Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2019

Annual Meeting

Structural Characterization of Large Macromolecular Complexes Regulating Chromosome Architecture and Gene Expression Kanika Khanna , University of California, San Diego, USA Regulation of Cell Division During Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis Arne Möller , Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany The Conformational Dynamics of an ABC Transporter Under Turnover Conditions Juergen M. Plitzko , Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Towards a Biopsy at the Nanoscale: Advances in Cryo-Electron Tomography for in situ Structural Biology of Cells and Tissues Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup Chair: M. Madan Babu , MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2020 Program Co-Chairs: Jane Clarke , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Zachary Levine , Yale School of Medicine, USA, and Andrea Soranno , Washington University in St. Louis, USA Speakers Priya R. Banerjee , University at Buffalo, USA Emergent Structure and Dynamics of Low-complexity Nucleoprotein Condensates Yuh Min Chook , University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, USA Karyopherin as Chaperone Tuomas Knowles , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Jacqueline Matthews , University of Sydney, Australia Kinetic Regulation of IDR-Protein Interactions in Transcription Regulation Jeanne Stachowiak , University of Texas, Austin, USA Disordered Proteins as Catalysts of Membrane Traffic Markus Zweckstetter , Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany Liquid-liquid Phase Separation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies (formerly Molecular Biophysics) Subgroup Chair: Ilya Finkelstein , University of Texas, Austin, USA Speakers Kendra Frederick , Universityof Texas, SouthwesternMedical Center, USA In Cell Structural Biology of Protein Complexes Using Sensitivity Enhanced Solid-State NMR

Jie Yan , Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Understand and Modulate the Stability of Force-Transmission Cytoskeletal Supramolecular Linkages David Taylor , University of Texas, Austin, USA Structures of Many Macromolecular Machines from a Single Cryo-EM Experiment Mechanobiology Subgroup Chair: Xavier Trepat , Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Speakers Adam J. Engler , University of California, San Diego, USA Understanding and Exploiting Cancer Mechanobiology Carsten Grashoff , Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, WMU Münster, Germany Piconewton-Sensitive Biosensors to Investigate Adhesion Mechanics in Cells Jennifer A. Zallen , Sloan Kettering Institute Signals, Forces, and Cells: Decoding Tissue Morphogenesis Membrane Fusion, Fission & Traffic (formerly Exocytosis & Endocytosis) Subgroup Chair: Ling-Gang Wu , NIH, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, USA Speakers Camin Dean , European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Germany AMPA Receptor Endocytosis During Forgetting Erdem Karatekin , Yale School of Medicine, USA Dynamics of Membrane Tension and Synaptic Vesicle Recycling Michelle Knowles , University of Denver, USA Visualizing How SNARE Proteins Regulate Exosome Secretion Frédéric A. Meunier , Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia Dynamic Nanoscale Organization of the Presynaptic Neurotransmitter Release Machinery Jonas Ries , European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany High-throughput Superresolution Microscopy of Endocytosis – Linking Molecular Architecture and Mechanics of a Protein Machinery Jakob Balslev Sørenson , University of Copenhagen, Denmark Synaptotagmin-7 Places Vesicles at the Plasma Membrane to Promote Munc13-2 Dependent Priming

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