Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

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

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

Career Center Workshop

Room 301/302/303

11:30 am –12:30 pm

Career Planning and Job Searching for Science Professionals: Academic Opportunities

Exhibitor Presentation: Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments Company

Hall C, Room A

11:30 am –1:00 pm

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

Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies GmbH

Hall C, Room B

12:30 pm –2:00 pm

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

Exhibitor Presentation: World Precision Instruments

Hall C, Room A

1:30 pm –3:00 pm

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

Career Center Workshop

Room 301/302/303

2:30 pm –3:30 pm

Selling Yourself to the Life Sciences Industry

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Biophysical Society 59 th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland