Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Los Angeles Convention Center unless noted otherwise.

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

West Lobby

8:00 am–9:00 am Biophysical Society Business Meeting

Room 404AB

8:00 am–4:30 pm Poster Viewing

West Hall

D A Y

Symposium: Emerging Techniques for Study of Cell Mechanics

Petree Hall C

Chair: Amy Rowat, University of California, Los Angeles THE PHYSICS OF SELF-ASSEMBLING CYTOSKELETAL NETWORKS. R. Dyche Mullins FEELING FOR CELL FUNCTION - MECHANICAL PHENOTYPING AT 1,000 CELLS/SEC. Jochen Guck BIOMECHANICAL IDENTIFICATION AND SORTING OF SINGLE CELLS. Todd Sulchek CANCER CELL MECHANOTYPING: FROM SCREENING TO DISEASE BIOPHYSICS. Amy Rowat

8:15 am–10:15 am

Symposium: Multiscale Biophysics of Membranes

Petree Hall D

ChairL Felix Goñi, Basque Country University, Spain INTERACTIONS AT THE MEMBRANE-FLUID INTERFACE. Suzanne P. Jarvis CERAMIDE STUDIES FROM THE NANO TO THE MICROSCALE. Felix M Goñi LIPID STRUCTURE AND CONTROL OF MEMBRANE ORDERED DOMAIN FORMATION AND SIZE BY LIPID COMPOSITION AND ASYMMETRY IN VITRO AND IN VIVO. Erwin London THE BIOPHYSICS OF LIVING MEMBRANES: PROTEIN PARTITIONING AND FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION IN ORDERED PLASMA MEMBRANE DOMAINS. Ilya Levental

8:15 am–10:15 am

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Voltage-gated K Channels and Mechanisms of Voltage Sensing and Gating II

Room 502A

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Protein Structure, Prediction, and Design

Room 502B

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Protein Assemblies

Room 515A

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Mechanosensation

Room 515B

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Networks and Synthetic Biology

Room 501ABC

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Ribosomes and Translation

Room 511ABC

9:00 am–10:30 am Subgroup Chairs Meeting

Room 510

Room 518

9:30 am–10:30 am Career Center Workshop

Career Planning and Job Searching for Science Professionals: Academic Opportunities

10:00 am–4:30 pm Exhibits

West Hall

10:15 am–11:00 am Coffee Break

West Hall

Symposium: Awards

Petree Hall C

Chair: Edward Egelman, University of Virginia, Society President TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS, AND STILL (OPTICALLY) TRAPPED! SINGLE MOLECULE BIOPHYSICS COMES OF AGE. Steven M. Block ELEVATOR MECHANISM OF GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTERS. Olga Boudker MECHANICAL ARCHITECTURE OF CELL DIVISION. Sophie Dumont HOW A TAIL WAGS ITS SPERM: REGULATION OF FLAGELLAR MOTILITY BY BIOACTIVE LIPID SIGNALING. Polina V. Lishko X-RAYS AND ELECTRONS ILLUMINATE NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR STRUCTURE AND MECHANISM. Eric Gouaux CHOLESTEROL, THE MOLECULE YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW. Philip Yeagle

10:45 am–12:45 pm

10:45 am–12:45 pm Platform: Other Channels

Petree Hall D

10:45 am–12:45 pm Platform: Actin and Microtubules: Structure and Dynamics

Room 502A

10:45 am–12:45 pm Platform: Protein-Lipid Interactions II

Room 502B

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