Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2019

Annual Meeting

Speakers Radu Aricescu , MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Structural Pharmacology of Human GABAA Receptors Sudha Chakrapani , Case Western Reserve University, USA Gating Mechanisms in Pentameric Ligand-gated Ion Channels Richard Hite , Sloan Kettering Institute, USA Structures of the Non-Canonical Lysosomal K + channel TMEM175 Vera Moiseenkova-Bell , University of Pennsylvania, USA Molecular Mechanisms of TRPV Channels Gating Revealed by Cryo-EM Non-Domain-Swapped Voltage Dependent Channels Irina I. Serysheva , University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston, USA Structural Insights into IP3R Gating and Regulation Georgios Skiniotis , Stanford University, USA Cryo-EM of GPCRs: from Molecular Mechanism to Drug Discovery Cryo-EM Subgroup Chair: Elizabeth Villa , University of California, San Diego, USA 2020 Program Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Kellogg , Cornell Univer- sity, USA and Melanie Ohi , University of Michigan Medical School, USA Symposium Title: Cryo-Electron Microscopy: From Atoms to Cells and Beyond Speakers Christopher Barnes , California Institute of Technology, USA Structures of HIV-1 Envelope Trimers Define Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of HIV-1 Ariane Briegel , Leiden University, Netherlands Cryo-Electron Tomography Contributes to Our Understanding of Bacterial Interactions with Their Environment Bridget Carragher , Columbia University Cryo-EM Automation: Better, Faster, Cheaper David DeRosier , Brandeis University Where in the Cell is My Protein? Nikolaus Grigorieff , HHMI Janelia Research Campus, USA Identification and Localization of Macromolecular Complexes in Cells by High-Resolution Template Matching Vignesh Kasinath , University of California, Berkeley, USA Eduardo Perozo , University of Chicago, USA Mechanisms of Electromechanical Coupling in

Sandrine Lévêque-Fort , CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, France Playing with Fluorescence Emission for Enhanced Superresolution Microscopy Satyajit Mayor , National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India Exploring the Skin of a Cell Using Fluorescence Microscopy Reveals an Active Membrane Composite George Harold Patterson , NIH, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, USA Photoswitching FRET Studies of Doxorubicin-Chromatin Interactions Angelika Rück , University of Ulm, Germany Metabolic FLIM and Oxygen PLIM: Basics and Biomedical Applications Biopolymers in Vivo Subgroup Chair: Zaida Luthey-Schulten , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 2020 Program Co-Chairs: Lynette Cegelski , Stanford University, USA & Kendra Frederick , University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, USA Speakers Wolfgang Baumeister , Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany Structural Biology ‘in situ’: The Promise and Challenges of Cryo-Electron Tomography Silvia Cavagnero , University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Role of the Ribosome in Protein Folding and Aggregation Melinda Duer , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Heavy Mice and Lighter Things: Using Solid-State NMR to Study the Extracellular Matrix Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle , City University of New York, USA Emergent Material Properties of Biopolymer Condensates Ramon Grima , University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Detailed Mathematical Models of Stochastic Gene Expression in Eukaryotic Cells Channels, Receptors, and Transporters (formerly Membrane Biophysics) Subgroup Chair: Crina Nimigean , Weill Cornell Medicine, USA Symposium Title: Ion Channel and Receptor Pharmacology: Insights from Correlating Cryo-EM Structures with Functional Data

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