Biophysical Society 67th Annual Meeting Program Guide

2:30 pm-3:30 pm Career Development Center Workshop: I Need a Job Right Now – What Do I Do?

Room 16B Room 8 Room 10

2:30 pm-4:00 pm All About ARPA-H: Exploring Opportunities at the New Agency

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2:30 pm-4:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Oxford Instruments

Multi-Modal Microscopy: Challenges and Workflows for Correlative Microscopy Acquisition and Analysis

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

Room 14A

Exhibitor Presentation: Fluxion Biosciences

Room 9

3:30 pm-5:00 pm From Immunology to Ion Channels: Microfluidic Approaches to Automated Patch Clamp and Cellular Analysis. A Look at IonFlux Mercury and BioFlux Systems from Fluxion Biosciences. 4:00 pm-5:00 pm Career Development Center Workshop: Nailing the Job Talk, or Erudition Ain’t Enough

Room 16B Room 14B Room 6A

4:00 pm-6:00 pm

Biophysical Journal Associate Editors Meeting

Symposium: The RNA World

Chair Jeffrey Chao, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland RNA MODIFYING ENZYMES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. Wendy Gilbert MODELING OF RNA-ONLY STRUCTURES. Rhiju Das RNA EXCITED STATES BY NMR AND THEIR IMPACT ON FUNCTION. Katja Petzold IMAGING THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MRNAS IN SINGLE CELLS. Jeffrey Chao

4:00 pm-6:00 pm

Symposium: New and Notable

Room 6B

Co-chairs Baron Chanda, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Janice Robertson, Washington University in St. Louis, USA MEMBRANE VESICLES AS SHEPHERDS OF THE RNA WORLD. Irene Chen ACTIVATION MECHANISM OF THE COLD-SENSING TRPM8 CHANNEL BY COOLING AGENTS AND PIP2. Seok-Yong Lee MEMBRANE SHAPING AND REMODELING BY TETRASPANIN PROTEINS. Raya Sorkin HOW CAN BACTERIA BREATHE WITHOUT OXYGEN OR SOLUBLE ELECTRON ACCEPTORS? PROTEIN NANOWIRES: STRUC TURES, FUNCTIONS, AND ELECTRON TRANSFER MECHANISMS. Nikhil Malvankar

4:00 pm-6:00 pm

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Skeletal Muscle Mechanics, Structure, and Regulation

Room 6C Room 6D Room 6E Room 6F Room 5AB Room 11AB

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: General Protein-Lipid Interactions 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Protein Dynamics and Allostery I

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Membrane Pumps, Transporters, and Exchangers 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Calcium Handling and Electrophysiology I

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Molecular Dynamics I 4:00 pm-6:00 pm PI to PI: A Wine and Cheese Mixer

Room 2 Room 10

Exhibitor Presentation: Fluidic Analytics

4:30 pm-6:00 pm

Introducing Microfluidic Diffusional Sizing (MDS) Technology; Quantify and Characterize any Protein Interaction – Even in Complex Backgrounds, Even with Challenging Targets

5:00 pm-5:30 pm Korean Biophysicists Meeting

Room 7AB

Room 9

5:30 pm-7:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: LUMICKS

From Dynamic Single-Molecule Data to Direct Quantitative Insights Into Biological Mechanisms

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

Lobby BC/Society Booth

6:00 pm-9:00 pm Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) Poster Competition

Exhibit Hall BC

7:00 pm-10:00 pm BPS Editors Dinner

San Diego Wine and Culinary Center

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