Biophysical Society Newsletter | November 2017

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2017

NOVEMBER

Peter Wright , The Scripps Research Institute Allosteric Regulation of Cellular Signaling Pathways by Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Mechanobiology Subgroup Chair: Alex Dunn , Stanford University Daniel Fletcher , University of California, Berkeley Shaping Actin Network Organization and Composition with Force Vernita Gordon , University of Texas, Austin Bacteria Sense Mechanical Force as a Cue to Form a Pathogenic Biofilm Sevan Hopyan , University of Toronto, Canada Volumetric Morphogenesis in the Mouse Embryo Kristy Red-Horse , Stanford University Blood Flow Stimulated Behaviors that Regulate Artery Size and Shape Shelly Tzlil , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Elastic-mediated Interactions between Cells: Mechanical Communication in Cardiac Cell Beating Andrés García , Georgia Institute of Technology Synthetic Hydrogels for Mechanotransduction Xavier Trepat , Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain Physical Forces Driving Migration, Division, and Folding in Epithelial Sheets Membrane Biophysics Subgroup Chair: Jose Faraldo-Gomez , National Institutes of Health Baron Chanda , University of Wisconsin, Madison Generalized Interaction Energy Analysis (GIA) Reveals Voltage Transduction Pathways in the Shaker Potassium Channel Lucie Delemotte , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden On the Selective Promiscuity of Calmodulin Joseph Mindell , National Institutes of Health Thermodynamic Methods for Measuring Transporter Stoichiometry Régis Pomès , University of Toronto, Canada Molecular Mechanisms of Ion Permeation, Selectivity, and Leakage

Simon Scheuring , Weill Cornell Medicine High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy: A New Approach to Study Channels and Transporters Tetiana Serdiuk , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland Observing Insertase-and Translocase-assisted Insertion and Folding Pathways of Single Transmembrane Transporters Jessica Swanson , University of Chicago Multiscale Kinetic Modeling of a Cl-/H+ Antiporter: Integrating Simulation and Experiment to Characterize a Complex Ion Exchange Process Membrane Structure and Assembly Subgroup Chair: Tobias Baumgart , University of Pennsylvania Linda Columbus , University of Virginia Differences between Micelles, Bicelles, and Membranes and the Impact on Membrane Protein Structure Syma Khalid , University of Southampton, UK The Cell Envelope of Gram-Negative Bacteria: The More We Know, the More We Don't Know! Alf Honigmann , Max Planck Institute, Germany Membrane Scaffolding at the Tight Junction: Superresolution and Reconstitution Markus Deserno , Carnegie Mellon University Revisiting Membrane Nano-Elasticity: Tilt, Composition, and Higher Order Headaches Sergio Grinstein , University of Toronto, Canada Receptor Mobility Is Regulated by the Cytoskeleton Connected to an Exoskeleton via Transmembrane Pickets: Role in Phagocytosis Martin Ulmschneider , Johns Hopkins University Spontaneous Assembly of Functional Membrane Proteins from Soluble Membrane Active Peptides Thompson Award Speaker Daniel Huster , University of Leipzig, Germany NMR Investigations of Lipid Chains: A Book of Tails Molecular Biophysics Subgroup Chair: Philip Kukura , Oxford University, UK Madhavi Krishnan , University of Zurich, Switzerland Single-Molecule Electrometry: A New Tool for Structure, Conformation, and Interaction Studies on Single Biomolecules in Solution