Biophysical Society Newsletter - July 2015

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2015

JULY

About the Program The 2016 Annual Meeting program highlights scientific discoveries, methodological break- throughs, and emerging technologies in the areas of biophysics. Symposia will feature traditional strengths of the Society, including advances in multi-scale imaging, mechano-sensing and -signaling, membrane biophysics, computational studies, and systems biology. Additionally, we are particularly excited about novel symposia that focus on optogenetics, biomimetic models of the cytoskeleton, biophysics of the immune system, and a special symposium jointly sponsored with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine that bridges molecular biophysics with clinical applications. 2016 Program Co-Chairs — Vasanthi Jayaraman, University of Texas Health Science Center — Michael Ostap, University of Pennsylvania Jonathon Howard , Yale University, Chair Daniela Nicastro , Brandeis University Masahide Kikkawa , University of Tokyo, Japan Raymond Goldstein , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Biomimetic Models for the Study of Cytoskeletal Organization Kinneret Keren , Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Chair Petra Schwille, Max Planck Institute, Germany Andreas Bausch , Technische Universität München, Germany David Warshaw , University of Vermont Symposia Structure and Motion of Cilia and Flagella

Mechanosensing and Mechanosignaling in Muscle Olga Mayans , University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, Chair Miklos Kellermayer , Semmelweis University, Hungary Ye Chen-Izu , University of California, Davis Benjamin Prosser , University of Pennsylvania Emerging Techniques for the Study of Cell Mechanics Amy Rowat , University of California, Los Angeles, Chair Dyche Mullins , University of California, San Francisco Jochen Guck , TU Dresden, Germany Todd Sulchek , Georgia Tech Multi-Scale Correlative Imaging Techniques Jacob Hoogenboom , Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Chair Carolyn Larabell , University of California, San Francisco Melike Lakadamyali , ICFO, Spain Eric Betzig , HHMI, Janelia Farms Research Folding Rates and Routes: Defining Principles Jane Clarke , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Chair Rohit Pappu , Washington University in St. Louis Feng Gai , University of Pennsylvania Thomas Kiefhaber , Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

DavidE.Shaw D.E.ShawResearch National Lecturer

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MolecularMovies:Feature-Length SimulationsofProteinDynamics

Subgroup Saturday

2016 ProgramCommittee

Vasanthi Jayaraman ,University of TexasHealth ScienceCenter,Co-Chair MichaelOstap ,University of Pennsylvania,Co-Chair EnriqueDe LaCruz ,YaleUniversity Karen Fleming , JohnsHopkinsUniversity OlgaBoudker ,WeillCornellMedicalCollege SamanthaHarris ,University ofArizona

Join colleaguesandhear the latest research in these focused communities.

• BIOENERGETICS • BIOENGINEERING • BIOLOGICAL FLUORESCENCE • BIOPOLYMERS INVIVO • CRYO-EM

• MEMBRANESTRUCTURE &ASSEMBLY • MOLECULARBIOPHYSICS • MOTILITY • NANOSCALEBIOPHYSICS • PERMEATION&TRANSPORT

• EXOCYTOSIS&ENDOCYTOSIS • INTRINSICALLYDISORDERED PROTEINS • MECHANOBIOLOGY • MEMBRANEBIOPHYSICS

DavidRueda , ImperialCollege of London,UnitedKingdom Antoine vanOijen ,University ofWollongong,Australia ClaudiaVeigel , LudwigMaximillianUniversity,Germany

Symposia

Discover thebreadthand interdisciplinarityofbiophysics.

Pentameric Ligand-gated IonChannels: New Insights from Structure and Function CynthiaCzajkowski ,University of Wisconsin-Madison,Chair RaduAricescu ,University ofOxford, UnitedKingdom ClaudioGrosman ,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michaela Jansen , Texas TechUniversity Health ScienceCenter Lipid Flippases RaimundDutzler ,University of Zurich, Switzerland,Chair AlessioAccardi ,WeillCornellMedicalCollege Kaspar Locher , ETH Zurich, Switzerland Dieter Langosch , TechnischeUniversität München,Germany Voltage Sensing andGating Peter Larsson ,University ofMiami,Chair Francesco Tombola ,University of California, Irvine CrinaNimigean ,WeillCornellMedicalCollege FranciscoBezanilla ,University ofChicago MolecularMechanismsof Mechanosensation Robert Fettiplace ,University ofWisconsin- Madison,Chair DanielMinor ,University ofCalifornia, San Francisco BorisMartinac ,VictorChangCardiac Research Institute,Australia DavidCorey ,HarvardMedical School MultiscaleBiophysicsofMembranes FelixGoñi , BasqueCountryUniversity, Spain, Chair Suzi Jarvis ,UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland Erwin London , Stony BrookUniversity Ilya Levental ,University of TexasMedical School

DNANanostructures forBiophysics William Shih ,HarvardUniversity,Chair LuluQian ,Caltech UlrichKeyser ,UniversityofCambridge, UnitedKingdom PengYin ,HarvardUniversity Crowding andOrder in theGenome JohnMarko ,NorthwesternUniversity,Chair MariaCarmo-Fonseca ,University of Lisbon, Portugal MelissaMoore ,University ofMassachusetts Medical School IbrahimCisse ,MIT Optogenetics inNeuroscience EdwardBoyden ,MIT,Chair Dirk Trauner , LudwigMaximiliansUniversity München,Germany John Spudich ,University of TexasHealth Medical School VivianaGradinaru ,Caltech ExpandingHorizons inBiophysics and Medical Physics:Bridging the Scales from Molecules andCells toClinicalApplications Robert Jeraj ,University ofWisconsin-Madison, Chair Brian Pogue ,DartmouthCollege David Jaffray ,University of Toronto,Canada JenniferCurtis ,Georgia Tech

Structure andMotionofCilia and Flagella JonathonHoward ,YaleUniversity,Chair DanielaNicastro , BrandeisUniversity MasahideKikkawa ,University of Tokyo, Japan RaymondGoldstein ,UniversityofCambridge, UnitedKingdom BiomimeticModels for the Studyof CytoskeletalOrganization KinneretKeren , Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,Chair Petra Schwille ,Max Planck Institute,Germany AndreasBausch , TechnischeUniversität München,Germany DavidWarshaw ,University ofVermont Mechanosensing andMechanosignaling inMuscle OlgaMayans ,University of Liverpool,United Kingdom,Chair MiklosKellermayer , SemmelweisUniversity, Hungary YeChen-Izu ,University ofCalifornia,Davis Benjamin Prosser ,Universityof Pennsylvania Emerging Techniques for the Studyof CellMechanics AmyRowat ,University ofCalifornia, LosAngeles,Chair DycheMullins ,UniversityofCalifornia, San Francisco JochenGuck , TUDresden,Germany Todd Sulchek ,Georgia Tech Multi-ScaleCorrelative Imaging Techniques JacobHoogenboom ,DelftUniversity of Technology, TheNetherlands,Chair Carolyn Larabell ,University ofCalifornia, San Francisco Melike Lakadamyali , ICFO, Spain EricBetzig ,HHMI, Janelia Farms Research FoldingRates andRoutes: Defining Principles JaneClarke ,UniversityofCambridge,United Kingdom,Chair Rohit Pappu ,WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis FengGai ,University of Pennsylvania ThomasKiefhaber ,Martin-LutherUniversität Halle-Wittenberg,Germany Computational and Experimental Approaches to ProteinDesign RamaRanganathan ,University of Texas, Southwestern,Chair PatrickBarth , BaylorCollege ofMedicine AmyKeating ,MIT JesseBloom , FredHutchinsonCancer ResearchCenter

ChemomechanicalCoupling in ImmuneResponse JayGroves ,University ofCalifornia, Berkeley,Chair Cheng Zhu ,Georgia Tech MariaGarcia Parajo , ICFO, Spain BarbaraBaird ,CornellUniversity

Synthetic and SystemsBiology Pamela Silver ,HarvardUniversity,Chair Mary Teruel , StanfordUniversity CynthiaCollins , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jim Ferrell , StanfordUniversity SignalingComplexes andDynamics HaoWu ,HarvardMedical School,Chair AndrewBrooks ,University ofQueensland, Australia Renhao Li , EmoryUniversity AlemayehuGorfe ,University of Texas Medical School

P-ATPases: Structure,Mechanism, andDisease

DavidGadsby , RockefellerUniversity,Chair PoulNissen ,AarhusUniversity,Denmark JoséM.Arguello ,Worcester Polytech Institute RajiniRao , JohnsHopkinsUniversity

Workshops

Learnabout thenewest techniquesand theirapplications.

Methods for Tracking Single- BiomoleculeMobility,Clustering, andConformational State Keith Lidke ,University ofNew Mexico,Chair MaximeDahan , InstitutCurie, France RaimundOber , TexasA&MUniversity TaekjipHa ,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ComputationalMethods for Ion Permeation and Selectivity MariaKurnikova ,CarnegieMellon University,Chair BenoitRoux ,University ofChicago DirkGillespie , RushUniversity MedicalCenter Ulrich Zachariae ,University of Dundee,UnitedKingdom

Frontiers inBiophysical InstrumentationDevelopment JoergBewersdorf ,YaleUniversity, Chair Gabriel Popescu ,University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign Thomas T. Perkins ,Universityof Colorado, Boulder Gabriela Schlau-Cohen ,MIT

Time-resolvedCrystallography PhilipAnfinrud ,NIH,Chair Petra Fromme ,Arizona State University Marius Schmidt ,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee KeithMoffat ,University ofChicago

Abstract TopicCategories

Abstract PresentationOptions

Presentyour researchduring this interactive,multidisciplinemeeting.

• SYSTEMSBIOLOGY • BIOPHYSICSOFNEUROSCIENCE • NEWDEVELOPMENTS IN BIOPHYSICALTECHNIQUES • BIOENGINEERING& BIOMATERIALS • BIOPHYSICSEDUCATION

• PROTEINS • NUCLEICACIDS

Posters • Over900 scientificposters presenteddaily

Platforms • More than500 speakers selected forplatformpresentations from among submittedabstracts • Platformpresentations showcase younger speakers

• LIPIDBILAYERS&MEMBRANES • CELLPHYSIOLOGY&BIOPHYSICS • CHANNELS • CYTOSKELETON,MOTILITY&MOTORS • BIOENERGETICS

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OVER 7,000 ATTENDEES • MORE THAN 4,500 ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS • 950 POSTER PRESENTATIONS DAILY • 100 SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

Look for your copy of the Call for Papers in your mailbox.

Computational and Experimental Approaches to Protein Design Rama Ranganathan , University of Texas, Southwestern, Chair Patrick Barth , Baylor College of Medicine Amy Keating , MIT Jesse Bloom , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center DNA Nanostructures for Biophysics William Shih , Harvard University, Chair Lulu Qian , Caltech Ulrich Keyser , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Peng Yin , Harvard University