy and Super-Resolution Imaging II

Ballroom III

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Cardiac Muscle Regulation

Ballroom IV

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Protein Dynamics and Allostery II

Room 307/308

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Systems Biophysics

Room 309/310

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Ion Channel Regulatory Mechanisms

Room 314/315

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Bioenergetics and Mitochondrial Signaling

Room 316/317

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Biophysical Society 59 th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland