Subgroup symposium of the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, February 22, 2021

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Tom C. Bishop, Louisiana Tech University, USA, and Tamar Schlick, New York University, USA

Symposium Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST

Subgroup Business Meeting: 1:25 PM – 2:00 PM EST

10:05 AM Catherine Musselman, Colorado University – Anschutz, USA

Chromatin Signaling: the Importance of Histone Tail Conformation

10:30 AM Garegin Papoian, University of Maryland, USA

Nucleosomal Physics from Electrostatics to Elasticity 

10:55 AM Lars Nordenskiöld, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore

Structure and Dynamics of Telomeric Chromatin 

11:20 AM Helmut Schiessel, Leiden University, Netherlands

Demultiplexing Information Written Along DNA Molecules

11:45 AM Hitoshi Kurumizaka, University of Tokyo, Japan

Nucleosome Contribution to Epigenetic Genome Regulation

12:10 PM Yamini Dalal, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA

Bungee Jumping into Fragile Sites in the Human Cancer Genome: Mapping Nano-elasticity of Variant Chromatin Structure

12:35 PM Michele Di Pierro, Northeastern University, USA

Across Space and Along Polymers: Epigenetics’ Conflicting Means of Shaping Chromosomes

1:00 PM Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Topological Analysis of Chromosomal Tracings, Obtained by Serial Fluorescent in situ Hybridization Method, Suggests that Human Chromosomes are Unknotted