BPS2025 Full Program

HARNESS THE HUBRIS: MY BATTLES WITH ADRIAN. Robert Austin 9:40 AM DEFINE LIFE. Sol Gruner 10:00 AM MESOMORPHIC ASSEMBLY OF VAN DER WAALS POLYMERS. Muthu Muthukumar 10:20 AM COFFEE BREAK SESSION II Chair: Tatiana Rostovtseva 10:50 AM MEMBRANE CAPACITANCE AND EXCITABILITY. Francisco Bezanilla 11:10 AM ADRIAN’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO ALLOSTERIC MECHANISMS. Olaf Andersen 11:30 AM BACK-OF-THE-ENVELOPE RESULTS ABOUT MEMBRANE PHASE SEPARA TION. Sarah Keller 11:50 AM MEMBRANE TENSION: SIMPLE YET PUZZLING. Misha Kozlov 12:05 PM MEMBRANE FUSION: LIPIDS AND PROTEINS. Leonid Chernomordik 12:20 PM THE CONCEPTUAL ‘ERGONOMICS’ THAT WE LEARNED. HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND THE MULTISTATE CHANNEL GATED BY MEMBRANE TEN SION? Sergei Sukharev 12:35 PM ADRIAN, WATER AND ION CHANNELS. Michael Green 12:50 PM LUNCH BREAK SESSION III Chair: Sarah Keller 2:20 PM DO ELECTROSTATICS PLAY A ROLE IN LIPID MIXTURES? Stephanie Tristram-Nagle 2:40 PM “YOU’RE THE ONE TO DO IT” - THE ENDURING LIFE OTOF SOME OTOF ADRIAN’S IDEAS. Rudi Podgornik 3:00 PM ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF ELECTRIFIED INTERFACES: FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF DEBYE, ONSAGER, AND PARSEGIAN. David Andelman 3:15 PM ENERGY OF A LOW DIELECTRIC PARTICLE APPROACHING A CHARGED MEMBRANE. Vicente Aguilella 3:30 PM THE JOY OF STUDYING DOPAMINE. Horia Petrache 3:45 PM OSMOTIC PRESSURE UNDER DURESS: CROWDING BEYOND EXCLUDED VOLUME. Daniel Harries 4:00 PM MAKING THERMODYNAMICS FUN AGAIN! WHAT I LEARNED FROM ADRIAN. John Chik

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COFFEE BREAK

F R I D A Y

SESSION IV

Chair: Joshua Zimmerberg

4:40 PM SINGLE MOLECULE CHARACTERIZATION WITH ION CHANNELS AND ON STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY’S PRETTY PICTURES. John Kasianowicz 5:00 PM FORCES AT BIOLOGICAL INTERFACES: INSIGHTS FROM NEUTRON RE FLECTOMETRY. David Hoogerheide 5:15 PM PHOTOTRIGGERED ION SELECTIVE CURRENTS. Peter Pohl 5:30 PM WHEN IONS GO NANO: CHAOS IN HYDRATION AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR APPLICATIONS. Pierre Bauduin 5:45 PM THE PROFOUND IMPORTANCE OF THE OSMOTICALLY-CONTROLLED INVERSE HEXAGONAL PHASE FOR MODELING MEMBRANE MECHANICS. Alex Sodt Registration 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, West Lobby New Council Orientation 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Marriott, Atrium I Joint Council Reception, Dinner, and Meeting 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Marriott, Plaza I-II

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