Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

Workshop: Managing Data and Statistics in the Informatics Era Chair: Nathan Baker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ballroom I

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A PHYSICIST’S APPROACH TO STATISTICAL ANALYSES OF BIOLOGICAL DATA. Patrice Koehl GLYCAN BIOSYNTHESIS: STRUCTURE, INFORMATION, AND HETEROGENEITY. Mukund Thattai LARGE-SCALE MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES FOR MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS. Arvind Ramanathan INFORMATICS APPROACHES TO DATA PRESERVATION AND ANALYSIS IN PROTEIN ELECTROSTATICS. Nathan A. Baker

7:30 pm –9:30 pm

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Workshop: Advances in Computing Large Systems

Ballroom II

Chair: Emad Tajkhorshid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

REVERSIBLE FOLDING OF HYPERSTABLE RNA TETRALOOPS USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS. Angel E. Garcia BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANES AND INTERACTIONS WITH MEMBRANE PROTEINS. Wonpil Im PROTEIN FOLDING AND RECOGNITION IN THE CELL -- AN IN SILICO APPROACH. Margaret S. Cheung ADVANCES IN ATOMIC-LEVEL SIMULATIONS OF LARGE-SCALE FUNCTIONAL MOTIONS OF MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS. Emad Tajkhorshid

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7:30 pm –9:30 pm

Workshop: Microfluidics Tools for Studying Molecules and Cells

Ballroom III

Chair: Petra Dittrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

INTEGRATED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES FOR STUDYING AGING AND ADHESION OF INDIVIDUAL BACTERIA. Stephen C. Jacobson DEMOCRATIZATION OF NEXT-GENERATION IMAGING, DIAGNOSTICS AND MEASUREMENT TOOLS THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL PHOTONICS. Aydogan Ozcan A MICROFLUIDIC RAPID FREEZE QUENCH APPARATUS FOR HIGH FIELD EPR MEASUREMENTS. Daniella Goldfarb CELL AND VESICLE ANALYSIS IN MICROCHAMBERS. Petra S. Dittrich

7:30 pm –9:30 pm

8:00 pm –10:00 pm

SOBLA (The Society for Latinoamerican Biophysicists) Meeting

Room 330

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Biophysical Society 59 th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland