Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2023

Annual Meeting

Rafael Tapia Rojo , Kings College London, United Kingdom Mechanochemical Regulation of the Talin-Vinculin Interaction Viola Vogel , ETH Zürich, Switzerland Mechanobiology of Extracellular Matrix Fibers: From Blood Clots to Healthy and Diseased Organs Orion Weiner , University of California, San Francisco, USA Membrane Tension as a Long-Range Integrator of Immune Cell Physiology Rebecca Wells , University of Pennsylvania, USA Lipid Droplets with Varied Mechanical Properties as Mechanical Stressors in Steatotic Liver Disease Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic Subgroup Chair: Michelle Knowles , Institut Curie, France Speakers : Nikhil Gandasi , Indian Institute of Science, India Secretion of Multivesicular Bodies Maintains the Pancreatic Islet Environment in Pancreatic ß-Cells—Does Dysregulation Lead to Type 2-Diabetes? Ben Glick , University of Chicago, USA Rethinking the Secretory Pathway Jenny Hinshaw , NIH, USA Sir Bernard Katz Award Recipient: Decades of Dynamins John Jimah , Princeton University, USA CryoEM Structures of Membrane Bound Dynamin Primed for Membrane Fission Alexa Mattheyses , University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA Live Nanoscale Axial Imaging Reveals Flexible Vesicle Formation Dynamics in Clathrin Mediated Endocytosis Mary Munson , University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA Control of Exocytosis by the Exocyst Complex Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup Chair: Elizabeth Kelley , National Institute of Stan dards and Technology, USA Speakers: Linda Colombus , University of Virginia, USA Impact of Lipids on Membrane Protein Structure, Function, and Dynamics Giacomo Fiorin , NIH, USA Computing Free Energies of Membrane Deformation to Quantify the Role of Lipid Composition and Applied Tension in Membrane Morphology

Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith , Lehigh University, USA Membrane Protein Patterning by Flow: Tiny Forces Organize Lipid-Anchored Proteins Chia-Lung Hsieh , Academica Sinica, Taiwan Nanoscale Membrane Dynamics Revealed by Ultrafast Sin gle-Molecule Tracking Erdinc Sezgin , Karlinska Institutet, Sweden Developing High-Throughput Methodologies for Measuring Bio physical Properties of Biomembranes Membrane Transport Subgroup Chair: Wei Lu , Van Andel Research Institute, USA Speakers: Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi , University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Paracellular Ion Transport across Tight Junctions Chia-Hsueh Lee , St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA Structure and Mechanism of Human Sphingolipid S1P Transporter Spns2 Emily Liman , University of Southern California, USA OTOP Proton Channels: Discovery, Structure, and Function Benoit Roux , University of Chicago, USA Multiscale Kinetic Modeling of the Sodium Potassium Pump Ming Zhou , Baylor College of Medicine, USA Anion Recognition and Transport in Pendrin (SLC26A4) Motility and Cytoskeleton Subgroup Co-Chairs: Stuart Campbell , Yale University, USA, and Sarah Heissler , Ohio State University, USA Speakers: Shiladitya Banerjee , Carnegie Mellon University, USA Shaping Cells by Actomyosin Pulses Kenneth Campbell , University of Kentucky, USA Multiscale Simulations that Predict Cardiac Growth in Response to Clinically Relevant Conditions including Altered Myofilament Function Claire Friel , University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Ultra-Rapid Microtubule Depolymerization by the Ancestor of the Kinesin-13 Family Erika Holzbaur , University of Pennsylvania, USA An Interphase Actin Wave Promotes Mitochondrial Content Mixing and Organelle Homeostasis Thomas Kampourakis , King's College London, United Kingdom Discovery of a Novel Cardiac-Specific Myosin Modulator using AI Based Virtual Screening

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