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The Biophysical Society's Subgroups hold symposia that allow attendees to meet and interact within focused areas. This year’s subgroup symposia will be held on the first day of the Annual Meeting, Saturday, March 2, 2019. 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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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 Fusion, Fission, and Traffic

Subgroup Chair: Jefferson Knight, University of Colorado, Denver, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 501ABC 

Business Meeting:  10:30AM - 10:45AM PST

8:00 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Shigeki Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Mechanisms of Short-Term Plasticity

 

9:05 AM Patricia Bassereau, Institut Curie, France
Mimicking ESCRT-III Induced Fission of HIV-1

 

9:45 AM Stephanie Gupton, University of North Carolina, USA
Expanding the Neuronal Plasma Membrane During Development

 

10:15 AM Break

 

10:30 AM Business Meeting

 

10:40 AM Matthew Hankins, Oxford University, UK
MprF from Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogens is a Promiscuous Lipid Scramblase with Broad Substrate Specificity

 

11:10 AM Flash Talks

 

11:35 AM Katz Award Lecture: Ling-Gang Wu, NIH/NINDS, USA
Fusion and Budding: Membrane Transformations, Molecular Mechanics and Functions



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