Subgroup Co-Chairs: Jinqing Huang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CHINA, and Keith Mickolajczyk, Rutgers Medical School, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 215/216 

Business Meeting:  10:25 - 10:35 AM PST

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:40 AM Taekjip Ha, Harvard Medical School, USA
Measuring the Single-Molecule Interactions of Heterochromatin-Associated Proteins in Living Cells

 

9:15 AM Eugene Kim, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, GERMANY
The Mechanical Stability of Proteins Regulates their Nuclear Import Rate

 

9:35 AM Shixin Liu, The Rockefeller University, USA
Probing Intracellular Interactions with Single-Molecule Functional Bond-Selective Microscopy

 

9:55 AM Early Career Award in Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation and Visualization Awardee Talk 

 

10:15 AM Break

 

10:25 AM Business Meeting

 

10:35 AM Student/Postdoc Talk: TBD

 

10:50 AM Sabrina Leslie, The University of British Columbia, CANADA
Massively Multiplexed Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy

 

11:10 AM Peng Zheng, Nanjing University, CHINA
Origami Movement Microscopy

 

11:30 AM Matthew Comstock, Michigan State University, USA
Using Magnetic Tweezers to Probe the Relationship Between Topoisomerase Dynamics and Activity

 

11:50 AM Scott Blanchard, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
Elucidating the Mechanics and Structure of Whole Mitotic Chromosomes

 

12:25 AM Closing Remarks