Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Sunday, February 18, 2018

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Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Moscone Center unless noted otherwise.

7:00 am-9:00 am Editorial Board Boot Camp

South, Level Three, Room 313

7:30 am-8:30 am Postdoctoral Breakfast

South, Level Three, Room 307/308

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

South Lobby

8:00 am-10:00 pm Poster Viewing

Exhibit Hall ABC

Symposium: Biophysical Mechanisms of Molecular Evolution

North, Lower Lobby, Room 24

Co-Chairs Michael Harms, University of Oregon Claus Wilke, University of Texas, Austin

8:15 am-10:15 am

STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON PROTEIN EVOLUTION. Claus O. Wilke MOLECULAR ENSEMBLES SHAPE EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORIES. Michael J. Harms CELLULAR CONSEQUENCES OF SYSTEMATIC PERTURBATIONS OF A HIGHLY CONSERVED BIOLOGICAL SWITCH. Tanja Kortemme AN ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY TO GENERATE BINDING PROTEINS. Andreas Plueckthun

Symposium: DNA Supercoiling

North, Lower Lobby, Room 25

Co-Chairs Laura Finzi, Emory University Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

8:15 am-10:15 am

SEEING SUPERCOILED DNA WITH ATOMISTIC SIMULATION: A NEW TWIST ON A FAMILIAR STRUCTURE. Sarah A. Harris PROTEIN-MEDIATED LOOPS IN SUPERCOILED DNA GENERATE LARGE, DYNAMIC TOPOLOGICAL DOMAINS. Laura Finzi ORGANISATION AND FUNCTION OF DNA SUPERCOILING IN THE HUMAN GENOME. Nick Gilbert THE ROLE OF DNA TOPOLOGY AND CONFORMATION IN GENE REGULATION, IN VIVO. David Levens

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Optical Microscopy and Superresolution Imaging: Methods I

South, Level Two, Room 207/208

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Membrane Physical Chemistry I

South, Level Two, Room 215/216

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Cell Mechanics and Motility I

Esplanade, Room 153

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

Esplanade, Room 154

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Sensing in Vivo and in Vitro

Esplanade, Room 155

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Membrane Proteins: Structure and Folding

Esplanade, Room 156

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

South, Level Three, Room 306

South, Lower Level, Room 2

9:00 am-10:00 am Career Development Center Workshop:

Conference Networking 101: Getting the Most out of the BPS Annual Meeting

10:00 am-5:00 pm Exhibits

Exhibit Hall ABC

10:15 am-11:00 am Coffee Break

Exhibit Hall ABC

Career Development Center Workshop:

South, Lower Level, Room 2

10:30 am-11:30 am

Green Cards for Scientific Researchers: How to Win Your EB-1A/NIW Case! with Getson & Schatz, PC Exhibitor Presentation: Cellular Dynamics International, a FUJIFILM company Using Human iPSC-Derived Cell-Types in Novel Functional Assays, Disease Modeling, and Drug Discovery

Exhibit Hall, Room 6

10:30 am-12:00 pm

10:30 am-12:30 pm International Relations Committee Meeting

South, Level Three, Room 312

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