Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

Symposium: Protein Evolution and Allosteric Networks

Ballroom II

Chair: Corey Wilson, Yale University

UNDERSTANDING ENZYME MOLECULAR EVOLUTION TOWARD THERMAL ADAPTATION USING MULTISTATE COMPUTATIONAL PROTEIN DESIGN. Corey J. Wilson ALLOSTERIC NETWORKS IN THROMBIN. Elizabeth Komives THE EVOLUTION OF ENZYME MECHANISMS AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY. Janet Thornton EXPERIMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MECHANISMS OF ANCIENT PROTEIN EVOLUTION. Joe Thornton

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

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S A T U R D A Y S U N D A Y

Symposium: Cardiomyopathies and Contractile Proteins

Ballroom III

Chair: Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado

MYOSIN MYOPATHIES. Leslie Leinwand POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION OF TITIN DOMAINS AS A MAIN REGULATOR OF MYOCARDIAL STIFFNESS. Wolfgang A. Linke MYBPC3 GENE THERAPY FOR NEONATAL SARCOMERIC CARDIOMYOPATHIES. Lucie Carrier AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO THIN FILAMENT CARDIOMYOPATHIES: FROM MOLECULAR AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOPHYSICS TO MICE. Jil Tardiff

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Optical Microscopy and Super-Resolution Imaging I

Ballroom IV

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: TRP Channels

Room 307/308

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Protein Lipid Interactions I

Room 309/310

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Protein Assemblies

Room 314/315

Platform: Member Organized Session: Protein Nanoassemblies and Networks in Bacterial Chemotaxis and Other Two-Component Signaling Systems

Room 316/317

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Exhibitor Presentation: OriginLab Corporation Data Analysis and Graphing Using Origin 2015

Hall C, Room B

4:30 pm –6:00 pm

5:00 pm –6:30 pm

Korean Biophysicists Meeting

Room 324/325

5:30 pm –7:00 pm

Mid-Career Mixer

Hilton Baltimore, Johnson

6:00 pm –7:00 pm

Biophysics Austria Mixer

Room 327/328/329

6:00 pm –9:00 pm

Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) Poster Competition

Hall C

Workshop: Stabilizing Membrane Proteins Chair: Linda Columbus, University of Virginia

Ballroom I

EVOLVING STABLE GPCRS FOR DRUG SCREENING AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS. Andreas Plueckthun ENGINEERING GPCRS FOR IMPROVED THERMOSTABILITY TO FACILITATE STRUCTURE DETERMINATION. Christopher G. Tate INVESTIGATING MEMBRANE PROTEIN FOLDING. James U. Bowie TUNING MICELLE DIMENSIONS AND PROPERTIES FOR STABILIZING MEMBRANE PROTEIN FOLD AND FUNCTION. Linda Columbus

7:30 pm –9:30 pm

Workshop: NMR of Complex Systems

Ballroom II

Chair: Isabelle Marcotte, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada

STRUCTURE-BASED MECHANISM FOR RETROVIRAL PRIMER ANNEALING. Victoria D’Souza ALLOSTERIC REGULATION OF THE SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CA 2+ -ATPASE BY PHOSPHOLAMBAN AND SARCOLIPIN USING SOLID-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY. Gianluigi Veglia ON THE BACTERIAL CELL WALL BY LIQUID STATE, STANDARD AND DNP SOLID STATE NMR. Jean-Pierre Simorre SOLID-STATE NMR STUDY OF INTACT MICROALGAE. Isabelle Marcotte

7:30 pm –9:30 pm

Workshop: Artificial Cells: Understanding and Engineering Chair: Margaret Johnson, Johns Hopkins University

Ballroom III

THE ENGINEERING OF ARTIFICIAL CELLULAR SYSTEMS USING SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY APPROACHES. Cheemeng Tan ENGINEERING SYNTHETIC RIBOSOMES IN VITRO. Michael Jewett MEASURING GENE EXPRESSION IN FLY EMBRYOS: FROM SINGLE MOLECULES TO NETWORK DYNAMICS. Thomas Gregor EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT WITH TRANSLATION-COUPLED RNA REPLICATION SYSTEM. Tetsuya Yomo

7:30 pm –9:30 pm

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Biophysical Society 59 th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland