Biophysical Society 63rd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Monday, March 4, 2019

M O N D A Y

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

7:30 am–8:30 am Graduate Student Breakfast

Room 321/322/323

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

Charles Street Lobby

8:00 am–10:00 pm Poster Viewing

Exhibit Hall

Symposium: Large Macromolecular Machines in the Cell

Ballroom I

Chair: Titia Sixma, Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands CRYO-EM STRUCTURE OF HUMAN TELOMERASE AND NEW INSIGHT INTO ITS ASSEMBLY AND FUNCTION. Kelly Nguyen HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELING AND SIMULATION OF CELLULAR STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES, ONE ATOM AT A TIME. Emad Tajkhorshid STRUCTURE-FUNCTION MAPPING OF THE NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX. Michael P. Rout STEPPING THROUGH DNA MISMATCH REPAIR INITIATION. Titia K. Sixma Chair: John Briggs, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom STRUCTURAL CELL BIOLOGY OF VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS. Kay Grünewald UNCOVERING THE MECHANISMS OF CLATHRIN-MEDIATED ENDOCYTOSIS USING QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY APPROACHES. Julien Berro CROWDING IN THE CELLULAR CONTEXT: TALES OF CLUSTERS AND DYNAMICS. Michael Feig REVEALING THE STRUCTURES OF TRAFFICKING VESICLES AND ENVELOPED VIRUSES USING CRYO-ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY. John Briggs Symposium: Biological Membranes and Vesicles Ballroom II

8:15 am–10:15 am

8:15 am–10:15 am

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Protein-Small Molecule Interactions

Ballroom III Ballroom IV

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Excitation-Contraction Coupling/Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Electrophysiology II 8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Energy Transducing Complexes and Mitochondria in Cell Life and Death

Room 307/308 Room 309/310 Room 314/315 Room 316/317

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Microtubules, Structure, Dynamics and Associated Proteins

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Protein Assemblies/Enzyme Function, Cofactors and Post-translational Modifications I

8:15 am–10:15 am Platform: Biomolecular Methods In and Out of Cells

8:30 am–10:30 am CPOW Committee Meeting

Room 333

Room 303 Advances In Dye Development and Microscopy for Live Cell Superresolution Microscopy with the Vutara 352

9:30 am–11:00 am Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker Corporation

Career Development Center Workshop:

Exhibit Hall A

10:00 am–11:00 am

Demystifying the Academic Job Search II: Preparing Your Written Application Materials: CV, Cover Letter, and Research Statement

Exhibit Hall

10:00 am–5:00 pm Exhibits

10:15 am–11:00 am Coffee Break

Exhibit Hall

10:15 am–11:15 am NewMember Welcome Coffee

Room 321/322/323

Room 301

10:30 am–12:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker Corporation

Using NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) and EPR (Electron Paramagnetic Resonance) in Biophysics

Symposium: Phase Separations in the Cell

Ballroom I

Chair: Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco PHASE SEPARATION: PREDICTION AND ROLE IN BIOLOGICAL REGULATION. Julie D. Forman-Kay A PROTEIN CONDENSATE DRIVES ACTIN-INDEPENDENT ENDOCYTOSIS. Stephen Michnick MAKING AND BREAKING THE SYMMETRY BETWEEN SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC CONFORMATIONAL AND PHASE BEHAVIORS OF DISORDERED PROTEINS. Rohit V. Pappu THE ROLE OF PHASE-SEPARATION IN HETEROCHROMATIN. Geeta Narlikar

10:45 am–12:45 pm

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