Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting| Lima 2019

Revisiting the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology at the Single-Molecule Level

Speaker Abstracts

Revisiting the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology at the Single-Molecule Level Lima, Peru July 18-21, 2019 PROGRAM Thursday, July 18, 2019 8:00 - 18:00 Registration/Information Auditorium Entrance, 1 st Floor 9:00 - 9:30 Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga, Stanford University, USA Carlos Heeren, UTEC, Peru Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley, USA Opening Remarks Session I Molecular Motors Shixin Liu, The Rockefeller University, USA, Chair 9:30 - 10:15 Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley, USA Co-temporal Force and Fluorescence Measurements Reveal a Ribosomal Gear-shift Mechanism of Translation Regulation by mRNA Secondary Structures 10:15 - 10:30 Shixin Liu, The Rockefeller University, USA * Functional Plasticity in Ring-shaped Molecular Motors 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:15 Stefan Niekamp, University of California, San Francisco, USA* Tracking Dynein Stepping Along Microtubules with Nanometer Accuracy Using Three-color Imaging 11:15 - 11:30 Juan P. Castillo, University of California, Berkeley, USA * Challenging a Viral DNA Packaging Motor with Modified Substrates 11:30 - 11:45 Arne Gennerich, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA * Molecular Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Dynein Tension Sensing

11:45 - 12:15

Flash Talks

12:15 - 14:30

Lunch ( on own)

Cafeteria, 1 st Floor

14:30 - 15:45

Poster Session I

Foyer, 1 st Floor

15:45 - 16:15

Coffee Break

Session II

Nanoscale Imaging of Cellular Processes I Lía Pietrasanta, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chair Jie Xiao, Johns Hopkins University, USA Gene Regulation and Chromosome Conformation Fernando Stefani, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Far-field Fluorescence Nanoscopy with Sub-10 nm Resolution

16:15 - 16:45

16:45 - 17:15

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