This symposium brings together CUNY theorists and experimentalists in the expansive field of biophysics, giving us a chance to share recent research findings and discuss plans for future joint endeavors.

Resilient Living Materials Built By Printing Bacterial Spores Speaker Lina M. Gonzalez Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, Voight Lab Abstract A route to advanced multifunctional materials is to embed them with living

Dynamics protein-protein and proteinmembrane complexes: A perspective from Molecular Dynamics Simulations and solution NMR spectroscopy.

MD simulations of total X-ray scattering in protein crystals.

Engineering protein and polyion interactions for cellular applications.

Synthetic Bacteria Deliver the Goods.

Integration of synthesis and processing of tRNA by RNA polymerase III 3' end formation. 

Insights Into Influenza Virus Structure and Vaccine Design by Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Mechanisms of Proton-Coupled Dynamics: From Kinases to Membrane Transporters

A counterintuitive role in cell proliferation and development for a ubiquitin conjugating enzyme

Structural biology meeting about the latest advances in cryo-EM from the New York area. Program details TBD.

Ligand-induced structural dynamics and function of PPARγ learned through NMR

The Circadian Clock, Heterochromatin, Long non-coding RNAs and Antibody Single-chain Variable Fragments

Peering into the Lipid World

Src and Syk tyrosine kinases, substrate recognition and regulation by combining NMR with computer simulations

In-cell structural biology of proteins behaving badly

New mass spectrometry-based approaches to characterization of highly heterogeneous macromolecules: focus on heparin

Elucidating Effects of Motion on Designed Fluorescent Proteins through Simulation and Improved Modeling of NMR Data

Histone H2B ubiquitination in transcription and nucleosome dynamics

Molecular insights into the progression of Hsp90-mediated kinase chaperone cycle

Transposon Molecular Domestication and the Evolution of the Adaptive Immune System

Functional mechanisms of dysfunctional proteins

Activation of the Yeast Exocyst,Tethering Complex for SNARE Regulation and Membrane Fusion

The Environment Shapes the Cell

Title TBD

Structure and dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins, their complexes and assemblies

On the importance of inhibitory interactions for the exquisite regulation of neurotransmitter release

Conformational disorder in regulation of biological catalysts

Real-time quantification of gene expression with single-molecule precision in living cells

Lasso Peptide Genome Mining for New Enzyme Discovery

Animating Biology

Probing and predicting the behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins by integrating NMR spectroscopy and computation

Dynamics and constraints of enzyme evolution

The Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer at SNS and its Biophysics applications

Mechanisms of Lipid Bilayer Membrane Curvature Generation

DNA damage in immunity and cancer

Bacterial adaptation to shifting environments

Structural and functional studies of the temperature-sensitive TRP channel TRPV3

Illuminating the Biochemistry of Zinc and RNA in Living Cells

Characterizing membrane proteins in native membranes without tricks

The intersection of the RIO kinases and PRMT5 in Ribosome Biogenesis

Opening Windows into the Cell: Bringing Structure to Cell Biology Using Cryo-electron Tomography

 Lessons Learned and New Frontiers in PKA Signaling

Antibody discovery using LIBRA-seq

Biophysical experiments and biomolecular simulations: A perfect match?

Coordination of cell division, chromosome segregation and capsule assembly in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Structure and inhibition mechanism of the human citrate transporter NaCT

How disordered is disorder? An atomistic level view of mixed folded proteins

Drivers of Heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s disease

Mapping and Exploiting the Internal Wiring of Dynamic Protein Structures