Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Symposium Biophysics of the Cytoskeletal-Membrane Interface 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Great Hall B Chair Michael M. Kozlov, Tel Aviv University, Israel 83-Symp 8:15 am MODELING MEMBRANE TUBULES WITH LIPID DROPLETS AND MIGRASOMES. Michael M. Kozlov 84-Symp 8:45 am MULTISCALE SIMULATION OF PROTEINS AT THE MEMBRANE-CYTOSKELETON INTERFACE.  Gregory A. Voth 85-Symp 9:15 am HOW ACTIN CYTOSKELETON DYNAMICS INDUCE MEMBRANE TUBULATIONS.  Cécile Sykes 86-Symp 9:45 am REDEFINING THE ROLE OF THE ARP2/3 COMPLEX: REGULATION OF MORPHOLOGY AT THE LEADING EDGE.  Karen L. Anderson, Christopher Page, Mark F. Swift, Praveen Suraneni, Mandy EW Janssen, Thomas D. Pollard, Rong Li, Niels Volkmann, Dorit Hanein Platform Membrane Pumps, Transporters, and Exchangers I 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room R02/03 Co-Chairs Joseph M. Autry, University of Minnesota Balaji Selvam, University of Illinois 87-Plat 8:15 am PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA CDF TRANSPORTERS CZCD AND YIIP ARE INVOLVED IN ZN 2+ EFFLUX, OUTER MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE.  Agostina Salusso, Daniel Raimunda 88-Plat 8:30 am FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE UREA TRANSPORTER UREI FROM HELICOBACTOR PYLORI .  Andreas Horner , Christine Siligan, Johannes Preiner, Sergey A. Akimov, Peter Pohl 89-Plat 8:45 am UNDERSTANDING THE CONFORMATIONAL DIVERSITY OF PROTON- COUPLED OLIGOPEPTIDE TRANSPORTER (POT) FAMILY.  Balaji Selvam , Diwakar Shukla 90-Plat 9:00 am INSIGHTS INTO THE CATION SELECTIVITY AND COOPERATIVITY WITH SUGAR IN SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM MELIBIOSE PERMEASE.  Hariharan Parameswaran , Lan Guan 91-Plat 9:15 am MODULATION OF ENERGY CONVERSION THROUGH MANIPULATION OF THE RETINAL THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM BY AN AROMATIC RESIDUE IN THE SEVEN-TRANSMEMBRANE RECEPTOR BACTERIORHODOPSIN.  Xiaoyan Ding, Yujiao Gao, Chao Sun, Haolin Cui, Juan Wang, Yanan Yang, Dinu Iuga, Fang Tian, Anthony Watts, Xin Zhao 92-Plat 9:30 am DETERMINATION OF ION CHANNEL AND PUMP FLUXES FOR CHINESE HAMSTER OVARY CELLS USING RUBIDIUM UPTAKE MEASUREMENT.  Azita Fazelkhah

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Editorial Board Orientation 7:00 am - 9:00 am, Room 222 Postdoctoral Breakfast 7:30 am - 8:30 am, Rivergate Room, Lobby Level

Support contributed by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund This breakfast presents an opportunity for postdoctoral Annual Meeting attendees to meet and discuss the issues they face in their current career stage. This year the breakfast features a panel focused on international relations and navigating scientific career paths outside one’s country of origin. Limited to the first 100 attendees. Speakers Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Mayo Clinic Khalid Salaita, Emory University Registration/Exhibitor Registration 7:30 am - 5:00 pm, Lobby B Career Center Workshop Career Q&A with Joe Tringali 8:00 am - 8:30 am, Room 212/213 Do you have a pressing question about your career in science? Attend this informal discussion with veteran career consultant Joe Tringali and get the answers you are looking for. Poster Viewing 8:00 am - 10:00 pm, Hall B-2 & C Symposium Proteins in Vivo: From the Ribosome Through the Chaperone to the Native State 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Great Hall A Chair Silvia Cavagnero, University of Wisconsin-Madison 80-Symp 8:15 am CHANNELING NASCENT PROTEINS TOWARDS THE NATIVE STATE: ROLE OF THE RIBOSOME AND MOLECULAR CHAPERONES.  Silvia Cavagnero , Rayna M. Addabbo, Matthew D. Dalphin, Yue Liu, Miranda F. Mecha 81-Symp 8:45 am RIBOSOMES IN MOTION: THE DYNAMICS OF NATURE’S PROTEIN SYNTHESIS MACHINERY.  Ruben L. Gonzalez, Jr. No Abstract 9:15 am PROTEIN AND RNA CHAPERONES OPTIMIZE THE RATE OF NATIVE STATE PRODUCTION BY AN ITERATIVE ANNEALING MECHANISM.  Dave Thirumalai 82-Symp 9:45 am FROM NATIVE TO AMYLOID IN THE TEST TUBE AND IN CELLS: A JOURNEY OF MISBEHAVING ANTIBODIES. Marina Ramirez-Alvarado , Marta Marin-Argany, Christopher J. Dick, Luis M. Blancas-Mejia, Pinaki Misra, Yi Lin, Angela Williams, Jonathan S. Wall

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