Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2019

Annual Meeting

Richard Tsien , New York University Langone Medical School, USA Sir Bernard Katz Award Lecture Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup Chair: Peter Tieleman , University of Calgary, Canada Speakers Ana J. García-Sáez , Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Germany Membrane Permeabilization in Regulated Cell Death Fred A. Heberle , University of Tennessee, USA The Revolution Will Not Be Symmetrized: Lessons from Asymmetric Model Membranes Helgi I. Ingólfsson , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Simulating Plasma Membranes: Effects of Leaflet Asymmetry and Compositional Complexity Lutz Maibaum , University of Washington, USA Modeling Membrane Heterogeneities at Small and Large Length Scales Anant Menon , Weill Cornell Medical College, USA Phospholipid Scramblases and Transbilayer Lipid Asymmetry Janice L. Robertson , Washington University in St. Louis, USA Tuning CLC Dimerization in Membranes by Optimizing the Lipid Solvent Emad Tajkhorshid , Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Thomas E. Thompson Award Lecture Membrane Transport (formerly Permeation & Transport) Subgroup Chair: Susan Rempe , Sandia National Laboratories Speakers Grace Brannigan , Rutgers University, USA Ligand Binding in Membranes: A Clean Approach When Lipids are the Ligand, Solvent, and Concentration Scale José D. Faraldo-Gómez , NIH, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, USA Membrane Morphology, Energetics & Dynamics at the Interface with Transport Proteins Katherine Henzler-Wildman , University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Controlling the Rate and Efficiency of Proton-coupled Transport by EmrE

Osamu Nureki , University of Tokyo, Japan Structural Basis for Transport Cycle of P4 Flippase Randy Stockbridge , University of Michigan, USA Evolution of Drug Export by the Small Multidrug Resistance Family of Transporters Motility & Cytoskeleton Subgroup Co-Chairs: Michael J. Previs , University of Vermont, USA and Ahmet Yildiz , University of California, Berkeley, USA Speakers Andrew Carter , MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom Dynein Regulation Alexander Dunn , Stanford University, USA A Molecular Mechanism for Symmetry Breaking at Cell-Cell Adhesion Complexes Jonathon Howard , Yale University, USA Roles of Vertical and Horizontal Forces on the Processivity of Motors Gaia Pigino , Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany 3D Structure and Regulation of Intraflagellar Transport by CLEM and Cryo-EM Antonina Roll-Mecak , NIH, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, USA Microtubule Dynamics: Not Only at the Tips Benjamin L. Prosser , University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, USA The Microtubule Network in Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure Sakthivel Sadayappan , University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, USA Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C Regulates Cardiac Contractility David D. Thomas , University of Minnesota, USA Spectroscopic Probes of Muscle Proteins: Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Discovery Rui Zhang , Washington University in St. Louis, USA High-Resolution cryo-EM Structure of the Decorated Ciliary Doublet Microtubule

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