Program Book

10:45 am –12:45 pm 10:45 am –12:45 pm 10:45 am –12:45 pm

Platform: DNA Structure and Dynamics Platform: Membrane-active Peptides and Toxins

Room 304 Room 305 Room 306 Room 123

Platform: Microtubules and Motors

Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies SURFE2R - Catch the Wave for Transporters Precise Measurements of Membrane Transporter Protein Activity Postdoc to Faculty Q&A: Transitions Forum and Luncheon

11:00 am –12:30 pm

12:00 pm –2:00 pm 12:30 pm –2:00 pm 1:00 pm –2:00 pm

Room 124/125

Career Opportunities at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: Finding a Job and Finding Success

Room 310 Room 302 Room 123

Networking with Minority Biophysicists: Resources and Opportunities Exhibitor Presentation: Molecular Devices, LLC Axon Electrophysiology Symposium: Getting the Most out of pCLAMP Software

1:00 pm –2:30 pm

1:30 pm –2:30 pm 1:45 pm –3:00 pm 1:45 pm –3:45 pm 2:15 pm –3:30 pm

Science and Policy with Steven Chu

Room 304

Snack Break

Hall D Hall D

Poster Presentations and Late Posters

The Basics, the Discoveries, and the Controversies: Membrane Protein Structure and Dynamics Career CenterWorkshop:What toDoWhenYou AreTired of DoingWhat You Are Doing: A Unique Interactive Workshop for Experienced Workers

Room 301 Room 300

2:30 pm –3:30 pm

2:30 pm –4:30 pm

PhD Careers Beyond the Bench

Room 309 Room 123

Exhibitor Presentation: GE Healthcare The Devil is in the Detail: The Importance of Accurate Stability and Concentration Determination in Biomolecular Interaction Analysis

3:00 pm –4:30 pm

3:00 pm –5:00 pm

Education Committee Meeting

Room 122

Symposium: Structural Dynamics of Molecular Machines Co-Chairs: Julio Fernandez, Columbia University , and Yasmine Meroz, Harvard University

Room 134

POSTTRANSLATIONALMODIFICATIONS ASMODULATORS OFMECHANICAL PROTEIN FOLDING. Julio Fernandez A ZOO OF SLOW DYNAMICS. Yasmine Meroz DIRECTMEASUREMENTS OFTRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING ANDDISSOCIATION AT INDIVIDUAL CHROMOSOMAL OPERATORS. Johan Elf ClpX, A STOCHASTIC PROTEIN UNFOLDING AND TRANSLOCATION MACHINE. Robert T. Sauer Symposium: Molecular Self-Assembly-from in Vitro to Cellular Systems Co-Chairs: Roy Bar-Ziv,Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel , and Suzanne Gaudet, Harvard Medical School SYMMETRY-BASED DESIGN AND STRUCTURE OF SELF-ASSEMBLING PROTEIN CAGES AND NANOMATERIALS. Todd O. Yeates SEQUESTERED: MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY OF BACTERIAL MICROCOMPARTMENTS. David Savage LEVERAGING CELL-TO-CELL VARIABILITY TO UNDERSTAND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION NETWORKS. Suzanne Gaudet TOWARDS ARTIFICIAL CELLS IN 2D. Roy Bar-Ziv QM/MM METHODS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATION TO MEMBRANE PROTEINS AND MOLECULAR MOTORS. Qiang Cui HYDROGENTUNNELING, ELECTROSTATICS, AND CONFORMATIONAL MOTIONS IN ENZYME CATALYSIS. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer USING QUANTUM MECHANICS IN BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURE REFINEMENT. Kenneth M. Merz CLASSICAL ANDMIXED QUANTUMMECHANICAL/MOLECULAR MECHANICAL (QM/MM) SIMULATIONS OF G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTORS. Ursula Rothlisberger Room 135 Symposium: Applications of Quantum Mechanics to Biophysical Problems Co-Chairs: Qiang Cui, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Room 130/131

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

4:00 pm –6:00 pm

4:00 pm –6:00 pm 4:00 pm –6:00 pm 4:00 pm –6:00 pm 4:00 pm –6:00 pm 4:00 pm –6:00 pm

Platform: Excitation-Contraction Coupling

Room 132/133

Platform: Other Channels Platform: Force Spectroscopy Platform: Membrane Dynamics

Room 303 Room 304 Room 305 Room 306

Platform: Muscle: Fiber and Molecular Mechanics and Structure

116

Biophysical Society 58 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California