Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

891-S ymp 9:15 am SMALL MOLECULE MODULATION OF VOLTAGE-GATED ION CHANNELS. Heike Wulff , Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy 892-S ymp 9:45 am CALCIUM CHANNEL ENGINEERING. Henry M. Colecraft

Monday, February 9 7:30 am –8:30 am , R oom 327/328/329 Graduate Student Breakfast

Supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund

8:15 am –10:15 am , B allroom III Platform Calcium Signaling

This breakfast presents an opportunity for graduate student members of the Society to meet and discuss the issues they face in their current career stage. Members of the Early Careers Committee will be available to answer questions about how the Committee serves graduate students in the biophysical community. Limited to the first 100 attendees. 7:30 am –5:00 pm , C harles S treet L obby Registration/Exhibitor Registration 8:00 am –5:30 pm , R oom 301/302/303 Career Center 8:00 am –10:00 pm , H all C Poster Viewing 8:15 am –10:15 am , B allroom I Symposium Future of Biophysics Co-Chairs Enrique De La Cruz, Yale University Karen Fleming, Johns Hopkins University N o A bstract 8:15 am STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS. Alexander Sobolevsky N o A bstract 8:45 am STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC DIVERSITY OF TRANSPORT PROTEINS. Heather Pinkett N o A bstract 9:15 am ENABLING BIOPHYSICAL DISCOVERIES THROUGH THE LENS OF A COMPUTATIONAL MICROSCOPE. Rommie E. Amaro N o A bstract 9:45 am PROTEIN INTERACTIONS TO MAP INFORMATION FLOW IN CELL SIGNALING. Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan 8:15 am –10:15 am , B allroom II Symposium Probing Ion Channel Structure/Function Using Novel Tools Chair Henry Colecraft, Columbia University 889-S ymp 8:15 am CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN VOLTAGE-SENSING DOMAINS: CONCERTED SIMULATION AND SCATTERING STUDIES. Douglas J. Tobias 890-S ymp 8:45 am TRICKING OUT THE TOOLBOX: USE OF GENETIC CODE EXPANSION FOR THE STUDY OF ION CHANNELS. Chris Ahern

Co-Chairs Erika Kovacs-Bogdan, Harvard University Madeline Shea, University of Iowa 893-P lat 8:15 am

cpow travel awardee DECREASED POLYCYSTIN 2 EXPRESSION ALTERS CALCIUM- CONTRACTION COUPLING AND CHANGES BETA- ADRENERGIC SIGNALING PATHWAYS. Ivana Y. Kuo , Andrea T. Kwaczala, Lily Nguyen, Stuart G. Campbell, Barbara E. Ehrlich 894-P lat 8:30 am IN VIVO RECONSTITUTION OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL UNIPORTER. Erika Kovacs-Bogdan , Yasemin Sancak, Kimberli J. Kamer, Molly Plovanich, Ashwini Jambhekar, Robert J. Huber, Michael A. Myre, Michael D. Blower, Vamsi K. Mootha 895-P lat 8:45 am FLUCTUATIONS IN CALCIUM CONCENTRATION ALTER THE TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF CALCIUM-DEPENDENT SIGNALING CASCADES. Seth H. Weinberg 896-P lat 9:00 am VISUALIZING CALCIUM INFLUX THROUGH SINGLE ORAI1 CHANNELS. Joseph Dynes , Anna Amcheslavsky, Michael Cahalan 897-P lat 9:15 am FUNCTIONAL RECONSTITUTION AND STRUCTURAL FLEXIBILITY OF THE CRAC CHANNEL ORAI. Xiaowei Hou , Stephen B. Long 898-P lat 9:30 am THERMODYNAMIC AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF CALMODULIN INTERACTION WITH THE SKELETAL MUSCLE RYANODINE RECEPTOR. Adina M. Kilpatrick , Liam Hovey, Madeline A. Shea 899-P lat 9:45 am STRETCH-INDUCED CHANGES IN ATRIAL CA SIGNALING. Maura Greiser , Chris Ward, W. Jonathan Lederer 900-P lat 10:00 am education travel awardee NOVEL GENETICALLY ENCODED RATIOMETRIC CALCIUM INDICATORS. Jung Hwa Cho , Carter Swanson, Jeannie Chen, Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan, Robert Chow 8:15 am –10:15 am , B allroom IV Platform Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, and Motility I Co-Chairs Brannon McCullough, University of Minnesota Vivian Tang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 901-P lat 8:15 am COUPLING OF APICAL CONTRACTIONS AND ADHERENS JUNCTION MATURATION BY SYNAPTOPODIN-DEPEDENT RECRUITMENT OF A-ACTININ-4. Vivian Tang

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