Biophysical Society Newsletter - November 2014

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2014

NOVEMBER

Subgroup Annual Meeting Symposia The 12 Society subgroups will hold symposia on Saturday, February 7, 2015, in Baltimore, Maryland. For complete session information for each subgroup visit http://www.biophysics.org/2015meeting/Program/Sub- groups/tabid/4872/Default.aspx. Bioenergetics Jan Hoek and Gyorgy Hajnoczky , Thomas Jefferson University, Subgroup Co-Chairs Vassilios Papadopoulos , McGill University Translocator Protein in Mitochondrial Cholesterol Transport and the Pharmacology of Steroidogenesis Marco Colombini , University of Maryland

Bax Channels: Cooperativity and Voltage Gating Jeff Abramson , University of California, Los Angeles Structure-guided Simulations Illuminate the Mechanism of ATP Transport Through VDAC1 John J. Lemasters , Medical University of South Carolina VDAC and Regulation of Mitochondrial Metabolism 5:00 pm Subgroup Business Meeting 7:00 pm Subgroup Dinner Biological Fluorescence Enrico Gratton , University of California, Irvine, Subgroup Chair Kandice Tanner , NIH Deconstructing Organogenesis Using Fluorescence Microscopy Vladislav Verkhusha , Albert Einstein College of Medicine Engineering of Bacterial Phytochromes for in Vivo Imaging Peter Walla , Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany Fluorescence Nanoscopy by Polarization Modula- tion (SPoD) and Polarization Angle Narrowing (ExPAN) Dan Larson , NIH Understanding Gene Expression Heterogeneity in Living Cells with Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy

Morning Symposium

Program Chair: Brett Kaufman , University of Pennsylvania Carlos Moraes , University of Miami Selective Targeting of mtDNA Sequences and Applications to Therapy Craig Cameron , Pennsylvania State University New Paradigms for Regulation of Human Mitochondrial Transcription Phillip West , Yale University Mitochondrial DNA Stress Primes the Antiviral Innate Immune Response Brett Kaufman , University of Pennsylvania New Insights into the Causes of Mitochondrial Genome Instability Afternoon Symposium: Mitochondrial outer membrane transport systems: structure, prop- erties, and physiological implications Program Chairs: Marco Colombini , University of Maryland; John J. Lemasters , Medical University of South Carolina Shelagh Ferguson-Miller , Michigan State University High Resolution Crystal Structures of Translocator Protein 18 kDa (TSPO) Reveal Ligand Binding Sites and Effects of a Human Single Polymorphism Yves Pommier , NIH MtDNA Topoisomerases