BPS2024 Full Program & Abstracts

1317-Pos Board B270 EFFECTS OF LIPID COMPOSITION ON THE CURVATURE SENSING OF HUNTINGTIN’S N17 DOMAIN. Neha Nanajkar , Abhilash Sahoo, Silvina Board B271 STRUCTURAL ENSEMBLE OF PEPTIDE-INDUCED MEMBRANE PORATION BY MAGAININ PEPTIDES. Bing Zan Membrane Fusion and Non-Bilayer Structures (Boards B272 - B292) 1319-Pos Board B272 SNARE-MEDIATED MEMBRANE FUSION IS SLOWER FOR LARGER VESICLES BECAUSE ENTROPIC FORCES ARE WEAKER. Ioana C. Butu , Dong An, Ben O’Shaughnessy 1320-Pos Board B273 SPONTANEOUS FUSION OF SIMULATED LIPID MEMBRANES WITH VARIABLE GAUSSIAN CURVATURE MODULI. Seamus Gallagher , Markus Deserno 1321-Pos Board B274 MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS SUGGEST A REVISED FREE ENERGY LANDSCAPE OF MEMBRANE ELECTROPORATION. Jochen S. Hub , Gari Board B275 STRUCTURAL STUDIES ON LIPID DROPLETS USING MOLECULAR DYNAM ICS SIMULATIONS: EFFECTS OF SURFACE TENSION AND LIPID COMPOSI TION. Oluwatoyin Campbell , Lily Li, Cecilia Leal, Viviana Monje-Galvan 1323-Pos Board B276 REVERSAL OF THE FUSION CATALYTIC ROLE OF SARS-COV-2 FUSION PEPTIDE BY RESTRICTING THE N-TERMINUS: IMPLICATIONS TO TACKLE VIRAL INFECTION. Avijit Sardar , Tapas Bera, Santosh K. Samal, Samit Guha, Pradip K. Tarafdar 1324-Pos Board B277 REVEALING MEMBRANE FACTORS THAT CONTROL SARS-COV-2 MEM BRANE FUSION AND ENTRY KINETICS. Marcos Cervantes , Tobin Hess, Peter Kasson 1325-Pos Board B278 INVESTIGATING HOW THE ANIONIC LIPID, BMP, PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE INITATION OF SARS-COV-2 FUSION. Daniel Birtles 1326-Pos Board B279 ENDOSOMAL LIPIDS MODULATE INFLUENZA VIRAL ENTRY. Ana Villamil Giraldo, Steinar Mannsverk, Peter Kasson 1327-Pos Board B280 Travel Award Winner A RECONSTITUTIVE PLATFORM FOR BIOPHYSICAL DISSECTION OF THE NIPAH VIRUS FUSION CASCADE. Sreetama Pal , Hector C. Aguilar, Susan Daniel 1328-Pos Board B281 PH-DEPENDENT CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES WITHIN THE LASSA VIRUS TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN INFLUENCE ON MEMBRANE FU SION. Nicholas P. Schifano , Patrick M. Keating, Jinwoo Lee 1329-Pos Board B282 THE SMALL VIRAL FUSOGEN P10 REQUIRES ACTIN AND AN ECTODO MAIN LOOP CONFORMATION FOR FUSION. Liya Oster , Daniel A. Fletcher 1330-Pos Board B283 ADAPTATION OF SINGLE VIRUS FUSION ASSAY TO STUDY FUSION OF DENGUE VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLES WITH MODEL LIPID MEMBRANES. Tas nim Anika , Fiona Campbell, Bianca Linden, Connor Criswell, Priscilla L. Yang, Robert J. Rawle Matysiak 1318-Pos Kasparyan 1322-Pos

1331-Pos Board B284 SPONTANEOUS TRANSFER OF SMALL PERIPHERAL MEMBRANE PEP TIDES FROM SUPPORTED LIPID BILAYER TO GIANT UNILAMELLAR VESI CLES UNDER A SALAINE BUFFER CONDNITION. Il-Hyung Lee , Emanuela Efodili, Ashlynn Knight, Maryem Mirza, Cedric Briones 1332-Pos Board B285 EFFECTS OF DIVERSE SHORT CHAIN ALCOHOLS ON VESICULAR FUSION WITH A PLANAR BILAYER. Juliana M.K. Banks , Aleahlani R. Earley, Isaiah J. Nimmer, Jared K. Leblow, Jared A. Casablanca, Ryan J. Poland, Dixon J. Woodbury 1333-Pos Board B286 DESIGNING NANOPARTICLES FOR MEMBRANE FUSION. Sofia Blasco, Lukas Sukenik, Robert Vacha 1334-Pos Board B287 FUSOGENICITY OF CATIONIC LIPOSOMES WITH PHASE-SEPARATING MULTICOMPONENT LIPID COMPOSITIONS. Yifei Wang , Yerbol Palzha nov, Dang Dang, Annalisa Quaini, Maxim Olshanskii, Sheereen Majd 1335-Pos Board B288 CALCIUM AS A PROTEIN-FREE FUSOGEN: A HELPFUL TEAM PLAYER, A PRECARIOUS INDIVIDUAL PERFORMER. Matilde Accorsi , Naresh Yandra palli, Shreya Pramanik, Rumiana Dimova 1336-Pos Board B289 MEMBRANE TENSION INHIBITS LIPID MIXING BY INCREASING THE HEM IFUSION STALK ENERGY. Petr Shendrik, Gonen Golani, Raviv Dharan, Ulrich S. Schwarz, Raya Sorkin 1337-Pos Board B290 MECHANISMS TO CONTROL MEMBRANE FUSION ENERGY BARRIERS BY VIRUS AND HOST. Gonen Golani , Fabio Lolicato, Steffen Klein, Sophie Winter, Petr Chlanda, Ulrich S. Schwarz 1338-Pos Board B291 MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS INTO CLIC5-MEMBRANE INTERACTIONS AND FUSOGENIC ACTIVITY. Bar Manori , Alisa Vaknin, Pavla Vaňková, Anat Nit zan, Ronen Zaidel-Bar, Petr Man, Moshe Giladi, Yoni Haitin 1339-Pos Board B292 DNA-PROGRAMMED SURFACE DISPLAY OF RECEPTORS TO DISSECT THE FUNCTIONAL INTERPLAY BETWEEN RECEPTOR BINDING AND MEM BRANE FUSION OF SINGLE INFLUENZA A VIRIONS. Steven D. Planitzer , Kevin B. Wu, Zhenyu Li, Jia Niu, Tijana Ivanovic Mechanosensation (Boards B293 - B313) 1340-Pos Board B293 TUNING PRESTIN’S AREAL EXPANSION THROUGH TRANSMEMBRANE HELIX STABILITY AS MEASURED BY HDX-MS. Xiaoxuan Lin , Navid Bavi, Patrick R. Haller, Eduardo Perozo, Tobin R. Sosnick 1341-Pos Board B294 A SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE, DESIGNED FROM NEUROTOXIN GSMTX4, RE DUCES MECHANICAL AND NEUROPATHIC PAIN VIA TRPV4. Shao-Xi Ke, Ping Dong, Jing-Jing Wang, Xiao-Mao Dong, Wan-Xin Su, Xiao-hui Wang, Zhe Zhang, Qiong-Yao Tang 1342-Pos Board B295 Travel Award Winner ILLUMINATING SENSORY MECHANOTRANSDUCTION USING CNIDARIAN NEMATOCYTES AS A MODEL SYSTEM. Zhen Tong , Zeeshan Banday, Emily Watto, Jocelyn Malamy, Eduardo Perozo 1343-Pos Board B296 EXPRESSION, DISTRIBUTION, AND ROLE OF PIEZO CHANNELS IN THE CARDIAC PACEMAKER. Roxanne Madden

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