Biophysical Society 63rd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Mechanobiology Subgroup 9:30 am - 5:20 pm, Room 321/322/323

11:10 am

student/postdoc talk

17-Subg 11:35 am THE EFFECT OF NUCLEOSOME CONFORMATION ON HISTONE TAIL BINDING AND SPECIFICITY.  Emma A. Morrison, Samuel Bowerman, Jeff Wereszczynski, Catherine Musselman 12:05 pm break 12:15 pm business meeting 18-Subg 12:35 pm DYNAMIC PROTEINS AND INTERACTIONS DRIVING HOMOLOGOUS RE- COMBINATION: A BRCA2-CENTRIC VIEW.  Claire Wyman 1:05 pm selected abstract 1:30 pm selected abstract 19-Subg 2:00 pm RECONSTRUCTING 1D FREE-ENERGY LANDSCAPES OF DIVERSE BIO-MOLECULAR SYSTEMS USING AFM.  Thomas T. Perkins 2:30 pm closing remarks Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup 10:30 am - 6:15 pm, Ballroom IV Subgroup Chair Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 10:30 am business meeting 1:00 pm opening remarks No Abstract 1:10 pm TARDIGRADE PROTEINS & DESICCATION TOLERANCE.  Gary J. Pielak 20-Subg 1:40 pm IDENTIFYING SEQUENCE-DETERMINANTS OF PROTEIN LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION.  Jeetain Mittal No Abstract 2:10 pm AGGREGATION AND OACERVATION OF THE TAU PEPTIDE.  Joan-Emma Shea 2:40 pm postdoc awards announcement 2:45 pm postdoc talk 3:05 pm break No Abstract 3:45 pm ANTAGONIZING ABERRANT PHASE SEPARATION OF RNA-BINDING PROTEINS CONNECTED TO ALS/FTD.  James Shorter 21-Subg 4:15 pm MODULATING ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN AGGREGATION THROUGH IDP-IDP INTERACTIONS.  Jean Baum 4:45 pm postdoc talk No Abstract 5:05 pm RECONSTITUTED POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY AS A MOLECULAR PLATFORM FOR UNDERSTANDING SYNAPSE FORMATION AND PLASTICITY. Mingjie Zhang 22-Subg 5:35 pm IDPS ENABLE SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY OF PROTEIN PHOSPHATASES.  Wolfgang Peti 6:05 pm closing remarks

Subgroup Chair Kristian Franze, Cambridge University, United Kingdom 9:30 am opening remarks 13-Subg 9:35 am NORMALIZING TRANSFORMED CANCER CELLS WITH RIGIDITY SENSING.  Michael Sheetz 10:05 am student talk 10:20 am student talk No Abstract 10:35 am PHYSICAL ROLE OF HYALURONAN GLYCOCALYX IN CELL ADHESION AND MIGRATION.  Jennifer E. Curtis , Shlomi Cohen, Patrick Chang, Patrycja Kotowska, Rebecca Keate, Peter Achi, Jessica Faubel, Wenbin Wei, Andres J. Garcia 11:05 am break 14-Subg 11:20 am WORK AND DISSIPATION IN THE CELL CYTOSKELETON. Michael Murrell , Shiladitya Banerjee, Visar Ajeti, Pasha Tabatabai, Andrew Fleszar, Michael Staddon, Daniel Seara, Christian Suarez, Sulaiman Muhammad, Dapeng Bi, David Kovar 11:50 am student talk No Abstract 12:05 pm STRESS FIBERS AND THE CELL CORTEX FORM AN INTEGRATED CONTRACTILE NETWORK. Manuel Théry 12:35 pm lunch break No Abstract 2:00 pm INTEGRIN-MEDIATED MECHANO-SENSATION IN INNATE IMMUNITY.  Clare Waterman 2:30 pm student talk 2:45 pm student talk 15-Subg 3:00 pm CELL AND EMBRYO-SCALE MECHANISMS DRIVING EPITHELIAL FOLDING.  Matteo Rauzi 3:30 pm break 16-Subg 3:45 pm FLUID FLOWS SHAPING MORPHOLOGY.  Karen Alim 4:15 pm student talk 4:30 pm journal panel 5:00 pm closing remarks 5:05 pm business meeting Molecular Biophysics Subgroup 10:30 am - 3:00 pm, Ballroom II Subgroup Chair Maria Spies, University of Iowa 10:30 am opening remarks No Abstract 10:40 am REAL-TIME MONITORING OF MULTIVALENT DNA RREPAIR COMPLEXES IN ACTION.  Terence Strick

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