Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2018

Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting

James Shorter , University of Pennsylvania, USA Antagonizing Aberrant Phase Separation of RNA-binding Proteins Connected to ALS/FTD Mingjie Zhang , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Reconstituted Postsynaptic Density as a Molecular Platform for Understanding Synapse Formation and Plasticity Mechanobiology Subgroup Chair: Kristian Franze , Cambridge University, United Kingdom Speakers: Karen Alim , Max Planck Institute, Germany Fluid Flows Shaping Morphology Jennifer Curtis , Georgia Tech, USA Physical Role of Hyaluronan glycocalyx in Cell Adhesion and Migration Michael Murrell , Yale University, USA Cell and Embryo Scale Mechanisms Driving Epithelial Folding Michael Sheetz , Mechanobiology Institute of Singapore Normalizing Transformed Cancer Cells with Rigidity Sensing Manuel Théry , Cytomorphlab Paris, France Stress Fibers and the Cell Cortex Form an Integrated Contractile Network Clare Waterman , National Institutes of Health, USA Integrin-mediated Mechano-sensation in Innate Immunity Membrane Biophysics Subgroup Chair: Andrew Plested , Leibnize Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Germany Speakers: Mala Shah , University College of London, United Kingdom T-type Ca2+ Channels and Layer II Medial Entorhinal Cortical Stellate Cell Excitability Christoph Schmidt-Hieber , Institut Pasteur, France Dendritic, Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms of Spatial Representa- tions Veronica Egger , Regensburg University, Germany Mechanisms of Local and Global Synaptic Signalling in Olfactory Bulb Granule Cell Dendrites Jeffrey S. Diamond , National Institutes of Health, USA Compartmentalized Dendritic Signaling in the Retina Jimmy Z. Zhou , Yale University, USA Dendritic Integration and Visual Computation in Retinal Ama c rine Cells Work and Dissipation in the Cell Cytoskeleton Matteo Rauzi , Université de Nice, France

Bruce Bean , Harvard University, USA Context and Complexity: How Ionic Conductances Interact to Control Neuronal Firing Marlies Oostland , Princeton University, USA Neuronal Mechanisms Underlying HCN1-dependent Motor Behav- ior Deficits Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup Chair: Ilya Leventhal , University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA Speakers: Jay Groves , University of California- Berkeley, USA Alex Sodt , National Institutes of Health, USA Deciphering Nanometer-scale Lipid Structure and Physics to Mod- el Membrane Reshaping Claudia Steinem , University of Göttingen, Germany Pore-spanning Membranes: A Versatile Tool to Investigate Dy- namic Processes of Lipid Bilayers Jenifer Thewalt , Simon Fraser University, Canada Using Deuterium NMR to Study Sterols & Phospholipids — Is It Just a Phase? Akihiro Kusumi , Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan Signal Transduction by Metastable Molecular Complexes: Findings by Single-Molecule Tracking María García-Parajo , The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain Nanophotonic Tools to Resolve Nanoscale Dynamics on Biological Membranes Dimitrios Stamou , University of Copenhagen, Denmark Biological Heterogeneity, a Phenotypic Trait that we Harvested to Investigate Membranes and Membrane Proteins Presenting Junior Researchers: Robert Ernst , University of Saarland, Germany Genetically Encoded Membrane Property Sensors Interrogate Cellular Membranes with Remarkable Sensitivity Itay Budin , University of California, Berkeley, USA Cellular Functions for Membrane Viscosity Revealed by Lipid Engineering Efforts Molecular Biophysics Subgroup Chair: Maria Spies , University of Iowa, USA Speakers: Terence Strick , Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Did- erot, France Real-Time Monitoring of Multivalent DNA Repair Complexes in Action

Catherine Musselman , University of Iowa, USA The Effect of Nucleosome Conformation on Histone Tail Binding and Specificity Claire Wyman , Erasmus University Medical Center, The Neth- erlands Dynamic Proteins and Interactions Driving Homologous Recom- bination: A BRCA2-Centric View Thomas Perkins , University of Colorado, USA Probing and Reconstructing Free-energy Landscapes of Diverse Bimolecular Systems by AFM Motility & Cytoskeleton Subgroup Co-Chairs: William Hancock , Pennsylvania State University, USA, and Neil Kad , University of Kent, United Kingdom Speakers: Michael Geeves , University of Kent, United Kingdom Lessons from the Actin-Myosin II Family; Docking, Mechano- chemistry, and Myopathies Ethan Garner , Harvard University, USA Single-molecule Approaches to Understanding Bacterial Width and Growth Ken’ya Furuta , National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Re-design of Linear Molecular Motors Jonathan Bird , University of Florida, USA Sensing Sound over a Lifetime: How Myosin Motors Continually Shape the Stereocilia Cytoskeleton Magdalena Bezanilla , Dartmouth College, USA Cytoskeletal Dynamics during Polarized Growth Erik Schäffer, University of Tübingen, Germany Novel Optical Tweezers Probes: How Kinesin Motors Get to the Microtubule End Pasquale Bianco , University of Florence, Italy A Myosin II Nanomachine Mimicking the Striated Muscle Nanoscale Biophysics Subgroup Co-Chairs: Keir Neuman , National Institutes of Health, USA Suliana Manley , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne, Switzerland High-throughput Superresolution Microscopy for Revealing Mo- lecular Architecture Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam , Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Nanodiscs and Free-standing Bilayers for Single-molecule Stud- ies at the Lipid Membrane

Sabrina Leslie , McGill University, Canada, Single-molecule Imaging of Structure-mediated Interactions in DNA Molecules under Cell-like Conditions Ibrahim Cissé , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Superresolution Imaging of Transcription in Live Mammalian Cells Peng Yin , Harvard Medical School, USA Biomolecular Analysis with DNA Probes Bart Hoogenboom , University College London and London Centre of Nanotechnology, United Kingdom Visualising Self-Assembly of Pore Forming Proteins on Their Target Membranes Philipp Kukura , Oxford University, United Kingdom

Weighing Single Molecules with Light Membrane Transport

(previously Permeation & Transport) Subgroup Chair: Susan Rempe , Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Chris Miller , Brandeis University, USA A Strange Pore to Handle a Strange Anion

Tom Miller , California Institute of Technology, USA Dynamics of Co-translational Membrane Integration Michael Grabe , University of California San Francisco, USA Inhibitor Binding to Human SGLT Sugar Transporters Cristina Paulino , Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Bio- technology Institute, The Netherlands The KdpFABC Complex: What Happens When a P-type ATPase Hijacks an Ion Channel Crina Nimigean , Weill Cornell Medical College, USA Mechanism of Ligand-gating in Potassium Channels

Call for New and Notable Symposium Speakers

The Biophysical Society is seeking suggestions fromSociety members for speakers to be featured in the annual New and Notable Sympo- sium in Baltimore, This symposium is unique in that, through a series of brief talks, attendees hear about late-breaking and exciting science. Unlike other symposia, which are planned at least nine months in advance of the meeting, the New and Notable Symposium program is not finalized until December. If you have a colleague who should be considered, visit www.biophysics.org/2019meeting and complete the required information fields by December 4, 2018.

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