BPS Program Book 2014

Room 134

Symposium: Cellular Stress, Protein Folding, and Disease Co-Chairs: Judy Kim, University of California, San Diego, and Conner Sandefur, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF MEMBRANE PROTEIN FOLDING: CHANGES IN HYDRATION. Judy Kim PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AND TRANSITION TIMES THAT INFLUENCE THE PATHOGENESIS OF PROTEIN FOLDING DISEASES. Santiago Schnell POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS PROMOTE FORMATION OF SOD1 OLIGOMERS WITH POTENTIAL TOXICITY IN ALS. Nikolay V. Dokholyan CELL STRESS AND PROTEOSTASIS NETWORKS IN BIOLOGY, AGING, AND DISEASE. Richard Morimoto Symposium: Celebrating 100 Years of Crystallography: X-Rays Are Photons Too Co-Chairs: Gregory Petsko, Brandeis University, and Jane Richardson, Duke University CRYSTALLOGRAPHY - ENERGETICALLY INNOVATIVE AT 100. Jane S. Richardson CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF ACTIVATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTORS. WilliamWeis COMBINING CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AND STRUCTURE-MODELING APPROACHES IN MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. Thomas C. Terwilliger STRUCTURES OF THE UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR, THE RIBOSOME. Jamie H. D. Cate XFELS FOR IMAGING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS. John Spence THE NEXT 100 YEARS OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY: HOWTHE HECK SHOULD I KNOW? Gregory A. Petsko Symposium: Liquid Protein Assemblies in Spatial Organization and Ultrasensitive Signaling in Cell s Co-Chairs: Julie Forman-Kay, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada, and Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital PHASE SEPARATION OF DISORDERED PROTEIN IN THE FORMATION OF MEMBRANE-LESS ORGANELLES. Julie D. Forman-Kay THE LIQUID STATE OF (ELASTOMERIC) PROTEINS. Régis Pomès DECODING MOLECULAR PLASTICITY UNDERLYING NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT: FROM SINGLE MOLECULES TO LARGE ASSEMBLIES. Edward A. Lemke PHASE SEPARATION OF MULTI-VALENT SIGNALING PROTEINS. Michael K. Rosen

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Room 135

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Room 130/131

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Voltage-gated Na Channels

Room 132/133

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Molecular Dynamics I

Room 303

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Assemblies and Aggregates

Room 304

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Membrane Physical Chemistry I

Room 305

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Cell Mechanics and Motility I

Room 306

Exhibitor Presentation: Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments Company New blueDrive™ Photothermal Excitation for Superior AFM Tapping Mode Imaging

Room 123

5:00 pm –6:30 pm

5:00 pm –8:00 pm

Korean Biophysicists Meeting

Room 307

6:00 pm –7:00 pm

Biophysics Austria Mixer

Room 121

Biophysical Society of Canada — Travel Awards and Mixer

6:00 pm –7:30 pm

Room 302

6:00 pm –9:00 pm

Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) Poster Competition

Hall D

Exhibitor Presentation: FEI Company Cryo-TEM: A New Era for 3D Structural Analysis of Protein Complexes

Room 123

7:00 pm –8:30 pm

Workshop: Polarizable Force Fields from Biomolecular Simulations Co-Chairs: Alexander MacKerell, University of Maryland, and Benoit Roux, University of Chicago DEVELOPMENT OF A POLARIZABLE FORCE FIELD FOR MACROMOLECULES BASED ON THE CLASSICAL DRUDE OSCILLATOR. Alexander MacKerell ION CHANNEL SIMULATION WITH EXPLICIT SOLVENT AND LIPID MEMBRANE BASED ON THE DRUDE POLARIZABLE FORCE FIELD. Benoit Roux FORCEBALANCE: A SYSTEMATIC, REPRODUCIBLE, STATISTICALLY DRIVEN APPROACH TO MORE ACCURATE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODELS. Vijay Pande ATOMISTIC AND COARSE-GRAINEDMODELS FOR BIOMOLECULAR SIMULATIONS. Teresa Head-Gordon

Room 134

7:30 pm -9:30 pm

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Biophysical Society 58 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California