Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Symposium: Synaptic Vesicle Fusion and Retrieval

North, Lower Lobby, Room 24

Co-Chairs Axel Brunger, Stanford University Diasynou Fioravante, University of California, Davis MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF SYNAPTIC VESICLE PRIMING. Axel Brunger TRANSLATING NEURONAL ACTIVITY AT THE SYNAPSE: THE ROLE OF THE PROTEIN KINASE C CASCADE IN SHORT-TERM PLASTICITY. Diasynou Fioravante TRANS-SYNAPTIC PROTEIN ORGANIZATION ALIGNING VESICLE FUSION WITH RECEPTORS. Thomas Blanpied VISUALIZING MEMBRANE STRUCTURAL REMODELING DURING FUSION AND FISSION IN LIVE CELLS. Ling-Gang Wu Co-Chairs Livia Hool, University of Western Australia University of Alberta, Canada ELUCIDATING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS FOR ACTIVATION OF THE L-TYPE CALCIUM CHANNEL IN THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. Livia C. Hool IS THE HEART DRUGGABLE? DEVELOPMENT OF A CALCIUM SENSITIZER. Brian Sykes SPECTROSCOPIC PROBES OF CARDIAC CONTRACTILITY AND THERAPEUTIC DISCOVERY. David Dale Thomas POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION SIGNALING AND BIOELECTRICAL, BIOPHYSICAL AND BIOENERGETIC PACEMAKER FUNCTION. Yael Yaniv Symposium: Cardiac Contractility

M O N D A Y

10:45 am-12:45 pm

North, Lower Lobby, Room 25

10:45 am-12:45 pm

Symposium: Future of Biophysics

South, Level Two, Room 207/208

Co-Chairs Anne Kenworthy, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine Francesa Marassi, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute THE INVISIBLE DANCE OF CRISPR-CAS9. Giulia Palermo

10:45 am-12:45 pm

CONFORMATIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL FLEXIBILITY OF THE MOLECULAR CHAPERONE BIP. Anastasia Zhuravleva PUSHING THE ENVELOPE: TOWARD A NANOSCALE MODEL OF HIV-1 ASSEMBLY. Schuyler Van Engelenburg NEW STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY PARADIGMS FOR amYLOIDS FROM PATHOGENIC MICROBES. Meytal Landau

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Protein-Lipid Interactions II

South, Level Two, Room 215/216

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Protein Folding, Stability, and Evolution

Esplanade, Room 153

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Membrane Receptors and Signal Transduction

Esplanade, Room 154

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Ion Channels, Pharmacology, and Disease

Esplanade, Room 155 Esplanade, Room 156

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Systems Biophysics

South, Lower Level, Room 2

11:30 am-12:30 pm Career Development Center Workshop:

Networking for Nerds: How to Create Your Dream Career

Exhibitor Presentation: Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments Company High Resolution and High Speed Imaging Innovations and Advancements for Visualizing Dynamic Processes at the Nanoscale

Exhibit Hall, Room 5

11:30 am-1:00 pm

Exhibit Hall, Room 6

12:30 pm-2:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies GmbH

Part One: Ion Channel Analysis – Today’s Contemporary Systems for Safety and Efficacy Screening

South, Level Three, Room 307/308

1:00 pm-2:30 pm Industry Panel: Avenues to Industry 1:30 pm-3:00 pm Biophysics 101: Mechanobiology

Esplanade, Room 153 Exhibit Hall, Room 5

1:30 pm-3:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Journal of General Physiology Journal of General Physiology : Celebrating 100 Years

Esplanade, Room 157

1:30 pm-3:00 pm NSF Funding 101 1:45 pm-3:00 pm Snack Break

Exhibit Hall ABC Exhibit Hall ABC

1:45 pm-3:45 pm Poster Presentations and Late Posters

2:15 pm-3:45 pm Data Visualization Esplanade, Room 151 2:30 pm-3:30 pm Career Development Center Workshop: Nailing the Job Talk, or Erudition Ain’t Enough South, Lower Level, Room 2 2:30 pm-4:00 pm Speed Networking Esplanade Rotunda 2:30 pm-4:00 pm How to Project Your Best Self: Confidence Matters Just as Much as Competence North, Lower Lobby, Room 20/21

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