Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2021

Annual Meeting

Mechanobiology Subgroup Chair: Deborah E. Leckband , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Speakers: Cheng Zhu , Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Mechanosensing Through Immunoreceptors Ellie Tzima , Oxford University, United Kingdom Mechanoreceptors in Endothelial Cells Yusuke Toyama , Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Decoding the Spatial Pattern of Apoptosis-Induced Compensatory Proliferation Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic Subgroup Chair: Arun Anantharam , University of Toledo, USA Speakers: Julia von Blume , Yale University, USA Liquid Liquid Phase Separation (LLPS) Facilitates Insulin Granule Biosynthesis Mark Von Zastrow , University of California, San Francisco, USA Probing the Interface between GPCR Signaling and Membrane Traffic Wade Regehr , Harvard University, USA Carsten Sachse , Jülich Research Center, Germany Cryo-EM Reveals Structures of ESCRT-III Membrane Remodeling Proteins from Bacteria Prabhodh Abbineni , University of Michigan, USA Examining Molecular Regulation of Unconventional Cytoplasmic Protein Secretion Ann Wehman , University of Denver, USA Phagolysosome Vesiculation Promotes Cell Corpse Degradation Jackson Meyer , University of Wisconsin, USA Sir Bernard Katz Award Recipient Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup Chair: Francisco N. Barrera , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Speakers: Philipp Kukura , Oxford University, United Kingdom Mass Photometry of Membrane Associated and Integral Mem- brane Proteins Patricia Bassereau , Institut Curie, France Generation and Control of Cellular Protrusions Jan Lammerding , Cornell University, USA Nuclear Mechanobiology During Confined Migration

Guanghong Wei , Fudan University, China Mechanistic Insight into Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Amy- loid Aggregation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Louise Jawerth , Leiden University, The Netherlands Fiber Growth, Ultra-low Surface Tensions and Glass-like Aging: Protein Condensates as Novel Materials Jeremy Schmit , Kansas State University, USA Principles of Structure/Function in Biomolecular Condensates Manuel Müller , King’s College London, United Kingdom Probing Life and Death Decisions with Semisynthetic “Designer” p53 Sarah Rauscher , University of Toronto, Canada All-Atom Simulations of Disordered and Flexible Proteins Miao Yu , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Deciphering the Structure and Function of FG-nucleoporins in situ using FLIM-FRET Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies Subgroup Chair: Edwin Antony , St. Louis University School of Medicine, USA Speakers: Allison Williams , University of California, San Francisco, USA Visualizing the Bacterial Stress Sensing Platform in Action Elizabeth Kellogg , Cornell University, USA Structural Basis for Target-site Selection in RNA-guided DNA Transposition Systems Ci Ji Lim , University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA Human CST Assembles into a Decameric Supercomplex upon Binding to Single-stranded Telomeric DNA Ashley Nord , CNRS Center for Structural Biochemistry, France Stator Dynamics of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor Lucas Farnung , Harvard University, USA Structural Basis of Chromatin Transcription Willow Coyote-Maestas , University of California, San Francisco, USA Deconvoluting Receptor Trafficking, Regulation, and Function Using Massively Parallel Assays in Living Cells Subhas Bera , Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research – Erlangen, Germany High-throughput Magnetic Tweezers to Unravel the SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Nucleotide Addition Cycle: Towards the Rational Design of Novel Antiviral Drugs Margaret Rodgers , Johns Hopkins University, USA Single-Molecule Studies of Co-transcriptional Ribonucleoprotein Assembly

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