Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2021

Annual Meeting

Subgroup Symposia at the BPS Annual Meeting Saturday, February 19, 2022 Subgroup Symposia at the 2022 Annual Meeting are scheduled for morning, afternoon, and evening sessions to allow attend- ees to attend multiple Subgroup Symposia to accommodate all research areas. Morning Sessions (8:30 am –12:30 pm ) Bioengineering Biological Fluorescence Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies Membrane Structure and Function Membrane Transport Motility and Cytoskeleton Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization Afternoon Sessions (1:30 pm –5:30 pm ) Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism Biopolymers in vivo Channels, Receptors, and Transporters Mechanobiology Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic Multiscale Genome Organization Nanoscale Approaches to Biology Physical Cell Biology Theory and Computation Evening Session (6:00 pm –10:00 pm ) Cryo-EM

Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism Subgroup Co-Chairs: Evgeny Pavlov , New York University, USA, and Uwe Schlattner , University of Grenoble-Alpes, France 2022 Program Co-Chairs: Karin Busch , University of Muenster, Germany, and Carmen Mannella , University of Maryland, USA Symposium Title: New Insights into Mitochondrial Function Speakers: Liron Boyman , University of Maryland, USA Mitochondrial Calcium Signaling and the Regulation of ATP Pro- duction Investigated with Novel Imaging Approaches Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai , Utrecht University, The Netherlands The Remarkable Sperm Mitochondrial Sheath: Insights from Cryo-Electron Tomography Andrea Dlaskova , Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia Remodeling of Cristae Ultrastructure during Hypoxia and Sub- strate-Dependent Metabolic Change Adam Fenton , University of Pennsylvania, USA Mitochondrial Adaptor TRAK2 Activates and Functionally Links Opposing Kinesin and Dynein Motors Veronica Eisner , Pontifica Catholic University, Chile Mitochondrial Nucleoid Dynamics Perturbation by OPA1 Dis- ease-causing Mutants Bioengineering Subgroup Chair: Michael Sacks , University of Texas at Austin, USA 2022 Program Chair: Guy Genin , Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Speakers: Horacio Espinosa , Northwestern University, USA

Patrick McGarry , National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland On the Thermodynamics of Cell Contractility and Spreading in 2D and 3D Environments Vivek Shenoy , University of Pennsylvania, USA Regulation of Chromatin Organization by Chemo-Mechanical Cues from the Cell Microenvironment Paul Janmey , University of Pennsylvania, USA Building a Tissue: Mechanical Response Arises from Integrating Cells with Fibrous Networks Christopher Chen , Boston University, USA Cells and Forces: An Ill-Posed Problem? Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Chair: Gilad Haran , Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Speakers: Jerome Wenger , Institut Fresnel, France Improving Single-Molecule Fluorescence Detection with Zero-mode Waveguide Nanoapertures Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan , EMBL at University of New South Wales, Australia Single-Molecule Imaging of Cytoplasmic Dynein in vivo Reveals the Mechanism of Motor Activation and Cargo Capture Xavier Darzacq , University of California, Berkeley, USA Live Cell Single Particle Tracking Reveals New Mechanisms in Transcription Regulation Christy Landes , Rice University, USA Conformational Changes Impact 3D Antibody Translational Dynamics During Separation through an Ion Exchange Support

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