BPS2024 Full Program & Abstracts

Symposium: Cardiac Plasticity or Maturation - the Cardiomyocyte’s Perspective Co-chairs Cesare Terracciano, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom Nina Ullrich, University of Bern, Switzerland DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION OF CARDIAC DYADS. William Pu SINGLE-CELL MULTI-OMICS ANALYSIS TO ANALYZE CARDIOMYOCYTE PLASTICITY. Seitaro Nomura STRUCTURAL REMODELING TRIGGERS FUNCTIONAL MATURATION OF IPSC-DERIVED CARDIOMYOCYTES. Nina D. Ullrich EFFECTS OF A HIGH-AFFINITY AND SELECTIVE RYR2 INHIBITOR ON CA 2+ SIGNALS IN CARDIOMYOCYTES AND ARRHYTHMIAS IN CPVT MODEL MICE. Nagomi Kurebayashi ADAPTING TO LIFE AND INJURY: PLASTICITY OF THE HEART IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. Cesare Terracciano Chair Effie Bastounis, University of Tübingen, Germany APICAL ADHESION OF EXTRACELLULAR BACTERIA MODULATES HOST CELL MECHANICS THROUGH A NOVEL ACTOMYOSIN STRUCTURE. Daria Bonazzi BACTERIA MECHANOSENSE SURFACES TO GUIDE MOTILITY AND BIOFILM FORMATION. Alexandre Persat CELLULAR MORPHOGENESIS IN PATHOGENIC FUNGI. Enrique Rojas VIRAL SPIKE-RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS MONITORED BY CRYO-ELECTRON TOMOGRAPY ON MEMBRANES. Walther Mothes ERK ACTIVATION WAVES ARE KEY DRIVERS IN THE MECHANICAL CELL COMPETITION THAT LEADS TO COLLECTIVE ONSLAUGHT OF BACTERIALLY-INFECTED CELLS. Effie E. Bastounis Co-chairs Jerelle Joseph, Princeton University, USA Aaron Streets, University of California, Berkeley, USA EXPLORING THE STRUCTURAL BASIS OF ANTIBODY-ENVELOPE INTERACTIONS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GLYCAN ARRAYS IN EPITOPE RECOGNITION. Christopher O. Barnes LONG NONCODING RNAS: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION. Alisha Jones REVEALING PATHWAYS OF RIBOSOME ASSEMBLY AND VIRAL RNA PROCESSING WITH TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE. Sharonda LeBlanc OF UBIQUITIN, ION CHANNELS, AND DISEASES. Henry M. Colecraft Ballroom A Symposium: Biophysics of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Infection Processes Ballroom B Symposium: Black in Biophysics Room 103AB

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10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins I 10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Ion Channel Regulatory Mechanisms 10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Optical Microscopy and Superresolution Imaging I

Room 113AB Room 201AB Room 204AB Room 201C Room 204C Room 105AB Room 103C

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Protein Dynamics and Allostery I 10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Membrane Physical Chemistry 11:30 am-1:00 pm Undergraduate Student Pizza “Breakfast”

Exhibitor Presentation: Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC

11:30 am-1:00 pm

ZEISS Dynamics Profiler – Push Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy to a New Level

Career Development Center Workshop: Public Speaking Masterclass: How to Rock the Podium and Give a Fantastic Talk

Room 108B

12:00 pm-1:00 pm

12:00 pm-1:30 pm Public Affairs Committee Meeting 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Education and Career Opportunities Fair

Room 106AB Exhibit Hall AB

Exhibitor Presentation: Mad City Labs Inc

Room 103C

1:30 pm-3:00 pm

Looking to the Future – Enabling Single Molecule Methods for Improved Health Outcomes

1:45 pm-3:00 pm Snack Break

Exhibit Hall AB Exhibit Hall AB Room 105AB

1:45 pm-3:45 pm Poster Presentations and Late Posters 2:00 pm-4:00 pm Teaching Science Like We Do Science

2:30 pm-3:30 pm Career Development Center Workshop: Navigating an International Job Search

Room 108B

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