Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2024

Annual Meeting

Subgroup Symposia at the BPS Annual Meeting Saturday February 15, 2025 Subgroup Symposia at the 2025 Annual Meeting are scheduled for morning and afternoon sessions to allow attendees to attend multiple Subgroup Symposia and to accommodate all research areas.

Morning Sessions (8:30 AM – 12:30 PM) Bioenergetics, Mitochondria & Metabolism Biological Fluorescence Biopolymers in Vivo Channels, Receptors & Transporters Cryo-EM Membrane Fusion, Fission & Traffic Nanoscale Approaches Physical Cell Biology Theory & Computation Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism

Afternoon Sessions (1:30 PM – 5:30 PM) Bioengineering Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Macromolecular Machines & Assemblies Mechanobiology Membrane Structure & Function Membrane Transport Motility & Cytoskeleton Multiscale Genome Organization Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation & Visualization Bioengineering Subgroup Chair: Seth Weinberg , Ohio State University, USA Speakers Manu Ben Johny , Columbia University, USA De Novo Design of Precision Actuators for Voltage-gated Calcium and Sodium Ion Channels Gil Bub , McGill University, Canada Multiplexed High-throughput Imaging for the Life Sciences Dawen Cai , University of Michigan, USA Super-resolution Profiling of Neuron Morphology, Synapse Con nectivity, and Molecular Identity Priscilla Hwang , Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Mechanical Cues Mediate P-Cadherin Dependent Adhesions Re quired for Epithelial Morphogenesis Amelia McCue , Johns Hopkins University, USA Engineering a Tumor-Sensitive Prodrug T Cell Engager Bispecific Antibody for Safer Immunotherapy David Odde , University of Minnesota, USA Biophysics of Cancer and Immune Cell Migration in Brain Tissue Roshni Shetty , University of California, Davis, USA Multiscale Modeling of Sex Differences in Beta-Adrenergic Re sponses of the Heart Keita Uchida , University of Pennsylvania, USA Single Cardiomyocyte Protein Synthesis Is Driven by Heteroge neous mTORC1 Activity

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Harpreet Singh , Ohio State University, USA, and Shanmughapriya Santhanam , Pennsylvania State University, USA 2025 Program Co-Chairs: George Porter , University of Roch ester School of Medicine, USA, and Pam Wenzel, UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School, USA Symposium Title: Bioenergetics and Cellular Differentiation Speakers Roman Eliseev , University of Rochester School of Medicine, USA Crosstalk of Differentiation and Bioenergetic Pathways in Bone Marrow Stromal/Stem Cells Vivian Gama , Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, USA The Coordination of Mitochondrial and Peroxisomal Fission Establishes Cell Fate during Neurogenesis Atsushi “Austin” Nakano , University of California, Los Angeles, USA The Role of Glucose in Cardiogenesis Jason Tennessen , Indiana University, USA Oncometabolites, Fruit Flies, and Rotting Bananas - Drosophila melanogaster as a Model for Studying Tumor Metabolism Pamela Wenzel , UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School, USA Biomechanical Force Initiates mTORC1-dependent Mitochondrial Remodeling in Hematopoietic Development

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