BPS2025 Full Program

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

Teaching Science Like We Do Science

Room 403A Room 409B

Career Development Center Workshop: The NIH K99/R00 Award – A Unique Award for Postdocs Who Have Demonstrated Readiness for Independence

F R I D A Y

S U N D A Y

2:30 PM-3:30 PM

2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Sustainability in Scientific Research Exhibitor Presentation: Mad City Labs Inc

Room 408B Room 404AB

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Applications of Single Molecule Microscopy: Development Signaling to Sustainability Efforts

3:30 PM-5:00 PM 4:00 PM-5:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Early Careers Committee Meeting

Room 405 Room 409B Room 407 Petree Hall C

Career Development Center Workshop: Nailing the Job Talk, or Erudition Ain’t Enough

Publications Committee Meeting

Symposium: Regulatory Mechanisms in Ion Channel Gating

Chair Merritt Maduke, Stanford University, USA MORE EXCITED BY OTHER PROTEINS THAN VOLTAGE: THE UNCOVENTIONAL FUNCTION OF THE SODIUM LEAK CHANNEL COMPLEX. Stephan A. Pless SENSORY RECEPTOR DYSFUNCTION IN A NEUROGENETIC DISORDER. Julio Cordero-Morales VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNELS AS MULTI-PROTEIN SIGNALLING COMPLEXES: THE EFFECT OF THE DISPANINS ON NAV1.7 GATING. Irina Vetter PHOSPHATIDIC ACID IS AN ENDOGENOUS INHIBITOR OF PIEZO2 CHANNELS AND MECHANOSENSITIVITY. Tibor Rohacs – Symp Select BALL AND CHAIN GATING IN A CHLORIDE CHANNEL. Merritt Maduke Chair Klaus Hahn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA INTEGRINS: ENVIRONMENT RECOGNITION MACHINES ACTIVATED BY LIGAND BINDING AND ACTIN PULLING. Timothy A. Springer FORCING TUMOR INITIATION AND PROGRESSION. Valerie Weaver STRUCTURAL ORIGINS AND MECHANISMS OF THE INTEGRIN ΑI DOMAIN. Jeremy Hollis DECODING COLLAGEN’S THERMALLY INDUCED UNFOLDING AND REFOLDING PATHWAYS USING AFM IMAGING. Nancy R. Forde – Symp Select DOMAIN UNFOLDING AND MECHANO-TRANSDUCTION OF SINGLE TALIN AND VINCULIN MOLECULES IN LIVING CELLS. Klaus M. Hahn Symposium: Integrins and Matrix Proteins Petree Hall D

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Platform: Membrane Dynamics

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

Platform: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions I Platform: Protein Structure, Prediction, and Design Platform: Spectroscopy: From Forces to Photons I Platform: Membrane Pumps, Transporters, and Exchangers

Room 501ABC Room 511ABC Room 402AB Room 403A Room 408A Room 404AB

Platform: Motor Proteins and Cytoskeletons I

4:00 PM-6:00 PM PI to PI Mixer

5:00 PM-7:00 PM 5:30 PM-6:00 PM

Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUI) Network Annual Meeting Mixer

Korean Biophysicists Meeting Exhibitor Presentation: LUMICKS

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Democratizing Dynamic Single Molecule Analysis: Advancing Biological Understanding through C-Trap™ Technology and Showcasing Discoveries from Early-Career Scientists

6:00 PM-6:30 PM 6:00 PM-9:00 PM 7:00 PM-10:00 PM

Dinner Meet-Ups

West Lobby/Society Booth

Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) Poster Competition

West Exhibit Hall

BPS Publications Dinner

Mastro’s Ocean Club

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