Symposia


Symposia Future of Biophysics New & Notable Workshops Minisymposia National Lecture US Secretary of Energy Address Scientific Exhibits 2011 Sponsors Exhibitor Presentation	Symposia Sunday, March 6 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM Ca²⁺ Regulation of Channels David Yue, Johns Hopkins University, Chair Lily Jan, University of California, San Francisco Daniel Cox, Tufts University School of Medicine Madeline Shea, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine David Yue, Johns Hopkins University Noise and Fluctuations in Biology: Where is it Important? William Bialek, Princeton University, Chair Yuhai Tu, IBM, TJ Watson Research Center Linda Kenney, University of Illinois, Chicago Herbert Levine, University of California, San Diego William Bialek, Princeton University 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Superresolution in Biology: Applications in Important Biological Problems Tomas Kirchhausen, Harvard Medical School, Chair Ethan Garner, Harvard University Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University Edward Salmon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Society would like to thank Mad City Labs, Inc., for their support of this symposium. New and Notable Jamie Williamson, The Scripps Research Institute, Chair Lawrence Lee, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia Karen Fleming, Johns Hopkins University Harel Weinstein, Weill Cornell Medical College William Moerner, Stanford University FunctionAndre Kleber, Harvard Medical School Caroline Ajo-Franklin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Takahide Kon, Osaka University, Japan 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Phospholipid Modulation of Ion Channels Bertil Hille, University of Washington, Chair Tamas Balla, NICHD, NIH Roger Hardie, University of Cambridge, UK Ann Rittenhouse, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine Allostery and Ligand Control of Function Vincent Hilser, Johns Hopkins University, Chair Kevin Gardner, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dorothy Beckett, University of Maryland, College Park David Eliezer, Weil Cornell Medical College Monday, March 7 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM Remodeling the Membrane Mark Sansom, University of Oxford, Chair Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign Vinzenz Unger, Yale University Ralf Langen, University of Southern California Syma Khalid, University of Southampton, UK Systems Biology–Control of Cellular Behaviors, Including Gradients and Feedback Mustafa Khamash, University of California, Santa Barbara, Chair Hana El-Samad, University of California, San Francisco Stanislav Shvartsman, Princeton University Olivier Cinquin, University of California, Irvine 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Cell and Tissue Mechanics and Modeling–AFM and Rheology, Small to Tissue Scale Doug Robinson, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Chair Roger Kamm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Suzanne Eaton, Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering, Germany Valerie Weaver, University of California, San Francisco 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM The Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Fund Symposium Jamie Williamson, Scripps Research Institute, Chair Thierry Emonet, Yale University Laura Miller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lucy Forrest, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Germany David Rueda, Wayne State University 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Interfaces Between Cells and the Outside World: Bioengineering Meets Biophysics Nancy Allbritton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chair Bianxiao Cui, Stanford University Charles Lieber, Harvard University Molly Stevens, Imperial College, London Nancy Allbritton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill CFTR: Structure and Function of an Anion Channel and the Molecular basis of Cystic Fibrosis David C. Dawson, Oregon Health Science University, Chair Laszlo Csanady, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary Philip Thomas, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center William Balch, The Scripps Research Institute Tuesday, March 8 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM Contributions of Network Theory to Biology Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chair David Lubensky, University of Michigan Hawoon Jeong, KAIST, South Korea Sanjay Jain, University of Delhi, India 50 Years of the Chemiosmotic Hypothesis: Open Questions Gerhard Hummer, National Institutes of Health, Chair Klaus Gerwert, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany Judy Hirst, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK Carola Hunte, University of Freiburg, Germany Gerhard Hummer, National Institutes of Health 10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Awards Symposium Congratulations to the following award winners: Emily M. Gray Award- Bertil Hille Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award- Diane Lidke 2011 Founder's Award- Attila Szabo Distinguished Service Award- Olaf Anderson US Genomics Award for Outstanding Investigator in the field of Single Molecule Biology- Toshio Yanagida Michael and Kate Barany Award- Charalampos Kalodimos Anatrace Membrane Protein Award- Shelagh Ferguson-Miller Avanti Award in Lipids- Eric Oldfield 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM 25 Years of Membrane Protein Structure Hartmut Michel, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany, Chair Eric Gouaux, Oregon Health Science University William Weis, Stanford University School of Medicine Tina Iverson, Vanderbilt University What Drives Nucleic Acid Condensation? Barbara Meyer, University of California, Berkeley, Chair Robijn Bruinsma, University of California, Los Angeles William Gelbart, University of California, Los Angeles Bela Mulder, FOM Institute AMOLF, The Netherlands Barbara Meyer, University of California, Berkeley Wednesday, March 9 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM The Alternating Access Mechanism in the Era of Transporter Structures Christopher Miller, Brandeis University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chair H.R. Kaback, University of California, Los Angeles Geoff Chang, The Scripps Research Institute Christine Ziegler, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany Molecular Motors and the Cytoskeleton: Moving to the Boundaries David Warshaw, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Chair Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Michael Welte, University of Rochester Gijsje Koenderink, FOM Institute AMOLF,The Netherlands David Warshaw, University of Vermont College of Medicine 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Single Molecule Biophysics of the Central Dogma Joseph Puglisi, Stanford University School of Medicine, Chair Sua Myong, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Vincent Croquette, CNRS Stefan Grill, Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany Joseph Puglisi, Stanford University School of Medicine Mechanotransduction at the Cellular Level: Detection and Response Michael Sheetz, Columbia University, Chair Ching Kung, University of Wisconsin Ellen Lumpkin, Baylor College of Medicine Donald Ingber, Children's Hospital Harvard Medical School Michael Sheetz, Columbia University	Quick Links