BPS2024 Full Program & Abstracts

Career Development Center Workshop Marketing Your Value: Crafting Your Elevator Pitch/30 Second Value Statement/Brand Statement 10:30 am - 11:30 am, Room 108B In this workshop, we will address how to effectively market yourself for career opportunities (academia, industry and beyond) and leverage and utilize marketing methods and channels, and we will spend time on how to craft an elevator pitch and what makes a great pitch for employers. Exhibitor Presentation HORIBA Scientific 10:30 am - 12:00 pm, Room 113C New and Unique FLIM Solutions from HORIBA Fluorescence Division In this presentation, we will introduce new and unique fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) solutions from the fluorescence division of HORIBA Instruments Inc including laser scanning confocal FLIM, to stage-scanning FLIM and our revolutionary wide field video rate FLIM video camera (FLIMera). Demonstrations are also available in our booth #518. Speaker Cary Davies, Global Product Line Manager, HORIBA Scientific Symposium Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Fund Symposium 10:45 am - 12:45 pm, Ballroom A Co-chairs Ibrahim Cissé, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego, USA No Abstract 10:45 am OLIGOMERIC ORGANIZATION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS FROM NATIVE MEMBRANES AT NANOSCALE-SPATIAL AND SINGLE-MOLECULE RESOLU TION. Moitrayee Bhattacharyya No Abstract 11:15 am BRIDGING MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND CONDENSATE MATERIAL PROPERTIES THROUGH SIMULATION. Jerelle A. Joseph No Abstract 11:45 am TOWARDS SINGLE MOLECULE CELLULAR CRYO-EM. Bronwyn Lucas No Abstract 12:15 pm 3D GENOME ARCHITECTURE ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN. Longzhi Tan Symposium Peptides as the Future of Biological Drugs 10:45 am - 12:45 pm, Ballroom B Chair Miguel Castanho, University of Lisbon, Portugal 916-Symp 10:45 am A TARGET-ORIENTED APPROACH FOR MATERIALS DESIGN AND DRUG DELIVERY. Joel Schneider No Abstract 11:10 am THE EXCITING POTENTIAL OF PEPTIDES IN TREATING MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT BACTERIAL BIOFILM INFECTIONS. Robert Hancock

ANTI-HIV-1 ACTIVITY AND MODE OF ACTION OF A VIRAL-DERIVED AND PROTEOLYSIS-RESISTANT PEPTIDE TARGETING THE CHEMOKINE RECEP TOR CXCR4. Ana Salomé Veiga , Iris Cadima-Couto, Alexandra Tauzin, João M. Freire, Ruben Silva, Clara Perez-Peinado, Catarina Cunha-Santos, Ines Bartolo, Nuno Taveira, Lurdes Gano, Joao D. G. Correia, Joao Gon calves, Fabrizio Mammano, David Andreu, Miguel A. Castanho 918-SympSelect 12:00 pm STRESS=DEATH: STRESS ALTERS THE RESPONSE OF THE PREDATORY BAC TERIUM BDELLOVIBRIO BACTERIOVORUS TO ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES. Emma Reinhart, Ryan Zurick, Jonathan A. Azenon, Catherine B. Volle 919-Symp 12:20 pm DEVELOPING PEPTIDE-PORPHYRIN CONJUGATES AS BROAD SPECTRUM ANTIVIRALS, FROM MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TO IN VIVO STUDIES. Miguel A.R.B. Castanho Platform Replication, Recombination, Repair, and Transcription 10:45 am - 12:45 pm, Room 103AB Co-Chairs Hamza Balci, Kent State University, USA David Rueda, Imperial College London, United Kingdom 920 -Plat 10:45 am ASYMMETRIC MODULATION OF RNA POLYMERASE ELONGATION BY A TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR. Noam Nago, Sergei Rudnizky, Ariel Kaplan 921-Plat 11:00 am EXPLORATION OF THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF HISTONE RECY CLING THROUGH MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS, NANOPORE SEQUENCING, AND BIOCHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS. Tsuyoshi Terakawa 922 -Plat 11:15 am FANCD2-FANCI IS A SLIDING DNA CLAMP THAT SPECIFICALLY RECOG NIZES SS/DS-DNA JUNCTIONS . Pablo Alcon, Artur Kaczmarczyk, Tamara Sijacki, Lori Passmore, David S. Rueda 923 -Plat 11:30 am NANOPORE-TWEEZERS ANALYSIS OF TRANSLOCATION BY ESCHERICHIA COLI RNA POLYMERASE AND YEAST RNA POLYMERASE II. Shuya Yang , Ian C. Nova, Andrew H. Laszlo, Ian M. Derrington, Abhishek Mazumder, Craig Kaplan, Jens H. Gundlach, Richard H. Ebright 924 -Plat 11:45 am DNA SUPERCOILING-MEDIATED G4/R-LOOP FORMATION TUNES TRAN SCRIPTION BY CONTROLLING THE ACCESS OF RNA POLYMERASE. Jihee Hwang , Chung-Ying Lee, Tapas Paul, Huijin Lee, Taekjip Ha, Sua Myong 925-Plat 12:00 pm IN VITRO AND IN CELLULO STUDIES ON TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION BY TARGETING G-QUADRUPLEXES WITH CRISPR/DCAS9. Hamza Balci , Sajad A. Shiekh, Mohammad L. Kabir, Soumitra Basu 926-Plat 12:15 pm A UNIVERSAL PROKARYOTIC TRANSCRIPTION ANTI-TERMINATION MECHANISM UTILIZING NASCENT RNA STRUCTURE. David Z. Bush house , Jiayu Fu, Julius B. Lucks 927-FlashTalk 12:30 pm ALLOSTERY THROUGH DNA DRIVES PHENOTYPE SWITCHING. Gabriel Rosenblum , Nadav Elad, Haim Rozenberg, Felix Wiggers, Jakub Jung wirth, Hagen Hofmann 928 -FlashTalk 12:35 pm Travel Award Winner SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING TO PROBE THE CLAMP LOADER MECHAN ICS OF MUTS WITH MUTL. Xiaowen Yang , Xiao-Peng Han, Richard Fishel, Jiaquan Liu

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