Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Membrane Dynamics and Fusion I

South, Level Two, Room 215/216

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Neuroscience

Esplanade, Room 153

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4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Replication, Recombination, Repair, Transcription, and Translation

Esplanade, Room 154

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: TRP Channels

Esplanade, Room 155

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Protein Dynamics and Allostery II

Esplanade, Room 156

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5:30 pm-5:45 pm Dinner Meet-Ups

South Lobby, Society Booth

6:00 pm-10:00 pm Publications Committee Meeting

Marriott Marquis, Pacific A

Workshop: Probing Atomic Single Sites in Cells and Bio-Assemblies:

Esplanade, Room 153a

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Advances in In-Cell NMR Co-Chairs

Lucia Banci, University of Florence, Italy Ichio Shimada, University of Tokyo, Japan IN-CELL NMR: ITS CONTRIBUTION FOR UNDERSTANDING FUNCTIONAL PROCESSES. Lucia Banci STUDYING PROTEINS INSIDE EUKARYOTIC CELLS IN NMR. Ichio Shimada CELLULAR SOLID-STATE NMR APPLIED TO BACTERIAL AND HUMAN CELLS. Marc Baldus

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

IN-CELL NMR SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CONFORMATION OF MACROMOLECULES. Volker Dotsch DISSECTING BACTERIA AND MAMMALIAN CELLS BY WHOLE-CELL NMR: CELL WALLS, RIBOSOMES, NUCLEI, OH MY! Lynette Cegelski

Workshop: Atoms to Cells: Modeling Biological Complexity

Esplanade, Room 154

Co-Chairs Leslie Loew, University of Connecticut Health Center Banu Ozkan, University of Arizona BIOMOLECULAR SIMULATION FOR ALL. Ron O. Dror CROWDED AND COMPLEX: MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS OF BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES. Mark S.P. Sansom RAS SIGNALING: ALLOSTERY, CONFORMATION, AND FUNCTION. Ruth Nussinov ALLOSTERY AND CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS IN PROTEIN EVOLUTION. S. Banu Ozkan CELL BIOPHYSICS WITH VIRTUAL CELL. Leslie Loew Co-Chairs Gang Han, University of Massachusetts Medical School Jin Hyung Lee, Stanford University SMALL AND BRIGHT: TAILORING LUMINESCENT NANOPARTICLES FOR BIOLOGY. Gang Han OPTOGENETIC FMRI AND THE INVESTIGATION OF GLOBAL BRAIN CIRCUIT MECHANISMS. Jin Hyung Lee BUILDING PROTEINS TO PEEK AND POKE AT GTPASE CIRCUITS IN VIVO. Klaus M. Hahn ILLUMINATING THE BIOCHEMICAL ACTIVITY ARCHITECTURE OF THE CELL. Jin Zhang ENGINEERING OF BACTERIAL PHYTOCHROMES FOR NEAR-INFRARED IMAGING, SENSING AND LIGHT-CONTROL IN MAMMALS. Vladislav V. Verkhusha Co-Chairs Rumiana Dimova, Max Planck Institute, Germany J. Antoinette Killian, Utrecht University, The Netherlands GIANT VESICLES AS HANDY TOOLS FOR ASSESSING MEMBRANE MECHANICS, WETTING AND RESHAPING. Rumiana Dimova CONSTRUCTING AND USING PHASE DIAGRAMS OF MULTI-COMPONENT LIPID MIXTURES. Gerald W. Feigenson THE STYRENE-MALEIC ACID COPOLYMER: A VERSATILE TOOL IN MEMBRANE RESEARCH. J. Antoinette Killian PLASMA MEMBRANE MODELS. Kalina Hristova NANOPORE-CONFINED BILAYERS: A MODEL OF BIOMEMBRANES WITH DEFINED CURVATURE AND A TOOL FOR ORI- ENTED SAMPLE MAGNETIC RESONANCE. Alex I. Smirnov Workshop: FromMolecules to Mammals: Imaging, Sensing, and Light Control Workshop: Biomembrane Models and Tools

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

Esplanade, Room 155

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

Esplanade, Room 156

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

8:00 pm-10:00 pm SOBLA (The Society for Latinoamerican Biophysicists) Meeting

Esplanade, Room 158

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