Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

389-Pos Board B154 EVALUATING BILAYER MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN PROTEIN RECONSTI- TUTED GUVS. Nestor Lopez Mora , Heather Findlay, Paula Booth 390-Pos Board B155 Education Travel Awardee SHEAR STRESS STIMULATED MSC ACTIVITIES: DIRECT CHANGES OF MEMBRANE TENSION OR CYTOSKELETAL STRESS? Mohammad Mehdi Maneshi , Frederick Sachs, Susan Zonglu Hua 391-Pos Board B156 STRESS PROPAGATION THROUGH BIOLOGICAL LIPID-BILAYERS REVEALED BY ATOMISTIC AND COARSE-GRAINED SIMULATIONS. Camilo Aponte- Santamaria , Frauke Gräter 392-Pos Board B157 INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN COLLECTIVE THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS AND ELASTIC AND VISCOUS PROPERTIES IN MODEL LIPID BILAYERS.  Michihiro Nagao , Elizabeth G. Kelley, Rana Ashkar, Robert Bradbury, Paul Board B158 Education Travel Awardee HYDRATION-MEDIATED ELASTIC DEFORMATIONS IN BIOLOGICAL MEM- BRANES. Trivikram R. Molugu, Soohyun K. Lee , Xiaolin Xu, Rami Mush- arrafieh, K. J. Mallikarjunaiah, Constantin Job, Michael Brown Membrane Fusion and Non-Bilayer Structures (Boards B159–B180) 394-Pos Board B159 INTERACTIONS OF CARBON NANOTUBES STABILIZED BY SELECTED GEMINI SURFACTANTS WITH MODEL BIOMEMBRANES. Michalina Skupin , Justyna Iżykowska, Weronika Andrzejewska, Maria Dobies, Stefan Jurga, Maciej Kozak 395-Pos Board B160 THE BILAT: A FREE STANDING LIPID BILAYER MICROARRAY PLATFORM FOR MEMBRANE FUSION. Sathish K. Ramakrishnan , Andrea Gohlke, Paul Heo, James Rothman, Frederic Pincet 396-Pos Board B161 PHASE SPECIFIC MEMBRANE FUSION WITH SNARE MIMETICS. Bastian Kubsch , Tom Robinson, Torben-Tobias Kliesch, Andreas Janshoff, Reinhard Lipowsky, Rumiana Dimova 397-Pos Board B162 THE INFLUENCE OF NANOPARTICLES ON SNARE-MEDIATED MEMBRANE FUSION. Michael J. Crowe , Jiajie Diao 398-Pos Board B163 CALCIUM SENSITIVE RING-LIKE OLIGOMERS OF SYNAPTOTAGMIN 1: IM- PLICATIONS FOR NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE. Shyam Krishnakumar 399-Pos Board B164 TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF SYN- CHRONOUS NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE. Qiangjun Zhou , Thomas Christian Südhof, Axel Thomas Brunger 400-Pos Board B165 Α-SYNUCLEIN: A FUNCTIONAL ROLE AS A REGULATOR OF SNARE-MEDIAT- ED FUSION. Siobhan Toal, Elizabeth Rhoades 401-Pos Board B166 MITOCHONDRIAL FUSION PROTEINS: A TALE OF TWO MEMBRANES.  Andrew D. Kehr , Marisa A. Rubio, Jenny Hinshaw 402-Pos Board B167 STRUCTURE OF THE EBOLA VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN MPER/TM DO- MAIN AND ITS INTERACTION WITH THE FUSION LOOP EXPLAINS THEIR FUSION ACTIVITY.  Jinwoo Lee , David A. Nyenhuis, Elizabeth A. Nelson, David S. Cafiso, Judith M. White, Lukas K. Tamm D. Butler 393-Pos

374-Pos Board B139 INTERACTION OF PKR WITH SINGLE STRANDED RNA. Christopher B. Mayo, James L. Cole Membrane Dynamics I (Boards B140–B158) 375-Pos Board B140 SURFACTANT MICELLE SELF-ASSEMBLY WITH COARSE-GRAINED MARTINI STANDARD WATER AND POLARIZABLE WATER. Eric Sefah , Blake Mertz 376-Pos Board B141 SIMULATIONS OF GLYCEROL AND ITS EFFECT ON THE PHASE AND BEHAV- IOUR OF DPPC MONOLAYERS.  Jemma L. Trick , Wachirun Terakosolphan, Ben Forbes, Christian D. Lorenz 377-Pos Board B142 PROTOCOL AND VALIDATION OF CHARMM-GUI HEX PHASE BUILDER.  Andrew H. Beaven , Alexander J. Sodt, Richard W. Pastor, Wonpil Im 378-Pos Board B143 REPRODUCTION OF A THREE-COMPONENT (DPPC/DOPC/CHOLESTEROL) PHASE DIAGRAM USING COARSE GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAM- ICS. Cameron Montour, Timothy S. Carpenter , Felice C. Lightstone 379-Pos Board B144 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF 38 TYPES OF GANGLIOSIDE IN HOMOEGNEOUS MEMBRANE BILAYERS. Steve Kim , Wonpil Im 380-Pos Board B145 VITAMIN E DOES NOT PREFERENTIALLY BIND TO POLYUNSATURATED LIP- IDS AS REVEALED BY UMBRELLA SAMPLING MD SIMULATIONS. Xiaoling Leng , Andres Cavazos, Bruce Ray, Mikel Ghelfi, Jeffrey Atkinson, Fangq- iang Zhu, Stephen Wassall 381-Pos Board B146 RBL-2H3 PROLIFERATION IS MODULATED BY TREATMENTS THAT SHIFT TRANSITION TEMPERATURES IN ISOLATED PLASMA MEMBRANE VESICLES. Rohan P. Desai , Sarah Veatch 382-Pos Board B147 LIPID LATERAL ORDERING DEFINED BY HIGH-FIELD EPR. Zahra Hayati , Pavanjeet Kaur, Likai Song 383-Pos Board B148 AZOBENZENE-CHOLESTEROL AS A PHOTOACTIVATOR IN BIOMIMETIC MEMBRANES: 1. LIPID DYNAMICS. Chen Shen , Jacques Ollivier, Judith Peters, Jörg Pieper, Beate Klösgen 384-Pos Board B149 ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR IN LIPID BILAYER MEMBRANES. Matthew R. Cheetham , Helena L. E. Coker, Mark I. Wallace 385-Pos Board B150 ALL-ATOMMOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF STEALTH LIPO- SOMES. Seyed Hamid Tabari , Jeevapani Hettige, Mahmoud Moradi 386-Pos Board B151 LIPID DIFFUSION IN MEMBRANE JUNCTIONS MEASURED BY SINGLE- MOLECULE TRACKING. Vivek Ramakrishna , Mark I. Wallace 387-Pos Board B152 INFLUENZA BINDING AVIDITY GOVERNED BY STEROL-DEPENDENT GAN- GLIOSIDE DYNAMICS.  Isabel Goronzy , Robert Rawle, Peter Kasson, Steven Boxer 388-Pos Board B153 SECRETS OF THE ENIGMATIC LIPID II REVEALED BY MOLECULAR DYNAM- ICS SIMULATIONS. Syma Khalid , Firdaus Samsudin, Timothy S. Carpenter, Sarah Witzke

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