Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2022

Annual Meeting

Chunte Sam Peng , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Ultralong-term, Real-time Tracking of Single Cargoes in Living Neu rons Gabriela Schlau-Cohen , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Following Transmembrane Conformational Signaling with Sin gle-molecule FRET Biopolymers in vivo Subgroup Chair: Huan-Xiang Zhou , University of Illinois Chicago, USA 2023 Program Co-Chairs: Kimberly Reynolds , University of Texas Southwestern, USA, and Paul Whitford , Northeastern University, USA Speakers: Margaret Cheung , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Emergent Protein Assemblies in a Cell Alex Guseman , University of Pittsburgh, USA Peering Into the Crystallin Ball of the Eye Lens Sarah Keane , University of Michigan, USA Structural Determinants of MicroRNA Biogenesis Ben Lehner , Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain Massively Parallel Mapping of the Energetic and Allosteric Land scapes of Proteins Milo Lin , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA Predicting the Transition States of Protein Aggregation Thibault Mayor , University of British Columbia, Canada Looking in the Garbage to Get Clues on Aging and Protein Folding Channels, Receptors, and Transporters Subgroup Chair: Jorge E. Contreras , University of California, Davis, USA Speakers: Donglin Bai , Western University (Ontario), Canada Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Residues in Amino Terminal Domain of Cx46 and Cx50 Are Critical for their Gap Junction Channel Gating and the Rate of Ion Permeation Yu-Hsin Chiu , National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Pharmacology and Activation Mechanisms for Large-pore Pannexin 1 Channels: From a Single-channel Perspective J. Kevin Foskett , University of Pennsylvania Medicine, USA Molecular Physiology of CALHM Ion Channels Alison Sweeney , Yale University, USA Reflectin Proteins as Biopolymers in Vivo

Pablo Gaete , University of California, Davis, USA Novel Biophysical Properties in Large-pore Channels Elena Lehmann , University of Zurich, Switzerland Heteromeric LRRC8 Channel Assemblies and Their Impact on Chan nel Activity Yun Lyna Luo , Western University (California), USA Computational Studies of Molecular Permeation through Large-pore Channels Johanna Syrjanen , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA A Tale of Two Pores Cryo-EM Subgroup Chair: Ariane Briegel , Leiden University, Netherlands 2023 Program Co-Chairs: Henriette Autzen , University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Gabriel Lander , Scripps Research Institute, USA, Cristina Santarossa , NYU Langone Health, USA, Rosemary Cater, Columbia University, USA, and Meghna Gupta , University of California, San Francisco, USA Speakers : Melody Campbell , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA Untangling Integrin Dynamics Using Cryo-EM Yi-Wei Chang , University of Pennsylvania Medicine, USA Rhoptry Secretion System Structures and Regulatory Mechanisms in Apicomplexan Parasites Revealed Using Cryo-ET Oliver Clarke , Columbia University, USA Architecture of Erythrocyte Ankyrin-1 Complexes Abhay Kotecha , Columbia University, USA Towards High-Resolution and High-Throughput Structural Biology with CryoEM Debnath Ghosal , University of Melbourne, Australia Understanding Architecture, Assembly, and Regulation of Bacterial Toxin Delivery Systems by Electron Cryotomography Rebecca Thompson , University of Leeds, United Kingdom How “Native” is Your Protein? Impacts of Cryo-EM Sample Prepara tion on Protein Structure Elizabeth Villa , University of California, San Diego, USA Molecular Architecture of the Jumbo Bacteriophage Nuclear Shell Ellen Zhong , Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Prince ton University, USA Machine Learning for Cryo-EM Reconstruction Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup Chair: Jeanne Stachowiak , University of Texas - Austin, USA

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