BPS2025 Full Program

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

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

8:00 AM-11:30 AM 8:00 AM-3:00 PM

New Council Meeting

Room 518

Poster Viewing

West Exhibit Hall

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Symposium: New and Notable

Petree Hall C

Co-Chairs Sudha Chakrapani, Case Western Reserve Univeristy, USA Christopher Yip, University of Toronto, Canada THE SHAPE OF PHOSPHOLIPIDS: A BIOPHYSICAL DEEP DIVE. Itay Budin STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY OF GABAA RECEPTORS FROM HUMAN BRAIN TISSUE. Jia Zhou LEVERAGING OMICS, INFORMATICS, AND BIOPHYSICS TO UNCOVER KEY PLAYERS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Laura Dassama CARDIOMYOPATHIES: HOW MYOSIN CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS MODULATE CARDIAC OUTPUT IN DISEASE AND THERAPY. Anne Houdusse-Juille Chair William Prinz, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA INVESTIGATING NUCLEAR ENVELOPE BUDDING: A NONCANONICAL MECHANISM TO EXPORT LARGE CARGOES. Gia Voeltz EXPLOITING THE ALPHAFOLD BREAKTHROUGH TO LEARN HOW MEMBRANES AND THEIR PROTEINS ARE MATCHED. Ed Lyman INTEGRATING STRUCTURAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS TO UNDERSTAND PROTEIN-MEMBRANE INTERACTIONS ACROSS SCALES. Sarah L. Rouse BIOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS OF PHOTOTHERMAL MATERIALS. Poul M. Bendix – Symp Select A NEW SYSTEM FOR RECONSTITUTING EARLY STEPS IN LIPID DROPLET AND LIPOPROTEIN FORMATION. William Prinz Symposium: Novel Techniques in Membrane Biology

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8:15 AM-10:15 AM

Petree Hall D

8:15 AM-10:15 AM

8:15 AM-10:15 AM 8:15 AM-10:15 AM 8:15 AM-10:15 AM 8:15 AM-10:15 AM 8:15 AM-10:15 AM 8:15 AM-10:15 AM 10:30 AM-12:30 PM

Platform: Protein-Small Molecule Interactions II

Room 515A Room 515B Room 502A Room 502B

Platform: Electron Microscopy

Platform: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions II

Platform: Protein Aggregates

Platform: Neuroscience: Models to Mechanisms Platform: Muscles: From Mechanics to Regulation

Room 501ABC Room 511ABC West Exhibit Hall

Poster Presentations and Late Posters

Symposium: Condensates: From Characterization to Function and Application Chair Xuebiao Yao, University of Science and Technology, China THE POPZ CONDENSATE: FROM REGULATION OF ASYMMETRY IN BACTERIA TO SYNTHETIC APPLICATIONS IN HUMAN CELLS. Keren Lasker SYNTHETIC INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS THAT EXHIBIT PHASE SEPARATION. Ashutosh Chilkoti FEEDBACK MECHANISMS DRIVEN BY SYNTHETIC CONDENSATES. Tsing-Young Dora Tang LABEL-FREE CHARACTERIZATION OF MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS AND STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY IN α-SYNUCLEIN PHASE SEPARATION AND AGGREGATION USING SINGLE-MOLECULE FORCE-COUPLED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY. Jinqing Huang – Symp Select DECODING BIOMOLECULAR CONDENSATION IN CELL RENEWAL QUALITY CONTROL. Xuebiao Yao

Petree Hall C

1:00 PM-3:00 PM

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