Biophysical Society Conference | Tahoe 2023

Proton Reactions: From Basic Science to Biomedical Applications

Daily Schedule

Session VI

Proton Transfer Reactions at Heterogeneous Interfaces Chair: Alexei Stuchebrukhov, University of California, Davis, USA

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Paul Champion, Northeastern University, USA * Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in Proton Wires

5:30 PM – 5:50 PM

Florian Brünig, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Young Investigator Talk) Spectral Signatures of Excess-Proton Waiting and Transfer-Path Dynamics Nadav Amdursky, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel New Insights on Proton Transport in Biosystems Using a Light- Triggered Proton Donor and Solid-State Protonic Devices

5:50 PM – 6:20 PM

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Dinner

Granhall/Garden Deck

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Poster Session I

Tuesday, August 22, 2023 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Breakfast

Granhall

8:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Registration/Information

Ballroom Pre-Fucntion

Session VII

pH- and Voltage-Dependent Proton Reactions at Membrane Interfaces Chair: Kalina Hristova, Johns Hopkins University, USA Zhi Yue, University of Chicago, USA * Conformational Changes and the Role of Internal Glutamate in the C1-H+ Antiporters

8:50 AM – 9:00 AM

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

William Wimley, Tulane University, USA Peptide Nanopores are Stabilized by a Cooperative Hydrogen-Bond Network Yasushi Okamura, Osaka University, Japan Activities of Voltage-Gated Proton Channels on Intracellular Membranes

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Peter Pohl, University of Linz, Austria Interfacial Proton Diffusion

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Coffee Break

Ballroom Pre-Function

Session VI II

Regulation of pH Dynamics in Cells, and pH-Regulated Membrane Reactions Chair: Helmut Grubmüller, Max Plank Institute, Germany

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Kalina Hristova, Johns Hopkins University, USA Charge-Induced Bias in EGFR Signal Transduction Across the Plasma Membrane Diane Barber, University of California, San Francisco, USA How Intracellular pH Dynamics Regulate Cell Behaviors

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

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