BPS2024 Full Program & Abstracts

Monday, February 12, 2024

M O N D A Y

Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Pennsylvania Convention Center unless noted otherwise.

7:30 am-8:30 am Graduate Student Breakfast 7:30 am-5:00 pm Registration/Exhibitor Registration

Room 105AB

Registration Bridge West

8:00 am-10:00 pm Poster Viewing

Exhibit Hall AB

Symposium: Structural Mechanisms of GPCR Activation, Regulation, and Signaling Chair Jennifer Cash, University of California, Davis, USA A NOVEL ALLOSTERIC MECHANISM OF INVERSE AGONISM DISCOVERED IN ORPHAN RECEPTOR GPR61. Joshua Lees STRUCTURAL MECHANISMS OF CLASS B GPCR ACTIVATION AND SIGNALING. Patrick M. Sexton STRUCTURAL BASIS OF ANTIBODY INHIBITION AND CHEMOKINE ACTIVATION OF THE HUMAN CC CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR 8. Matthieu Masureel MODULATION OF CLASS B GPCRS BY THEIR LIPID ENVIRONMENT. Sarah L. Rouse STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS IN RHOGEF SIGNALING INVESTIGATED USING MODEL CELL MEMBRANES. Jennifer Cash Chair Laura Finzi, Emory University, USA DECIPHERING THE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DRIVERS IMPACTING THE ANOMALOUS MOTION OF CHROMOSOMES IN LIVING CELLS. Andrew Spakowitz CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION IN A CROWDED SPACE. Christine Jacobs-Wagner OSCILLATIONS AND PHASE SEPARATIONS IN DNA REPAIR REGULATION. Mathias Heltberg “IF YOU’RE NOT IN, YOU’RE OUT”: CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY OF INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS BARS INTRUDERS FROM BIOMOLECULAR CONDENSATES. Ned S. Wingreen MACROMOLECULAR CROWDERS: INFLUENCERS OF DNA STRUCTURE AND TOPOLOGY. Laura Finzi Symposium: The Fluid Versus Gel Nature of the Genome

Ballroom A

8:15 am-10:15 am

Ballroom B

8:15 am-10:15 am

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Optical Microscopy and Superresolution Imaging II

Room 103AB Room 113AB Room 201AB Room 204AB Room 201C Room 204C Room 106AB Room 108B

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Protein-Lipid Interactions

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Protein Structure and Conformation II 8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Ligand-Gated, Anion, and Other Channels I

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Biosensors and Biosurfaces

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Intracellular Organelles and Bioenergetics

8:30 am-10:30 am CID Committee Meeting

Career Development Center Workshop: Demystifying the Academic Job Search I:

9:00 am-10:00 am

Understanding the Search

Exhibitor Presentation: Sophion Bioscience A/S Room 103C Recent Advances in Automated Patch Clamp Assays Using Primary and iPSC-Derived Cells; and Virtual Screening for Modulators of KCa, Nav1.7, and GABA-A Channels: Does it Work?

9:30 am-11:00 am

10:00 am-11:15 am Meet the Editors: Biophysical Journal , Biophysical Reports , and The Biophysicist

Grand Hall

10:00 am-5:00 pm

Exhibits

Exhibit Hall AB Exhibit Hall AB Room 105AB

10:15 am-11:00 am Coffee Break

10:15 am-11:15 am New Member Welcome Coffee

Career Development Center Workshop: Marketing Your Value: Crafting Your Elevator Pitch/30 Second Value Statement/Brand Statement

Room 108B

10:30 am-11:30 am

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