Biophysical Society 66th Annual Meeting Program Guide

Symposium: Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Fund Symposium

South, Level Three, Room 301/302

Support contributed by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Co-chairs: Elizabeth Komives, University of California, San Diego, USA Arthur G. Palmer, III, Columbia University, USA SEQUENCE- AND CHEMICAL SPECIFICITY DEFINE THE FUNCTIONAL LANDSCAPE OF INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED REGIONS. Alex S. Holehouse INFLAMMASOME ASSEMBLY - AN EXAMPLE OF BALANCE CONTROL IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. Liman Zhang EMBRACING DYNAMICS: DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF MULTIVALENT IDP ASSEMBLIES IN CELL GROWTH REGULATION. Afua Nyarko LIVE-CELL MICROMANIPULATION OF A GENOMIC LOCUS REVEALS INTERPHASE CHROMATIN MECHANICS. Antoine Coulon Chair: W Jonathan Lederer, University of Maryland, USA DNA TENSION PROBES SHOW THAT CARDIOMYOCYTE MATURATION IS SENSITIVE TO PICONEWTON SCALE TRACTION FORCES. Khalid Salaita CARDIOMYOCYTE T-TUBULAR FLUID PUMPING. Peter Kohl AUTOREGULATION OF EXCITATION-CA2+ SIGNALING-CONTRACTION IN CARDIOMYOCYTE UNDER MECHANICAL LOAD. Ye Chen-Izu MECHANO-CHEMO-ELECTRIC SIGNALING IN HEART: HOW LOCAL BLOOD FLOW IS REGULATED. W. Jonathan Lederer Symposium: Mechano-Electrical Signaling in Cardiac Cells South, Level Three, Room 303/304

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10:45 AM-12:45 pm

10:45 AM-12:45 pm

10:45 AM-12:45 pm Platform: Protein Structure, Prediction, and Design 10:45 AM-12:45 pm Platform: Molecular Dynamics I 10:45 AM-12:45 pm Platform: Chromatin and the Nucleoid 10:45 AM-12:45 pm Platform: Membrane Active Peptides 10:45 AM-12:45 pm Platform: Microtubule Motors 10:45 AM-12:45 pm Platform: Modeling of Biological Systems 11:00 AM-1:00 pm Annual Meeting of the Student Chapters

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

Esplanade, Room 156 Esplanade, Room 157

Exhibitor Presentation: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS INC Label-Free, Chemically Specific Imaging with the Leica STELLARIS 8 CRS Career Development Center Workshop: Translating Your Credentials: Writing Effective Resumes + Cover Letters for Industry, Government, and Nonprofit Jobs

11:30 AM-1:00 pm

Esplanade, Room 151

12:00 pm-1:00 pm

Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies 20 Years At the Heart and Mind of Automated Electrophysiology

Esplanade, Room 158

12:30 pm-2:00 pm

1:00 pm-2:30 pm Beyond Coronavirus: Preparing for the Next Pandemic

Esplanade, Room 153

South, Level Two, Room 207/208

1:30 pm-3:00 pm Biophysics 101: Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation: Biophysical Fundamentals to Cellular Function

1:30 pm-3:00 pm

The World Outside the Lab Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker

Esplanade, Room 155 Esplanade, Room 155

1:30 pm-3:00 pm

Application of Large Area Mapping AFM for Automated Structural and Mechanical Analysis of Developing Cells and Tissues

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 The Future of Publishing and Why You Should Care

Esplanade, Room 154 Esplanade, Room 151

Career Development Center Workshop: Optimize Every Experience: How to Extract Value and Leverage Your Postdoc, Grad Experience and Internship to Advance in Your Career (#SpoilerAlert: There’s Much More Than You Think)

2:30 pm-3:30 pm

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