Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Sunday, February 12, 2017

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

7:00 am–9:00 am Editorial Board Orientation

Room 222

7:30 am–8:30 am Postdoctoral 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: Proteins in Vivo: From the Ribosome Through the Chaperone to the Native State Chair: Silvia Cavagnero, University of Wisconsin-Madison CHANNELING NASCENT PROTEINS TOWARDS THE NATIVE STATE: ROLE OF THE RIBOSOME AND MOLECULAR CHAPERONES. Silvia Cavagnero RIBOSOMES IN MOTION: THE DYNAMICS OF NATURE’S PROTEIN SYNTHESIS MACHINERY. Ruben L. Gonzalez, Jr. PROTEIN AND RNA CHAPERONES OPTIMIZE THE RATE OF NATIVE STATE PRODUCTION BY AN ITERATIVE ANNEALING MECHANISM. Dave Thirumalai FROM NATIVE TO AMYLOID IN THE TEST TUBE AND IN CELLS: A JOURNEY OF MISBEHAVING ANTIBODIES. Marina Ramirez-Alvarado Chair: Michael M. Kozlov, Tel Aviv University, Israel MODELING MEMBRANE TUBULES WITH LIPID DROPLETS AND MIGRASOMES. Michael M. Kozlov MULTISCALE SIMULATION OF PROTEINS AT THE MEMBRANE-CYTOSKELETON INTERFACE. Gregory A. Voth HOW ACTIN CYTOSKELETON DYNAMICS INDUCE MEMBRANE TUBULATIONS. Cécile Sykes REDEFINING THE ROLE OF THE ARP2/3 COMPLEX: REGULATION OF MORPHOLOGY AT THE LEADING EDGE. Dorit Hanein Great Hall A Symposium: Biophysics of the Cytoskeletal-Membrane Interface Great Hall B

8:15 am–10:15 am

8:15 am–10:15 am

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Membrane Pumps, Transporters, and Exchangers I

Room R02/03

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Voltage-gated Na Channels

Room R04/05

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Optical Microscopy and Super-Resolution Imaging: Novel Approaches and Analysis I

Room R06/07

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Membrane Protein Structures I

Room R08/09

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Membrane Active Peptides and Toxins I

Room 206/207

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Micro- and Nanotechnology

Room 208/209

8:30 am–10:30 am CPOW Committee Meeting

Room 203

Room 212/213

9:00 am–10:00 am Career Center Workshop

Selling Yourself to the Life Sciences Industry

10:00 am–5:00 pm Exhibits

Hall B-2 & C

10:15 am–11:00 am Coffee Break

Hall B-2 & C

Room 212/213

10:30 am–11:30 am Career Center Workshop

Looking Beyond Academia: Identifying Your Career Options Using MyIDP, LinkedIn, and More

Room 221

10:30 am–12:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC

ZEISS Live Cell Imaging Tools Allow New Levels of Throughput and Image Quality

10:30 am–12:00 pm International Relations Committee Meeting

Room 204

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