Biophysical Society - July 2014 Newsletter

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2014

JULY

59 th Annual Meeting February 7-11, 2015  Baltimore, Maryland

The 2015 Annual Meeting program highlights computational advances, scientific discoveries, methodological breakthroughs, and emerging technologies in the many diverse areas of biophysics. In particular, our program naturally celebrates the 2015 UN International Year of Light with symposia showing spectacular advances in imaging spanning molecular and cellular length scales. — Enrique De La Cruz and Karen Fleming , Program Co-Chairs

Symposia

Adam Frost , University of Utah Siewert-Jan Marrink , University of Groningen, The Netherlands Catalysis in the Membrane Jochen Zimmer , University of Virginia, Chair Elizabeth Carpenter , Oxford University, United Kingdom Jochen Zimmer , University of Virginia Edith Hummler , Lausanne University, Switzerland Ya Ha , Yale University Regulated Protein Bridges Connecting Membranes: STIM Proteins in Cellular Signaling Richard Lewis , Stanford University, Chair Murali Prakriya , Northwestern University Barbara Niemeyer , Saarland University, Germany Patrick Hogan , La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology Neurostransmitter Transporters Olga Boudker , Weill Cornell Medical College, Chair Chirstof Grewer , SUNY Binghamton Satinder Kauer Singh , Yale University Michael Kavanaugh , University of Montana Membrane Trafficking Kerney Jebrell Glover , Lehigh University, Chair Lois Weisman , University of Michigan Jenny Hinshaw , NIH Alexander Kros , Leiden University, The Netherlands

Protein Evolution and Allosteric Networks Corey Wilson , Yale University, Chair Elizabeth Komives , University of California, San Diego Janet Thornton , European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom Joe Thornton , University of Oregon Extremophiles: Testing the Physical Limits of Living Systems Catherine Royer , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chair Lorna Dougan , University of Leeds, United Kingdom Douglas Bartlett , University of California, San Diego Georges Feller , University of Liège, Belgium Epigenetics Lene Oddershede , University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Chair Michael Fried , University of Kentucky Aleksandra Walczak , École Normale Supérieure, France Joan-Ramon Daban , Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Biophysics of RNA Processing: Degradation, Splicing, DEAD Box Proteins Sun Hur , Harvard University, Chair Anna Mallam , University of Texas at Austin Dagmar Klostermeier , University of Münster, Germany Sanjay Tyagi , Rutgers University Nanoclustering of Membranes and Membrane Proteins Ka Yee Lee , University of Chicago, Chair Martin Lohse , University of Würzburg, Germany

Molecules of Memory: Glutamate Receptor Channels Mark Mayer , NIH, Chair Robert Oswald , Cornell University Gabriella Popescu , University of Buffalo Pierre Paoletti , CNRS, IBENS, France