Biophysical Society Bulletin | March 2023

Conferences

Membrane Fusion and Budding

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Arun Anantharam , The University of Toledo, USA Michelle Knowles , University of Denver, USA Ling-GangWu , NIH, USA

Estes Park, Colorado | September 24–27, 2023

SPEAKERS Nihal Altan-Bonnet , NIH, USA Arun Anantharam , The University of Toledo, USA Axel Brunger , Stanford Universtiy, USA Edwin Chapman , University of Wisconsin, USA Elizabeth Chen , Universityof Texas, SouthwesternMedical Center, USA Michael Cousin , University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Jeremy Dittman , Cornell University, Weill Medical College, USA David Drubin , University of California, Berkeley, USA Chantell Evans , Duke University, USA Vadim Frolov , Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science, Spain Stephanie Gupton , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Phyllis Hanson , University of Michigan, USA John Heuser , Washington University in St. Louis, USA Jenny Hinshaw , NIH, USA James Hurley , University of California, Berkeley, USA Skyler Jackman , OregonHealthandScienceUniversity, VollumInstitute, USA John Jimah , Princeton University, USA ErdemKaratekin , Yale University, USA Ege Kavalali , Vanderbilt University, USA Michael Kozlov , Tel Aviv University, Israel Comert Kural , Ohio State University, USA Manfred Lindau , University of Miami, USA Noa Lipstein-Thoms , Max-Planck Institute forMultidisciplinarySciences, Germany SandraMaday , University of Pennsylvania, USA Gregory Melikian , Emory University, USA IraMilosevic , Oxford University, United Kingdom Ben O’Shaughnessy , Columbia University, USA Carole Parent , University of Michigan, USA Thomas Pucadyil , Indian Instituteof ScienceEducationandResearch, Pune, India James Rothman , Yale University, USA Aurelien Roux , University of Geneva, Switzerland Lukas Tamm , University of Virginia, USA Justin Taraska , NIH, USA Maggie Johnson , Johns Hopkins University, USA Marko Kaksonen , University of Geneva, Switzerland

Thismeeting will bring together trainees, emerging scientists, and leaders in the fields of membrane fusion and budding andwill cover many subfields of the fusion and budding disciplines, including, but not limited to, fusion and bud ding at synapses and neuroendocrine cells (exo- and endocytosis), in relation to the function of membrane-bound organelles likemitochondria and extracel lular vesicles, and in the context of host/virus interactions, cell-cell fusion, and autophagy. Studies of fusion and budding employing reconstituted systems and computational modeling will also be discussed. The expectation is that interactions between investigators working in such diverse fields, occurring within a positive and supportive environment at this BPS Conference, will encourage new and productive collaborations, and ultimately spur further advances.

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 8, 2023

Early Registration Deadline: June 29, 2023

AlissaWeaver , Vanderbilt University, USA AnnWehman , University of Denver, USA Zhuan Zhou , Peking University, China Joshua Zimmerberg , NIH, USA

March 2023 For more information, visit www.biophysics.org/2023EstesPark

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