Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Baltimore Convention Center unless noted otherwise.

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8:00 am –11:00 am

New Council Meeting

Room 318

D N

8:00 am –3:00 pm

Poster Viewing

Hall C

Symposium: Membrane Trafficking Chair: Kerney Jebrell Glover, Lehigh University

Ballroom I

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PROBING THE STRUCTURE, TOPOLOGY, AND OLIGOMERIZATION OF CAVEOLIN-1. Kerney Jebrell Glover PHO85/CDK5 IS A POSITIVE REGULATOR OF PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,5-BISPHOSPHATE VIA DIRECT PHOSPHORYLATION OF FAB1/PIKFYVE. Lois Weisman DYNAMIN AT THE BRINK OF FISSION. Jenny E. Hinshaw STUDYING MEMBRANE FUSION AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL USING A BIOMIMETIC MODEL SYSTEM. Alexander Kros

8:15 am –10:15 am

D A Y

Symposium: Nanopores: Methods and Mechanistic Insights Chair: Zuzanna Siwy, University of California, Irvine

Ballroom II

POLYMERS THROUGH PROTEIN PORES: SINGLE-MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS WITH NUCLEIC ACIDS, POLYPEPTIDES AND POLYSACCHARIDES. Hagan Bayley MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE NANOPORES: WHY 3 ATOMS ARE BETTER THAN ONE? Aleksandra Radenovic REAL-TIME SHAPE DETERMINATION AND 5-D FINGERPRINTING OF SINGLE PROTEINS. Michael Mayer PORES WITH UNDULATING DIAMETER FOR MULTIPRONGED CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGLE PARTICLES AND CELLS IN RESISTIVE-PULSE TECHNIQUE. Zuzanna S. Siwy

8:15 am –10:15 am

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Voltage-gated Na and Ca Channels

Ballroom III

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Optical Spectroscopy: CD, UV-VIS, Vibrational, Fluorescence

Ballroom IV

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, and Motility II

Room 307/308

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) and Aggregates

Room 309/310

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Membrane Active Peptides and Toxins

Room 314/315

9:00 am –1:00 pm

Biomolecular Discovery Dome

Hall C

10:30 am –11:15 am

Coffee Break

Hall C

12:00 pm –3:00 pm

Publications Committee Meeting

Room 333

Symposium: Advances in Electron Microscopy Chair: Yifan Cheng, University of California, San Francisco

Ballroom I

CRYO-EM OF DNA REPAIR PROTEIN COMPLEXES. Hong-Wei Wang STRUCTURAL MATURATION OF HEPATITIS B CORE PROTEIN CAPSIDS. Bettina Boettcher SINGLE PARTICLE CRYO-EM OF CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNELS. Irina I. Serysheva SINGLE PARTICLE CRYOEM OF INTEGRAL MEMBRANE PROTEINS. Yifan Cheng

1:00 pm –3:00 pm

Symposium: Catalysis in the Membrane Chair: Jochen Zimmer, University of Virginia

Ballroom II

ZMPSTE24 AND PREMATURE AGEING: A UNIQUE INTEGRAL MEMBRANE METALLOPROTEASE WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE. Liz Carpenter THE MECHANISM OF RHOMBOID INTRAMEMBRANE PROTEASE. Ya Ha CLEAVAGE-DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT ROLE OF THE SERINE PROTEASE CAP1/PRSS8. Edith Hummler A MOLECULAR DESCRIPTION OF CELLULOSE BIOSYNTHESIS. Jochen Zimmer

1:00 pm –3:00 pm

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Biophysical Society 59 th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland