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The Biophysical Society's Subgroups hold symposia that allow attendees to meet and interact within focused areas.  Subgroup symposia will be held on the first day of the Annual Meeting, Saturday, February 15, 2020. The Saturday Subgroup programs are heavily attended and include exciting scientific symposia, awards presentations, student and postdoc talks, and business meetings, which are open to members of each subgroup. 

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For those attending subgroup symposia, registration will be open on Friday and Saturday for badge pick-up prior to the subgroup sessions. Registration for the Annual Meeting is required to attend the subgroup symposia.

 

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Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies

Subgroup Chair: Seychelle Vos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM – 12:30 PM  PST

Symposium Room:  Room 209/210/211 

Business Meeting:  12:15PM - 12:25 PM PST

 

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Bostjan Kobe, The University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Using a Combination of Structural Biology Approaches to Characterize the TIR-Domain Signalosom

 

8:55 AM Doreen Matthies, NIH, USA
Structure and Function of Magnesium Translocation Systems

 

9:15 AM Student/Postdoc Talk 1

 

9:45 AM Trinity Cookis, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Structural Diversity of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Subtypes

 

10:05 AM Break

 

10:20 AM Michelle Wang, Cornell, USA
DNA Topology during Transcription through Chromatin

 

10:40 AM Kliment Verba, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Structures of the PI3K/KRas Complex on Lipid Bilayers Reveal the Molecular Mechanism of PI3K Activation

 

11:00 AM Student/Postdoc Talk 2

 

11:20 AM Carina de Oliveira Mann, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Immune Recognition of Nucleic Acids: Mechanistic Insights from Cryo-EM

 

11:40 AM  Michael Lawson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Defining the Dynamics of Ribosomal Disassembly

 

12:15 PM Business Meeting

 

12:25 PM Closing Remarks





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