Margaret Cheung, University of Houston, Subgroup Chair
Biopolymers in Vivo Subgroup 2012 Symposium
Saturday, February 25, 2012
San Diego, California
10:00 AM Subgroup Business Meeting
1:00 PM Subgroup Symposium: Bridging in Vivo and in Vitro Studies
1:00 Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Umea University, Sweden
Introduction & Welcome
1:05 Gary Pielak, University of North Carolina
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
1:10 Tom Record, University of Wisconsin (Keynote Speaker)
Separating Excluded Volume and Chemical Effects of PEG on DNA Helix Formation
2:00 Christine Keating, Pennsylvania State University
Phase-separating Aqueous Polymer Solutions as Simple Experimental Models for Cytoplasm
2:30 Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University
RNA Folding in Crowded Solutions
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30 Fred Etoc, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris,
Postdoc Talk: Magnetic Manipulation of Signaling "Hotspots" inside Living Cells Shows Context-Dependent Amplification of the RAC Pathway
3:45 Sangjin Kim, Yale University
Postdoc Talk: Probing Spatial Organization of MRNA in Bacterial Cells Using 3D Super-Resolution Microscopy
4:00 Huan-Xiang Zhou, Florida State University
Atomistic Simulations of Protien Folding and Binding Under Crowding
4:30 Gary Pielak, University of North Carolina
Understanding Protein and RNA Biophysics in Cells
5:00 Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego
Bacterial Growth Laws, Ribosome Allocation, and Proteome Partition
7:00 PM, Subgroup Dinner
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The Biopolymers in vivo Subgroup is grateful for the generous support from the National Science Foundation (PHY 1148598). |