Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2021

Annual Meeting

Wade Zeno , University of Southern California, USA Equilibrium and Dynamic Interactions between Intrinsically Disor- dered Proteins and Curved Membrane Surfaces Steve Reichow , Portland State University, USA Connexin-46/50 Stabilization to the Local Lipid Environment Visualized at Near-Atomic Resolution Syma Khalid , Oxford University, United Kingdom The E. coli Outer Membrane: What Have We Learned from Molec- ular Simulations? Jesús Pérez-Gil , Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Breathless Membrane Games as Played by Pulmonary Surfactant Proteins Anne Kenworthy , University of Virginia, USA The Building Blocks of Caveolae, Revealed Susan Daniel , Cornell University, USA Regulation of the Coronavirus Fusion Peptide Interaction with the Host Membrane and Its Impact on Viral Infectivity Membrane Transport Subgroup Chair: Lucie Delemotte , KTH Royal Institute of Tech- nology, Sweden Speakers: Jan-Philipp Machtens , FZ Jülich, Germany Linking Conductive Chloride Transport with Secondary-active Glutamate Transport William DeGrado , University of California, San Francisco, USA Analysis and Design of Proton Channels Crina Nimigean , Weill Cornell Medicine, USA Mechanism of Lipid Modulation of Cyclic Nucleotide-gated Potas- sium Channels Isabelle Baconguis , Vollum Institute – Oregon Health & Science University, USA Structural Insight into Heteromeric Assembly of Epithelial Sodium Channels Motility and Cytoskeleton Subgroup Co-Chairs: Anthony Cammarato , Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, USA, and Melissa K. Gardner , University of Minnesota, USA Speakers: Rong Liu , National Institutes of Health – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, USA The Roles of Binding Proteins in Harnessing the Motor Activity of Myosin-7a Ahmet Yildiz , University of California, Berkeley, USA The Regulation of Kinesin and Dynein Motility by MAP7

Vitold Galkin , Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA Mechanism(s) of Regulation of the Cardiac Thin Filament – New Perspectives for a Longstanding Enigma Charlotte Aumeier , University of Geneva, Switzerland The Liquid +TIP-network Drives Microtubule Dynamics through Tubulin Condensation Naomi Courtemanche , University of Minnesota, USA Untangling the Interdependent Actin Filament Nucleation and Elongation Activities of Formin Erwin Peterman , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Nether- lands A Single-Molecule View on Intracellular Transport in C. elegans Chemosensory Cilia Weikang Ma , Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Small-angle X-ray Diffraction as a Tool for Structural Characteriza- tion of Muscle in Health and Disease Radhika Subramanian , Harvard University, USA Long-range Motor Communication through the Microtubule High- way Sophie Dumont , University of California, San Francisco, USA The Astrin/SKAP Complex Lubricates the Kinetochore-Microtubule Interface Multiscale Genome Organization Subgroup Co-Chairs: Tom C. Bishop , Louisiana Tech University, USA, and Tamar Schlick , New York University, USA 2022 Program Chair: Jeff Wereszczynski , Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Speakers: Seychelle Vos , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Defining How Local Chromatin Context and Global Genome Archi- tecture Regulate Gene Expression Cheryl Arrowsmith , University of Toronto, Canada Structural Genomics Meets Chemical Biology: Toward Pharmaco- logical Modulators for the Epigenome and the Entire Proteome Serena Sanulli , Stanford University, USA Heterochromatin Dynamics Across Scales Bin Zhang , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Folding Intermediates as a Model for in vivo Chromatin Organiza- tion Shoji Takada , Kyoto University, Japan Nucleosome Rearrangement Induced by Proteins: Molecular Simu- lation Approaches Alexey Onufriev , Virginia Tech, USA Looking for Structure-Function Connections in Chromatin on Sev- eral Length Scales

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