Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2024

Annual Meeting

Kara Garcia , Indiana University, USA Mechanobiology in the Developing Brain: The Lasting Impact of Developmental Stress Fields on Neuronal Morphology and Tissue Organization Zev Gartner , University of California, San Francisco, USA Building Tissues to Understand How Tissues Build Themselves Johanna Ivaska , University of Turku, Finland Integrin Modulation of Cellular Mechanoresponses Pilnam Kim , Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea Rewiring Mechanocoupling of the ECM-Cytoskeleton-Nucleus Axis in a 3D Tissue-Equivalent ECM Model Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic Subgroup Chair: Jefferson Knight , University of Colorado, Denver, USA Speakers Patricia Bassereau , Institut Curie, France Mimicking ESCRT-III Induced Fission of HIV-1 Stephanie Gupton , University of North Carolina, USA Expanding the Neuronal Plasma Membrane during Development Matthew Hankins , Oxford University, United Kingdom Mprf from Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogens Is a Promiscuous Lipid Scramblase with Broad Substrate Specificity Shigeki Watanabe , Johns Hopkins University, USA Mechanisms of Short-Term Plasticity Ling-Gang Wu , NIH/NINDS, USA KATZ AWARD LECTURE: Fusion and Budding: Membrane Transfor mations, Molecular Mechanics and Functions Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup Chair: Adam W. Smith , Texas Tech University, USA Speakers Paula Booth , King’s College of London, United Kingdom Co-translational Folding of Membrane Proteins Jean Chung , Colorado State University, USA Membrane Structure in Catalysis and Reactivity of Lipid Peroxi- dation Kenichi Morigaki , Kobe University, Japan Reconstitution and Analysis of Membrane Proteins in a Micro- patterned Model Membrane

Ilpo Vatuleinin , University of Helsinki, Finland Cooperation of Lipids in the Control of Membrane Receptors Benjamin Wylie , Texas Tech University, USA Lipid Regulation of Membrane Proteins as Observed by Solid State NMR Membrane Transport Subgroup Chair: Yun Lyna Luo , Western University, Canada Speakers Rachelle Gaudet , Havard University, USA Conformational Cycle and Substrate Selectivity in Nramp-Family Metal Transporters Phil Stansfeld , University of Warwick, United Kingdom Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Cell Envelope Biogenesis Francis Valiyaveetil , Oregon Health & Science University, USA Allosteric Coupling of Ion and Substrate Binding to a Glutamate Transporter Homolog Harel Weinstein , Weill Cornell University, USA Decoding the Address System for the Shuttle Transport of Choles terol in the Cell Lejla Zubcevic , Kansas University, USA Mechanisms of TRPM5 Gating Motility and Cytoskeleton Subgroup Co-Chairs: Sophie Dumont , University of California, San Fransisco, USA, and Radhika Subramanian , Massachusetts General Hospital, USA Speakers Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan , EMBL Australia Node for Single Molecule Science, Australia Unravelling How Motors and Adaptor Proteins Work Together to Mediate Cargo Transport in Cells Charlotte Aumeier , University of Geneva, Switzerland The Dynamic Microtubule Lattice Peter Bieling , Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany Controlling Actin Dynamics at Filament Ends - Structural and Biochemical Insights Jan Brugues , Technical University Dresden, Germany Robust Cytoplasmic Partitioning by Solving an Intrinsic Cytoskele tal Instability Kyoko Chiba , FRIS, Tohoku University, Japan Biochemical and Biophysical Analysis of ALS-Associated KIF5A Mutant

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