Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting

Platform Alternative Protein Conformations and Function 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 502A

Sunday, February 28 Postdoctoral Breakfast 7:30 am - 8:30 am, Room 404AB

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Co-Chairs Albert Lau, Johns Hopkins University Nagarajan Vaidehi, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope 70-Plat 8:15 am SEEING THE UNSEEN: SAMPLING THE EXCITED STATE OF T4 LYSOZYME L99A WITH SIMULATIONS ON THE ANTON SUPERCOMPUTER.  Jamie Schiffer , Roxana Sida, Dariana Arciniega, Robert Malmstrom, Victoria Feher, Rommie Amaro 71-Plat 8:30 am COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF A PROKARYOTIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR.  John Belcher , Albert Lau 72-Plat 8:45 am SIMULATING THE FUNCTION OF SODIUM/PROTON ANTIPORTERS.  Raphael Alhadeff , Arieh Warshel 73-Plat 9:00 am MODULATING CONFORMATIONAL STATES IN THE GLUTAMATE TRANS- PORTER HOMOLOGUE GLTPH USING PROTECTIVE OSMOLYTES.  Sara Blankenship , Jessica Sarver, David Cafiso 74-Plat 9:15 am ATOMIC LEVEL INSIGHTS INTO THE ACTIVATION MECHANISM OF NEU- ROTENSIN RECEPTOR 1.  Supriyo Bhattacharya , Reinhard Grisshammer, Nagarajan Vaidehi 75-Plat 9:30 am DYNAMIC SAMPLING OF MULTIPLE CONFORMATIONS IN FIMH MODU- LATES BACTERIAL ADHESION.  Vasilios Kalas , Jerome S. Pinkner, Alex S. Holehouse, Hao Zhang, Michael L. Gross, Rohit V. Pappu, Scott J. Hultgren 76-Plat 9:45 am INVESTIGATION OF THE PH INDUCED CONFORMATIONAL REARRANGE- MENT OF INFLUENZA HEMAGGLUTININ.  Xingcheng Lin , Jeffrey K. Noel, Nathanial R. Eddy, Jianpeng Ma, José N. Onuchic 77-Plat 10:00 am ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF A NON-ENVELOPED DSRNA VIRUS REVEALS PH SENSING FOR CELL ENTRY.  Xing Zhang Platform Skeletal Muscle Mechanics, Structure, and Regulation 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 502B Co-Chairs THE FORCE PRODUCING ADP STATE OF MYOSIN BOUND TO ACTIN.  Ras- mus R. Schroeder , Sarah F. Wulf, Virginie Ropars, Setsuko Fujita-Becker, Marco Oster, Goetz Hofhaus, Leonardo G. Trabuco, Olena Pylypenko, H. Lee Sweeney, Anne Houdusse 79-Plat 8:30 am RIBBONS, NOT SUBFILAMENTS. Michael K. Reedy , Robert J. Perz-Edwards Sanford Bernstein, San Diego State University Raul Perez-Jimenez, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain 78-Plat 8:15 am

Supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund This breakfast presents an opportunity for postdoctoral 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 postdocs in the biophysical community. Limited to the first 100 attendees. Registration/Exhibitor Registration 7:30 am - 5:00 pm, West Lobby Poster Viewing 8:00 am - 10:00 pm, West Hall Symposium Synthetic Biology 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Petree Hall C Chair Pamela Silver, Harvard University No Abstract 8:15 am TRIGGER WAVES IN MITOSIS AND APOPTOSIS.  James Ferrell 65-Symp 8:45 am FEEDBACK CONTROL OF MAMMALIAN CELL DIFFERENTIATION.  Mary N. Teruel 66-Symp 9:15 am COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN SYNTHETIC MICROBIAL CONSORTIA.  Cynthia H. Collins No Abstract 9:45 am DESIGNING WITH BIOLOGY.  Pamela Silver Symposium Pentameric Ligand-gated Ion Channels 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Petree Hall D Chair Cynthia Czajkowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison No Abstract 8:15 am PROBING CHANNEL STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, AND FUNCTION.  Pei Tang 67-Symp 8:45 am CHARGE SELECTIVITY IN PLGICS: AN ASPECT OF CHANNEL FUNCTION THAT REMAINS ELUSIVE EVEN WHEN MULTIPLE STRUCTURES ARE KNOWN.  Claudio Grosman 68-Symp 9:15 am INSIGHTS INTO INTRACELLULAR DOMAINS OF PENTAMERIC LIGAND- GATED ION CHANNELS. Michaela Jansen 69-Symp 9:45 am DETECTING LIGAND-INDUCED MOTIONS IN PENTAMERIC LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS.  Cynthia Czajkowski

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