Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2021

Annual Meeting

Vlad Cojocaru , Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands How Do Stem Cell Transcription Factors Bind and Unravel Genomic Nucleosomes at Atomic Resolution? Michael Poirier , Ohio State University, USA Strategies Transcription Factors Use to Efficiently Invade Nucleosomes Nanoscale Approaches to Biology Subgroup Chair: Aleksandr Noy , University of Califonia, Merced, USA Speakers: Jason Dwyer , University of Rhode Island, USA Molecular-Level Tuning of Solid-State Nanopore Biomolecule Sensing: Optimizing DNA and Protein Analysis and Enabling Complex Carbohydrate Characterization Naoko Mizuno , National Institutes of Health – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, USA Bottom-up Reconstitution of Focal Adhesion Machinery Markita del Carpio Landry , University of California, Berkeley, USA Nanoscale Technologies to Study Life Sciences – From Neuro- chemical Imaging to Agricultural Biotechnology Aleksei Aksimentiev , University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, USA Multi-Resolution Simulations of Nanoscale Biological Systems Yan Yu , Indiana University, USA Correlating Biochemical and Dynamic Changes in Cells One Organelle at a Time Physical Cell Biology Subgroup Chair: Christine Payne , Duke University, USA 2022 Program Chair: Daniel R. Larson , National Institutes of Health - National Cancer Institute, USA Speakers: Fangyuan Ding , University of California, Irvine, USA RNA Regulation at the Single-Molecule Level: From Nuclear Organization to Molecular Activity James McNally , Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany Nanoparticle Uptake Induces a Cytoplasmic Reorganization as Detected by X-ray and Fluorescence Microscopy Musa Mhlanga , Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands Therapeutically Targeting the Noncoding Genome in Inflammatory Disease Michelle Hastings , Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, USA Splice-modulating Antisense Oligonucleotides for the Treatment of Disease

Eric Wang , University of Florida, USA RNA Processing and Transport in Neuromuscular Disease Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization Subgroup Co-Chairs: Laura Finzi , Emory University, USA, and Mark Williams , Northeastern University, USA Speakers: Jinqing Huang , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Combing Force Manipulation and Raman Spectroscopy Characterization to Study Protein Structures Micah McCauley , Northeastern University, USA Nucleosome Chaperones Facilitate Both Nucleosome Assembly and Disassembly Fernando Moreno-Herrero , Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of Human HELB and Its Role in the Processing of RPA-ssDNA Filaments Ingrid Tessmer , Universität Würzburg, Germany Resolving the Subtle Details of Human DNA Alkyltransferase Lesion Search and Repair Mechanism by Single-Molecule Studies Fredrik Westerlund , Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Nanofluidics for Single DNA Molecule Analysis of DNA Repair Gijsje Koenderink , Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Mechanics of Living Matter Across Scales Theory and Computation Subgroup Chair: Gregory A. Voth , University of Chicago, USA Speakers: Cecilia Clementi , Free University of Berlin, Germany Learning molecular models from machine learning and experimental data Daniel Zuckerman , Oregon Health & Science University, USA How Should We Think About Mechanism? Pratyush Tiwary , University of Maryland, USA From Atoms to Emergent Mechanisms with AI-Augmented Molecular Simulations John Jumper , Google, United Kingdom Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold Naomi Oppenheimer , Tel Aviv University, Israel Hurricane Dynamics in a Membrane Pilar Cassio , Flatiron Institute, USA Transition Rates, Survival Probabilities, and Quality of Bias from Time-dependent Biased Simulations

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