Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting

Saturday, February 27 Registration/Exhibitor Registration Open 8:00 am - 6:30 pm, West Lobby Joint Council Meeting 8:30 am - 11:00 am, J.W. Marriott - Plaza I & II Mechanobiology Subgroup 9:00 am - 7:00 pm, Room 403B MECHANICAL ACTION OF BAR-DOMAIN PROTEINS ON FLUID MEM- BRANES.  Patricia Bassereau , Coline Prévost, Mijo Simunovic, Andrew Callan-Jones 2-Subg 9:30 am ACTOMYOSIN DEPENDENT CLUSTERING AND SEGREGATION OF CELL SURFACE MOLECULES AT MULTIPLE SCALES. Madan Rao 10:00 am invited short talk CYTOSKELETAL DYNAMICS AND MECHANOSENSING IN IMMUNE CELLS. Arpita Upadhyaya 10:15 am student talk chosen from poster abstract 10:30 am coffee break 3-Subg 11:00 am REGULATION OF ACTOMYOSIN CONTRACTILITY IN NON-MUSCLE CELLS.  Zhenhuan Guo, Wei Yung Ding, Ronen Zaidel-Bar 4-Subg 11:30 am JUNCTIONAL TENSION, MECHANOSENSING AND EPITHELIAL HOMEOSTA- SIS.  Alpha Yap , Rashmi Priya, Magdalene Michael, Guillermo Gomez 12:00 pm invited short talk 12:15 pm student talk chosen from poster abstract 12:30 pm lunch 5-Subg 2:00 pm CHROMOSOMES AS MECHANICAL OBJECTS: COMMONALITIES FROM BACTERIA TO MAMMALIAN CELLS.  Nancy E. Kleckner 6-Subg 2:30 pm MECHANICS OF GENOME INTEGRITY. Marco Foiani 3:00 pm postdoc talk chosen from poster abstracts RESOLVING AND TARGETING THE MECHANOBIOME OF PANCREATIC DUC- TAL ADENOCARCINOMA. Alexandra Surcel , Qingfeng Zhu, Eric Schiffhauer, Robert Anders, Douglas Robinson 3:30 pm postdoc talk chosen from poster abstracts 3:45 pm coffee break 7-Subg 4:15 pm TISSUE MECHANICS AND DISEASE MODELS.  Valerie Weaver 8-Subg 4:45 pm HOWMECHANICAL FORCES REGULATE THE STRUCTURAL POLARIZATION OF THE NUCLEAR LAMINA.  Viola Vogel 5:15 pm postdoc talk chosen from poster abstracts Subgroup Chair G.V. Shivashankar, MBI, National University of Singapore 1-Subg 9:00 am

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invited short talk

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general discussion

S A T U R D A Y

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subgroup dinner Bioenergetics Subgroup 9:00 am - 7:00 pm, Room 403A

Subgroup Chairs György Hajnóczky, Thomas Jefferson University Jan Hoek, Thomas Jefferson University MORNING SYMPOSIUM: MAMMALIAN MITOCHONDRIA: ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY 9:00 am introductions No Abstract 9:10 am INVITED SATURDAY SUBGROUP SPEAKER.  Douglas Wallace No Abstract 9:40 am CONTROL OF MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS AND METABOLISM.  Richard Scarpulla No Abstract 10:10 am MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION AND REGULATION DURING STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION. Michael Teitell 10:40 am coffee break 9-Subg 11:00 am MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION DURING AND REGULATION OF CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT.  George A. Porter, Jr. No Abstract 11:30 am ABROGATION OF PARKIN-MEDIATED MITOPHAGY DISRUPTS PERINATAL MITOCHONDRIAL MATURATION. Moshi Song AFTERNOON SYMPOSIUM: SUB-DIFFRACTION RESOLUTION OF MITOCHONDRIAL STRUCTURE AND MOLECULAR LANDSCAPE 1:45 pm presentation of young bioenergeticist award and introductions No Abstract 2:10 pm SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY OF MITOCHONDRIA.  Stefan Jakobs No Abstract 2:40 pm MUSCLE MITOCHONDRIA DISTRIBUTION IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.  Clara Franzini-Armstrong No Abstract 3:10 pm THE MITOCHONDRIAL RETICULUM IN SKELETAL AND CARDIAC MUSCLE.  Robert S. Balaban 3:40 pm coffee break No Abstract 4:00 pm TRANS-MITOCHONDRIAL COORDINATION OF CRISTAE AT REGULATED MEMBRANE JUNCTIONS. Martin Picard No Abstract 4:30 pm STRUCTURE AND MECHANISM OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL ATP SYNTHASE BY ELECTRON CRYO-MICROSCOPY. Werner Kuhlbrandt 5:00 pm general discussion & business meeting 7:00 pm subgroup dinner

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