Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2024

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Membrane Transport Subgroup Mae G. Weaver , University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Dynamic Calcium Selectivity of NMDA Receptors Is Controlled by the Amino-Terminal Domain Kerri Spontarelli , Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA Functional Evaluation of a CMT2DD-Causing ATP1A1 Variant Motility and Cytoskeleton Subgroup Pavlina Slikova , Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Biotechnology, Czech Republic Anillin Promotes Actomyosin Contractility by Mechanical Tethering Allison E. Mancini , University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA Rhokar Sensor Reveals Calcium-Dependent Activation of RHO-Ki nase during Collective Cell Migration Multiscale Genome Organization Subgroup Maria Julia Maristany , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Mechanical Properties of DNA Govern Nucleosome Unwrapping Nanoscale Approaches to Biology Subgroup Priyanka Jain , Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany Detection of Citrulline Modification in Histone Peptides using Biological Nanopore Physical Cell Biology Subgroup Justin H. Paek , Cornell University, USA The Cancer Mucin Barrier Plays a Multifunctional Role in Providing Sustained Physical Resistance to Natural Killer Cell Attack Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization Subgroup Guoming Gao , University of Michigan, USA Heterogeneity in Condensates Regulates Intra-Condensate Diffu sion of RNA Single Molecules Theory and Computation Subgroup Abhilasha Batra , Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISERB), India Decoding of Temperature Signals by Thermosensory Neurons in C. Elegans Ally K. Smith , University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA G enerating in Silico Protein Structural Ensembles That Agree with Solution-Based Experiments: An HDX-MS-Steered Adaptive Sam pling Approach for Molecular Dynamics Anna D. Gaffney , University of Chicago, USA Modeling Shear Banding Lipid Monolayer Collapse with Finite Element Analysis Constance Kraay , Harvard University, USA Myo-Inositol Suppresses γ D-Crystallin Aggregation by Interacting with a Non-Native State Reza Esmaeeli , University of Florida, USA Structural Predictions of RNA Conformations: MELDRNA

Yousuf O. Ramahi , University of Toronto, Canada The Binary-Switch Model of the Adenosine A2A Receptor: A Molecular Dynamics Study 2024 Undergraduate Poster Award Competition Winners The 10 winners of the annual Undergraduate Poster Award Competition (UPAC) were recognized at the 68th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 12, 2024. After two rounds of judging, judges selected these students for their outstanding presentations during the poster competition. A total of 96 students participated in the competition. The winners are: Zharia Brandon , DePaul University, USA Analysis of Fluorophores for Peptide Substrates Used in Inflammatory Caspase Activity Assays Aya Abu-Alfa , Princeton University, USA Investigating the Function of the Multiphase Organization of the Nucleolus Holly Cheng , Princeton University, USA Probing the Material Properties of Nucleoli using Micropipette Aspiration Jai Dreher , Amherst College, USA Fixing the Bucket Angle on a Centrifugal Force Microscope Shira M. Freilich , Vassar College, USA Reproducibility of Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements on Tau Protein Kamrin D. Shultz , James Madison University, USA Understanding the Effect of Obscurin on Cellular Architecture and Dynamics Isabella He , Northwestern University, USA Stochastic Resonance Ensures Fail-Safe Operation of Cardiac Pacemaker at Low Rates Diangen Lin , University of Chicago, USA Single-Molecule Study of Disaggregation of Biomolecular Condensates by Heat Shock Proteins Yin-Tzu Chen , University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Nanopore Sensor to Detect Time Resolved, Label Free Interaction Between RNA and a Small Molecule Therapeutic at Single Molecule Resolution Laith Bahlouli , Columbia University Irving Medical Center, USA Cardiac Pathophysiology of COVID-19 Mediated by Ryanodine Receptor Type 2 SR Ca 2+ Leak

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