Biophysical Society Newsletter | November 2017

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2017

NOVEMBER

Biopolymers in Vivo Subgroup Chair: Patricia Clark , University of Notre Dame Program Co-Chairs: D. Allan Drummond , University of Chicago, and T.Y. Dora Tang , Max Planck Institute, Germany

Yifan Cheng , University of California, San Francisco Graphene-Oxide Substrate for High-Resolution Single Particle Cryo-EM Exocytosis and Endocytosis Subgroup Chair: Dixon Woodbury , Brigham Young University Tom Kirschhausen , Harvard University Cellular Dynamics Visualized from Molecules to Organisms at Increased Spatio-Temporal Resolution Geert van den Bogaart , Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Quantitative Microscopy of Snare Complexes in Live Cells Patrik Rorsman , Oxford University, UK Type-2 Diabetes - A Fusion Pore Disease? Michael Tamkun , Colorado State University Trafficking at Endoplasmic Reticulum/Plasma Membrane Contact Sites Katalin Toth , Laval University, Canada Vesicle Heterogeneity and Different Modes of Synaptic Transmission

Keynote Lecture Geraldine Seydoux , Johns Hopkins University RNA Granules: Liquids or Active Condensates? Alex Holehouse , Washington University

A General Framework for Predicting and Understanding Sequence-encoded Phase Diagrams of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Michelle Meyer , Boston College Re-inventing RNA Regulators: The Structural Plasticity of RNA Structure in RNA-Protein Regulatory Interactions Martin Egli , Vanderbilt University PS2 RNA: SAR and Biophysics Irene Chen , University of California, Santa Barbara Evolution and Encapsulation of Functional RNA Keynote Lecture John Chaput , University of California, Irvine Extending the Concepts of Heredity and Evolution to Artificial Genetic Polymers Cryo-EM Subgroup Chair: Tamir Gronen , Howard Hughes Medical Institute Elizabeth Villa , University of California, San Diego Opening Windows into the Cell: Bringing Structure to Cell Biology Using Cryo-Electron Tomography Adam Frost , University of California, San Francisco Structural Basis of Mitochondrial Receptor Binding and GTP- driven Conformational Constriction by Dynamin-related Protein 1 Naoko Mizuno , Max Planck Institute, Germany Structural Biology of Cell Shape Formation Gabriel Lander , Scripps Research Institute How Low Can You Go? Size and Resolution Limits Using Conventional Cryo-EM at 200keV Brenda Schulman , Max Planck Institute, Germany Cryo-EM Studies Capturing Dynamic Intermediates in Ubiquitin Conjugation

Sir Bernard Katz Award Speaker Manfred Lindau , Cornell University The Mystery of the Fusion Pore

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup Chair: Subgroup Chair: Jean Baum , Rutgers University Daniel Raleigh , Stony Brook University The Biophysics of Amyloidosis Induced Cell Death

Sarah Shammas , University of Oxford, UK Binding Reactions of Disordered Proteins Hue Sun Chan , University of Toronto

Conformational Heterogeneity and Theory of Sequence-specific Functional Phase Separation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Hoi Sung Chung , National Institutes of Health Probing Folding and Conformational Dynamics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by Single-Molecule FRET Frauke Gräter , Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany Handshake or High-Five? Two Distinct Modes of Nucleoprin- Receptor Binding