Biophysical Society 66th Annual Meeting Program Guide

Symposium: Novel Biomaterials

South, Level Three, Room 301/302

Chair: Silvina Matysiak, University of Maryland, USA FUNCTIONAL AND PROGRAMMABLE DNA NANOTECHNOLOGY. Laura Na Liu

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4:00 pm-6:00 pm

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF MICROCOMPARTMENT ASSEMBLY AND CARGO CONDENSATION. Michael F. Hagan MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX INFLUENCE CELL MIGRATION AND INVA - SION. Claudia Tanja Mierke CONNECTING MOLECULAR BEHAVIOR TO MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF POLYSACCHARIDES-BASED HYDROGELS. Silvina Matysiak Chair: Rachel Klevit, University of Washington,USA ATOMIC VIEW OF MOLECULAR CHAPERONES IN COMPLEX WITH THEIR CLIENTS. Charalampos Kalodimos ARCHITECTURE OF OLIGOMERIC J-DOMAIN PROTEINS. Lukasz A. Joachimiak NOT SO CRYSTAL CLEAR - CRYSTALLINS AND CATARACT. Angela Gronenborn DISORDER, QUASI-ORDER, ORDER: A HOLISTIC VIEW OF SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS. Rachel Klevit Symposium: Oligomeric Chaperones South, Level Three, Room 303/304

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4:00 pm-6:00 pm

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4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation II 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Molecular Dynamics II 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: RNA Structure and Dynamics 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: General Protein-Lipid Interactions 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, and Motility

South, Level Two, Room 201/202/203 South, Level Two, Room 204/205/206 South, Level Two, Room 207/208 South, Level Two, Room 209/210/211 South, Level Two, Room 212/213/214 South, Level Two, Room 215/216

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Bioenergetics and Mitochondria

6:00 pm-6:30 pm Dinner Meet-Ups

South Lobby/Society Booth Marriott Marquis, SOMA

6:00 pm-10:00 pm Publications Committee Meeting

Workshop: DNP/In-Cell NMR

South, Level Two, Room 207/208

Chair: Galia Debelouchina, University of California, San Diego, USA IN-CELL NMR: A POWERFUL APPROACH FOR STUDYING PROTEIN FOLDING AND FOR DRUG SCREENING. Lucia Banci IN-CELL NMR BASED TECHNOLOGY TO STUDY PROTEIN INTERACTIONS. Alexander Shekhtman WHAT IS THE BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF THE PARKINSON'S DISEASE PROTEIN ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN? Phil Selenko TARGETED DNP APPROACHES FOR STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY IN COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS. Galia Debelouchina Chair: Peter Unrau, Simon Fraser University, Canada ILLUMINATING THE BIOCHEMICAL ACTIVITY ARCHITECTURE OF THE CELL. Jin Zhang RNA MANGO: A VERSATILE TOOL TO TRACK CELLULAR RNAS AND FOR RAPID VIRAL RNA DETECTION. David S. Rueda MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SINGLE PARTICLE TRACKING IN LIVE CELLS. Ning Fang FLUOROGENIC APTAMERS FOR IMAGING AND MANIPULATION OF CELLULAR RNAS. Peter J. Unrau Chair: Julia Mahamid, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany MECHANOBIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF T-CELL ACTIVATION. Marco Fritzsche OPENING WINDOWS INTO THE CELL: BRINGING STRUCTURE TO CELL BIOLOGY WITH CRYO-ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY. Elizabeth Villa IN SITU STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF VIRUS INFECTION BY CELLULAR CRYO-TOMOGRAPHY AND SUBTOMOGRAM AVERAG - ING. Peijun Zhang ENABLING DISCOVERY BY IN-CELL STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. Julia Mahamid Chair: Wouter Roos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands AFM STUDIES OF DNA REPAIR. Dorothy Erie DIRECT MOLECULAR LEVEL VISUALIZATION OF THE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY-RELATIONSHIP OF DRUGS ON BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANE MIMICS. Ignacio I. Casuso ELUCIDATING MECHANISMS OF PROTEIN SELF-ORGANIZATION ON MEMBRANES. Petra Schwille PROBING SELF-ASSEMBLY DYNAMICS BY HIGH SPEED-ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY. Wouter H. Roos Workshop: Probes for Live Cell Imaging including RNA South, Level Two, Room 209/210/211 Workshop: 3D High-Resolution Cellular Microscopy South, Level Two, Room 212/213/214 Workshop: High Speed AFM South, Level Two, Room 215/216

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

8:00 pm-10:00 pm SOBLA (The Society for Latinoamerican Biophysicists) Meeting

Esplanade, Room 154

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