BPS2025 Full Program

2020-Pos Board B214 DIRECT RNA-RNA INTERACTIONS PROMOTE COORDINATED TRANSLA TION OF HETEROMERIC ION CHANNELS. Lisandra Flores Aldama , Anna belle S. Hoth, Lucas de Carvalho, Ian Seim, Fang Liu, Amy S. Gladfelter, Gail A. Robertson 2021-Pos Board B215 MAPPING CO-TRANSCRIPTIONAL FOLDING TRANSITIONS IN MANGA NESE-SENSING RIBOSWITCHES. Christine Stephen, Danea Palmer, Ravish Sharma, Tatiana V. Mishanina 2022-Pos Board B216 HIGH-THROUGHPUT IDENTIFICATION OF DESTABILIZING MRNA SE QUENCE ELEMENTS IN B. SUBTILIS . Manraj S. Gill , Isabelle Kim, James C. Taggart, Gene-Wei Li Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions III (Boards B217 - B236) 2023-Pos Board B217 Travel Award Winner SMFRET INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS DURING T-LOOP FORMATION. Arianna Lacen , Hui-Ting Lee 2024-Pos Board B218 Travel Award Winner DNA COMPACTION BY CHROMOKINESIN KIF4A. Anju Yadav , Grace Cunningham, Dylan Collette, Leila Farhadi, Nandini Mani, David Dunlap, Laura Finzi, Radhika Subramanian 2025-Pos Board B219 STRUCTURAL STUDY OF ADENO-ASSOCIATED-VIRUS REPLICATION PROTEIN 40 AND ITS ROLE IN DNA ENCAPSIDATION. Victoria Xu , Joseph Barritt, Matthew Wake, Doryen Bubeck, Sarah L. Rouse 2026-Pos Board B220 STRUCTURAL BASIS FOR DIMERIZATION AND ACTIVATION OF UVRD FAMILY HELICASES. Ankita Chadda, Binh Nguyen, Timothy M. Lohman, Eric A. Galburt 2027-Pos Board B221 CHARACTERIZATION OF GUEST DNA TRANSPORT AND ADSORPTION WITHIN HOST POROUS PROTEIN CRYSTALS. Szu-Hsuan (Ashlyn) Chen , Julius Stuart, Brian Munsky, Christopher D. Snow 2028-Pos Board B222 CONCERTED DANCE OF PROTEIN ON DNA; CHOREOGRAPHY BY BIND ING AFFINITY AND DNA MOTION. Johan R. van der Maarel , Indresh Yadav, Rajib Basak, Jijo George 2029-Pos Board B223 BRIDGING DNA CONTACT ALLOWS E.COLI DPS TO CONDENSE THE NU CLEOID. Sneha Shahu , Natalia Vtyurina, Moumita Das, Anne S. Meyer, Mahipal Ganji, Elio A. Abbondanzieri 2030-Pos Board B224 OPTICAL TWEEZERS MEASURE MULTIPLE BINDING MODES OF DIVERSE SINGLE-STRANDED NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEINS CORRELATED WITH MULTIPLE BIOLOGICAL PROTEIN FUNCTIONS. Michael Morse , Benjamin Cashen, Ioulia F. Rouzina, Mark C. Williams 2031-Pos Board B225 MECHANISM OF COMEA-DRIVEN DNA UPTAKE DURING NATURAL TRANSFORMATION. Joshua I. Santiago, Ishtiyaq Ahmed, David Dubnau, Matthew B. Neiditch, Keith J. Mickolajczyk 2032-Pos Board B226 INTEGRATING ACCELERATED MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS AND AI TO ELU CIDATE CAS9 SPECIFICITY FACTORS. Gayatri Panda

2033-Pos Board B227 MECHANISTIC MODEL FOR EPIGENETIC MAINTENANCE BY METHYL CPG-BINDING DOMAIN PROTEINS. Liuhan Dai , Alexander Johnson-Buck, Nils G. Walter 2034-Pos Board B228 LEDGF PREFERENTIALLY REMODELS HISTONE-DNA INTERACTIONS IN METHYLATED NUCLEOSOMES. Joha Joshi , Micah J. McCauley, Michael Morse, Zelin Shan, tao jing, Nicole A. Becker, Ioulia F. Rouzina, Louis J. Maher, Dmitry Lyumkis, Mark C. Williams 2035-Pos Board B229 MECHANISM OF SARS-COV-2 NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLA TION-INDUCED FUNCTIONAL SWITCH. Ioulia F. Rouzina , Megan Sullivan, Michael Morse, Micah J. McCauley, Dina Bayachou, Jana Sefcikova, Mark C. Williams, Penny Beuning, Karin Musier-Forsyth 2036-Pos Board B230 DECODING THE MOLECULAR MECHANICS OF MAMMALIAN TRANSCRIP TION COMPLEX FORMATION. Sreejith J. Nair 2037-Pos Board B231 UNRAVELING RNA-DRIVEN BIOMOLECULAR CONDENSATE FORMA TION. Vysakh Ramachandran 2038-Pos Board B232 METABOLIC ENZYMES MOONLIGHTING AS RNA BINDING PROTEINS. Ge ordie Emberling, Nicole Curtis, Trang Tu, Kyle Zhang, Alquama Lokhand wala, Zoya Tajuddin, Ganesan Murugan, Mary Jo Ondrechen, Constance Jeffery 2039-Pos Board B233 TYPE II TOPOISOMERASE SUBSTRATE GEOMETRY REVEALED THROUGH COMBINED EXPERIMENT AND COMPUTATION. Mihirkumar N. Prajapati , Yeonee Seol, Jonathan E. Silver, Parth Rakesh Desai, Siddhar tha Das, Keir C. Neuman 2040-Pos Board B234 HUMAN LA-RELATED PROTEIN 6 AND RNA RECOGNITION. Robert Silvers , Blaine Gordon 2041-Pos Board B235 ANCESTRAL RNA-GUIDED TNPB NUCLEASE INTERROGATES DNA IN DIS CRETE SUPERCOILING-SENSITIVE STEPS. Iren Saffarian-Deemyad , Zehan Zhou, Kevin Aris, Honglue Shi, Noor Al-Sayyad, Jennifer A. Doudna, Zev Bryant 2042-Pos Board B236 UPF1 HELICASE EXHIBITS SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT KINETICS AS RE VEALED BY NANOPORE TWEEZERS. Francis J. Walsh Membrane Dynamics II (Boards B237 - B252) 2043-Pos Board B237 Travel Award Winner CURVATURE EFFECTS ON LIPID MEMBRANE STRUCTURE: A COARSE GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF MEMBRANES WITH PINNED EDGES. James F. Tallman , Cecilia Leal, Antonia Statt 2044-Pos Board B238 THERMAL UNDULATIONS AND DYNAMIC STRUCTURE FACTOR OF LIPO SOMES. Petia M. Vlahovska , Rony Granek 2045-Pos Board B239 MITOCHONDRIA-TARGETED PEPTIDES AND BILAYER COMPOSITION MODULATE MEMBRANE ELECTROPORATION UNDER ELEVATED ELEC TROCHEMICAL STRESS. Jeffrey D. Tamucci, Adam Zweifach, Nathan N. Alder, Eric R. May

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