BPS2026 Program Book

3:00 pm-5:00 pm Education Committee Meeting

Room 310/311

3:30 pm-5:00 pm Inside Perspectives and Opportunities: NSF Grants

Esplanade, Room 155

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3:30 pm-5:30 pm

Biophysical Reports Editorial Board Meeting Career Development Center Workshop: Negotiating Your Faculty Job Offer and Start-up Package

Room 312

Esplanade, Room 151

4:00 pm-5:00 pm

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Symposium: Molecular Chaperones: Basic Mechanisms and Pathological Consequences

Room 301/302

Chair Silvia Cavagnero, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA MECHANISMS OF CO-TRANSLATIONAL FOLDING AND ASSEMBLY OF PROTEINS. Bernd Bukau A WIDESPREAD PROTEIN MISFOLDING MECHANISM IS DIFFERENTIALLY RESCUED BY CHAPERONES BASED ON GENE ES SENTIALITY. Edward O’Brien PERIPLASMIC CHAPERONE DYNAMICS. Karen Fleming THE PHYSICS OF CHOICE IN PROTEOSTASIS: STEERING HSP70 FROM FOLDING TO DISAGGREGATION. Edward Avezov – Symp Select A BIRD EYE’S VIEW OF THE ROLE OF MOLECULAR CHAPERONES IN PROTEIN FOLDING AT BIRTH. Silvia Cavagnero Chair Meghan Morrissey, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA DYNAMICAL MODELING OF PROLIFERATIVE-INVASIVE PLASTICITY AND IFN-GAMMA SIGNALING IN MELANOMA. Mohit Kumar Jolly T CELLS ARE BLIND TO THE DARK MECHANICS OF TUMOURS. Marco Fritzsche CELL SURFACE CROWDING: A TUNABLE REGULATOR OF IMMUNE CELL INTERACTIONS. Daniel A. Fletcher MESSY EATERS: MECHANISMS OF TROGOCYTIC MEMBRANE EXCHANGE IN MACROPHAGES. Caitlin E. Cornell – Symp Select WHEN TO CALL IT QUITS: PAIRED ACTIVATING AND INHIBITORY FC RECEPTORS SET A TIME LIMIT FOR PHAGOCYTOSIS. Meghan Morrissey Symposium: Biophysics of Immunity and Cancer Immunology

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4:00 pm-6:00 pm

Room 303/304

4:00 pm-6:00 pm

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Advances in Spectroscopy: Optical to Scanning

Room 201/202/203 Room 204/205/206

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Membrane Protein Dynamics

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Mitochondria, Bioenergetics, and Organelles 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Structure and Dynamics of RNA and DNA

Room 207/208

Room 209/210/211 Room 212/213/214

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: TRP and Ligand-gated Channels

6:00 pm-6:30 pm Dinner Meet-Ups

South Lobby/Society Booth

Workshop: Genetic Code Expansion in Biophysics

Room 201/202/203

Chair Sharona Gordon, University of Washington, USA GENETIC CODE EXPANSION TECHNOLOGY FOR BETTER PROTEIN BIOPHYSICS. Ryan Mehl GENETIC CODE EXPANSION TO INCORPORATE THE METAL-BINDING NONCANONICAL AMINO ACID BIPYRIDYL ALANINE FOR TRANSITION METAL ION FRET. Sharona E. Gordon ALLOSTERIC REGULATION OF A CNG CHANNEL MEASURED USING GENETIC CODE EXPANSION AND TIME-RESOLVED TRANSITION METAL ION FRET. William N. Zagotta SITE-SPECIFIC INCORPORATION OF 5-HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN MIMICS OXIDATIVE DAMAGE IN A HUMAN EYE LENS PRO TEIN. Rachel W. Martin – Workshop Select PROTEINS WITH NEW-TO-NATURE BACKBONES. Alanna Schepartz

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

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