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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. 

To view a subgroup's 2020 symposium program, click on the subgroup's name. Subgroup programming details will be posted as they become available. 

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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Membrane Transport

Subgroup Chair: Seok-Yong Lee, Duke University, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 207/208  

Business Meeting:  10:40 AM - 11:00 AM PST

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Maria Kurnikova, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Molecular Modeling Reveals Functional Mechanisms and Regulation of Glutamate Receptor Complexes with Auxiliary Subunits

 

9:05 AM Student/Postdoc Talk:TBA

 

9:20 AM Robert Edwards, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Allosteric Regulation of Synaptic Vesicle Glutamate Transport

 

9:50 AM Student/Postdoc Talk:TBA

 

10:10 AM Joel Butterwick, Yale University, USA
How Insects Taste Sweet: A Molecular Mechanism for Sugar Selectivity

 

10:40 AM Student/Postdoc Talk:TBA

 

11:00 AM Jiansen Jiang, NIH, USA
Molecular Basis of Transport and Activity Regulation of Renal Drug Transporter OAT1

 

11:30 AM Student/Postdoc Talk: TBA

 

11:45 PM Chris Miller Awardee Lecture
TBD

 



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