BPS2026 Program Book

Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic (Boards S79 – S86)

Board S67 A STRATEGY TO TRAP THE DENATURED STATE OF A HELICAL-BUNDLE MEMBRANE PROTEIN IN LIPID BILAYERS Saba Kanwal (266-Pos / B78) Board S68 SUBSTRATE BINDING SITES AND CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE BACTERIAL PEPTIDOGLYCAN SYNTHASE COMPLEX Martin Yepes (2073-Pos / B31) Board S69 SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO THE RATE LIMITING STEP IN BAM-MEDIATED OMP FOLDING Luke A. Johnson (615-Pos / B427) Board S70 TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVITY VARIATIONS SHAPE NUCLEOID SPATIO TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION Chathuddasie I. Amarasinghe (990-Pos / B164) Board S71 ENHANCED SAMPLING OF LIGAND BINDING COUPLED TO RNA CON FORMATIONAL DYNAMICS Revanth Elangovan (177-FlashTalk / 1900-Pos / B437) Board S72 HARIBOSS++: A NEXT-GEN PLATFORM FOR RNA-SMALL MOLECULE INTERACTION ANALYSIS Matteo Marengo (600-Pos / B412) Board S73 UNRAVELING SPECTRAL SHIFTS IN MICROBIAL RHODOPSIN THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTIONS AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMU LATIONS Shubham K. Pandey (1882-Pos / B419) Board S74 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ALLOSTERIC PATH WAYS FOR EXPOSURE OF THE FOUR-HELIX BUNDLE OF MLKL Ricardo X. Ramirez (247-Pos / B59) Mechanobiology (Boards S75 – S78) Board S75 ESTABLISHING A FRET-BASED PLATFORM FOR MONITORING MECHANO SENSITIVE PROTEIN CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS Tomoya Mukai (1797-Pos / B334) Board S76 APLYSIA GROWTH CONES PREFER SOFT TO INTERMEDIATE SUBSTRATE STIFFNESS FOR NEURITE GROWTH Laura Pulido (2315-Pos / B273) Board S77 A NOVEL MECHANISM FOR LONG DISTANCE CALCIUM SIGNALING WITHOUT GAP JUNCTIONS Benjamin M. Goykadosh (66-FlashTalk / 1690-Pos / B227) Board S78 MAPPING THE LIPID ENVIRONMENT OF STRUCTURES THAT SENSE

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Board S79 A FRET-BASED MOLECULAR TENSION SENSOR REVEALS ACTIN-DRIVEN FORCE DYNAMICS IN CLATHRIN-MEDIATED ENDOCYTOSIS Ana Paula Vargas Ruiz (1062-Pos / B236) Board S80 STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS INTO REGULATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL FISSION Anelise Hutson (862-Pos / B36) Board S81 CHOLESTEROL-CONTAINING MEMBRANES DECREASE THE HELICITY OF THE SNARE PROTEIN SNARE SNAP-25 Tanner M. Blocker (1666-Pos / B203) Board S82 VOLATILE GENERAL ANESTHETICS ALTER VESICLE FUSION IN A PROTEIN FREE MEMBRANE SYSTEM Ryan J. Poland (1045-Pos / B219) Board S83 UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF STABLE SIGNAL PEPTIDE IN LASSA VIRUS FUSION AND THE PROCESS OF ITS INHIBITION Shane Collins (1517-Pos / B54) Board S84 FAST RECLAMPING CONTROLS SYNCHRONY AND RELEASE PROBABILITY DURING NEURONAL SIGNALING Ioana C. Butu (1032-Pos / B206) Board S85 VESICLE BUDDING THROUGH MEMBRANE ASYMMETRY: LIPID PHASE TRANSITIONS AND ASYMMETRIC INSERTION Sinja Götz (2175-Pos / B133) Board S86 INVESTIGATING SURFACES OF INTERNALLY STRUCTURED COLLOIDAL LIPID NANOPARTICLES WITH MOLECULAR DYNAMICS James F. Tallman (1047-Pos / B221) Membrane Structure and Function (Boards S87 – S95) Board S87 EXCIPIENTS VS. LIPOPHILIC PLASMA COMPONENTS: INVESTIGATION OF THE BINDING MECHANISM OF LIPIDS, FATTY ACIDS AND DETERGENTS WITH HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN Melissa Hübschen (401-Pos / B213) Board S88 INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF MIXED-CHAIN SATURATED PHOSPHO LIPIDS ON INTERLEAFLET COUPLING USING ASYMMETRIC GUVS Deeksha Mehta (1637-Pos / B174) Board S89 G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS ARE CONTROLLED BY WATER Zachary T. Bachler (909-Pos / B83) Board S90 USING TRANSITION METAL FRET TO PROBE PIP 2 -MEDIATED GATING IN TMEM16A Jennifer M. Miller (1105-Pos / B279)

PLASMA MEMBRANE TENSION Natalie Rogers (1015-Pos / B189)

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