Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Platform Micro- and Nanotechnology 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 208/209

115-Plat 9:15 am STRUCTURAL ROLE OF ABCG5/ABCG8 IN STEROL TRANSPORT.  Jyh-Yeuan (Eric) Lee , Daniel Rosenbaum, Helen Hobbs 116-Plat 9:30 am STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC BASIS OF PROTON-COUPLED METAL ION TRANSPORT IN THE SLC11/NRAMP FAMILY.  Cristina Manatschal , Ines A. Ehrnstorfer, Raimund Dutzler 117-Plat 9:45 am STRUCTURAL BASIS OF CONCENTRATIVE NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT.  Marsha M. Hirschi , Zachary L. Johnson, Seok-Yong Lee 118-Plat 10:00 am Education Travel Awardee INVESTIGATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE DRUG TRANSPORTER EMRE.  Maureen Leninger , James R. Banigan, Geliana Abramov, Nathaniel J. Traaseth Platform Membrane Active Peptides and Toxins I 8:15 am - 10:15 am, Room 206/207 Co-Chairs Maria Hoernke, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Bradley S. Perrin, NHLBI/NIH 119-Plat 8:15 am AN IN-CELL SOLID-STATE NMR PORTRAYAL OF THE ACTION MECHANISM OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES WITH INTACT BACTERIA. Marwa Laad- hari, Alexandre A. Arnold, Andrée E. Gravel, Frances Separovic, Isabelle Marcotte 120-Plat 8:30 am ACTION OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES ON BACTERIAL AND LIPID MEM- BRANES: A DIRECT COMPARISON.  Joseph E. Faust , Pei-Yin Yang, Huey W. Huang 121-Plat 8:45 am International Travel Awardee CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTI-BIOFILM PEPTIDE ACTIVITY: A BIOPHYSICAL APPROACH.  Li-av T. Segev-Zarko , Ron Saar-Dover, Vlad Brumfeld, Maria Luisa Mangoni, Yechiel Shai 122-Plat 9:00 am EFFECTS OF LIPID COMPOSITION, PEPTIDE CHARGE, AND MOLECULAR- ITY ON THE STRUCTURE OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE TRANSMEMBRANE PORES.  Almudena Pino Angeles , Themis Lazaridis 123-Plat 9:15 am SPONTANEOUS FORMATION OF AN ENSEMBLE OF STRUCTURALLY DIVERSE MEMBRANE CHANNEL ARCHITECTURES FROM A SINGLE ANTI- MICROBIAL PEPTIDE MACULATIN.  Yukun Wang , Charles Chen, Dan Hu, Jakob Ulmschneider, Martin Ulmschneider 124-Plat 9:30 am AN EXACT MODEL OF DAPTOMYCIN BINDING TO LIPID BILAYERS.  Antje Pokorny , Tala O. Khatib 125-Plat 9:45 am THE METALLOPEPTIDES PISCIDIN 1 AND PISCIDIN 3 EMPLOY MEMBRANE AND NUCLEASE ACTIVITY TO ERADICATE PLANKTONIC, BIOFILM, AND PERSISTER CELLS. Myriam L. Cotten , M. Daben J. Libardo, Ali Adem Ba- har, Riqiang Fu, Vitalii I. Silin, Dacheng Ren, Mihaela Mihailescu, Alfredo Angeles-Boza 126-Plat 10:00 am 20+ YEARS AND NO END IN SIGHT: HISTIDINE-RICH DESIGNER PEPTIDES WITH PH-DEPENDENT MEMBRANE TOPOLOGY AND WITH MULTIFACET BIOMEDICAL POTENTIAL.  Christopher Aisenbrey, Philippe Bertani, David Fenard, Anne Galy, Elise Glattard, Martin Gotthardt, Antoine Kichler, Nan Liu, Arnaud Marquette, Regine Süss, Louic Vermeer, Dennis Wilkins-Juhl, Justine Wolf, Burkhard Bechinger

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Co-Chairs Michael Mayer, University of Michigan Marta d’Amora, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy 127-Plat 8:15 am

IMPROVING THE TEMPORAL RESOLUTION OF NANOPORE RECORDINGS.  Siddharth Shekar , Chen-Chi Chien, David Niedzwiecki, Marija Drndić, Kenneth Shepard 128-Plat 8:30 am IDENTIFICATION OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDES IN SIN NANOPORE.  Haojie Yang , Zhongwu Li, Yunfei Chen, Wei Si 129-Plat 8:45 am FORMATION OF SYNTHETIC NANOPORES WITH DIAMETERS FROM 20-50 NM BY LASER-ASSISTED DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN.  Cuifeng Ying , Jared Houghtaling, Bodo Wilts, Michael Mayer 130-Plat 9:00 am SALT REJECTION USING CONICALLY SHAPED PORES WITH PATTERNED SURFACE CHARGES.  Crystal Yang , James Boyd, Yinghua Qiu, Zuzanna S. Siwy 131-Plat 9:15 am GENETICALLY ENCODED DNA-PROTEIN HYBRID ORIGAMI.  Florian Praetorius , Hendrik Dietz 132-Plat 9:30 am DNA NANOPARTICLES PROGRAMMED FROM THE TOP DOWN WITH VARIABLE DESIGN MOTIFS.  Sakul Ratanalert , Remi Veneziano, Mark Bathe 133-Plat 9:45 am PH-RESPONSIVE REVERSIBLE REGULATION OF ENZYME ACTIVITY BY DNA-BASED NANOSTRUCTURE.  Seong Ho Kim , So Yeon Kim 134-Plat 10:00 am ECO-FRIENDLY PROCESSING FOR ENGINEERING BIO-SAFE QUANTUM DOTS AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. Marta d’Amora , Marina Rodio, Alberto Diaspro, Romuald Intartaglia CPOW Committee Meeting 8:30 am - 10:30 am, Room 203 Career Center Workshop Selling Yourself to the Life Sciences Industry 9:00 am - 10:00 am, Room 212/213 The industrial employer is looking for a different set of skills and attitudes than either the academic or government employer. Learn what the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industries want to hear from potential employees and why. Learn how to develop and best position your mar- keting message in order to improve the chances of a successful industrial job search. Exhibits 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Hall B-2 & C Coffee Break 10:15 am - 11:00 am, Hall B-2 & C

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