Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2020

Annual Meeting

Membrane Fusion, Fission and Traffic Elif S. Köksal , University of Oslo Center for Molecular Medicine, Norway MILD TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS MAY HAVE ENHANCED THE GROWTH AND FUSION OF PROTOCELLS ON THE EARLY EARTH. Travis J. Morgenstern , Columbia University A POTENT VOLTAGE-GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL INHIBITOR ENGINEERED FROM A NANOBODY TARGETED TO AUXILIARY CAVβ SUBUNITS. Membrane Structure and Function Ewa Drab , University of Geneva, Switzerland MECHANISM OF THE INHIBITORY INTERFERENCE IN HUMAN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES. Moshe T. Gordon , University of Colorado DIRECT DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A PHOS- PHOINOSITIDE DEPENDENT KINASE-1 (PDK1) HOMODIMER ON A TARGET MEMBRANE SURFACE VIA SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE. Membrane Transport Shanlin Rao , University of Oxford, UK ANNOTATING ION CHANNEL PORES: STRUCTURES, HYDRO- PHOBICITY AND THE THRESHOLD FOR PERMEATION. Maiwase Tembo , University of Pittsburgh PHOSPHATE POSITION ON PHOSPHOINOSITIDES IS KEY IN MEDIATING TMEM16A CURRENTS IN XENOPUS LAEVIS OOCYTES. Motility and Cytoskeleton Abby Jurgensmeier , Wichita State University MONITORING PALLADIN’S EFFECT ON ACTIN DYNAMICS AND ORGANIZATION WITH TIRF MICROSCOPY. Zhenhui Liu , Johns Hopkins University UNVEILING THE TREND OF CHANGES IN MECHANICAL PHENOTYPES BETWEEN SUBPOPULATIONS OF ISOGENIC CANCER CELLS AT DISTINCT METASTATIC STAGES. Nanoscale Approaches Sean Carney , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF STEPPING DYNAMICS OF E. COLI UVRD HELICASE. Rachel Leicher, Rockefeller University

Kamila R. Mustafina , McGill University, Canada STED SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF DUOX1 AND CEN2 REVEALS SUBSTRUCTURE OF MEMBRANE MACROMOLECU- LAR COMPLEXES IN HUMAN BRONCHIAL EPITHELIAL CELLS. Physical Cell Biology Dushyant Mehra , Mayo Clinic CHARACTERIZATION OF DCAS9 INTERACTION KINETICS AND LOCAL CHROMATIN STRUCTURE IN LIVE HUMAN CELLS US- ING PALM SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY. Vinh H. Vu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign STRUCTURE-FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF E-CADHERIN DIMERIZATION AT THE PLASMA MEMBRANE. 2020 Undergraduate Student Poster Award Winners Congratulations to the students who won awards at the 2020 Annual Meeting for their poster presentations. These students were selected based on the quality and scientific merit of their research, knowledge of the research problem, contribution to the project, and the overall presentation of their poster. Steven D.E. Fried , University of Arizona G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS ARE SOLVENT-SWOLLEN IN THE FUNCTIONALLY ACTIVE STATE Molly Myers , Creighton University PHASOR-FLIM QUANTIFICATION OF CHANGES IN KERAT- INOCYTE METABOLISM AND TISSUE ARCHITECTURE IN A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF UV-INDUCED SKIN CANCER Donna Roscoe , Amherst College COMPARING DNA FOLDING FOR DIFFERENT FOLDING AGENTS Jack Rubien , Swarthmore College RNA-PROTEIN PHASE SEPARATION IN CANCER: INVESTIGAT- ING HUMAN SATELLITE II RNA STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION Javier Vilcapoma , University of Albany TOWARD TAILORED BIOSTABILITY OF DNA NANOSTRUC- TURES

SINGLE-MOLECULE INVESTIGATION OF PRC2 NON-ADJACENT NUCLEOSOME BRIDGING.

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