Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Travel Grant Awardees

Seda Kocaman , University of Tennessee at Knoxville 271-Pos, B41

EDUCATION COMMITTEE Sunday Donald S. Anderson , University of Montana 504-Pos, B274 CHARACTERIZATION OF F2N12S IN CELL MEMBRANES USING TIME- RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES. Fikret Aydin , University of Chicago 727-Pos, B497 COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF ENA/VASP INTERACTING WITH ACTIN FILAMENT TO UNDERSTAND ITS PROCESSIVITY. Alida Besch , University of Minnesota Duluth 256-Pos, B26 CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS OF DOPAMINE β-HYDROXYLASE BY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS. Jean-Philippe Bourgouin , University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada 797-Pos, B567 METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT TO STUDY LIPID MEMBRANES OF INTACT BACTERIA AND MICROALGAE BY 2H SOLID-STATE NMR. Samuel W. Canner , Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis 520-Pos, B290 ARE VITAMIN E AND PUFA DRIVEN TOGETHER BY CHOLETEROL? COMPUTER SIMULATION STUDIES. Jessica Cao , Brown University 228-Plat ROLE OF TYROSINE PHOSPHORYLATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL CALCIUM UNIPORTER IN REGULATING MITOCHONDRIAL CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS Ugur Cetiner , University of Maryland 577-Pos, B347 RECOVERY OF EQUILIBRIUM FREE ENERGY FROM NON-EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS WITH MECHANOSENSITIVE ION CHANNELS IN E. COLI. Hui Huang , Vanderbilt University 616-Pos, B386 COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF DISEASE MUTANT FORMS OF THE HUMAN KCNQ1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL. Maciej Jagielnicki , University of Virginia School of Medicine 675-Pos, B445 MECHANISM OF PH GATING IN CX26 GAP JUNCTION CHANNELS REVEALED BY CRYOEM, CROSSLINKING AND HDX. Kaitlin E. Johnson , University of California, Davis 892-Pos, B662 INVESTIGATION OF STABILITY AND DYNAMICS OF GEL-ENCAPSULATED BACTERIORHODOPSIN. Laurel F. Kinman , Wellesley College 660-Pos, B430 INVESTIGATING CAMP-MEDIATED PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AS MODULATORS OF HERG AND KVLQT1 PLASMA MEMBRANE EXPRESSION.

INVESTIGATION OF THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS WHICH RESULT IN AMINOGLYCOSIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE 4’ (ANT4) VARIANTS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THERMOSTABILITY. Thu N. Ly , Washington State University 706-Pos, B476 CARDIOMYOPATHY-LINKED MUTATION K15N IN TROPOMYOSIN ALTERS CALCIUM-DEPENDENT REGULATION OF RECONSTITUTED CARDIAC THIN FILAMENTS. Varnavas D. Mouchlis , University of California, San Diego 340-Pos, B110 ALLOSTERIC REGULATION BY MEMBRANES CONTROLS SPECIFICITY OF LIPOLYTIC ENZYMES THROUGH RECRUITMENT OF UNIQUE HYDROPHOBIC BINDING POCKETS. Yinghua Qiu , Northeastern University 902-Pos, B672 NANOPORE FABRICATION IN ULTRATHIN HFO2 MEMBRANES FOR NANOPORE-BASED DNA SEQUENCING. Priyanka Samanta , University of Illinois 673-Pos, B443 IONIC PERMEATION AND THE NATURE OF ION SELECTIVITY IN CLAUDIN PARACELLULAR CHANNELS. Zheng Shi , Harvard University 583-Pos, B353 LIPID-GEL MODEL OF BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES. M. Mert Terzi , Carnegie Mellon University 512-Pos, B282 MEMBRANE ELASTICITY: UNDERSTANDING THE GAUSSIAN CURVATURE MODULUS FROM LIPID TILT THEORY. Christopher M. Tsiros , University of Massachusettes, Lowell 728-Pos, B498 BINDING OF THE N2A REGION OF TITIN TO ACTIN FILAMENTS. Monday Meagan L. Belcher Dufrisne , Columbia University 1187-Pos, B96 STRUCTURE OF A PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE FROMMYCOBACTERIA. Chase M. Carver , University of Texas Health, San Antonio 1516-Pos, B425 MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR NEUROMODULATION OF KCNQ M-TYPE K+, AND OTHER, CHANNELS IN HIPPOCAMPAL PRINCIPAL NEURONS INVOLVES STRIKING CELL-SPECIFIC REGULATION CONTROLLING EXCITABILITY. Lindsay D. Clark , University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 1203-Pos, B112 LIGAND MODULATION OF SIDECHAIN DYNAMICS IN A WILD-TYPE HUMAN GPCR.

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