Program Book

Sunday, February 16, 2014

F R I D A Y

S A T U R D A Y U N D A Y

Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Moscone Convention Center unless noted otherwise.

7:30 am –8:30 am

Postdoctoral Breakfast

Room 302

7:30 am –5:00 pm

Registration/Exhibitor Registration

North Lobby

7:30 am –10:00 pm

Family Room

Room 112

Exhibitor Presentation: FEI Company High End Microscope Platform for Multimodal Live Cell Imaging

Room 123

8:00 am –8:45 am

8:00 am –5:30 pm

Career Center

Room 300

8:00 am –6:00 pm

Child Care

Marriott Marquis, Pacific H, I, J

8:00 am –6:00 pm

Undergraduate Student Lounge

Rotunda, 300 Level

8:00 am –10:00 pm

Poster Viewing

Hall D

Symposium: Membrane Transport in Fatty Acid Synthesis and Obesity

Room 134

Co-Chairs: Ana Pajor, University of California, San Diego , and Da-NengWang, NewYork University School of Medicine SODIUM-DEPENDENT DICARBOXYLATE AND CITRATE TRANSPORTERS OF THE SLC13 FAMILY. Ana M. Pajor STRUCTURE AND MECHANISM OF A BACTERIAL SODIUM-DEPENDENT DICARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER. Da-Neng Wang I’M NOT DEAD YET: FLIES AND MICE. Stephen Helfand IN VIVO NMR STUDIES ON THE MECHANISM OF LIPID-INDUCED INSULIN RESISTANCE IN HUMANS. Gerald I. Shulman Co-Chairs: Michael Sheetz, Columbia University, and Clare Waterman, NHLBI MECHANOSENSING BY TROPOMYOSIN-CONTROLLED MYOSIN CONTRACTIONS. Michael Sheetz MYOSIN II CONTROLS CELLULAR BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS AND MIGRATION IN 3D BY MINIMIZING PLASMA MEMBRANE CURVATURE. Clare Waterman CONTRACTILITY DRIVEN SELF-ORGANIZATION OF THE ACTIN CYTOSKELETON. Alexander D. Bershadsky DYNAMIC ORGANIZATION OF DEVELOPING EPITHELIA. Frank Julicher Symposium: Force Generation in Cell and Tissue Networks

8:15 am –10:15 am

Room 135

8:15 am –10:15 am

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Membrane Protein Structure, Dynamics, and Interactions

Room 130/131

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Voltage-gated K Channels: Activation/Inactivation Mechanisms

Room 132/133

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Protein-Lipid Interactions I

Room 303

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Biosensors

Room 304

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Membrane Receptors and Signal Transduction I

Room 305

8:15 am –10:15 am

Platform: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions I

Room 306

9:00 am –10:00 am

Career CenterWorkshop: Beyond the Bench: Preparing for Your Career Transition in the Life Sciences

Room 300

9:00 am –10:30 am

CPOW Committee Meeting

Room 122

Exhibitor Presentation: Forte Bio, A Divison of Pall Life Sciences Developing Assays for Kinetic Characterization on the BLItz System

Room 123

9:00 am –10:30 am

10:00 am –5:00 pm

Biomolecular Discovery Dome

Hall D

10:00 am –5:00 pm

Exhibits

Hall D

10:15 am –11:00 am

Coffee Break

Hall D

10:30 am –11:30 am

Career Center Workshop: Career Catalyst: Understand Who You Are to Get What You Want

Room 300

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