Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2024

Annual Meeting

Cryo-EM Subgroup Chair: Oliver P. Clarke , Columbia University, USA 2025 Program Co-Chairs: Meghna Gupta , University of Califor nia, San Fransisco, USA, Pilar Cossio , Flatiron Institute, USA, and Shi Feng , Cornell University, USA Speakers Marc Gilles , Princeton University, USA Reconstructing Conformational States and Inferring Conformational Densities in Cryo-EM Wei Lu , Northwestern University, USA Cryo-EM at Physiological Temperatures Reveals Novel Insights into TRPM4 Bonnie Murphy , Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany Cryo-EM in Color: Reconstructed Electron Energy Loss Analysis for Low-Dose Elemental Mapping in Cryopreserved Complexes Eliza Nieweglowska , Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA Novel Cellular and Structural Discoveries Enabled by in Situ Cryo-ET Beata Turonova , Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany Contextual Analysis for in Situ Cryo Electron Tomography Kai Zhang , Yale University, USA High-Resolution in Situ Structures of Mitochondrial Complexes Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup Chair: Samrat Mukhopadhyay , Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India 2025 Program Co-Chairs: Lukasz Joachimiak , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA, and Dorothee Dor mann , Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany Speakers Benedetta Bolognesi , Institute for Bioengineering in Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Deep Mutagenesis to Extract Mechanistic Insights into Amyloid Transition States Carlos Castaneda , University of Syracuse, USA Role of Putatively Helical Regions in Disordered Segments of Ubiquitin-Binding Shuttle Proteins Polly Fordyce , Stanford University, USA Leveraging High-throughput and Quantitative Microfluidic Assays to Understand How IDP Sequence Encodes Function Alex Holehouse , Washington University, USA Biophysical Conservation of Intrinsically Disordered Regions

Shova Maharana , Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Changes in Global RNA-Protein Metabolism during Ageing Cause Alteration in RNA-RBP Properties Sheena Radford , University of Leeds, United Kingdom How Does an IDP Assemble into Amyloid? Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies Subgroup Chair : Tatiana Mishanina , University of California, San Diego, USA Speakers Juli Feigon , University of California, Los Angeles, USA Structural Biology of Telomerase Mechanism, Interactions, and Assembly Alireza Ghanbarpour , Washington University in St Louis, USA Regulation of ATP-Dependent Proteolysis by Membrane-Anchored Assemblies Jin Young Kang , Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technol ogy (KAIST), South Korea Structural Basis of a Transcription-Regulating RNA Element, HK022 put Abhishek Singharoy , Arizona State University, USA Molecular and Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Rotatory Catal ysis in Molecular Motors Terence Strick , École Normale Supérieure de Paris, France Tug of War: A Mechanistic Basis for R-Loop Formation by Tran scribing RNA Polymerase Akanksha Thawani , University of California, Berkeley, USA Genetic Architects: How the LINE-1 Retrotransposon Crafts the Human Genome Mechanobiology Subgroup Chair : Amit Pathak , Washington University, USA Speakers Daniel Cohen , Princeton University, USA Adventures in Cellular Herding: Controlling Collective Cell Biophysics Stephanie Fraley , University of California, San Diego, USA How Cells Sense Degradability Jianping Fu , University of Michigan, USA Bioengineering Human Embryo and Organ Models

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