Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Saturday, February 11 Registration/Exhibitor Registration 8:00 am - 6:30 pm, Lobby B Joint Council Meeting 8:30 am - 11:00 am, Hilton, Compass Room Bioengineering Subgroup 9:00 am - 12:30 pm, Room 220

8-Subg 11:30 am MECHANICAL SIGNALING IN STEM CELLS: SELF-RENEWAL AND AGEING.  Kevin Chalut 9-Subg 12:00 pm THE MECHANICAL CONTROL OF NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT.  Kristian Franze 12:30 pm lunch 2:00 pm short talk 2:15 pm short talk 2:30 pm short talk 10-Subg 2:45 pm HOW DO SINGLE-CELL PROPERTIES INFLUENCE THE COLLECTIVE ME- CHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF CONFLUENT TISSUES?  Lisa Manning 3:15 pm coffee break No Abstract 3:45 pm MECHANICAL CONTROL OF TISSUE MORPHOGENESIS.  Otger Campas 11-Subg 4:15 pm MECHANICAL STRETCH TRIGGERS RAPID EPITHELIAL CELL DIVISION THROUGH THE STRETCH-ACTIVATED CHANNEL PIEZO1.  Jody Rosenblatt 4:45 pm short talk 5:00 pm short talk 5:15 pm business meeting 6:30 pm speaker dinner Bioenergetics Subgroup 9:00 am - 7:00 pm, Room R01 Subgroup Chairs Elizabeth Jonas, Yale University George A. Porter, Jr., University of Rochester Medical Center 9:00 am introduction HIGH RESOLUTION STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND DYNAMICS OF MITO- CHONDRIAL PROTEINS 12-Subg 9:10 am NEAR-NEIGHBOR RELATIONSHIPS OF THE ATYPICAL SUBUNITS THAT FORM THE PERIPHERAL STALK OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL ATP SYNTHASE IN CHLOROPHYCEAN ALGAE.  Diego Gonzalez-Halphen 13-Subg 9:40 am THE MECHANISM OF PROTON PUMPING BY RESPIRATORY COMPLEX I.  Ulrich Brandt 14-Subg 10:10 am MITOCHONDRIAL METABOLISM DETERMINES THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION OF SINGLE F 1 F O ATP SYNTHASE IN LIVE HUMAN CELLS.  Karin Busch 10:40 am coffee break 15-Subg 11:00 am THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL REPLICA- TIVE HELICASE TWINKLE. Maria Sola 16-Subg 11:30 am PROBING THE REGULATORY AND TRANSPORT MECHANISM OF MITO- CHONDRIAL CARRIERS WITH THERMOSTABILITY SHIFT ASSAYS.  Edmund Kunji

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Subgroup Chairs Isaac T.S. Li, University of British Columbia, Canada Amir Farnoud, Ohio University 1-Subg 9:00 am MAPPING CELL SURFACE ADHESION BY ROTATION TRACKING AND ADHE- SION FOOTPRINTING.  Isaac T.S. Li , 2-Subg 9:30 am INTERACTIONS OF ENGINEERED NANOMATERIALS WITH LIPID INTER- FACES.  Amir Farnoud 3-Subg 10:00 am BIOMEMBRANE INSPIRED ENGINEERING. Marjorie Longo 10:30 am break 4-Subg 10:40 am PHYSICAL ENGINEERING OF BEHAVIOUR AND FUNCTION AT THE CELL AND TISSUE LEVELS.  Andrew Pelling 5-Subg 11:10 am OPTICAL IMAGING OF PROTEIN AGGREGATION REACTIONS IN VITRO AND IN CELLS.  Clemens Kaminski No Abstract 11:40 am MECHANICS AND FLOW IN MICROBIAL BIOFILMS.  James N. Wilking

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closing remarks Society of General Physiologists Council Meeting 9:00 am - 1:00 pm, Room 222 Mechanobiology Subgroup 9:00 am - 6:30 pm, Room R08/09

Subgroup Chair Ewa Paluch, University College London, United Kingdom 9:10 am introduction 6-Subg 9:15 am MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF MITOCHONDRIAL ALTERATIONS IN APOPTOSIS. Ana J. Garcia-Saez 9:45 am short talk 10:00 am short talk 7-Subg 10:15 am NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHASE TRANSITIONS IN ACTOMYOSIN CORTICES.  Nikta Fakhri 10:45 am coffee break 11:15 am short talk

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