Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

1585-P os B oard B536 RESOLVING THE MECHANISMS OF BACTERIAL RESISTANCE TO MACROLIDE ANTIBIOTICS. Anna Pavlova , James C. Gumbart 1586-P os B oard B537 MOLECULAR MODELING OF SELF-ASSEMBLY OF ANTICANCER DRUG AMPHIPHILES. Myungshim Kang , Honggang Cui, Sharon M. Loverde 1587-P os B oard B538 SIMULATING THE SERPIN LATENCY TRANSITION AT ATOMIC RESOLUTION. Patrick Wintrode , Pietro Faccioli, Silvio a Beccara, Anne Gershenson, Giorgia Cazzolli, Fang Wang 1588-P os B oard B539 ESTIMATING THE DIFFUSION CONSTANT FROM NOISY TRAJECTORIES. Peter K. Relich , Keith A. Lidke, Mark J. Olah 1589-P os B oard B540 MOLECULAR INSIGHTS INTO THE SIGNALING MECHANISM OF THE HISTIDINE KINASE CHEA WITHIN AN INTACT BACTERIAL CHEMOSENSORY ARRAY. C. Keith Cassidy , Benjamin Himes, Frances Joan D. Alvarez, Juan R. Perilla, Jun Ma, Gongpu Zhao, Peijun Zhang, Klaus Schulten 1590-P os B oard B541 CALCULATION OF CHOLESTEROL BINDING AFFINITY FOR PENTAMERIC LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS. Reza Salari , Jerome Henin, Grace Brannigan 1591-P os B oard B542 CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSIENTLY STABLE STRUCTURAL MOTIFS IN INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS USING FREE ENERGY SIMULATIONS. Rainer Bomblies , Manuel Luitz, Martin Zacharias 1592-P os B oard B543 COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF UBIQUITIN RECRUITMENT AND TRANSPORT OF THE 26S PROTEASOME. Till Rudack , Yi Zhang, Lela Vucovic, Wei Han, Klaus Schulten 1593-P os B oard B544 ATOMISTIC MECHANISM OF PEPTIDE UNFOLDING AND TRANSLOCATION BY AAA+ UNFOLDING CHAPERONES CLPY. Huan Wang , George Stan 1594-P os B oard B545 MECHANISM OF INHIBITION OF GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES INVESTIGATED BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS. Rafael C. Bernardi , Isaac Cann, Erin Imsand, Douglas Clark, Klaus Schulten 1595-P os B oard B546 STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS OF HYBRID STATE INTERMEDIATES OF THE BACTERIAL RIBOSOME. Andrea C. Vaiana , Carsten Kutzner, Lars V. Bock, Christian Blau, Helmut Grubmüller 1596-P os B oard B547 education travel awardee MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDIO OF POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) MECHANICAL PROPERTIES FOR ITS INCORPORATION IN BONES STRUCTURES AS A PVA-PLA SUBSTRATE FOR TISSUE REGENERATION. Ana C. Cadena , Dennis Cazar, Samara M. Oña, Miguel A. Mendez

1574-P os B oard B525 DNA FLUORESCENCE PARAMETERS AND METHYLATION LEVELS OF GUT COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI FROM CROHN’S DISEASE PATIENTS. Astghik Pepoyan , Marine Balayan, Anahit Manvelyan, Seda Marutyan, Lia Minasbekyan, Karlen Hovnanyan, Vardan Tsaturyan 1575-P os B oard B526 ISOLATION, FRAGMENTATION AND THE DETECTION OF LISTERIA DNA FROM GROUND BEEF. Tonya M. Santaus 1576-P os B oard B527 RAPID MICROBIAL LYSING AND DNA FRAGMENTATION BY MICROWAVE FOCUSING. Johan Melendez , Daniel Kiang, Tonya Santaus, Chris Geddes 1577-P os B oard B528 PALMITATE RE-DIRECTS GLUCOSE UTILIZATION IN TYPE 2 DIABETIC HEARTS, IMPROVING FUNCTION: A METABOLOMIC-FLUXOMIC STUDY. Sonia Cortassa, Viviane Caceres, Carlo G. Tocchetti, Brian O’Rourke, Nazareno Paolocci, Miguel A. Aon 1578-P os B oard B529 MODELING HOST - BACTERIAL BIOFILM INTERACTIONS IN LOWER LEG CHRONIC WOUNDS. M vandeVen 1579-P os B oard B530 MODEL FOR AGING AND COGNITIVE DECLINE. Maxwell P. Henderson Molecular Dynamics II (Boards B531-B557) 1580-P os B oard B531 COMPARISON OF ACTIVATION ENERGY AND PORE DYNAMICS IN LIQUID AND GEL PHASES OF ELECTROPORATED LIPID BILAYERS USING TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT MD SIMULATIONS. Amit K. Majhi , Subbarao Kanchi, Venki Venkataraman, Ganapathy Ayappa, Prabal Maiti 1581-P os B oard B532 THE CARBOXY TERMINUS OF THE LIGAND PEPTIDE DETERMINES MHC CLASS I COMPLEX STABILITY: A COMBINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY. Esam T. Abualrous 1582-P os B oard B533 MOLECULAR MODELLING IN MRI CONTRAST AGENTS INTERACTING WITH WATER MOLECULES: HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING METHOD FOR MOLECULAR DYNAMICS DATA ANALYSIS. Luca Guzzardi, Dennis Cazar, Vanessa del Hierro, Fernando J. Torres, Miguel A. Mendez 1583-P os B oard B534 HIS 95 ACTS AS A PH GATE IN AQUAPORIN-4. Shreyas S. Kaptan , Bert L. de Groot 1584-P os B oard B535 STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMICAL STUDY OF BOVINE CARBONIC ANHYDRASE II IN THE PRESENCE OF SUBSTRATE: AN ESSENTIAL DYNAMICS AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION STUDY. Elham Morad, Bahram Goliaei , Faramarz Mehrnejad

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