Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2019

Annual Meeting

Subgroup Symposia at the BPS Annual Meeting NEW for 2020 – To accommodate our growing number of Subgroups, we have implemented an alternating rotation of morning and afternoon sessions . This will allow you to attend multiple sessions during Subgroup Saturday and will allow the Society to fairly accommodate all research areas. For the 2020 Annual meeting, the Subgroup Symposia are scheduled with the following time slots (morning and afternoon sessions will flip for the 2021 meeting):

Morning Sessions (8:30 am –12:30 pm ): Bioenergetics, Mitochondria & Metabolism Biopolymers in vivo Channels, Receptors & Transport Mechanobiology Membrane Fusion, Fission & Traffic Nanoscale Approaches Physical Cell Biology

Afternoon Sessions (1:30 pm –5:30 pm ): Bioengineering Biological Fluorescence Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Macromolecular Machines & Assemblies Membrane Structure & Function Membrane Transport Motility & Cytoskeleton (Part 1)

Evening Sessions (6:00 pm –10:00 pm ): Cryo-EM Motility & Cytoskeleton (Part 2)

Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism Subgroup Co-Chairs: Karin Busch , University of Münster, Germany and Tatiana K. Rostovtseva , NIH, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 2020 Program Co-Chairs: Brian O’Rourke , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA and Evgeny Pavlov , New York University, USA Symposium Title: Mitochondrial Ion Channels Speakers: Diego De Stefani , University of Padova, Italy ATP-sensitive Channels in the Inner Mitochondrial Membrane Structural and Pharmacological Characterization of Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore: A Megachannel Formed by F1FO- ATP Synthase Shey-Shing Sheu , Thomas Jefferson University, USA Distinctive Characteristics and Functions of Multiple Ca2 + Channels in Cardiac Mitochondria Harpreet Singh , Ohio State University, College of Medicine, USA Mitochondrial Chloride Intracellular Channels in Cardioprotection Steven J. Sollott , NIH, National Institute on Aging, USA K +- and H +- Fluxes Drive ATP Synthesis in Mammalian ATP Synthase Jason Karch , Baylor College of Medicine, USA Genetic Inhibition of the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore Nelli Mnatsakanyan , Yale School of Medicine, USA

Bioengineering Subgroup Chair: Raphael C. Lee , University of Chicago, USA Speakers: Yasser Aboelkassem , University of California, San Diego, USA A Stochastic Multiscale Model of Cardiac Muscle Biophysics using Brownian-Langevin Dynamics Andrew D. McCulloch , University of California, San Diego, USA Multi-Scale Modeling of Therapeutic Mechanisms for Heart Failure Taher Saif , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA An in vitro 3D Neuro Muscular Platform Reveals Crosstalk Between Neural Networks and Muscles Zuzanna S. Siwy , University of California, Irvine, USA Nanopores and Channels for Biomimetics and Biomedical Engineering John P. Wikswo , Vanderbilt University, USA Multi-Omics and Automated Microfluidic Pumps and Valves for Controlling and Reverse Engineering of Biological Systems H. Steven Wiley , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Modulating Cell Protein Abundance to Both Understand and Manipulate Biological Networks Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Chair: Diane S. Lidke , University of New Mexico, USA Speakers: Diego Krapf , Colorado State University, USA Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Membrane Receptors at the Nanoscale

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