Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Saturday, February 17 Registration/Exhibitor Registration 8:00 am–6:30 pm, South Lobby Joint Council Meeting 8:30 am–11:00 am, Marriott Marquis, Foothill C Society of General Physiologists Council Meeting 9:00 am–12:00 pm, South, Level Three, Room 313 Bioengineering Subgroup 9:00 am–1:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 159

6-Subg 10:15 am NEURODEGENERATIVE LOSS OF MITOCHONDRIAL QUALITY VIA THE 18KDA PROTEIN TSPO. Michele Frison, Radha Desai, Aarti Singh, Liana Hardy, Michelangelo Campanella 10:45 am break 7-Subg 11:00 am ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN-INDUCED MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION: ROLE OF VDAC AND MEMBRANE COMPOSITION.  Tatiana Rostovtseva , amandine Rovini, Daniel Jacobs, David Hoogerheide, Philip Gurnev, Sergey Bezrukov No Abstract 11:30 am KINASE SIGNALING AND MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION IN FAMILIAL PARKINSON’S DISEASE. Mark Cookson 12:00 pm closing remarks 12:10 pm lunch break 2:00 pm young bioenergetics award & lecture No Abstract 2:30 pm CHOREOGRAPHY OF PLASTIDIAL RETROGRADE SIGNALING NETWORK IN INTERORGANELLAR COMMUNICATION.  Katayoon Dehesh No Abstract 3:00 pm INTEGRATION OF ORGANELLE SIGNALING WITH EPIGENETIC OUTCOMES. Sally Mackenzie 3:30 pm break 8-Subg 3:45 pm ORGANELLES DRIVING IMMUNOMETABOLISM.  Angelika Rambold No Abstract 4:15 pm MEMBRANE LIPIDS IN REGULATION OF METABOLISM.  Tobias Walther 4:45 pm closing remarks 5:00 pm business meeting 5:30 pm general discussion 7:00 pm subgroup dinner Mechanobiology Subgroup 9:30 am–6:30 pm, Esplanade, Room 157 Subgroup Chair Alex Dunn, Stanford University 9:30 am opening remarks 9-Subg 9:35 am PHYSICAL FORCES DRIVING MIGRATION, DIVISION AND FOLDING IN EPITHELIAL SHEETS.  Xavier Trepat 10:00 am student talk 10:15 am student talk No Abstract 10:30 am SYNTHETIC HYDROGELS FOR MECHANOTRANSDUCTION.  Andrés García 10:55 am break 10-Subg 11:10 am BACTERIA SENSE MECHANICAL FORCE AS A CUE TO FORM A PATHOGENIC BIOFILM.  Vernita Gordon 11:35 am student talk

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Subgroup Chair Jonathan Rocheleau, University of Toronto, Canada 9:00 am opening remarks No Abstract 9:10 am PROTEIN FOLDING AS A MAJOR SOURCE OF MECHANICAL WORK IN PHYSIOLOGY.  Julio Fernandez 1-Subg 9:40 am ROLE OF CHOLESTEROL IN ADENOSINE A 2A RECEPTOR ACTIVITY.  Anne S. Robinson , Claire McGraw, Edward R. Lyman, Clement Arnarez, Eric Rouviere 2-Subg 11:20 am LIGHT SHEET SPECTROSCOPY FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF BIOFILMS.  Thorsten Wohland , Andreas Karampatzakis, Jagadish Sankaran, Yehuda Cohen, Scott A. Rice 10:40 am break 10:50 am business meeting 3-Subg 11:50 am ENGINEERING-BASED APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING, DIAGNOSING, AND TREATING INHERITED CARDIOMYOPATHIES.  Stuart G. Campbell 4-Subg 12:20 pm MICROFLUIDIC TOOL FOR THE GENERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LIPID GRADIENTS IN MODEL BIOMEMBRANES.  Arne Gericke , Brittany M. Neumann, Qi Wen 12:50 pm closing remarks 1:00 pm adjournment Bioenergetics Subgroup 9:00 am–7:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 154 Subgroup Chairs Elizabeth Jonas, Yale University George A. Porter, Jr., University of Rochester Medical Center 9:00 am opening remarks No Abstract 9:15 am MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSPORT AND ENERGY HOMEOSTASIS IN AXONAL DEGENERATION AND REGENERATION.  Zu-Hang Sheng 5-Subg 9:45 am MITOCHONDRIAL EFFECTS ON ANESTHETIC SENSITIVITY AND ANES- THETIC INDUCED NEURODEGENERATION.  Pavel I. Zimin, Margaret M. Sedensky, Philip Morgan

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