Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

Devasena Ponnalagu , Drexel University College of Medicine 1848-Plat MOLECULAR IDENTITY AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CHLORIDE INTRACELLULAR CHANNEL (CLIC) PROTEINS IN CARDIAC MITOCHONDRIA. Krishna D. Reddy , University of South Florida 1945-Pos, B82 THE INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED TERMINI OF ZDHHC S-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASES FACILITATE MULTIPLE REGULATORY FUNCTIONS. Rebika Shrestha , University of Texas at Austin 2019-Pos, B156 DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF DIPOLE ELECTRIC FIELD IN MODEL MEMBRANES USING VIBRTAIONAL SHIFTS OF p-CYANOPHENYLALANINE AND COUPLED WITH MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS. Meng Zhang , The Ohio State University 1901-Pos, B38 STUDY OF PROTON TRANSFER IN ESCHERICHIA COLI PHOTOLYASE. Kevin D. Zolman , Montana State University 2139-Pos, B276 THE ROLE OF THE C2 DOMAIN OF VOLTAGE SENSING PHOSPHATASE (VSP). Wednesday Udeep Chawla , University of Arizona 2819-Pos, B249 MEMBRANE-LIPID MEDIATED RHODOPSIN SIGNALING INVOLVES AN ENSEMBLE OF CONFORMATIONAL SUBSTATES. Cameron J. Jones , Texas Woman's University 2572-Pos, B2 SYSTEMATIC PERTURBATION OF PROTEIN:PROTEIN INTERFACES MAY AID IN FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION. Lishan Liu , Miami University 3102-Pos, B532 PROBING THE SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS WITH THE PULSED EPR TECHNIQUE: ELECTRON SPIN EHCO ENVELOPE MODULATION (ESEEM). John J. Michael , Washington State University 3006-Pos, B436 FUNCTIONAL EFFECTS OF THE H1-HELIX OF RAT CARDIAC TROPONIN T ON CROSSBRIDGE DETACHMENT RATE IS DIFFERENTLY MODULATED BY α - AND β -MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN ISOFORMS. Souryvanh Nirasay , University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada 2747-Pos, B177 POLYDOPAMINE AS AN EFFICIENT POLYMER TO PREPARE BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT SUPPORTED LIPID BILAYERS. Erney Ramírez-Aportela , Biological Research Centre, CSIC, Spain 2667-Pos, B97 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND ASSEMBLY SWITCH OF FTSZ FILAMENTS. Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga , University of California at Berkeley 2536-Plat ROLE OF PORE LOOPS IN THE MECHANISM OF POLYPEPTIDE TRANSLOCATION BY A AAA+ PROTEASE MACHINE. Leo Serebryannyy , University of Illinois at Chicago 2716-Pos, B146 NUCLEAR ACTIN DYNAMICS REGULATE NUCLEAR ORGANIZATION AND TRANSCRIPTION.

Hanif Vahedian-Movahed , Rutgers University 2709-Pos, B139

SEQUENCE-SPECIFIC RNAP-DNA INTERACTIONS IN TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION AND ELONGATION: CORE RECOGNITION ELEMENT (CRE). Joshua V. Vermaas , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2815-Pos, B245 STRENGTH, NOT DEPTH: AN EXPLORATION OF DIFFERENTIAL MEMBRANE BINDING KINETICS OF SYNAPTOTAGMIN-1 AND SYNAPTOTAGMIN-7 C2 DOMAINS. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Sunday EFFECT OF MOLECULAR CROWDING ON THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF HUMAN APO AND HOLO TRANSFERRIN USING 2D-IR CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY. Aritra Bej , Indian Institute of Chemical Biology 222-Pos, B2 BACKBONE DYNAMICS MODULATES THE AMYLOIDOGENIC PROPENSITY OF TRANSTHYRETIN THROUGH NON-NATIVE INTERMEDIATES. Ganeko Bernardo-Seisdedos , University of the Basque Country, Spain 113-Plat CALMODULIN BINDING TO A NOVEL SITE IN THE AB MODULE OF Kv7.2 SUBUNITS REGULATES SURFACE EXPRESSION. Kim Dung T. Doan , Osaka University, Japan 861-Pos, B641 MULTIMODAL IMAGING PROBING PLATFORM BASED ON UPCONVERTING RARE-EARTH DOPED Gd2O3 NANOCRYSTALS. Alenka Guček , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 514-Pos, B294 FUSION PROPERTIES OF GLIOTRANSMITTER VESICLES IN CULTURED ASTROCYTES. Sabeeha Hasnain , Jawaharlal Nehru University, India 582-Pos, B362 A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR E.COLI CYTOPLASM: A NOVEL METHOD FOR FORCE-FIELD CALIBRATION BASED ON MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD APPROACH AND THERMAL UNFOLDING DATA. Maria J. Marques-Carvalho , University of Porto, Portugal 110-Plat INTERACTION OF CALMODULIN WITH THE EAG1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL. Valeria Marquez-Miranda , Andrés Bello National University, Chile 863-Pos, B643 COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF THE SELF-ASSEMBLY OF AMPHIPHILIC DENDRIMERS AS GENE CARRIERS. Emiliano Perez Ipiña , University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 829-Pos, B609 CONCENTRATION ESTIMATES FROM COUNTING INDIVIDUAL MOLECULES. DIFFUSION AND HYDRODYNAMICS. Jozef A. Liwo , University of Gdansk, Poland 788-Pos, B568 Sherif Abbas , Middle East Technical University, Turkey 78-Plat

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