Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2024

Annual Meeting

Nanoscale Approaches to Biology Subgroup Chair: Fang Huang , Purdue University, USA Speakers Luke Lavis , Janelia Research Campus, USA Building Brighter Fluorophores for Single-Molecule Imaging and Beyond Sandrine Lévêque-Fort , ISMO-CNRS-Université Paris Saclay, France In Depth 3D Single Molecule Localization Microscopy of Multiple Targets with Time Modulated Illumination Amit Meller , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Separating and Fingerprinting Full-Length Proteins in Silicon Nano-Channels, One Molecule at the Time Thomas D. Pollard , Yale University, USA How We Bridged from Nanoscale to Motions of Live Cells Maria Spies , The University of Iowa, USA Configurational Dynamics of the Replication Protein A in Cellular Decision Making Quan Wang , NIH, USA Precision Single-Molecule FRET and Charge Sensing with an Anti-Brownian Trap Physical Cell Biology Subgroup Chair: Shiladitya Banerjee , Carnegie Mellon Univer sity, USA 2025 Program Chair: Jian Liu , Johns Hopkins University, USA Speakers Kiyoshi Mizuuchi , NIH, USA Push Toward Decoding the Molecular Architecture of a Reac tion-Diffusion System: Bacterial Cytokinesis Position Control by the Min-System Simone Reber , Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany Cell State-Specific Cytoplasmic Material Properties Control Spindle Architecture and Scaling Ulrich Schwarz , University of Heidelburg, Germany Physical Constraints for Cell Migration: From Crawling to Gliding Sebastian Streichan , University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Physics of Living Matter: From Molecule to Embryo

Christina Huechen , University of California, San Diego, USA Gliding and Invasion of Toxoplasma gondii Tarun Kapoor , The Rockefeller University, USA KEYNOTE TALK: Regulating When and Where a Microtubule As sembles: Put a g-Tubulin Ring on It Benjamin Larson , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Principles of Cellular Behavior: Integrating Cellular Structure, Dy namics, and Decision Making in a Unicellular Walker James Spudich , Stanford University School of Medicine, USA From Fundamental Biochemistry and Biophysics to Mechanisms to Unique Medicines Ahmet Yildiz , University of California, Berkeley, USA Regulation of Microtubule Motors by MAPs Multiscale Genome Organization Subgroup Co-Chairs: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara , Cambridge University, United Kingdom, and Michael Poirier , Ohio State University, USA 2025 Program Chair: Davit Potoyan , Iowa State University, USA Speakers Lu Bai , Penn State University, USA Condensin Accelerates Intra-chromosomal Encounter in G1 Yeast Cells Rob McGinty , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Structural Mechanisms of Nucleosome Lysine Demethylation Anna Panchenko , Queen’s University, Canada Histone Mutations and Modifications Can Disrupt Function across Different Levels of Chromatin Organization Serena Sanulli , Stanford University, USA Regulation and Function of HP1 Compartments Shoji Takada , Kyoto University, Japan Multiscale Modeling to Study the Interplay of Genome Organiza tion and Transcription Regulation Marcus Woodworth , University of Pennsylvania, USA Visualizing Chromatin States in Native Contexts using Expansion Microscopy

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