Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2021

Annual Meeting

Thorsten Hugel , Freiburg University, Germany Protein Dynamics and Regulation Across Scales: Integrating Fluo- rescence, Neutron Scattering and MD Simulations Biopolymers in vivo Subgroup Chair: Edward P. O’Brien , Penn State University, USA 2022 Program Co-Chairs: Benedetta Bolognesi , Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain, and Alex S. Hole- house , Washington University in St. Louis, USA Speakers: Ibrahim Cissé , Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany Super-resolution Imaging of Transcription in Live Mammalian Cells Ilaria Piazza , Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany Protein Structures in Context with Proteome-wide Biophysics Jané Kondev , Brandeis University, USA Neither Too Short, Nor Too Long, But Just Right: Assembly of Scale Invariant Filaments Polly Fordyce , Stanford University, USA Leveraging Microfluidics for High-throughput Protein Expression, Purification, and Deep Biophysical Characterization Mohammed AlQuraishi , Columbia University, USA Protein Structure Prediction in a Post-AlphaFold2 World Ylva Ivarsson , Uppsala University, Sweden Proteome-scale Identification of Short Linear Binding Motifs in the Intrinsically Disordered Regions of Human and Viral Proteomes Rommie Amaro , University of California San Diego, USA Computational Microscopy of SARS-CoV-2 Channels, Receptors, and Transporters Subgroup Chair: Vera Moiseenkova-Bell , University of Pennsyl-

Rosemary J. Cater , Columbia University, USA Structure and Mechanistic Basis of MFSD2A-mediated ω -3 Fatty Acid Transport Inga Hänelt , University of Frankfurt, Germany K+ Uptake at the Limit: Transport Mechanism and Regulation of K+ Pump KdpFABC Cryo-EM Subgroup Chair: Gira Bhabha , New York University School of Medicine, USA 2022 Program Co-Chairs: Danielle Grotjahn , Scripps Research Institute, USA, and Gaia Pagino , Max Planck Institute of Mo- lecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Speakers: Minkyung Baek , University of Washington, USA Accurate Prediction of Protein Structures and Interactions Using Artificial Intelligence Pamela Bjorkman , California Institute of Technology, USA Neutralizing Antibodies Against Coronaviruses Josefina del Mármol , Harvard Medical School, USA Structural Insight into Odor Detection and Discrimination Wanda Kukulski , University of Bern, Switzerland The Architecture of Organelle Contact Sites Revealed by Cryo- CLEM Elizabeth Wright , University of Wisconsin, USA Travels through Virus-infected Cells with in situ Cryo-ET Janet Iwasa , University of Utah, USA Animating Molecular Machines Philipp Erdmann , Human Technopole Foundation, Italy Blobology 2.0: Visualizing LLPS by in situ Cryo-Electron Tomography Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup Chair: Edward Lemke , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz – Institute of Molecular Biology, Germany 2022 Program Co-Chairs: Priya Banerjee , University at Buffalo, USA, Galia Debelouchina , University of California San Diego, USA, and Jeetain Mittal , Lehigh University, USA Speakers: Birthe Kragelund , University of Copenhagen, Denmark Combining Order and Disorder Reveals Roles of Disorder Keren Lasker , Scripps Research Institute – La Jolla, USA Molecular Structure and Function of the Bacterial Condensate PopZ

vania, USA Speakers: Juan Du , Van Andel Institute, USA

Activation and Inhibition of the “Taste Channel” TRPM5 Daniel Minor , University of California, San Francisco, USA How to Survive a Toxic Environment - Lessons from Poison Birds and Frogs

Bryan Roth , University of North Carolina, USA New Insights into GPCR Structure and Function

Aashish Manglik , University of California, San Francisco, USA Molecular Puzzles in G Protein-coupled Receptor Signaling

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