BPS Program Book 2014

473-P os B oard #B228 MEMBRANE FUSION PEPTIDE-MEMBRANE INTERACTIONS: COMPARING SIMULATIONS TO EXPERIMENTAL DEPTH MEASUREMENTS. Per Larsson , Peter M. Kasson 474-P os B oard #B229 BENDING MODULUS DICTATES GUV RESPONSE TO STRESS. Kejia Chen , Steve Granick 475-P os B oard #B230 INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISM OF ANTIMICROBIAL LIPOPEPTIDES USING COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS. Dejun Lin , Alan Grossfield 476-P os B oard #B231 MODELLING THE INTERACTIONS OF EQUINATOXIN II WITH MICELLES. Daniel Weber , Shenggen Yao, Gregor Anderluh, Terry P. Lybrand, Matthew T. Downton, John Wagner, Frances Separovic 477-P os B oard #B232 CA 2+ INFLUX AND TYR KINASES TRIGGER BORDETELLA CYAA ENDOCYTOSIS. CELL PHYSIOLOGY AND EXPRESSION OF THE CD11B/CD18 INTEGRIN, MAJOR DETERMINANTS OF THE ENTRY ROUTE. Helena Ostolaza , Kepa B. Uribe, Cesar Martin, Aitor Etxebarria, David Gonzalez-Bullon. 478-P os B oard #B233 TETHERING DIMERS OF VOLTAGE SENSOR TOXINS CAN SELECTIVELY AMPLIFY THEIR AFFINITY FOR KV CHANNELS. Kenneth S. Eum , Sebastian Fletcher-Taylor, Daniel Austin, Bruce E. Cohen, Jon T. Sack 479-P os B oard #B234 AN ION CHANNEL PLATFORM FOR DETECTION OF SMALL MOLECULE ANALYTES. Young Hun Kim , Leibniz Hang, Michael Mayer, Jerry Yang 480-P os B oard #B235 CONFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE FROG SKIN PEPTIDE, PLASTICIN-L1 AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES BY MACROPHAGES. Andrea C. Rinaldi , Giorgia Manzo, Roberta Sanna, Mariano Casu, Jelena M. Pantic, Miodrag L. Lukic, J. Michael Conlon, Mariano A. Scorciapino 481-P os B oard #B236 DETERGENT-FREE EXTRACTION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS INTO NATIVE NANODISCS. APPLICATION TO THE REACTION CENTER OF RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES . Stefan Scheidelaar , Martijn Koorengevel, David Swainsbury, Hans Meeldijk, Eefjan Breukink, Michael Jones, Rienk van Grondelle, Antoinette Killian 482-P os B oard #B237 PYRIDINIUM SALTS INFLUENCE ON LIPID BILAYERS. Sergio S. Funari , Claudio Di Vitta, Liliana Marzorati 483-P os B oard #B238 HIV-1 TAT MEMBRANE TRANSLOCATION PROBED BY LOW- AND WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING, NEUTRON SCATTERING, CD SPECTROSCOPY AND MD SIMULATIONS. Kiyotaka Akabori , Bradley W. Treece, Michael S. Jablin, John F. Nagle, Brian Maranville, Kun Huang, Angel E. Garcia, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle  Membrane Structure I (Boards #B236-#B265)

484-P os B oard #B239 A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF PHASE CHANGES INDUCED BY TRANS-MEMBRANE PEPTIDE GRAMICIDIN-A IN MULTI-COMPONENT LIPID MEMBRANES. Ebrahim Hassan-Zadeh , Juyang Huang 485-P os B oard #B240 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MODEL MEMBRANES CONTAINING POPE AND PHYTOSTEROL. Ya-Wei Hsueh , Yen-Chun Chen 486-P os B oard #B241 MEASURING THE DIMERIZATION PROPENSITIES OF MUCIN1 TRANSMEMBRANE AND JUXTAMEMBRANE DOMAINS. Edwin Li , Christopher Moll, Bernadette Eichman, Jessica King 487-P os B oard #B242 education travel awardee CHARACTERIZING THE CURVE: A MECHANISTIC STUDY OF CPLA2-MEDIATED MEMBRANE BENDING. Katherine E. Ward , James P. Ropa, Robert V. Stahelin 488-P os B oard #B243 CUBIC - INVERTED HEXAGONAL PHASE TRANSITION KINETICS IN MONOOLEIN-SUCROSE MIXTURES. Zachariah I. Strango, Caleb W. Reese, Christopher J. Ver Hoef, Paul E. Harper 489-P os B oard #B244 LIPID MEMBRANES CONTAINING PLANT STEROLS SEPARATE INTO COEXISTING LIQUID PHASES OVER BROADTEMPERATURE AND COMPOSITIONAL RANGES. Ranee C.L. James , Jonathan P. Litz, Sarah L. Keller 490-P os B oard #B245 MEMBRANES WITH THICK, LIQUID-DISORDERED AND THIN, LIQUID-ORDERED PHASES ARE RARE. Joan V. Bleecker , Phillip A. Cox, Rami N. Foster, David G. Castner, Sarah L. Keller 491-P os B oard #B246 GENERAL ANESTHETICS LOWER CRITICAL TEMPERATURES IN PLASMA MEMBRANE VESICLES. Ellyn J. Gray , Matthew B. Stone, Benjamin B. Machta, Sarah L. Veatch 492-P os B oard #B247 PROBING SUB-MICRON CRITICAL COMPOSITION FLUCTUATIONS USING SUPER-RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES IN GIANT PLASMA MEMBRANE VESICLES. Jason Karslake , Matt Stone, Sarah L. Veatch 493-P os B oard #B248 PROBING INTERBILAYER COUPLING IN PHASE SEPARATED BILAYERS UNDER HIGH SHEAR. Matthew C. Blosser , Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Sarah L. Keller 494-P os B oard #B249 INFLUENCE OF CIS AND TRANS UNSATURATED LIPIDS ON AN INTERDIGITATED MEMBRANE. Eric A. Smith, Connor Smith, Brian Tanksley, Phoebe K. Dea 495-P os B oard #B250 THE PERMEABILITY COEFFICIENT OF BILAYER LIPID MEMBRANE FOR CATIONIC PORPHYRINS. Anahit Torosyan , Valeri Arakelyan, Robert Ghazaryan 496-P os B oard #B251 COMPARING PHASE TRANSITION TEMPERATURES OF GIANT PLASMID MEMBRANE VESICLES WITH DIFFERENT PREPARATION METHODS. Eric M. Sink

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