Biophysical Society 63rd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Symposium: Proteins: Exploring Sequence Space via Computation and Experiment

Ballroom I

Chair: Polly Fordyce, Stanford University ENGINEERING AND EVOLUTION OF ALLOSTERIC COMMUNICATION. Kimberly A. Reynolds HOW DO PROTEINS EVOLVE. Daniel Tawfik HYPERVARIABLE PROTEINS IN MICROBES. Eugene Koonin BRINGING ENZYMOLOGY INTO THE GENOMIC ERA: DEVELOPING AND DEPLOYING NEW TOOLS TO QUANTITATIVELY MAP FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIONS THROUGHOUT AN ENZYME. Polly M. Fordyce Chair: Maria Kurnikova, Carnegie Mellon University OPTICAL CONTROL AND REPORT OF AMPA RECEPTOR ACTIVATION. Andrew Plested ALLOSTERIC DYNAMICS AND DRUGGABILITY OF AMPA RECEPTORS. Ivet Bahar THE EUKARYOTIC SPECIFIC M4 SEGMENTS ARE ALLOSTERIC CONDUITS FOR NMDA RECEPTOR SIGNALING. Lonnie Wollmuth AFTER THE STRUCTURE COMES THE DYNAMICS: MOLECULAR MODELING OF GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS REVEALS LONG-RANGE ALLOSTERIC COUPLING BETWEEN LIGAND BINDING SITE AND CHANNEL GATE. Maria G. Kurnikova Symposium: Glutamate Receptors Ballroom II

S U N D A Y

10:45 am–12:45 pm

10:45 am–12:45 pm

10:45 am–12:45 pm Platform: Optical Microscopy and Superresolution Imaging I

Ballroom III

10:45 am–12:45 pm Platform: Membrane Proteins I

Ballroom IV

10:45 am–12:45 pm Platform: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) and Aggregates I

Room 307/308

10:45 am–12:45 pm Platform: Cardiac Muscle Mechanics, Structure, and Regulation I

Room 309/310

10:45 am–12:45 pm Platform: Excitation-Contraction Coupling/Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Electrophysiology I

Room 314/315

10:45 am–12:45 pm Platform: Micro- and Nanotechnology

Room 316/317

11:15 am–3:00 pm Exploring Careers in Biophysics Day

Room 321/322/323

11:30 am–1:00 pm Undergraduate Student Pizza “Breakfast”

Room 321/322/323

Room 303

11:30 am–1:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Leica Microsystems

Leica SP8 FALCON: A NewWay to Generate Fluorescence Lifetime Images at Confocal Speed

Exhibit Hall A Understanding the Search Process from the Perspective of Search Committees and Decoding Job Announcements

12:00 pm–1:00 pm Career Development Center Workshop: Demystifying the Academic Job Search I:

Room 333

12:15 pm–2:15 pm Public Affairs Committee Meeting

1:00 pm–2:30 pm The World Outside the Lab: Many Ways to Use Your PhD Skills

Room 318/319/320

1:00 pm–3:00 pm Education & Career Opportunities Fair

Exhibit Hall C

Room 303

1:30 pm–3:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC

ZEISS Elyra 7 with Lattice SIM, a New Platform for Fast and Gentle 3D Superresolution Microscopy

1:45 pm–3:00 pm Snack Break

Exhibit Hall

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

Exhibit Hall

2:00 pm–3:30 pm Teaching Science Like We Do Science

Room 321/322/323

2:30 pm–3:30 pm Career Development Center Workshop:

Exhibit Hall A

The Industry Interview: What you need to do before, during, and after to get the job 2:30 pm–4:00 pm Brexit & Science: Consequences for Research Funding and Immigration Flows

Room 327/328/329

3:30 pm–5:00 pm Early Careers Committee Meeting

Room 333

Room 303

3:30 pm–5:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Wyatt Technology Corporation From Proteins to Exosomes: Tools for Essential Biophysical QC, Characterization, and Isolation 4:00 pm–5:00 pm Career Development Center Workshop: Nailing the Job Talk, or Erudition Ain’t Enough

Exhibit Hall A

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