BPS2025 Full Program

Symposium Mechanisms of Cell Wall Biopolymer Assembly 10:45 am - 12:45 pm, Petree Hall C Chair Syma Khalid, University of Oxford, United Kingdom No Abstract 10:45 am BACTERIAL SURFACE FRIENDS AND FOES: UNIQUE CHEMISTRY, FUNC TION, AND INHIBITION OF AMYLOID AND CELLULOSE ARCHITECTURES. Lynette Cegelski 94-Symp 11:10 am CELLULOSE BIOSYNTHESIS AND MODIFICATION: A VERSATILE BIOMATE RIAL ACROSS KINGDOMS OF LIFE. Jochen Zimmer 95-Symp 11:35 am THE GLYCOPROTEIN-RICH CELL WALL ARCHITECTURE OF CHLAM YDOMONAS REINHARDTII . Isabelle Marcotte , Alexandre Poulhazan, Alexandre A. Arnold, Frederic Mentink-Vigier, Artur Muszyński, Parastoo Azadi, Adnan Halim, Sergey Y. Vakhrushev, Hiren J. Joshi, Tuo Wang, Dror 12:00 pm SHAPE MATTERS: TOWARDS A MOLECULAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE INNATE IMMUNE RECOGNITION OF MICROBIAL LIPIDS. Andra B. Schromm 97-Symp 12:20 pm INTERACTION OF THE E. COLI CELL WALL WITH PERIPLASMIC MAC ROMOLECULES: MULTISCALE MD SIMULATIONS. Syma Khalid , Iain P. Smith, Ronan P. Holland Symposium Chair Yongsheng Shi, University of California, Irvine No Abstract 10:45 am LEVERAGING RNA BINDING PROTEINS TO UNDERSTAND RNA BIOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS. Gene Yeo 98-Symp 11:10 am EXPANDING RNA FUNCTIONS WITH SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. Hirohide Saito 99-Symp 11:35 am TO THE TUMOR AND BEYOND: TALES OF A HOLISTIC MIRNA DELIVERY VEHICLE. Andrea Kasinski 100-SympSelect 12:00 pm ANTI-VIRAL ACTIVITIES OF HOST MICRORNA AGAINST THE SARS-COV-2 GENOME 3’-UNTRANSLATED REGION. David B. Heisler , Caleb J. Frye, Caylee Cunningham, Mihaela-Rita Mihailescu 101-Symp 12:20 pm THE NUCLEAR RNA DEGRADATION CODE AND HUMAN DISEASES. Yongsheng Shi Symposium Biophysics for a Sustainable Future 10:45 am - 12:45 pm, Room 515A Chair Gabriela Popescu, University of Buffalo, USA E. Warschawski 96-SympSelect Innovations in RNA Therapeutics 10:45 am - 12:45 pm, Petree Hall D

No Abstract 10:45 am POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS IN MITIGATING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. Steven Chu No Abstract 11:15 am IMPROVING LAB SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH BETTER OPERATIONS AND PROCUREMENT. Scott Weitze No Abstract 11:30 am SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH AT THE SINGLE-MOLECULE LEVEL. Will Hancock No Abstract 11:45 am RE-PURPOSING THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF GOOD MICROBES FOR HEALTH AND BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATION. Jennifer DuBois No Abstract 12:15 pm BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE WITH LESSONS LEARNED FROM UNCONVENTIONAL MICROBES. Michelle O’Malley Platform Molecular Dynamics I 10:45 am - 12:45 pm, Room 515B Co-Chairs Chapin Cavender, University of California, San Diego, USA Suman Chakrabarty, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SN BNCBS), India 102-Plat 10:45 am COMBINING CHARMM36M AND OPC TO IMPROVE ACCURACY. Nicolai Kozlowski , Gabor Nagy, Helmut Grubmuller 103-Plat 11:00 am MICROSECOND TIMESCALE SINGLE MOLECULE DYNAMICS OF SARSCOV2 SPIKE PROTEIN USING DIFFRACTED X-RAY TRACKING. Daisuke Sasaki , Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Kazuhiro Mio, Yuji C. Sasaki 104-Plat 11:15 am SIMPLEARBD: STREAMLINING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN BROWNIAN DYNAMICS AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS FOR SPEEDY GENERATIONS OF HIGH-QUALITY DATA THROUGH MULTI-SCALE MOLECULAR SIMU LATIONS. Chun Kit Chan , Christopher M. Maffeo, Emad Tajkhorshid, Abhishek Singharoy 105-Plat 11:30 am ENHANCED SAMPLING OF RARE EVENTS IN BIOMOLECULAR SIMULA TIONS: CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS AND DRUG UNBINDING. DEVELOPMENT AND BENCHMARKING OF THE OPEN FORCE FIELD INITIATIVE SELF-CONSISTENT FORCE FIELD FOR PROTEINS AND SMALL MOLECULES. Chapin E. Cavender , Pavan K. Behara, Anika J. Friedman, Joshua T. Horton, Alexandra R. McIsaac, Louis G. Smith, Matthew W. Thompson, Jeffrey Wagner, Lily Wang, Brent R. Westbrook, John D. Ch odera, Daniel Cole, David L. Mobley, Michael R. Shirts, Michael K. Gilson 107-Plat 12:00 pm THE GQ-SPECIFIC INHIBITOR YM-254890 IS AN ALLOSTERIC GLUE. Tony Trent , Gregory Bowman 108-Plat 12:15 pm EXPLORING THE BINDING SELECTIVITY OF BET-ET DOMAINS THROUGH ADVANCED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SAMPLING. Qianchen Quinn Liu , Alberto Perez 109-FlashTalk 12:30 pm Travel Award Winner THE CHARMM36 UNITED ATOM CHAIN MODEL, AND THE PROSPECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF A UNITED ATOM POLARIZABLE FORCE FIELD FOR LIPIDS. Joshua Lucker , Nicholas Dadzie, Jeffery B. Klauda Suman Chakrabarty 106-Plat 11:45 am

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