BPS Program Book 2014

Symposium: Stochasticity in Cellular Processes

Room 135

Co-Chairs: Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia, Canada, and Nathalie Questembert-Balaban, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ON THE STATISTICAL NATURE OF BEHAVIORAL DIVERSITY. Stanislas Leibler STOCHASTIC BISTABILITY AND SWITCHING IN VIRUS/IMMUNE CELL NETWORKS. Elizabeth Read RELIABILITY OF NOISE-INDUCED SPIKES FOR TWO TYPES OF THRESHOLD DYNAMICS. Rachel Kuske DETERMINISTICVERSUS STOCHASTICVARIABILITY INTHEMAMMALIANCELLCYCLE. NathalieQ. Balaban Co-Chairs: Marileen Dogterom, AMOLF, The Netherlands, and Kazuhiro Oiwa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS OF DYNEIN MOTOR ACTION FROM ELECTRON MICROSCOPY STUDIES. Stanley A. Burgess RECONSTITUTION OF DYNAMIC AXONEMAL COMPLEXITY WITH USING A BOTTOM UP STRATEGY. Kazuhiro Oiwa DYNEIN-MEDIATED POSITIONING OF MICROTUBULE ASTERS IN 3D CONFINEMENT. Marileen Dogterom NEW METHODS FOR MOLECULAR MOTOR AND CELL MOTILITY RESEARCH. Yale E. Goldman Symposium: Regulation of Cytoskeletal Motors

10:45 am –12:45 pm

Room 130/131

10:45 am –12:45 pm

10:45 am –12:45 pm 10:45 am –12:45 pm 10:45 am –12:45 pm 10:45 am –12:45 pm 10:45 am –12:45 pm

Platform: Mechanisms of Voltage Sensing and Gating

Room 132/133

Platform: Member Organized Session - Mechanics at the Cell Surface Platform: New Methods for Studying Dynamics in Macromolecules Platform: Membrane Receptors and Signal Transduction II

Room 303 Room 304 Room 305 Room 306 Room 123

Platform: Structure and Dynamics of RNA in Biology

Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies Workshop on Automated Patch Clamp: From Single Channels, Primary Cells, Action Potentials to 384 Giga-Seal Recordings in a Parallel HTS Format

11:00 am –12:30 pm

11:30 am –12:30 pm 11:30 am –1:00 pm

Career CenterWorkshop: Beyond the Bench: Preparing for Your Career Transition in the Life Sciences

Room 300 Room 308 Room 123

Undergraduate Student Pizza “Breakfast”

Exhibitor Presentation: World Precision Instruments, Inc. Applications in Biophysics UtilizingWorld Precision Instrument’s (WPI) New Biofluorometer

1:00 pm –2:30 pm

1:00 pm –3:00 pm 1:00 pm –3:00 pm 1:30 pm –3:00 pm 1:45 pm –3:00 pm 1:45 pm –3:45 pm 2:15 pm –3:45 pm 2:30 pm –3:30 pm 2:30 pm –4:00 pm 2:30 pm –4:00 pm

Graduate and Postdoc Institution Fair

Hall D

Grant Writing Workshop: How (Not) to Write Your NIH Grant Proposal

Room 307 Room 309

Biophysics 101: X-Ray Crystallography

Snack Break

Hall D Hall D

Poster Presentations and Late Posters How to Get Your Scientific Paper Published

Room 306 Room 300 Room 310 Room 301 Room 123 Room 122 Room 300 Room 134

Career Center Workshop: Career Catalyst: Understand Who You Are to Get What You Want Preparing for Promotions: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask Biophysics at the National Large Facilities: Current and Future Science Possibilities

Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker Nano Surfaces Atomic Force Microscopy for Biological Research

3:00 pm –4:30 pm

4:00 pm –5:00 pm 4:00 pm –5:00 pm

Membership Committee Meeting

Career CenterWorkshop: Ten Tough Industrial Interview Questions (and Ten Pretty Good Responses)

Symposium: Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Fund Symposium

Chair: Robert Nakamoto, University of Virginia Health Science Center “OFF-LABEL” USES OF SEQUENCINGTECHNOLOGYTO EXPLORETHE PHYSICAL GENOME. William J. Greenleaf SPHINGOLIPID AND CHOLESTEROL DISTRIBUTION IN THE PLASMA MEMBRANE BY HIGH-RESOLUTION SIMS. Mary L. Kraft THE INFLUENCE OF EXTRINSIC FLUCTUATIONS ON THE DECISION OF CELLS. Elijah Roberts HOW CAN LABILE BONDS LEAD TO TOUGHER NETWORKS? THE UNEXPECTED ROLE OF CROSSLINKER KINETICS IN DETERMINING CYTOSKELETAL MECHANICS. Megan T. Valentine Co-Chairs: Sudha Chakrapani, Case Western Reserve University, and Eduardo Perozo, University of Chicago THERMODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF VOLTAGE-SENSING MECHANISMS. Baron Chanda STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF A BACTERIAL VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL NA V RH. Nieng Yan VOLTAGE-SENSOR DOMAIN PROTEINS: PHOSPHOINOSITIDE SIGNAL, PROTON PERMEATION AND MOLECULAR TOOLS. Yasushi Okamura STRUCTURAL BASIS OF VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT GATING IN CI-VSP. Eduardo Perozo Symposium: Molecular Basis of Voltage Dependence Room 135

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

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