Joint session

Chairs:
Matt Baker (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Jack Wei Chen (Zhejiang University, China)

Invited speakers:
Jeremy Brownlie (Griffith University, Australia)
Boris Martinac (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia)
Andy Ng (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia)
Arnold Lining Ju (University of Sydney, Australia)
Fan Bai (Peking University, BIOPIC, China)
Zhiqiang Yan (Fudan University, China)

Time: 4th August 08:30-11:30
Chairs: Matt Baker, Jack Wei Chen
Venue: Meeting Room 29
Time Speaker Title / Affiliation
08:30-08:50 Chai-Ann Ng High-throughput Phenotyping of Heteromeric hERG Channel Variants Can Discriminate Pathogenic from Rare Benign Variants
(Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia)
08:55-09:15 Zhiqiang Yan Nanchung and Inactive are Pore-forming Subunits of the Native Auditory Transduction Channel in Drosophila
(Fudan University, China)
09:20-09:40 Matt Baker Directing the Assembly and Evolution of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor
(University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
09:45-10:05 Fan Bai Single-cell Imaging Study of Bacterial Antibiotic Tolerance
(Peking University, China)
10:10-10:20 Break
10:20-10:40 Lining Arnold Ju Novel Single Cell Mechanobiology Approach Reveals an Intermediate State of Integrin αIIbβ3 That Mediates Platelet Aggregation under Disturbed Flow
(Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Australia)
10:45-11:05 Jack Wei Chen Mechano-chemical Coupling Regulates TCR Antigen Recognition
(Zhejiang University, China)
11:10-11:30 Boris Martinac Ion Channel Mediated Mechanosensory Transduction at the Membrane Interface
(Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Darlinghurst, Australia)

Chairs:
Huiping Liu (Northwestern University Feinberg, USA)
Erwei Song (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Invited speakers:
Huiping Liu (Northwestern University Feinberg, USA)
Erwei Song (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
Jiyan Zhang (Institute of Basic Medical Sciences)
Lei Wang (Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China)
Jianjun Zhao (Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, USA)
Jindan Yu (Northwestern University,Feinberg School of Medicine, USA)

Time: 3rd August 08:30-11:35
Chairs: Huiping Liu, Jiyan Zhang
Venue: Meeting Room 29
Time Speaker Title / Affiliation
08:30-08:50 Huiping Liu CD44+ Breast Cancer Stem Cells Mediate Circulating Tumor Cluster Formation and Drive Polyclonal Metastasis
(Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
08:55-09:15 Jiyan Zhang RACK1 Promotes Self-renewal and Chemoresistance of Liver Cancer Stem Cells
(Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China)
09:20-09:40 Jindan Yu Lineage Plasticity of Prostate Cancer
(Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
09:45-10:05 Lei Wang Interplay between Endoplasmic Reticulum Oxidoreductin-1α and Protein Disulfide Isomerase Suppresses the Progression of Cervical Cancer
(Institute of Biophysics, CAS, Beijing, China)
10:10-10:20 Break
10:20-10:40 Yongguang Tao Cross-talk between Methylation and Phosphorylation of LSH and Cancer Stemness
(Central South University, Changsha, China)
10:45-11:05 Jianjun Zhao BCL9, a Wnt/β-Catenin Transcriptional Co-activator, Promotes Spontaneous Development of B-cell Malignancies
(Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA)
11:10-11:35 Qiang Liu Circulating Tumor DNA Predicts the Response and Prognosis in Early Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
(Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China)

Chairs:
Yoshie Harada (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan)
Ming Li (Institute of Physics, CAS, China)

Invited speakers:
Yoshie Harada (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan)
Hiroko Bannai (Keio University School of Medicine, Japan)
Rikiya Watanabe (Molecular Physiology Laboratory, Japan)
Ying Lu (Institute of Physics, CAS, China)
Jizhong Lou (Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China)
Shuo Huang (Nanjing University, China)

Time: 4th August 08:30-12:00
Chairs: Yoshie Harada, Ming Li
Venue: Grand Conference Room 3
Time Speaker Title / Affiliation
08:30-08:50 Rikiya Watanabe Microsystems for Single Molecule Analysis of Membrane Proteins
(RIKEN, Japan)
08:50-09:10 Jizhong Lou Mechanical Regulation of PD1/PD-L1 Interaction and Its Implication to Immunotherapy
(Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China)
09:10-09:30 Hiroko Bannai Physiology and Pathology of Brains Revealed by Single Molecule Imaging
(Keio University School of Medicine, Japan)
09:30-09:40 Hao Yu Energy Landscape Reconstruction for Membrane Protein Folding Based on High Resolution Force Spectroscopy
(Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
09:40-09:50 Peng Zheng Molecular Mechanism of Selective High Zinc-binding Affinity of Antimicrobial Protein Human S100A12
(Nanjing University, China)
09:50-10:00 Hui Li Complex Dynamics of Living Matters
(Beijing Normal University, China)
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20-10:40 Yoshie Harada Development of a New Fluorescence Imaging Technique Using Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond
(Osaka University, Japan)
10:40-11:00 Shuo Huang Designing a Nanopore Sensor for Dynamic Single Molecule Measurements: from a Single Ion to Biomacromolecules
(Nanjing University, China)
11:00-11:20 Xuefeng Guo Accurate single-molecule electrical biodetection
(Peking University, China)
11:20-11:30 Fazhan Shi Single-DNA Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy in Aqueous Solutions
(University of Science and Technology of China, China)
11:30-11:40 Zhi Qi Imaging High-concentration Interaction of p53 on DNA
(Peking University, China)
11:40-11:50 Zhongbo Yu DNA Methylation Differentially Regulates Site-specific Dissociation of Conserved Epigenetic Enzymes on a CGI landscape
(Nankai University, China)
11:50-12:00 Xinghua Zhang Opposite Effects of High-valent Cations on the Elasticities of DNA and RNA Duplexes Revealed by Magnetic Tweezers and Molecular Simulation
(Wuhan University, China)