Biophysical Society Bulletin | July/August 2023

Annual Meeting

New Insights into Ion Channel Regulation Anna Bukiya , University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA, Co-Chair Avia Rosenhouse-Dantsker , University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, Co-Chair Tamara Rosenbaum , National Autonomous University of Mexico Kailash Gulshan , Cleveland State University, USA Gating Modalities of Mechanically- Activated Ion Channels Swetha Murthy , Oregon Health & Science University, USA, Chair Medha Pathak , University of California, Irvine, USA Eduardo Perozo , University of Chicago, USA Bailong Xiao , Tsinghua University, China Structural Mechanisms of GPCR Activation, Regulation, and Signaling Jennifer Cash , University of California, Davis, USA, Chair Jean-Philippe Fortin , Pfizer, USA Patrick Sexton , Monash University, Australia Matthieu Masureel , Genentech, USA Membrane Lipidomics of Multiresistant Bacteria Mibel Aguilar , Monash University, Australia, Chair Megan O’Mara , The University of Queensland, Australia Kelly Hines , University of Georgia, USA Jessica Seeliger , Stony Brook University, USA Biophysics of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Infection Processes Effie Bastounis , University of Tübingen, Germany, Chair Daria Bonazzi , Pasteur Institute, France Alexandre Persat , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Enrique Rojas , New York University, USA Workshops Leveraging Education Research to Make Your Teaching More Effective Patricia Soto , Creighton University, USA, Chair Thomas Mennella , Western New England University, USA Catherine Crouch , Swarthmore College, USA Stephanie Gardner , Purdue University, USA In Situ Structural Biology (Cyro-Electron Tomography) Bridget Carragher , Chan Zuckerberg Institute, USA, Chair Julia Mahamid , European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany

Phase Separation in Membrane and Lipids Abdou Rachid Thiam , École Normale Supérieure (ENS), France, Chair Trevor GrandPre , Princeton University, USA Sarah Shelby , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Lindsay Case , MIT, USA Biophysics of ER and Secretory Pathway Sonya Neal , University of California, San Diego, USA, Chair Christine Mayr , Sloan Kettering Institute, USA Tae-Young Yoon , Seoul National University, South Korea Speaker to be announced Cardiac Plasticity or Maturation - the Cardiomyocyte’s Perspective Cesare Terracciano , Imperial College of London, United Kingdom, Chair William T Pu , Harvard University, USA Seitaro Nomura , University of Tokyo, Japan Nina Ullrich , Heidelberg University, Germany Emerging Concepts in Microtubule Function Sabine Petry , Princeton University, USA, Chair Katerina Toropova , University of Oxford, United Kingdom Kassandra Ori-McKenney , University of California, Davis, USA Justin Kollman , University of Washington, USA The Fluid Versus Gel Nature of the Genome Laura Finzi , Emory University, USA, Chair Marco Cosentino-Lagomarsino , University of Milan, Italy Christine Jacobs-Wagner , Stanford University, USA Speaker to be announced

Genome Organization Ana Pombo , Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany, Chair Leonid Mirny , MIT, USA Longzhi Tan , Stanford University, USA Clodagh O’Shea , Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA Bioenergetics and Mitochondrial Biophysics Uri Manor , Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA Jeffrey Cameron , University of Colorado Boulder, USA Speaker to be announced Speaker to be announced Systems Biology from Molecules to Communities Lacramioara Bintu , Stanford University, USA, Chair Zaida Luthey-Schulten , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Elizabeth Jerison , University of Chicago, USA Arjun Raj , University of Pennsylvania, USA Plant Biophysics Markita Landry , University of California, Berkeley, USA, Chair Lucia Strader , Duke University, USA Diwakar Shukla , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Martin Howard , John Innes Centre, United Kingdom Climate Change: Adaption to Temperature Changes Kavita Rangan , University of California, San Diego, USA, Chair Emily Carrington , University of Washington, USA David Savage , University of California, Berkeley, USA Cesar Cuevas-Velazquez , National Autonomous University of Mexico New Approaches to Capture the Central Dogma in Eukaryotes Xiaowei Zhuang , Harvard University, USA, Chair Timothy Stasevich , Colorado State University, USA Ning Zhao , University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, USA Jumana AlHaj Abed , Harvard University, USA

Integrative Modeling: Beyond Experimental and Predicted Structures Rommie Amaro , University of California San Diego, USA, Chair Andrej Sali , University of California, San Francisco, USA Gerhard Hummer , Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany Virginie Hamel , University of Geneva, Switzerland

Pushing Imaging to Near Atomic Resolution In Situ Alice Pyne , University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Chair Christian Wurm , Abberior, Germany Hong Wang , North Carolina State University, USA Jonas Ries , European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany

Gaia Pigino , Human Technopole, Italy Gira Bhabha , New York University, USA

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