Biophysical Society Newsletter | November 2017

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2017

NOVEMBER

Wesley Wong , Harvard University Exploring Nanoscale Biomechanics with Parallel Force Spectroscopy Ilya Finkelstein , University of Texas, Austin Genome-scale Biophysical Profiling of CRISPR Interference Alexandre Persat , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Bacterial Mechanosensing with Type IV Pili Thomas Perkins , University of Colorado Improving AFM Reveals a Multitude of Hidden Dynamics in the Unfolding of a Membrane Protein Madoka Suzuki , Waseda University, Japan Imaging of Heat Production and Heat-mediated Contraction in Single Muscle Cells Justin Benesch , University of Oxford, UK Quantitative Native Mass Spectrometry: Weighing-up the Evolution of Protein Self-Assembly Motility & Cytoskeleton Subgroup Co-Chairs: Carolyn Moores , University of London, Birkbeck College, UK, and Kristen Verhey , University of Michigan Medical School Gregory Alushin , Rockefeller University Cytoskeletal Structural Plasticity in Force Generation and Mechanosensation Tim Clausen , Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria Keeping Muscle Myosin in Shape Wallace Marshall , University of California, San Francisco Flagellar Length Control System: A Paradigm for Organelle Size Regulation Etsuko Muto , RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan How Do Microtubules Activate Kinesin and Dynein ATPase Activity Weihong Qiu , Oregon State University The Kinesin-14 GiKin14a Achieves Long-Distance Minus-End- directed Motility via Its N-Terminal Nonmotor Microtubule- binding Tail Margot Quinlan , University of California, Los Angeles Cytoskeletal Control of Cell Polarity in the Drosophila Oocyte Samara Reck-Peterson , University of California, San Diego Mechanisms of Regulating Cytoplasmic Dynein

Marija Zanic , Vanderbilt University Dynamics of Microtubule Minus Ends Nanoscale Biophysics

Subgroup Chair: Wesley Wong , Harvard University Stephen Kowalczykowski , University of California, Davis Watching Individual Molecules: Understanding Biology from Stochastic Behavior Shimon Weiss , University of California, Los Angeles Progress in Developing (Single) Inorganic Voltage Nanosensors Jens Gundlach , University of Washington Enzyme Studies with Single-Molecule Picometer Resolution Nanopore Tweezers, SPRNT Ozgur Sahin , Columbia University Studying Nanoscale Mechanics of Single Molecules and Cells with Atomic Force Microscopy Volkmar Heinrich , University of California, Davis Nano-to-Microscale Immunophysics: Sprawling Frontier and Foundation for Transformative Advances in Biomedicine Naomi Ginsberg , University of California, Berkeley Cathodoluminescence-activated Imaging of Nanoscale Dynamics by Resonance Energy Transfer Hendrik Dietz , Technical University of Munich, Germany Precision Measurements of Biomolecular Structures and Interactions, Supported by DNA Origami Permeation & Transport Subgroup Chair: Olga Boudker , Weill Cornell Medical College Alexander Sobolevsky , Columbia University Structure and Function of the Epithelial Calcium Channel TRPV6 Lucy Forrest , National Institutes of Health Interpretation of Spectroscopic Data for Membrane Transporters Using Simulated Conformational Ensembles Inga Hanelt , Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany Allosteric Control of the K+ Uptake System KtrAB Ryan Hibbs , University of Texas, Southwestern Structural Biology of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Christine Ziegler , Max Planck Institute, Germany How Lipids Modulate Transporter and Channel Function