Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2020

Annual Meeting

Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism Subgroup Co-Chairs: Miguel Aon , Johns Hopkins University, USA, and Gyorgy Csordas , Thomas Jefferson University, USA. 2021 Program Co-Chairs: Miguel Aon , John Hopkins University, USA, and Sonia Cortassa , National Institute on Aging, NIH, USA. Symposium Title: Mitochondrial and Metabolic Mechanisms of Lifespan and Healthspan Extension. Speakers: Ann Chiao , University of Washington, USA Mitochondrial Function in Cardiac Aging and Healthspan Rafael de Cabo , National Institute on Aging, NIH, USA The Impact of NAD(P)H: Quinone Oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1)  on Health and Mitochondrial, Glucose, and Lipid Metabolism John Denu , University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Mitochondrial Metabolism and the Epigenome Deborah M. Muoio , Duke University Medical Center, USA Mitochondrial Adaptations to Bioenergetic Stress Plácido Navas , Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain CoQ Homeostasis in Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders Bioengineering Subgroup Chair: Samir Iqbal , University of Texas - Arlington, USA. Speakers: Andrew Ferguson , University of Chicago, USA Reconstructing Protein Structure and Dynamics from Experimental Observables Xiaoting Jia , Virginia Tech, USA Flexible Multifunctional Fibers for Brain Interfacing Salman Khetani , University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Engineering Miniature Human Tissues for Disease Modeling and Drug Development Katsuo Kurabayashi , University of Michigan, USA Blood Biomarker Digital Microarray Analysis for Systemic Inflammatory Disorders Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Chair:  Jay Knutson , National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, USA Speakers: Paola Borri , Cardiff University, United Kingdom Coherent Raman Scattering Microscopy for Quantitative Label-free Bioimaging Katharina Gaus , University of New South Wales, Australia Single-Molecule Imaging of T Cell Receptor Signalling

Marcelo Nollman , CNRS - Montpellier, France Through the Looking-glass: Imaging-based Chromosome Conformation Capture in Single Cells Thorsten Wohland , National University of Singapore - Centre for BioImaging Sciences, Singapore Beyond Imaging FCS: Multi-parametric Fluorescence Microscopy Biopolymers in vivo Subgroup Chair: Daniel Harries , Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 2021 Program Co-Chairs: Silvia Cavagnero , University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA, and Bin Zhang , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Speakers: Grant Jensen , California Institute of Technology, USA Imaging Biopolymers in vivo Directly with Cryo-ET: Trim5 Nets and IRE-1 Helices Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA Mitochondria Health and Deterioration Under Nutrient Stress Depend on Lipid Trafficking Pathways set up and Controlled by Vacuolar Phase-separated, Sterol-rich Microdomains Jose Onuchic , Rice University, USA Energy Landscapes, Order and Disorder, and Protein Sequence Coevolution: from Proteins to Chromosome Structure Lucia Strader , Duke University, USA Condensation of a Plant Transcription Factor Driven by an Oligomerization Domain and IDR Iva Tolic , Ruder Boskovic Institute, USA Optogenetic Control of Spindle Microtubule Crosslinkers Reveals that Bridging Fibers Promote Chromosome Alignment by Overlap Length-Dependent Forces Channels, Receptors, and Transporters Subgroup Chair: Lucia Sivilotti , University College London, United Kingdom. Speakers: John Baenziger , Ottawa University, Canada The Structural Basis for Lipid-Sensing in a Pentameric Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Han Chow Chua , Copenhagen University, Denmark Structure and Function of the Human Sodium Leak Channel NALCN Anna Duncan , Oxford University, United Kingdom Jostling for Position: Defining How Multiple Lipid Species Interact with Inward Rectifier Potassium (Kir) Channels

Kirill Nadezhdin , Columbia University, USA Structure and Function of TRPV Channels

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