Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Travel Grant Awardees Student Travel Awards partially supported by Biochemistry , Institute for Biological Recognition and Catalysis Inc, PLOS, and The Rockefeller University Press

Alyssa A. Lombardi , Temple University School of Medicine 487-Pos, B252 GENETIC ABLATION OF FIBROBLAST MITOCHONDRIAL CALCIUM UPTAKE INCREASES MYOFIBROBLAST TRANSDIFFERENTIATION AND EXACERBATES FIBROSIS IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. Mohammad Mehdi Maneshi , University at Buffalo 390-Pos, B155 SHEAR STRESS STIMULATED MSC ACTIVITIES: DIRECT CHANGES OF MEMBRANE TENSION OR CYTOSKELETAL STRESS? Medeea C. Popescu , Wellesley College 544-Pos, B309 EXAMINING THE ROLE OF PHOSPHORYLATION ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE CARDIAC POTASSIUM CHANNEL ALPHA-SUBUNITS HERG AND KVLQT1. Dana N. Reinemann , Vanderbilt University 226-Plat SINGLE MOLECULE CHARACTERIZATION OF MITOTIC KIF15 REVEALS CAPABILITY TO GENERATE FORCE IN ANTI-PARALLEL MICROTUBULES. Kristin I. Schimert , University of Michigan 223-Plat INTRACELLULAR CARGO TRANSPORT BY SINGLE-HEADED KINESIN MONOMERS. Sienna Wong , Wayne State University 658-Pos, B423 ENGINEERING OF CHIMERIC PROTEINS TO ENHANCE IMMUNOGENICITY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH-AFFINITY SPECIFIC MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES. Fan Yang , University of California, Davis 566-Pos, B331 RATIONAL DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF A VANILLOID-SENSITIVE TRPV2 ION CHANNEL. Monday Breane G. Budaitis , University of Michigan 1288-Pos, B356 THE ROLE OF THE COVER-NECK BUNDLE IN MULTI-MOTOR TRANSPORT AGAINST LOAD IN CELLS. Shirley Chen , University of Michigan 1290-Pos, B358 ENGINEERING INHIBITABLE KINESIN-3 MOTORS BY A NOVEL CHEMICAL- GENETIC APPROACH. Alexander E. Chu , California Institute of Technology 932-Plat TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MEMBRANE PROTEIN EXPRESSION LANDSCAPE. Melody Di Bona , Italian Institute of Technology 1071-Pos, B139 CHROMATIN ACCESSIBILITY STUDIED BY SLOW SCAN FCS IN THE EUKARYOTIC NUCLEUS.

EDUCATION COMMITTEE Sunday Mouhanad Babi , McMaster University, Canada 708-Pos, B473 THE CHARACTERIZATION OF CELLULOSE NANOSTRUCTURE USING SUPER-RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY. Paola Bisignano , University of California, San Francisco 634-Pos, B399 STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS INTO SODIUM-DEPENDENT SUGAR TRANSPORTERS AND THEIR INHIBITION MECHANISM. Tsung-Han Chou , Iowa State University 114-Plat CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF A LOW CO2-INDUCIBLE PROTEIN, LCI1 IN CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII. Yavuz S. Dagdas , University of California, Berkeley 365-Pos, B130 CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS OF CAS9 DURING DNA BINDING. Peter Dahl , University of Michigan 463-Pos, B228 A SUPPORTED TUBULATED BILAYER SYSTEM SHOWS EFFECTS OF SYNAPTOTAGMIN-7 ON MEMBRANE CURVATURE. Andrew Dittmore , National Institutes of Health 361-Pos, B126 ENERGETIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF PLECTONEME TIPS AND TAILS. Wolfgang Gross , University of Bayreuth, Germany 620-Pos, B385 MACROPHAGES ARE SENSITIVE TO SUBSTRATE ELASTICITY DURING PHAGOCYTOSIS. Shubhasis Haldar , Columbia University 209-Plat TRIGGER FACTOR BOOSTS THE WORK DONE BY PROTEIN FOLDING UNDER FORCE. Kalli Kappel , Stanford University 370-Pos, B135 BLIND PREDICTIONS OF RNA/PROTEIN RELATIVE BINDING AFFINITIES. Ying Lai , Stanford University 461-Pos, B226 MUNC13 AND MUNC18 COOPERATE TO PROPERLY ASSEMBLE SNARES FOR FAST NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE. Soohyun K. Lee , University of Arizona 393-Pos, B158 HYDRATION-MEDIATED ELASTIC DEFORMATIONS IN BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES. Maureen Leninger , New York University 118-Plat INVESTIGATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE DRUG TRANSPORTER EMRE.

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