Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center unless noted otherwise.

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

Lobby B

Room 212/213

8:00 am-8:30 am Career Center Workshop Career Q&A with Joe Tringali 8:00 am-9:00 am Biophysical Society Business Meeting

Room 205

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8:00 am-4:00 pm Poster Viewing

Hall B-2 & C

Symposium: Transporters

Great Hall A

Chair: Hassane S. Mchaourab, Vanderbilt University PRINCIPLES OF ENERGY TRANSDUCTION AND ALTERNATING ACCESS OF ABC EXPORTERS. Hassane S. Mchaourab CLC CHLORIDE/PROTON TRANSPORTERS. Merritt Maduke NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MECHANISM OF IODIDE TRANSPORT BY THE SODIUM/IODIDE SYMPORTER (NIS). Nancy Carrasco RIGOROUS REPRESENTATION OF TRANSPORTERS AS ALLOSTERIC MACHINES ENABLES A QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR FUNCTIONALMECHANISMS. Harel Weinstein

8:15 am-10:15 am

Symposium: Destroying the Cytoskeleton

Great Hall B

Chair: Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts MICROTUBULE SERVERING REGULATED BY TUBULIN TAILS. Jennifer Ross THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MICROTUBULE BIRTH AND DEATH. Gary Brouhard ARCHITECTURE DEPENDENCE OF ACTIN FILAMENT NETWORK DISASSEMBLY. Laurent Blanchoin A HOLISTIC VIEW OF MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY REGULATION. Linda Wordeman

8:15 am-10:15 am

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Membrane Dynamics

Room R02/03

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Mechanosensation

Room R04/05

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Optical Microscopy and Super-Resolution Imaging: Applications to Cellular Molecules

Room R06/07

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions II

Room R08/09

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) and Aggregates I

Room 206/207

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Protein Dynamics and Allostery II

Room 208/209

9:00 am-10:30 am Subgroup Chairs Meeting

Room 222

Career Center Workshop

Room 212/213

9:30 am-10:30 am

Demystifying the Academic Job Search III: Preparing Your Written Application Materials: CV, Cover Letter, and Research Statement

10:00 am-4:30 pm Exhibits

Hall B-2 & C

10:15 am-11:00 am Coffee Break

Hall B-2 & C

Symposium: Awards

Great Hall A

Chair: Suzanne Scarlata, BPS President and Worcester Polytechnic Institute UNDERSTANDING MOLECULAR-SCALE BIOPHYSICS IN CELLS WITH SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING. Julie Biteen THE MECHANISM OF DYNEIN MOTILITY. Ahmet Yildiz FROMMECHANOBIOLOGY TO HUMAN ORGANS ON CHIPS. Donald Ingber FIFTY YEARS OF DOING RESEARCH WITH KAZUHIKO KINOSITA, JR. Shin’ichi Ishiwata

10:45 am-12:45 pm

FOLDING COMPLEX MEMBRANE PROTEINS. James U. Bowie THE 2 ND PERIODIC INVAGINATED VESICLE AWARD. Sarah Keller DYNAMICS OF MOUTH OPENING IN HYDRA. EVA-MARIE S. COLLINS

10:15 am-12:45 pm Platform: Membrane Structure I: Cholesterol

Room R02/03

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