BPS2025 Full Program

Symposium: Mechanisms of Cell Wall Biopolymer Assembly Chair Syma Khalid, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Petree Hall C

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BACTERIAL SURFACE FRIENDS AND FOES: UNIQUE CHEMISTRY, FUNCTION, AND INHIBITION OF AMYLOID AND CEL LULOSE ARCHITECTURES. Lynette Cegelski CELLULOSE BIOSYNTHESIS AND MODIFICATION: A VERSATILE BIOMATERIAL ACROSS KINGDOMS OF LIFE. Jochen Zimmer THE GLYCOPROTEIN-RICH CELL WALL ARCHITECTURE OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII . Isabelle Marcotte SHAPE MATTERS: TOWARDS A MOLECULAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE INNATE IMMUNE RECOGNITION OF MICROBIAL LIPIDS. Andra B. Schromm – Symp Select INTERACTION OF THE E. COLI CELL WALL WITH PERIPLASMIC MACROMOLECULES: MULTISCALE MD SIMULATIONS. Syma Khalid Chair Yongsheng Shi, University of California, Irvine LEVERAGING RNA BINDING PROTEINS TO UNDERSTAND RNA BIOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS. Gene Yeo EXPANDING RNA FUNCTIONS WITH SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. Hirohide Saito TO THE TUMOR AND BEYOND: TALES OF A HOLISTIC MIRNA DELIVERY VEHICLE. Andrea Kasinski ANTI-VIRAL ACTIVITIES OF HOST MICRORNA AGAINST THE SARS-COV-2 GENOME 3’-UNTRANSLATED REGION. David B. Heisler – Symp Select THE NUCLEAR RNA DEGRADATION CODE AND HUMAN DISEASES. Yongsheng Shi Symposium: Innovations in RNA Therapeutics Petree Hall D

10:45 AM-12:45 PM

10:45 AM-12:45 PM

Symposium: Biophysics for a Sustainable Future Chair Gabriela Popescu, University of Buffalo, USA

Room 515A

POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS IN MITIGATING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. Steven Chu IMPROVING LAB SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH BETTER OPERATIONS AND PROCUREMENT. Scott Weitze SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH AT THE SINGLE-MOLECULE LEVEL. Will Hancock RE-PURPOSING THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF GOOD MICROBES FOR HEALTH AND BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATION. Jennifer DuBois BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE WITH LESSONS LEARNED FROM UNCONVENTIONAL MICROBES. Michelle O’Malley

10:45 AM-12:45 PM

10:45 AM-12:45 PM 10:45 AM-12:45 PM 10:45 AM-12:45 PM 10:45 AM-12:45 PM 10:45 AM-12:45 PM 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Platform: Molecular Dynamics I

Room 515B Room 502A Room 502B

Platform: Membrane Protein Structures Platform: Voltage-Gated Channels

Platform: Condensates: From Properties to Physiology and Disease I

Room 501ABC Room 511ABC Room 403A Room 404AB

Platform: DNA Structure and Dynamics Undergraduate Student Pizza “Breakfast” Exhibitor Presentation: Malvern Panalytical

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Rapid Screening for Binding Kinetics and Orthogonal Validation: The Use of GCI and ITC

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

Room 409B

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Public Affairs Committee Meeting Exhibitor Presentation: HORIBA

Room 405

Room 406AB

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Introducing the InverTau Confocal FLIM Platform and Novel Applications Using the FLIMera Lifetime Camera

1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Education and Career Opportunities Fair

West Exhibit Hall

Career Development Center Workshop: A Novel Approach to Writing NIH-Style Research and Training Applications: Rhetorical Patterns, Storytelling, Verbal Feedback

Room 409B

1:15 PM-2:15 PM

Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker

Room 404AB

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Visualizing Molecular Dynamics with High-Speed Tip-Scanning Atomic Force Microscopy

1:45 PM-3:00 PM 1:45 PM-3:45 PM

Snack Break

West Exhibit Hall West Exhibit Hall

Poster Presentations and Late Posters

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