Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2023

Annual Meeting

Binyam Mogessie , Yale University, USA Emerging Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation in Mammalian Eggs Julien Robert-Paganin , Institut Curie and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Dissecting the Plasmodium Actomyosin System, a New Perspec tive against Malaria Antonina Roll-Mecak , NIH, USA Readout of the Tubulin Code Multiscale Genome Organization Subgroup Co-Chairs: Catherine Musselman , University of Colo rado, Anschutz, USA, and Jeff Wereszczynski , Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 2023 Program Chair: Thomas Bishop , Louisiana Tech University, USA Speakers: Emma Morrison , Medical College of Wisconsin, USA Deciphering the Dynamic Language of the Histone H3 Tail Sofia Quinodoz , Princeton University, USA New Technologies for Probing Nuclear Organization and Function Remo Rohs , University of Southern California, USA Biophysical Mechanisms of Protein-DNA Binding Revealed through Deep Learning Approaches Alexey Shaytan , Moscow State University, Russia Interactions of Nucleosomes with Acidic Patch Binding Peptides: Combining Structural Analysis, MD Simulations, and Experiments Alexandra Zidovska , New York University, USA Interphase Chromatin Undergoes a Local Sol-Gel Transition upon Cell Differentiation Nanoscale Approaches to Biology Subgroup Chair: Meni Wanunu , Northeastern University, USA Speakers: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz , Janelia Research Campus, USA Mapping the Structural and Diffusional Landscape of Organelle Contact Sites from the Microscale to the Nanoscale Giovanni Maglia , University of Groningen, Netherlands Nanopore Approaches to Single-Molecule Enzymology: Unraveling the Role of Conformers and Allosteric Regulation Bernd Rieger , Delft University, Netherlands Estimation of Field Dependent Aberrations Directly from Single Molecule Emitters Mario Halic , St. Jude Research Hospital, USA Binding of Transcription Factors to Nucleosomes

Sonja Schmid , Wageningen University, Netherlands New Ways to Study Life at the Nanoscale: The NEOtrap, DyeCycling and More Allison Squires , University of Chicago, USA Capturing Biomolecular Interactions at the Single-Molecule Level with ABEL Trap Fluorescence Spectroscopy Physical Cell Biology Subgroup Chair: Stefanie Redemann , University of Virginia, USA 2023 Program Chair: Jianhua Xing , University of Pittsburgh, USA Speakers: Fabrisia Ambrosio , Harvard University, USA Quantum Mechanics Meets Stem Cell Biology: Photon Emission, Magnetic Fields, and Radical Pairs Timothy Elston , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Spatiotemporal Models of Cell Signaling: From Single Molecules to Macrostructures Ming Guo , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Collective Curvature Sensing in Three-Dimensional Multicellular Systems Ao Ma , University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Mechano-Chemical Model for Microtubule Assembly: Integrating Conformational Dynamics of Tubulins Arpita Upadhyaya , University of Maryland, USA Transcription Factor Dynamics in Gene Expression: The Long and Short of It Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization Subgroup Co-Chairs: Nils Walter , University of Michigan, USA, and Neva Caliskan , Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Germany Speakers: Keynote Speaker: Carlos Bustamante , University of California, Berkeley, USA FACT Promotes Efficient Pol II Transcription by Modulating the Topographic Features of the Nucleosomal Barrier Jinyi Fei , University of Chicago, USA Context-Dependent RNA Location to Nuclear Speckles Dina Grohman , University of Regensburg, Denmark DNA Origami-Based Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Advances the Molecular Understanding of Transcription Initiation Yuri Lyubchenko , University of Nebraska, USA Imaging of the Amyloid Self-Assembly at Physiologically Relevant Conditions Change

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