Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Platform Membrane Physical Chemistry I 8:15 am–10:15 am, South, Level Two, Room 215/216 Co-Chairs Kaori Sugihara, University of Geneva, Switzerland Erdinc Sezgin, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 81-Plat 8:15 am EMERGING APPROACHES TO FABRICATE SUPPORTED LIPID BILAYERS: MOVING BEYOND VESICLES.  Nam-Joon Cho 82-Plat 8:30 am LIPID SPONGE-PHASE NANOPARTICLES AS CARRIERS FOR ENZYMES.  Maria Valldeperas Badell , Aleksandra Dabkowska, Polina Naidjonoka, Rebecca Welbourn, Gunnar K. Pálsson, Justas Barauskas, Tommy Nylander 83-Plat 8:45 am ARTIFICIAL TUNNELING NANOTUBES BETWEEN CELLS.  Kaori Sugihara 84-Plat 9:00 am OUTPERFORMING NATURE: SYNTHETIC ENZYME BUILT FROM DNA FLIPS LIPIDS OF BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES AT RECORD RATES.  Alexander Ohmann , Chen-Yu Li, Christopher Maffeo, Kareem Al Nahas, Kevin N. Baumann, Kerstin Göpfrich, Jejoong Yoo, Ulrich F. Keyser, Aleksei Aksimentiev 85-Plat 9:15 am SYNTHESIS AND BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CHLOROSUL- FOLIPIDS OF OCHRAMONAS DANICA .  Grace M. McKenna , Frank R. Moss III, Matthew L. Landry, Noah Z. Burns, Steven G. Boxer 86-Plat 9:30 am USING HYSCORE SPECTROSCOPY OF NITROXIDES TO PROFILE WATER CONTENT OF LIPID BILAYERS WITH 2 Å SPATIAL RESOLUTION.  Melanie Chestnut , Sergey Milikisiyants, amir Koolivand, Maxim A. Voynov, Tatyana I. Smirnova, Alex I. Smirnov 87-Plat 9:45 am CPOW Travel Awardee CHARACTERIZATION OF PHASES AND INTERACTIONS amONG LIPIDS INVOLVED IN DRUG DELIVERY: AN NMR AND SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCAT- TERING STUDY. Miranda L. Schmidt , Bashe Y.M. Bashe, Iulia Bodnariuc, Joanne E. Mercer, Sherry S.W. Leung, Mohsen Ramezanpour, Yoav Atsmon-Raz, Nandhitha Subramanian, Pieter R. Cullis, D. Peter Tieleman, Jenifer L. Thewalt 88-Plat 10:00 am SPECTRAL STED IMAGING OF CELL MEMBRANES.  Erdinc Sezgin , Falk Schneider, Victoria Zilles, Iztok Urbancic, Esther Garcia, Dominic Waithe, Andrey Klymchenko, Christian Eggeling Platform

91-Plat 8:45 am THE ARP2/3 COMPLEX IS NECESSARY FOR MIGRATION OF GLIOBLAS- TOMA CELLS ON COMPLIANT SUBSTRATES DUE TO A LAMELLIPODIA- PROVIDED MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE.  Devin B. Mair , Jin Zhu, Seth H. Weinberg, Rong Li 92-Plat 9:00 am VINCULIN FORMS A DIRECTIONALLY ASYMMETRIC CATCH BOND WITH F-ACTIN.  Derek L. Huang , Nicolas A. Bax, Craig D. Buckley, William I. Weis, Alexander R. Dunn 9:15 am flash talks 93-Plat 9:30 am 3D MATRIX ARCHITECTURE REGULATES CELL MIGRATION THROUGH DEGRADABILITY.  Stephanie I. Fraley , Daniel Ortiz 94-Plat 9:45 am TUMOR INVASION THROUGH HYALURONIC ACID MATRICES IS MEDIATED BY CD44-DEPENDENT MICROTENTACLES.  Kayla J. Wolf , Sam Kenny, Ke Xu, Sanjay Kumar 95-Plat 10:00 am FLNA AND FILGAP INTERACTIONS REGULATE THE CONTRACTILITY OF CELLS IN SHEAR STRESS.  Rosa Kaviani , Chris Sitaras, Haruka Yoshie, Allen Ehrlicher Platform Mechanosensation 8:15 am–10:15 am, Esplanade, Room 154 Co-Chairs Yan Jiang, Boston Children’s Hospital Thomas Schmidt, Leiden University, The Netherlands 96-Plat 8:15 am STRETCHING AND ACTIVATION OF SINGLE PROTEIN MOLECULES BY FLOW REVEALS THE MECHANISM OF VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR ADHESION.  Yan Jiang , Hongxia Fu, Darren Yang, Friedrich Scheiflinger, Timothy A. Springer, Wesley P. Wong 97-Plat 8:30 am COMPRESSIVE STRESS STALLS GROWTH AND DECREASE CYTOPLASMIC DIFFUSION. Morgan Delarue , Liam Holt 98-Plat 8:45 am STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND MOLECULAR BASES UNDERLYING THE ION PERMEATION AND MECHANOGATING OF THE MECHANOSENSITIVE PIEZO CHANNELS.  Bailong Xiao 99-Plat 9:00 am THE DYNAMICS OF SOMATOSENSORY MECHANOTRANSDUCTION IN C. ELEGANS TOUCH RECEPTOR NEURONS.  Samata Katta , Valeria Vásquez, Miriam B. Goodman 100-Plat 9:15 am THE INTEGRATION OF MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL SIGNALLING IN THE DEVELOPING BRAIN.  Kristian Franze 101-Plat 9:30 am METABOLISMMODULATION OF CANCER CELLS ON VARYING SUBSTRATE STIFFNESSES.  Emma J. Mah , Albert F. Yee, Michelle A. Digman 102-Plat 9:45 am CELLULAR MECHANOTRANSDUCTION VIA ION CHANNELS AT THE CELL- SUBSTRATE INTERFACE.  Navid Bavi , Jessica Richardson, Kate Poole 103-Plat 10:00 am SUBSTRATE RIGIDITY MODULATES THE COMPOSITION IN CELL-MATRIX ADHESIONS.  Thomas Schmidt , Hayri E Balcioglu, Rolf Harkes, Erik HJ Danen

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Cell Mechanics and Motility I 8:15 am–10:15 am, Esplanade, Room 153

Co-Chairs Seth H. Weinberg, Virginia Commonwealth University Stephanie Fraley, University of California, San Diego 89-Plat 8:15 am CID Travel Awardee

DETERMINATION OF 3D amOEBOID MIGRATION FORCE THROUGH UTI- LIZATION OF ACTUATED SURFACE ATTACHED POSTS.  Jonathan E. Eicher , Maryna Kapustina, Michael Falvo, Kenneth Jacobson 90-Plat 8:30 am STRUCTURE AND CONSTRICTION MECHANISM OF THE ACTOMYOSIN RING.  Lam T. Nguyen , Matthew Swulius, Grant J. Jensen

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