BPS2026 Program Book

Platform Computational Biophysics: Molecular Dynamics, AI/ML, and Bioinformatics IV 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 209/210/211 Co-Chairs Oliver Beckstei, Arizona State University, USA Stanislav Cherepanov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA 1974-Plat 8:15 am FROM STRUCTURE TO MOTION: NEXT-GENERATION BIOMOLECULAR VISUALIZATION WITH VMD 2.0. Diego E. Barreto Gomes , Shao-Chian Chen, Barry Isralewitz, John Stone, Emad Tajkhorshid, Rafael C. Bernardi 1975-Plat 8:30 am MDANALYSIS AS A UNIVERSAL CONNECTOR FOR MOLECULAR DYNAM ICS SIMULATION DATA. Oliver Beckstein , Lawson J. Woods, Amruthesh Thirumalaiswamy, Heekun Cho, Hugo MacDermott-Opeskin, Jennifer Clark, Irfan Alibay, Matthias Heyden 1976-Plat 8:45 am DECIPHERING RETINAL ORIENTATION AND DYNAMICS IN RHODOPSIN WITH DEUTERIUM NMR AND QUANTUM MECHANICAL CALCULATIONS. Soleil R. Chung , Shiv Shukla, Lauren E. Thaller, Suchithranga M.D.C. Perera, Andrey V. Struts, Michael F. Brown 1977-Plat 9:00 am A RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY FRAMEWORK FOR INVARIANT ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS. Ashkan Fakharzadeh , Emad Tajkhorshid, Mahmoud Moradi 1978-Plat 9:15 am PHYSICS-BASED FLEXIBLE DOCKING OF MACROCYCLIC LIGANDS WITH MACRODOCK. Jacob Robson-Tull , João Pedro Garcia Lopes Maia 9:30 am MAKING LIGANDS TITRATABLE: EXTENDING CPHMD WITH DRUG BIND ING. Stanislav Cherepanov , Raheel Sarwar, Charles L. Brooks 1980-Plat 9:45 am ROLE OF POLARIZATION IN BALANCING LOCAL AND DISTANT INTERAC TIONS OF MG 2+ IONS IN SOLUTION. Giorgio Schillaci , Julian A. Melendez, Matthew W. Saunders, Irene Gutierrez, Sameer Varma 1981-FlashTalk 10:00 am DEEP DYNAMICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS (DDNA): A HYBRID DEEP LEARN ING FRAMEWORK FOR MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS. Saeid Ghomi , Mahmoud Moradi 1982-FlashTalk 10:05 am USING STRUCTURE-BASED SIMULATIONS TO REVEAL THE PHYSICAL CHEMICAL BASIS OF RIBOSOME DYNAMICS. George Wanes , Paul C. Whitford 1983-FlashTalk 10:10 am Travel Award Winner TEACHING A NICOTINE-EATING ENZYME TO BREATHE: A COMPUTA TIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE EVOLUTION OF OXIDASE ACTIVITY IN FLAVOENZYMES. Parth R. Bandivadekar , Surl-Hee Ahn Rodrigues 1979-Plat

Platform Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, and Motility II 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 212/213/214 Co-Chairs Rodolphe Jaffiol, University of Technology of Troyes, France Kshitiz Parihar, University of Pennsylvania, USA 1984-Plat 8:15 am ELASTOCAPILLARITY OF HYDROGELS: HOW SURFACE TENSION DRIVES SINGLE CELL DIRECTIONAL MIGRATION. Sara Faour, Cyrille Vézy, Ste phane Dedieu, Jerome Sohier, Rodolphe Jaffiol 1985-Plat 8:30 am Travel Award Winner INTERCELLULAR CONTACT IS SUFFICIENT TO DRIVE FIBROBLAST TO MYOFIBROBLAST TRANSITIONS. Vasuretha Chandar , Benjamin M. Goykadosh, Harikrishnan Parameswaran 1986-Plat 8:45 am Travel Award Winner TISSUE-DEPENDENT MECHANOSENSING BY CELLS DERIVED FROM HU MAN TUMORS. Kshitiz Parihar , Jonathan Nukpezah, Paul A. Janmey, Ravi Radhakrishnan 1987-Plat 9:00 am Travel Award Winner EMULSION DROPLETS AS DEFORMABLE FORCE SENSORS REVEAL ME CHANICS OF PHAGOCYTOSIS. Héloïse Uhl , Chiara Pompili, Blaise Dumat, Jean-Maurice Mallet, Florence Niedergang, Jacques Fattaccioli 1988-Plat 9:15 am SPERM CIRCLING-AND-WANDERING. Meisam Zaferani , Christina Kurz thaler, Howard A. Stone 1989-Plat 9:30 am BEYOND DIFFUSION: HOW INFLUENZA A NAVIGATES COMPLEX GLYCAN LANDSCAPES. Siddhansh Agarwal , Boris Veytsman, Liya Oster, Greg Huber, Daniel A. Fletcher 1990-Plat 9:45 am T CELLS TEAR APART CONFINING EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX VIA A BREASTSTROKE-LIKE MOTION TO GENERATE MIGRATION PATHS. Byunghang Ha , Peter Xie, Benjamin T. Johnson, Cole Allan, Maria Korah, Paul Bollyky, Daneil Delitto, Natalie Torok, Ovijit Chaudhuri 1991-FlashTalk 10:00 am ADHERENT HIPSC LUMENOIDS: A ROBUST 3D PLATFORM FOR BRIDG ING CELLULAR DYNAMICS, MULTICELLULAR ORGANIZATION, AND BIOPHYSICAL MODELING. Leigh K. Harris , Tiffany Barszczewski, Antoine Borensztejn, Sara Carlson, Gokhan Dalgin, Renske Dupar, Benjamin W. Gregor, Maxwell J. Hedayati, Caroline Hookway, Anna M. Koester, Jacob McCarley, Ricardo Mercado, Suraj Mishra, Amber Phan, Ashwin Samu dre, Emmanuel E. Sanchez, Mark F. Sluzewski, Lev S. Snyder, Derek J. Thirstrup, Matheus Palhares Viana, Chamari S. Wijesooriya, Jie Yao, Julie A. Theriot, Susanne M. Rafelski, Ru N. Gunawardane 1992-FlashTalk 10:05 am Travel Award Winner ACTIN FILAMENT STERIC INTERACTIONS DRIVE MOTILITY IN ENGI NEERED PROTOCELLS. Oghosa H. Akenuwa , Hideaki T. Matsubayashi, Takanari Inoue, Christopher T. Lee 1993-FlashTalk 10:10 am DIRECT OBSERVATION OF FLAGELLAR MOTILITY IN MAMMALIAN SPERM CELLS AT HIGH PRESSURE. Masayoshi Nishiyama Poster Presentations and Late Posters 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Exhibit Halls ABC

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