Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting

Platform Networks and Synthetic Biology 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 501ABC

1735-Plat 9:00 am THE DYNAMIC PATHWAYS OF PROKARYOTIC TRANSLATION TERMINATION AND RECYCLING.  Arjun Prabhakar , Jin Chen, Joseph D. Puglisi 1736-Plat 9:15 am IN VITRO OPTIMIZATION OF TRANSLATIONAL ACTIVITY WITH MODIFIED RIBOSOMES.  Noémie M. Kempf , Cristina Remes, Daryan Kempe, Alexandros Katranidis, Jörg Fitter 1737-Plat 9:30 am FUNCTIONAL PROFILING OF RIBOSOMAL RNA MODIFICATIONS USING QUANTITATIVE MASS SPECTROMETRY.  Anna Popova , James Williamson 1738-Plat 9:45 am SINGLE-MOLECULE ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS OF DNA POLYMERASE I.  Denys O. Marushchak , Kaitlin M. Pugliese, Mackenzie W. Turvey, O. Tolga Gul, Arith J. Rajapakse, Gregory A. Weiss, Philip G. Collins 1739-Plat 10:00 am QUANTIFYING THE ENERGY LANDSCAPE OF RIBOSOME FUNCTION.  Paul C. Whitford Subgroup Chairs Meeting 9:00 am - 10:30 am, Room 510 Career Center Workshop Career Planning and Job Searching for Science Professionals: Academic Opportunities 9:30 am - 10:30 am, Room 518 Learn how to create a flexible career plan for yourself, and identify and leverage your skills, expertise and experience to find a career (not just a job) that is right for you. Special emphasis will be placed on tips for find- ing and launching a career in academia, but we will also incorporate the development of a contingency plan for the unexpected twists and turns in life. Exhibits 10:00 am - 4:30 pm, West Hall Coffee Break 10:15 am - 11:00 am, West Hall Symposium Awards 10:45 am - 12:45 pm, Petree Hall C Chair Edward Egelman, University of Virginia, Society President No Abstract 10:45 am TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS, AND STILL (OPTICALLY) TRAPPED! SINGLE MOLECULE BIOPHYSICS COMES OF AGE.  Steven M. Block No Abstract 11:02 am ELEVATOR MECHANISM OF GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTERS.  Olga Boudker No Abstract 11:19 am MECHANICAL ARCHITECTURE OF CELL DIVISION.  Sophie Dumont No Abstract 11:36 pm HOW A TAIL WAGS ITS SPERM: REGULATION OF FLAGELLAR MOTILITY BY BIOACTIVE LIPID SIGNALING.  Polina V. Lishko

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Co-Chairs AndrewMugler, Purdue University Chandran Sabanayagam, University of Delaware 1724-Plat 8:15 am THE NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS OF BIOLOGICAL CYCLES.  Jason A. Wagoner , Ken Dill 1725-Plat 8:30 am STATISTICAL MECHANICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PREDICTING CELLULAR RE- SPONSES FROM SINGLE-CELL DATA.  Lila Forte , Connie Y. Wang, Thomas 8:45 am FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS TO THE PRECISION OF MULTICELLULAR SENSING.  Sean Fancher, Andre Levchenko, Ilya Nemenman, AndrewMugler 1727-Plat 9:00 am EDUCATION TRAVEL AWARDEE MULTI-SCALE SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF HISTONE MODIFICA- TIONS.  Irem Celen , Jung Doh, Chandran Sabanayagam 1728-Plat 9:15 am DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF CELL MIGRATION WITH APPLICATIONS TO BRAIN DEVELOPMENT.  Claude Sinner , Ines Reinartz, Bernadett Bösze, Steffen Scholpp, Alexander Schug 1729-Plat 9:30 am OPTICAL CONTROL OF CANCER INITIATION IN ZEBRAFISH.  Zhiping Feng 1730-Plat 9:45 am IN VITRO CONSTRUCTION OF 3D MICROTUBULE NETWORKS AND APPLI- CATIONS OF BASIC ARTIFICIAL CYTOSKELETON FOR BIOPHYSICAL STUD- IES. Michael D. Vershinin , Jared Bergman, Olaolu Osunbayo 1731-Plat 10:00 am FROM ION-CHANNELS TO PORINS: ENGINEERING DNA-BASED SYNTHETIC COUNTERPARTS.  Kerstin Göpfrich , Alexander Ohmann, Satya P. Bhamidimarri, Madhavi V.S.V. Duvvuri, Cristiana I. Bercea, Bertalan Gy- enes, Mathias Winterhalter, Ulrich F. Keyser Platform F. Miller III 1726-Plat

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Ribosomes and Translation 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 511ABC

Co-Chairs Rubin Gonzalez, Columbia University, USA Magnus Johansson, Uppsala University, Sweden

1732-Plat 8:15 am IN VIVO MEASUREMENTS OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS KINETICS USING SIN- GLE-MOLECULE TRACKING OF E.COLI TRNAS.  Ivan Volkov, Javier Aguirre, Martin Lindén, Johan Elf, Magnus Johansson 1733-Plat 8:30 am CODON POSITIONS THAT STRONGLY INFLUENCE COTRANSLATIONAL FOLDING ARE FAR FROM EQUILIBRIUM: A FRAMEWORK FOR CONTROL- LING NASCENT-PROTEIN FOLDING.  Ajeet Sharma, Edward P. O’Brien 1734-Plat 8:45 am FOLLOWING TRANSLATION AND FOLDING OF INDIVIDUAL PROTEINS BY SINGLE RIBOSOMES IN REAL-TIME USING OPTICAL TWEEZERS.  Alexandros Katranidis , Florian Wruck, Knud H. Nierhaus, Georg Büldt, Martin Hegner

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