Biophysical Society 2020 Annual Meeting

Monday, February 17, 2020

M O N D A Y

Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the San Diego Convention Center unless noted otherwise.

7:30 am–8:30 am Graduate Student Breakfast

Room 28CDE

7:30 am–5:00 pm Registration/Exhibitor Registration

Lobby G

8:00 am–10:00 pm Poster Viewing

Exhibit Hall

Symposium: Molecular Motors

Ballroom 20A

Chair: Bik-Kwoon Tye, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology RAD52 DNA REPAIR PROTEIN IS A GATEKEEPER THAT PROTECTS DNA REPLICATION FORKS FROM REGRESSION BY FORK REVERSAL MOTORS. Maria Spies RNA HELICASES AND SWITCHES: MOLECULAR MOTORS IN RNA BIOLOGY. Anna Marie Pyle PROCESSIVE CHITINASE, A BURNT-BRIDGE BROWNIAN MOTOR HYDROLYZING CRYSTALLINE POLYSACCHARIDE. Ryota Iino EVOLUTION OF THE EUKARYOTIC ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX. Bik-Kwoon Tye Chair: Jeanne Hardy, University of Massachusetts Amherst IDENTIFYING AND EXPLOITING CRYPTIC POCKETS. Greg R. Bowman BITOPIC AND PERIPHERAL MEMBRANE PROTEINS AS DRUG TARGETS: BROADER BIOPHYSICAL INSIGHT FROM BIOMEM- BRANE SIMULATIONS THAT TRANSCENDS THE “LOCK AND KEY” PARADIGM. Alex Bunker THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF A PROTEIN’S DANCE AT THE HEART OF DRUG DESIGN. Dorothee Kern TARGETING RARE CONFORMATIONAL STATES TO ACHIEVE SELECTIVE CASPASE PROTEASE INHIBITION. Jeanne Hardy Symposium: Pharmaceutical Biophysics

8:15 am–10:15 am

Ballroom 20D

8:15 am–10:15 am

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Membrane Receptors and Signal Transduction

Ballroom 20BC

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Bioengineering, Biosurfaces, and Biomaterials

Room 23ABC

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Membrane Dynamics

Room 24ABC

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Optical Microscopy and Superresolution Imaging II

Room 25ABC

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Voltage-gated K Channels

Room 30ABC

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Protein Dynamics and Allostery I

Room 31ABC

Exhibitor Presentation: Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

Room 33C

8:30 am–10:00 am

Get the High-Resolution Separation That You Have Been Searching for with Preparative and Analytical Ultracentrifugation

8:30 am–10:30 am CPOW Committee Meeting

Room 30D

Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker Corporation

Room 33A

9:30 am–11:00 am

From Single Molecules to Tissues – A New AFM Toolkit for Nanoscopic Investigation of Mechanics, Structures, and Dynamic Processes in Life Science

Room 26A

10:00 am–11:00 am Career Development Center Workshop: Demystifying the Academic Job Search II: Preparing your Written Application Materials: CV, Cover Letter, and Research Statement

10:00 am–5:00 pm Exhibits

Exhibit Hall

10:15 am–11:00 am Coffee Break

Exhibit Hall

10:15 am–11:00 am Meet the Editors, The Biophysicist

Society Booth/Lobby G

10:15 am–11:15 am NewMember Welcome Coffee

Room 28CDE

Room 33C

10:30 am–12:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker Corporation

Using NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) and EPR (Electron Paramagnetic Resonance) in Biophysics

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