BPS2026 Program Book

Platform Computational Biophysics: Molecular Dynamics, AI/ ML, and Bioinformatics III 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 209/210/211 Co-Chairs Serdar Durdagi, Bahcesehir University, Turkey Besian Sejdiu, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Structural Biology, USA 1314-Plat 8:15 am Travel Award Winner NUFOLD AND NUFOLD DB: DEEP LEARNING APPROACH FOR RNA STRUCTURE PREDICTION AND DATABASE OF PREDICTED STRUCTURES. Yuki Kagaya , David Platt, Zicong Zhang, Nabil Ibtehaz, Xiao Wang, Tsu kasa Nakamura, Pranav D. Punuru, Daisuke Kihara 1315-Plat 8:30 am PHYSICS-GUIDED ACTIVE LEARNING FOR NEW LIGAND DISCOVERY. Nikhil Dhiman, Dikshant Sagar, Negin Forouzesh 1316-Plat 8:45 am PREDICTING ENZYME FUNCTIONAL IDENTITY USING 3D STRUCTURES AND CLUSTERING USING FUNCTIONAL PREDICTION SCORES. Suguru Fujita , Kotaro Ukai, Tohru Terada 1317-Plat 9:00 am SOLVATION-BASED, ROTATION-INVARIANT ZERNIKE MOMENT REPRE SENTATION FOR PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERFACE PREDICTION. Piotr Setny 1318-Plat 9:15 am DRGSCROLL: CONTINUOUS SIDE-CHAIN FLEXIBILITY IN INNOVATIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM FRAMEWORK IMPROVES DOCKING POSE ACCU RACY AND EARLY ENRICHMENT. Ehsan Sayyah, Muhammet Eren Ulug, Huseyin Tunc, Serdar Durdagi 1319-Plat 9:30 am PRISM: PREFERENCE-GUIDED REFINEMENT IN SMALL MOLECULES VIA ACTIVE LEARNING. Marcus W. Dreisler , Richard Michael, Nikos S. Hatza kis, Wouter Boomsma 1320-Plat 9:45 am HIGH PERFORMANCE, SCALABLE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS WITH LAHUTA IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI. Besian I. Sejdiu , Madan Babu 1321-FlashTalk 10:00 am EFFECTIVELY EXTRACTING ALTERNATIVE PROTEIN CONFORMATIONS FROM ALPHAFOLD VIA ENTROPY GUIDANCE. David Wu , Liang Feng 1322-FlashTalk 10:05 am CATVARIANT: COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS TOOLKIT FOR PROTEIN VARI ANT ANALYSIS. Khoa Ngo , Igor V. Vorobyov, Colleen E. Clancy, Hajar Amini 1323-FlashTalk 10:10 am DESIGNING NOVEL KINASE INHIBITORS WITH GENERATIVE AI. Payam Kelich , Hyun Park, Md Fulbabu Sk, Yifei Li, Emad Tajkhorshid Platform Membrane Physical Chemistry 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 212/213/214 Co-Chairs Tyler R. Reagle, University of Virginia, USA Petia M. Vlahovska, Northwestern University, USA 1324-Plat 8:15 am MEMBRANE MECHANICAL STRESS INCURRED BY LIPID ASYMMETRY AND LATERAL EXPANSION BIASES NON-VESICULAR LIPID TRANSPORT. Tyler Reagle , Hannah Cannon, Tobias Baumgart, Ilya Levental

1325-Plat 8:30 am TRIMEM 2.0: LARGE-SCALE MEMBRANE REMODELING SIMULATIONS. Hyuntae Kim , Sanjoy Paul, Sebastian Kehl, Jürgen Köfinger, Gerhard Hummer 1326-Plat 8:45 am Travel Award Winner MEMBRANE PROXIMAL ACTIN CYTOSKELETON AND PROTEIN CROWD ING SYNERGISTICALLY MODULATE THE MESOSCALE MOBILITY OF MEM BRANE COMPONENTS IN THE CELL MEMBRANE. Sankarshan Talluri , Saurav Varma, Pooja S. Krishna, Abhinav Banerjee, Meenkashi Iyer, Mahipal Ganji, Sumantra Sarkar, Satyajit Mayor 1327-Plat 9:00 am ELECTRICAL SIGNAL PROPAGATION ON MEMBRANES: FROM SINGLE TO MULTIPLE CHANNELS. Joshua B. Fernandes , Hyeongjoo Row, Karthik Shekhar, Kranthi K. Mandadapu 1328-Plat 9:15 am SPONGE PHASE LIPID NANOPARTICLES FOR BIOMOLECULAR DELIVERY- INTERACTION AND EXCHANGE WITH BIOMIMIC MEMBRANES. Marshall R. Machingauta, Thea Kristersdotter, Alessandra Luchini, Ilaria De Santis, Tun Naw Sut, Joshua Jackman, Ben Humphreys, Christelle Prinz, Debora Berti, Karin Schillen, Tommy Nylander 1329-Plat 9:30 am SEROTONIN SELF-REGULATES ITS EXOCYTOSIS BY MODULATING VESICU LAR MEMBRANE PROPERTIES. Debsankar S. Saha Roy, Ankur Chaud hury, Parth Sarathi Nayak, K. P. Abhinav, Ankit Singh, Sudipta Maiti 1330-Plat 9:45 am CURVATURE FLUCTUATIONS OF BIOMEMBRANES: ROLE OF MEMBRANE VISCOSITY AND INTERLEAFLET FRICTION. Petia M. Vlahovska , Rony Granek 1331-FlashTalk 10:00 am MANTAINING MACROSCOPIC ALIGNMENT OF LIPID BILAYERS WITH AND WITHOUT EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD. Peter Cao, Sergey Milikisiyants, 10:05 am DEUTERIUM NMR REVEALS HOW CHOLESTEROL-ENHANCED PACK ING CONTROLS MEMBRANE BENDING ELASTICITY. Maya N. Arruda , Trivikram R. Molugu, Teshani Kumarage, Saptarshi Chakraborty, Andrey V. Struts, Horia I. Petrache, Milka Doktorova, Rana Ashkar, Michael F. Brown 1333-FlashTalk 10:10 am INTERACTION OF MYELIN PROTEIN P0CT WITH MYELIN-LIKE LIPID MONOLAYERS AT THE AIR-WATER INTERFACE. Elise Hingst , Christian Schwieger, Dariush Hinderberger Career Development Center Workshop Launching Your Academic Job Search and Preparing Your Application Materials 9:00 am - 10:00 am, Esplanade, Room 151 This session will present information on how to organize your academic job search for faculty positions, including the various components of an application package. Review the timeline for the job search process. Learn how to construct or improve your CV and learn how to write a cover letter that will present you in the most positive light possible. Learn by experience how search committees work. Finally, gain tips about how to create the critical components of the mysterious teaching and research statements. Subgroup Chairs Meeting 9:00 am - 11:00 am, Room 313/314 Alex I. Smirnov 1332-FlashTalk

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