Biophysical Society Newsletter | November 2017

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2017

NOVEMBER

Subgroup Saturday Annual Meeting Symposia

The Society’s 15 subgroups, including the newly formed Cell Biophysics Subgroup will hold symposia and business meetings on Saturday, February 17, 2018, in San Francisco, California. For complete session information for each subgroup visit www.biophysics.org/2018meeting.

Bioenergetics Subgroup Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Jonas , Yale University, and George Porter , University of Rochester, Subgroup Co-Chairs Morning Symposium: Mitochondrial Signaling in Neurodegeneration Program Co-Chairs: Tatiana Rostovtseva , National Institutes of Health, and Elizabeth Jonas , Yale University Zu-Hang Sheng , National Institutes of Health Mitochondrial Transport and Energy Homeostasis in Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration Philip Morgan , University of Washington Mitochondrial Effects on Anesthetic Sensitivity and Anesthetic- Induced Neurodegeneration Michelangelo Campanella , University of London, UK Neurodegenerative Loss of Mitochondrial Quality via the 18kDa Protein TSPO Tatiana Rostovtseva , National Institutes of Health Alpha-Synuclein-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Role of Vdac and Membrane Composition Mark Cookson , National Institutes of Health Kinase Signaling and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Familial Parkinson’s Disease Afternoon Symposium: Energy Signaling and Interorganellar Communication Program Co-Chairs: Karin Busch , University of Munster, Germany, and Miguel Aon , National Institutes of Health Katayoon Dehesh , University of California, Riverside Title not yet available Sally Mackenzie , University of Nebraska, Lincoln Choreography of Plastidial Retrograde Signaling Network in Interorganellar Communication Angelika Rambold , Max Planck Institute, Germany

Bioengineering Subgroup Chair: Jonathan Rocheleau , University of Toronto, Canada Julio M. Fernandez , Columbia University Protein Folding as a Major Source of Mechanical Work in Physiology Anne S. Robinson , Tulane University Role of Cholesterol in Adenosine A2A Receptor Activity Thorsten Wohland , National University of Singapore Light Sheet Spectroscopy for the Investigation of Biofilms Stuart G. Campbell , Yale University Engineering-Based Approaches to Understanding, Diagnosing, and Treating Inherited Cardiomyopathies Arne Gericke , Worcester Polytechnic Institute Microfluidic Tool for the in Vitro Characterization of Lipid Gradients in Biological Membranes Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Chair: Michelle Digman , University of California, Irvine Sara Abrahamsson , University of California, Santa Cruz Fast 3D Superresolution Microscopy with Multifocus SIM Arnaud Gautier , École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Hybrid Fluorescent Markers for Reporting and Biosensing on Demand Reto Fiolka , University of Texas, Southwestern Quantitative Imaging of Cellular Morphodynamics and Signal- ing with Light-Sheet Microscopy Alexa Mattheyses , University of Alabama, Birmingham Bridging the Gap: Protein Order and Organization in Cell Adhesion Laura Marcu , University of California, Davis Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques for Biomedical Applications David Piston , University of Washington in St. Louis Resolving Dopamine Receptor Dynamics with Spatial, Temporal, and Spectral Sampling

Organelles Driving Immunometabolism Tobias Walther , Harvard Medical School Title not yet available