Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

1195-P os B oard B146 STRUCTURE OF ADENOVIRUS VIRUS ASSOCIATED RNA-I. Katherine Launer-Felty, C. Jason Wong, James Cole 1196-P os B oard B147 SMALL FDU STRAND EXHIBITS SALT-DEPENDENT STABILITY. Ryan L. Melvin , William Gmeiner, Freddie R. Salsbury, Jr. 1197-P os B oard B148 minority affairs travel awardee MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS STUDIES OF RNA TETRALOOP HYPERSTABILITY: THE EFFECT OF STEM LENGTH ON FOLDING DYNAMICS. Jacob C. Miner , Alan A. Chen, Angel E. García 1198-P os B oard B149 SEQUENCE SPECIFICITY IN RNA-MEDIATED TRANSCRIPTIONAL ATTENUATION EXAMINED BY COARSE- GRAINED MD SIMULATIONS. Paul M. Gasper , Alan A. Chen 1199-P os B oard B150 U4 SNRNA REGULATES FORMATION OF THE U6 TELESTEM WITHIN THE U4/U6 DI-SNRNA. Margaret L. Rodgers , Allison L. Didychuk, Samuel E. Butcher, David A. Brow, Aaron A. Hoskins 1200-P os B oard B151 A RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING STRUCTURE IN THE CCR5 MRNA LEADS TO MIRNA-STIMULATED NONSENSE- MEDIATED MRNA DECAY. Wojciech K. Kasprzak , Jonathan D. Dinman, Bruce A. Shapiro 1201-P os B oard B152 EXPLORING RNA CONDENSATION. Suzette A. Pabit , Andrea M. Katz, Lois Pollack 1202-P os B oard B153 ALTERNATIVE BASE-PAIRING AND CONFORMATIONAL SAMPLING IN LOOP A OF THE HAIRPIN RIBOZYME. Patrick O. Ochieng , Beibei Wang, Michael Feig, Charles G. Hoogstraten 1203-P os B oard B154 INFLUENCE OF ETHER BONDS AND BRANCHED LIPID TAILS ON STABILITY OF MEMBRANES TO PORE FORMATION. Petr V. Panov, Sergei A. Akimov, Pavel E. Volynsky, Oleg V. Batishchev 1204-P os B oard B155 EFFECT OF ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION ON DMPG BILAYERS. Daniela A. Nomura , Thais A. Enoki, M. Teresa Lamy 1205-P os B oard B156 THE EFFECT OF EXCITED FLUOROPHORE ON VESICLE FUSION AT THE SURFACE OF THE ELECTRODE. Neda Najafinobar , Johan Dunevall, Jelena Lovric, Hoda M.Fathali, Andrew Ewing, Ann Sofie Cans 1206-P os B oard B157 EFFECT OF DENGUE FUSION PEPTIDE IN ANIONIC LIPID BILAYERS. Thaís F. Schmidt , Karin A. Riske 1207-P os B oard B158 MEASURING THE INTRINSIC CURVATURE OF GANGLIOSIDE GM1. Raktim Dasgupta , Reinhard Lipowsky, Rumiana Dimova Membrane Physical Chemistry I (Boards B154-B171)

1208-P os B oard B159 SPONTANEOUS CURVATURE MEASUREMENTS FOR ZWITTERIONIC AND ANIONIC PHOSPHOLIPIDS UNDER BIOMIMETIC PERTURBATIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS TO THE MECHANISMS OF LAMELLAR-NONLAMELLAR PHASE TRANSITIONS. Kuan-Yu Tsang , Wen-Fang Chang, Zih-An Fan, Yi-Fan Chen 1209-P os B oard B160 INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF BILAYER SIZE AND COMPOSITION ON MEMBRANE FLUCTUATIONS USING LARGE COARSE-GRAINED SIMULATIONS. Philip W. Fowler , Heidi Koldsø, Anna Duncan, Mark SP Sansom 1210-P os B oard B161 LIGHT-INDUCED TRANSFORMATIONS IN LIPID MEMBRANES. Vasil Georgiev , David Bléger, Andrea Grafmüller, Stefan Hecht, Rumiana Dimova 1211-P os B oard B162 MEASUREMENT OF INTERLEAFLET COUPLING IN PHASE SEPARATED BILAYERS USING HIGH SHEAR. Matthew C. Blosser , Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Tao Han, Mikko Haataja, Sarah L. Keller 1212-P os B oard B163 COARSE GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS TO STUDY ASYMMETRIC MEMBRANES. Michael D. Weiner , Gerald W. Feigenson 1213-P os B oard B164 ELECTRICAL ASYMMETRIES IN POLARIZED MEMBRANES. Karis Amata Zecchi , Lars Dalskov Mosgaard, Thomas B oard B165 CHARGE ASYMMETRY IN OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS. Joanna Slusky , Roland Dunbrack 1215-P os B oard B166 A FUNDAMENTAL FORCE GOVERNING PROTEIN SELF- ASSEMBLY IN MEMBRANES. Shachi Katira , Kranthi K. Mandadapu, Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan, Berend Smit, David Chandler 1216-P os B oard B167 COMPARING LO/LD MEMBRANE THICKNESS MISMATCH AND MISCIBILITY TRANSITION TEMPERATURES USING FLUORESCENCE AND ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY. Joan V. Bleecker , Phillip A. Cox, Sarah L. Keller 1217-P os B oard B168 education travel awardee THE EFFECTS OF WALP PEPTIDES ON PHASE BEHAVIOR IN QUATERNARY LIPID MIXTURES: A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY. David G. Ackerman , Gerald W. Feigenson 1218-P os B oard B169 APPEARANCE OF MODULATED BILAYER MORPHOLOGY FOR COEXISTING LD AND LO PHASES IS CORRELATED WITH LINE TENSION. Sanjula P. Wickramasinghe , David G. Ackerman, Gerald W. Feigenson 1219-P os B oard B170 MEMBRANE BENDING MODULUS FOR TERNARY MIXTURE MODELS OF THE CELL PLASMA MEMBRANE. Rebecca Simpson , David Ackerman, Gerald Feigenson 1220-P os B oard B171 MINOR CHANGES IN STEROL STRUCTURE IMPACT THE MISCIBILITY TEMPERATURES OF MODEL CELL MEMBRANES SIGNIFICANTLY. Ranee C. James , Jonathan P. Litz, Sarah L. Keller Heimburg 1214-P os

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