BPS2026 Program Book

347-Pos Travel Award Winner MOLECULAR DETAILS OF RNA IN BIOMOLECULAR CONDENSATES. Tongyin Zheng , Kandarp A. Sojitra, Samara Cummings, Jeetain Mittal, Nicolas L. Fawzi 348-Pos Board B160 HIGH-RESOLUTION QUANTIFICATION OF G3BP1 CONDENSATE AGEING DYNAMICS AND ITS MODULATION BY RNA AND CAPRIN1. Anurag Singh , Bhargavi Gindra, Tharun Selvam Mahendran, Priya R. Banerjee Gene Expression and Regulation (Boards B161 - B176) 349-Pos Board B161 INITIATION DE NOVO AT A CLASS II T7 RNA POLYMERASE TERMINA TOR. Amin Abek, Craig T. Martin 350-Pos Board B162 Travel Award Winner NANOSCALE INSIGHTS INTO RRNA TRANSCRIPTION AND RIBOSOME BIOGENESIS IN E. COLI . Sijin Chen , Kai Sheng, Scott Henderson, James R. Williamson 351-Pos Board B163 Travel Award Winner A QUANTITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF B LYMPHOCYTE RESPONSES TO LOW-DOSE X-RAYS. Mst Rubaya Rashid , Vivek Mann, Stephanie Suniga, Krishna V. Chikkula, Daniel Vrinceanu, Victor Migenes, Alamelu Sundar esan, Mark C. Harvey 352-Pos Board B164 HARNESSING G-QUADRUPLEXES FOR PROGRAMMABLE CONTROL OF TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION. Hamza Balci , Mohammad Lutful Kabir, Sineth Kodikara, Sajad A. Shiekh, Soumitra Basu 353-Pos Board B165 PROMOTER-SPECIFIC MARKOVIAN MODELS ILLUMINATE TRANSCRIP TIONAL DYNAMICS OF YEAST GENE REGULATION. Tianyu Wu , Zaida Luthey-Schulten 354-Pos Board B166 THIS IS NOT A TROMBONE: REVISITING THE TEXTBOOK MODEL OF EUKARYOTIC DNA REPLICATION. Gheorghe Chistol , Luke Lynch 355-Pos Board B167 HIGH-THROUGHPUT, HIGH-RESOLUTION VISUALIZATION OF DNA REPAIR IN LIVE SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE REVEALS CHROMATIN RECON FIGURATION FOLLOWING SSB S AND DSB S . Yael Shalev Ezra , Alon Saguy, Lucien E. Weiss, Onit Alalouf, Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Yoav Shechtman 356-Pos Board B168 HELICAL CHROMOSOMES: A “LOOPS ON A RING” POLYMERIC MOD EL. Luyang Li 357-Pos Board B169 UNDERSTANDING PHOTOBACTERIUM PROFUNDUM’S RESPONSE TO CHANGING HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE THROUGH GENE EXPRESSION AND MORPHOLOGY. Boden B. Whalen , Carleton H. Coffin, Luke Fisher, Trevor Palmiotto, Doug Bartlett, Catherine A. Royer 358-Pos Board B170 Travel Award Winner A REGULATORY RNA:RNA INTERACTION IN LISTERIA MONOCYTO GENES . Antigone N. Wilson , Martin OSteen, Jocelyn V. Chen, Aldrex Munsayac, Sarah C. Keane 359-Pos Board B171 DROPLETS ON THE DNA: CAN PHASE-SEPARATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS FORM A BACTERIAL NUCLEOLUS-LIKE HUB? Jacob A.R. Wright , Hafez El Sayyed, Sammi Ta, Pratip Mukherjee, Abhishek Mazumder, Achillefs N. Kapanidis Board B159

360-Pos Board B172 HOW DO BACTERIA ADAPT THEIR SIZE TO HIGH PRESSURE ENVIRON MENTS? Carleton H. Coffin , Luke Fisher, Skylar Neilsen, Trevor Palmiot to, Doug Bartlett, Catherine A. Royer 361-Pos Board B173 PROBING TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND SPLICING REGULATION IN THE UN FOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE WITH OPTICALLY ACTIVATED IRE1. Jacob W. Smith , Damien B. Wilburn, Vladislav B. Belyy 362-Pos Board B174 Travel Award Winner THERMODYNAMIC MODELING OF CODON-ANTICODON INTERACTIONS REVEAL THE LOGIC OF THE GENETIC CODE. Minh Chau Nguyen , Yeong joon Lee, Ethan Chen, Hashim M. Al-Hashimi 363-Pos Board B175 EPIGENETIC REMODELING STORES MECHANICAL MEMORY AND STABI LIZES GENE REGULATION. Vinayak Vinayak , Rohit Joshi, Vivek B. Shenoy 364-Pos Board B176 FACT FACILITATES UBP10 DYNAMICS ON NUCLEOSOMES. Raquel Merino Urteaga , Taekjip Ha Membrane Active Peptides (Boards B177 - B193) 365-Pos Board B177 UNRAVELING THERMODYNAMIC AND KINETIC DETERMINANTS OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE ACTIVITY AND SELECTIVITY. Federico Carneri , Daniela Roversi, Emiliano Franci, Cassandra Troiano, Angelo Toto, Giuseppe Giaquinto, Yoonkyung Park, Henrik Franzyk, Stefano Gianni, Maria Luisa Mangoni, Lorenzo Stella 366-Pos Board B178 Travel Award Winner ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF TERMINAL CHARGES IN POLYMERIZATION OF THE C. ALBICANS VIRULENCE FACTOR CANDIDALYSIN VIA ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY. Sadie L. Nickles , Teresa Rodriguez-Garcia, Fran cisco N. Barrera, Gavin King 367-Pos Board B179 INDUCTION OF HOST MEMBRANE CURVATURE BY THE HPIV3 FUSION PEPTIDE REVEALS A MECHANICAL ROLE IN PRE-FUSION MEMBRANE DESTABILIZATION. Melanie A. Brunet , Laura J. S Lopes, Wenjing Cheng, Tara Marcink, Myriam Cotten, Anne Moscona, Alexander J. Sodt, Joshua Zimmerberg 368-Pos Board B180 EXPLORING CANDIDALYSIN-MEMBRANE BEHAVIOR USING FLORES CENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY. Gaukhar Zhurgenbayeva , Fran cisco Paez Larios, Christian Eggeling 369-Pos Board B181 INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF GRAMICIDIN A ON MEMBRANE STRUC TURE AND LIPID PHASE SEPARATION. Loretta Akakpo , Neal Waxham, Frederick A. Heberle 370-Pos Board B182 DIRECT VISUALIZATION OF MAXIMIN 3-INDUCED MEMBRANE DEFECTS VIA ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY. Aaron J. Botsch , Dylan R. Weaver 371-Pos Board B183 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES ASSOCIATION TO LIVE CELLS: A QUANTITA TIVE SPECTROSCOPIC APPROACH. Daniela Roversi , Federico Carneri, Floriana Cappiello, Eeva Tortellini, Luca Mignini, Yoonkyung Park, Maria Luisa Mangoni, Lorenzo Stella 372-Pos Board B184 EVALUATION OF MEMBRANE DISRUPTION AND DRUG RESISTANCE IN Β-HAIRPIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES. Yuki Hagiri , Soma Emura, Ryuji Kawano

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