Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2020

Annual Meeting

Otger Campas , University of California - Santa Barbara, USA Fluid-to-Solid Transitions and Tissue Fluidization in Embryonic Tissues Stuti Desai , University of Texas Medical Branch, USA Collective Behavior of Salmonella in Persistent Infections Lisa Manning , Syracuse University, USA Geometric Signatures of Heterotypic Cell-Cell Interactions in Confluent Tissues Sweta Murthy , Oregon Health & Science University - Vollum Institute, USA The Molecular Basis of Mechanically Activated Ion Channels OSCAs Celeste Nelson , Princeton University, USA How to Build an Epithelial Tree Matthew J. Paszek , Cornell University, USA Control of Membrane Morphological Transitions by the Glycocalyx  Omer Shafraz , University of California - Davis, USA Mapping Transmembrane Binding Partners for E-cadherin Ectodomains Sara Wickström , University of Helsinki, Finland Nuclear Mechanotransduction: Regulation of Cell Fate and Integrity Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic Subgroup Chair: Jenny Hinshaw , National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases, NIH, USA. Speakers: Elizabeth Chen , University of Texas - Southwestern, USA Mechanical Tension Drives Cell-Cell Fusion David DiGregorio , Institut Pasteur, France Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity of Calcium-dependent Synaptic Vesicle Fusion Dynamics Adam Frost , University of California - San Francisco, USA Membrane Mechanics: New Insights from Cryo-EM and Cryo-EM-guided Simulations Gregory Melikian , Emory University, USA Inhibition of Viral Fusion by Interferon-induced Transmembrane Proteins Dragomir Milovanovic , German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany A Phase of Synapsin and Synaptic Vesicles Recruits Alpha-synuclein Carole Parent , University of Michigan, USA Extracellular Vesicles as Key Regulators of Dictyostelium and Neutrophils Chemotaxis

Simon Scheuring , Weill Cornell Medicine, USA High-speed AFM: Membrane Deformation Protein Complexes in Action Joshua Zimmerberg , Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, USA The Pathway for Membrane Fusion and Fission in Exocytosis and Viral Entry Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup Chair:    Sarah Veatch , University of Michigan, USA. Speakers: Fredric Cohen , Rush University, USA Dynamic Regulation of the Chemical Potential of Plasma Membrane Cholesterol by Growth Factors Ana J. Garcia-Saéz , University of Cologne, Germany Interplay between the Cellular Machinery for Apoptosis and Mitochondrial Division Martin Girard , Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research - Mainz, Germany Insights into Regulation of Cell Membranes through Regulated Ensembles Félix Goñi , Basque Center for Biophysics (EHU), Spain Can we Dispense with Sphingolipids? Correlation between Membrane Lipid Composition and Biophysical Properties in Sphingolipid-restricted Mammalian Cells Kristen A. Johnson , University of Texas - Southwestern, USA Cholesterol Accessibility in Membranes Benjamin Machta , Yale University, USA (Pre)Wetting of Protein Droplets to Critical Membranes Sarah Shelby , University of Michigan, USA Immune Receptors and the Membrane Microenvironment Feng Yuan , University of Texas - Austin, USA Membrane Bending by Protein Phase Separation Membrane Transport Subgroup Chair: Ming Zhou , Baylor College of Medicine, USA. Speakers: Oliver Beckstein , Arizona State University, USA The Transport Cycle of a Sodium/Proton Antiporter Susan K. Buchanan , National Institute of Diabetes and Diges- tive and Kidney Disease, NIH, USA Structural Insight into Toxin Secretion by Contact Dependent Growth Inhibition of Transporters Nancy Carrasco , Vanderbilt University, USA (Presentation title not available) David Drew , Stockholm University, Sweden The Molecular Determinants for Unlocking Substrate Translocation in GLUT Transporters

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