Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Monday, February 13, 2017

M O N D A Y

Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center unless noted otherwise.

7:30 am-8:30 am Graduate Student Breakfast

Rivergate Room, Lobby Level

7:30 am-5:00 pm Registration/Exhibitor Registration

Lobby B

Room 212/213

8:00 am-8:30 am Career Center Workshop Career Q&A with Joe Tringali

8:00 am-10:00 pm Poster Viewing

Hall B-2 & C

Symposium: Biophysics of lncRNA

Great Hall A

Chair: Gregor Neuert, Vanderbilt University DYNAMIC TEMPORAL CONTROL OF SIGNALING ACTIVATED GENE REGULATION. Gregor Neuert THE GROUND-STATE OF PROMOTER DIRECTIONALITY REVEALED BY A FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH AND DEEP LEARNING MODELING. Stirling Churchman HOW A LNCRNA SHAPES CHROMATIN STRUCTURE TO CONTROL GENE EXPRESSION. Mitchell Guttman STRUCTURE VS. FUNCTION: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHROMOSOME ARCHITECTURE. Luca Giorgetti Chair: Phyllis Hanson, Washington University MEMBRANE REMODELING BY ESCRT-III POLYMERS. Phyllis Hanson KNOWWHEN TO HOLD ‘EM, KNOWWHEN TO FOLD ‘EM; SM PROTEINS AS TEMPLATES FOR SNARE ASSEMBLY. Frederick Hughson CATALYTIC INTERMEDIATES OF MEMBRANE FISSION. Vadim A. Frolov PROTEIN-LIPID INTERACTIONS OF VIRAL CLASS II MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEINS. Félix Rey Symposium: Catalyzed Membrane Fusion and Fission

8:15 am-10:15 am

Great Hall B

8:15 am-10:15 am

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Room R02/03

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Excitation-Contraction Coupling

Room R04/05

8:15 pm-10:15 am Platform: Voltage-gated K Channels and Mechanisms of Voltage Sensing and Gating II

Room R06/07

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Cardiac Muscle Mechanics and Structure

Room R08/09

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Force Spectroscopy

Room 206/207

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Protein Stability, Folding, and Chaperones II

Room 208/209

Exhibitor Presentation: TA Instruments

Room 221

8:30 am-10:00 am

Instrumentation and Experimental Design for Utilization of ITC and IMC Techniques for Characterization of Biopharmaceuticals

8:30 am-10:30 am CID Committee Meeting

Room 203

Room 212/213

10:00 am-11:00 am Career Center Workshop

Ten Tough Industrial Interview Questions (and Ten Pretty Good Responses)

10:00 am-5:00 pm Exhibits

Hall B-2 & C

10:15 am-11:00 am Coffee Break

Hall B-2 & C

10:15 am-11:15 am NewMember Welcome Coffee

Rivergate Room, Lobby Level

Room 221

10:30 am-12:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

What Goes Around, Comes Around: Unveiling the Optima AUC

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