Biophysical Society Newsletter - November 2014

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2014

NOVEMBER

Motility Samantha Harris , University of Arizona, and Jeffrey R. Moore , Boston University School of Medicine, Subgroup Co-Chairs Erika Holzbaur , Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Both Competition and Coordination among Opposing Motors Regulate Organelle Motility Richard McKenney , University of California, San Francisco Multiplex Regulation of Cytoplasmic Dynein Motility Joe Muretta , University of Minnesota Mapping Myosin’s Structural Kinetic Landscape for Basic and Therapeutic Discovery 3:30 pm Subgroup Business Meeting Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan , University of Michigan Nano-patterning Myosin Motors to Dissect Collective Cellular Function Christine Cremo , University of Nevada School of Medicine The Kinetics Underlying the Velocity of Smooth Muscle Myosin Filament Sliding on Actin Filaments in Vitro David Warshaw , University of Vermont Crossing the Bridge Between Muscle Contraction and Intracellular Cargo Transport Nanoscale Biophysics Laura Finzi , Emory University, Subgroup Chair Jeff Gelles , Brandeis University Nanoscale control of Actin Polymerization by a Formin-Capping Protein ‘Decision-Making’ Complex at the Filament Barbed End

Victoria Birkedal , Aarhus University, Denmark Single Molecule FRET Analysis of Nucleic Acid Structures Tom Perkins , University of Colorado, Boulder Ultrastable AFM: Improved Stability, Precision, and Bandwidth for Bio-AFM Hong Wang , North Carolina State University Revealing Structure and Dynamics of Telomere Maintenance Proteins on DNA: One Molecule at a Time Wesley Wong , Harvard University/Boston Children’s Hospital Revealing the Mechanical Regulation of Hemostasis with Novel Approaches in Single-Molecule Manipulation Amit Meller , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Native Proteins Characterization Using Nanopores Vahid Sandoghdar , Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany Label-free Optical Detection of Single Nanoscopic Bioparticles Permeation and Transport Emad Tajkhorshid , University of Illinois, Voltage-gated Sodium Channels: Structure and Function of Complexes with Sodium Channel Blockers Rajini Rao , Johns Hopkins University An Inside Job: Na + /H + Exchangers Link Endosomal pH to Neurological Disorders Mounir Tarek , CNRS/ University of Lorraine, France Conduction in Connexin Hemichannels from Molecular Dynamics Simulations Urbana-Champaign, Subgroup Chair Bonnie Wallace , University of London