BPS2026 Program Book

Board S44 MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS INTO GLUCOSE TRANSPORT FOR PFHT1 FROM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND GRAPH ATTENTION MODELS Arnav Paul (1788-Pos / B325) Board S45 MD SIMULATION REVEALS ION-SPECIFIC MODULATION OF LIGAND INDUCED TRPA1 ACTIVATION BY PIP 2 Ziyue Meng (1751-Pos / B288) Board S46 MACHINE LEARNING AND INTERACTION FEATURES ENABLE PREDICTION OF HERG CHANNEL BLOCKADE Ramya Bandarupalli (591-Pos / B403) Board S47 MECHANISM OF AMYLOID β-PEPTIDE (Aβ) DISSOCIATION FROM γ-SECRETASE COMPLEX Keya Joshi (1880-Pos / B417) Cryo-EM (Boards S48 – S52) Board S48 THE ALTERED STOICHIOMETRY OF A NON-INACTIVATING MUTANT SUGGESTS THE ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE OF THE MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL MSCS Elissa Moller (1514-Pos / B51) Board S49 UNDERSTANDING THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL LANDSCAPE OF CHOLESTEROL SENSING AND AUXIN SIGNALING BY HUMAN TRANSCEP TOR GPR155 Mansi Sharma (428-Pos / B240) Board S50 STRUCTURAL BASIS OF END RECOGNITION AND PAIRING BY CUT-AND PASTE TRANSPOSONS Vinh Truong (574-Pos / B386) Board S51 CRYO-EM INVESTIGATIONS OF THE STRUCTURE AND MECHANISM OF THE R-BODY, A PH-SENSITIVE PROTEIN MACHINE Natalie Stone (848-Pos / B22) Board S52 BASEHUNTER, A NEW APPROACH TO DETERMINING DNA SEQUENCE IN CRYO-ELECTRON DENSITY MAPS, REVEALS DNA SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT CAPTURE OF GYRASE Haley R. Johnson (577-Pos / B389) Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (Boards S53 – S61) Board S53 DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTISCALE FRAMEWORK FOR ENGINEERING PROTEIN CONDENSATES AS MICROREACTORS Virginia Q. Jiang (333-Pos / B145) Board S54 DISSECTING THE INTERPLAY OF TDP-43 AND TAU IN HETEROTYPIC PHASE SEPARATION AND AGGREGATION Anuja Walimbe (1563-Pos / B100)

Board S55 DNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE AS A DETERMINANT OF PROTEIN-DNA CONDENSATE MATERIAL PROPERTIES Hashini Ekanayake Mudiyanselage (954-Pos / B128) Board S56 INTERACTION OF MYELIN PROTEIN P0CT WITH MYELIN-LIKE LIPID MONOLAYERS AT THE AIR-WATER INTERFACE Elise Hingst (1333-FlashTalk / 1024-Pos / B198) Board S57 HISTIDINE IN DISORDERED PROTEINS CAN MODULATE THEIR CONFOR MATIONS, EVEN AT CONSTANT PH Rivka Calinsky (754-FlashTalk / 310-Pos / B122) Board S58 DYNAMIC TIME WARPING FOR SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS Nicholas J. Razo (301-Pos / B113) Board S59 NUCLEOTIDE AND GROOVE-SPECIFIC RECOGNITION OF DNA BY PROT AMINE Anshika Dhiman (2136-Pos / B94) Board S60 ATOMISTIC MODELING OF CANCER-TARGETING PEPTIDE PHLIP ON MEMBRANE INTERFACES Thi Huong Quynh Nguyen (385-Pos / B197) Board S61 SYNERGISTIC ROLE OF RGG2 IN MODULATING FUS RRM STRUCTURE AND RNA BINDING REVEALED BY ENHANCED SAMPLING SIMULATIONS Kosar Rahimi (2146-Pos / B104) Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies (Boards S62 – S74) Board S62 DISSECTING THE TATA BOX SEQUENCE USING SMFRET Fabio Morella (1218-Pos / B392) Board S63 ION-SELECTIVE STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS OF A DISORDERED REPEATS IN-TOXIN PROTEIN DOMAIN Alana P. Gudinas (2082-Pos / B40) Board S64 A BRAIN OSMOLYTE INHIBITS α-SYNUCLEIN FIBRILLATION: MYO-INOSI TOL FOR PARKINSON’S THERAPY Ashiq Mahammad (2100-Pos / B58) Board S65 SEARCHING FOR A CURE FOR HIV-1/AIDS THROUGH INHIBITING THE VIRAL NEF PROTEIN Parisa Taklifi (2072-Pos / B30) Board S66 A PROTOCOL TO IMPROVE THE EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION OF MEMBRANE SCAFFOLD PROTEINS (MSP) AND A FASTER AND MORE EF FICIENT RECONSTITUTION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS IN LIPID NANO DISCS Megan Skains (2421-Pos / B379)

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