Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2024

Annual Meeting

Rebecca Vanderpool , Ohio State University, USA Phenotypic Insights into Right Ventricular Biomechanics in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension Peipei Wang , Ohio State University, USA Mechanotransduction at the Nuclear Pore Complex: Insights from a Novel GP210 Force Sensor Elizabeth Wayne , University of Washington, USA The Impact of Rigidity at the Nanoparticle: Immune Cell Interface Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Chair: Claus Seidel , Heinrich Heine University Düs seldorf, Germany Speakers Viktorija Glembockyte , Ludwig Maximilian University München, Germany Engineering Modular and Tunable Single-Molecule Sensors by Decoupling Sensing from Signal Output Claudiu Gradinaru , University of Toronto, Canada Using Single-Molecule Fluorescence and Modelling to Structurally Define a Disordered Protein Complex Eitan Lerner , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel mCherry and Its Fluorescence under Crowding/Bio-condensation Conditions Marcia Levitus , Arizona State University, USA 2-Amino Purine as a Probe of DNA Flexibility in Damaged DNA Jerker Widengren , Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Near-infrared MINFLUX Imaging Enabled by Suppression of Fluo rophore Blinking Biopolymers in vivo Subgroup Chair: Garegin Papoian , University of Maryland, USA 2025 Program Co-Chairs: Loren Hough , University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, and Karen Lasker , Scripps Research Institute, USA Speakers Massimiliano Bonomi , Institut Pasteur, France Integrative Structural Biology in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Gregory Dignon , Rutgers University, USA Using Simulations and Theory to Understand Sequence and Size Effects on Partitioning of Biomolecules in Condensates Janet Kumita , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Designing Engineered Biomolecular Condensates to Facilitate Protein Degradation

George Lu , Rice University, USA Understanding the Assembly of Gas-Filled Microbial Organelle Heather Meyer , Syracuse University, USA Intrinsically Disordered Proteins as Thermosensors in Plants Nadine Samara , NIH, USA Structural Insights into the Diversity of Mucin-Type O-Glycosyltrans ferases from Mammalian Hosts to Protozoan Pathogens Emily Sontag , Marquette University, USA Spatial Protein Quality Control in Health and Disease David Van Valen , Caltech, USA Understanding Cellular Perception with AI Enabled Measurements Bin Zhang , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Understanding IDP Phase Behaviors with AI and Polymer Physics Channels, Receptors, and Transporters Subgroup Chair: Renae Ryan, University of Sydney, Australia Speakers Jorge Contreras , University of California, Davis, USA Connexins and Pannexins: Not Just Large-Pore Channels but Versa tile Transporters Ben Corry , Australian National University, Australia Mechanical Activation Opens a Lipid Lined Pore in OSCA/TMEM63 Channels Willow Coyote-Maestas , University of California, San Francisco, USA How to Discover Sequence to Function Relationships across Multi Pass Membrane Proteome Juan Du , Northwestern University, USA Molecular Evolution of TRPM2: From Channel-Enzyme to Thermo sensor Mette Poulsen , University of Copenhagen, Denmark Channel-Transporter Crosstalk: Regulation of pH-Sensing Ion Chan nel by Transporter Family

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