Biophysical Society 63rd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

1745-Pos Board B108 PREFERENTIAL INTERACTIONS OF K + /CL - AND TMAO WITH A MODEL RNA OLIGOMER.  Jacob C. Miner , Kyle Hackett 1746-Pos Board B109 TRAVEL AWARDEE DEVELOPING AN ACCURATE ALL-ATOM FIXED-CHARGE FORCE FIELD FOR RNA WITH IMPLICITLY POLARIZED CHARGES. Chapin E. Cavender , Louis G. Smith, Alan Grossfield, David H. Mathews 1747-Pos Board B110 RNA BASE PAIR FOLDING KINETICS FROMMD SIMULATIONS: FORCE FIELD DEPENDENCE. Fengfei Wang, Xiaojun Xu 1748-Pos Board B111 ONE-BEAD COARSE-GRAINED MODEL FOR RNA 3D STRUCTURE WITH NON-CANONICAL INTERACTIONS. Mario Villada-Balbuena , Mauricio D. Carbajal-Tinoco 1749-Pos Board B112 RNA STRUCTURE AND KINETICS INCLUDING PSEUDOKNOTS THROUGH COMPLETE LANDSCAPE ENUMERATION. Ofer Kimchi , Tristan Cragnolini, Rees Garmann, Vinothan N. Manoharan, Michael P. Brenner, Lucy J. Colwell 1750-Pos Board B113 SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTIONS AND DETERMINATION OF FOLD- ING PATHWAYS FOR TPP RIBOSWITCH. Subash Godar , Junyan Ma, Hugo Sanabria, Joshua Alper 1751-Pos Board B114 TOWARDS OBTAINING A NANOSCALE STRUCTURE OF TERMINAL REGIONS OFJAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS GENOME. Tyler Mrozowich, Vanessa Meier-Stephen, Justin Vigar, Astha, Janusz M. Bujnicki, Hans- JoachimWieden, Trushar R. Patel 1752-Pos Board B115 SCREENING FOR SMALL MOLECULE BINDERS TO THE ZTP RIBOSWITCH, A BACTERIAL REGULATOR OF FOLATE METABOLISM. Brandon N. Tran , Christopher P. Jones, Colleen Connelly, John S. Schneekloth, Adrian R. Ferre-D’Amare 1753-Pos Board B116 PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTIONS WITH C9ORF72 (G4C2)N REPEATS. Madeline Tatosian , Shivaji Thadke, Danith Ly, Mihaela-Rita Mihailescu 1754-Pos Board B117 THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER IN RNA FOLDING. Clark Templeton 1755-Pos Board B118 PRESSURE EFFECTS ON FOLDING OF AN RNA G-QUADRUPLEX STRUC- TURE. Balasubramanian Harish , Jinqiu Wang, Eric Hayden, Catherine Royer 1756-Pos Board B119 SINGLE-MOLECULE INSIGHTS INTO THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES OF A RNA THERMOMETER IN THE PRES- ENCE OF CROWDERS AND OSMOLYTES. Loana Arns 1757-Pos Board B120 SINGLE MOLECULE UNFOLDING OF RNA HAIRPINS.  Jasmine Li , Sarah Plachinski, Micah J. McCauley, Mark C. Williams, Megan E. Nunez 1758-Pos Board B121 FOLLOWING FOLDING PATHWAYS OF COMMON RIBOSWITCH MOTIFS WITH TIME-RESOLVED SINGLE-MOLECULE FRET. Alex Plumridge , Lois Pollack 1759-Pos Board B122 MANIPULATION OF GQ-BASED RNA APTAMERS AT THE SINGLE MOL- ECULE LEVEL USING INTEGRATED FORCE-FLUORESCENCE SPECTROS- COPY.  Jaba Mitra , Taekjip Ha

1760-Pos Board B123 SPECIFIC STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE T-BOX RIBOSWITCH DRIVE THE TWO-STEP BINDING OF THE TRNA LIGAND.  Jiacheng Zhang , Bhas- kar Chetnani, Eric Cormack, Dulce Alonso, Wei Liu, Alfonso Mondragon, Board B124 SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF A C-JUN 5’ UTR STEM-LOOP ASSOCIATED WITH CAP-DEPENDENT EIF3 SPECIALIZED TRANSLATION INITIA- TION. MatthewWalker 1762-Pos Board B125 SIGNAL ANALYSIS OF NANOPORE RNA SEQUENCING TO INTERROGATE POLY(A) TAILS AND POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL MODIFICATIONS. Roham Razaghi , Timothy Gilpatrick, Norah Sadowski, Paul Tang, Rachael Work- man, Jared Simpson, Winston Timp 1763-Pos Board B126 FUNCTION AND DYNAMICS OF THE LSM2-8 PROTEIN RING DURING SPLICEOSOME ACTIVATION. Harpreet Kaur , Margaret L. Rodgers, Aaron Board B127 SELECTIVE ISOTOPE LABELING TO FACILITATE STRUCTURAL AND DY- NAMICS STUDIES OF RNAS BY NMR SPECTROSCOPY. Lukasz T. Olenginski , Owen Becette, Hyeyeon Nam, Kehinde M. Taiwo, Theodore K. Dayie 1765-Pos Board B128 INVESTIGATING THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF RNAS THAT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN HUMAN AND CHIMPANZEE BY NMR USING SELECTIVE ISOTOPICALLY LABELED RNAS. Kehinde M. Taiwo , Hyeyeon Nam, OlenginskI Lukasz, Owen Becette, Kwaku Dayie 1766-Pos Board B129 CHARACTERIZATION OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN THE HCV GENOME USING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY. Jamie L. Gilmore, Hideki Aizaki, Takaji Wakita, Kunio Takeyasu DNA Structure & Dynamics I (Boards B130 - B150) 1767-Pos Board B130 TRAVEL AWARDEE THE EFFECT OF INTRASTRAND BASE-STACKING INTERACTIONS ON THE ENERGETICS AND STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS OF DNA INTERNAL LOOPS. Michael P. Leveille, Roman S. Solecki, Brian L. Cannon 1768-Pos Board B131 THE EFFECT OF SMALL MOLECULES ON THE STABILITY OF G-QUADRU- PLEXES. Christopher G. Bentsen , Massimiliano Lamberto, Davis Jose 1769-Pos Board B132 WHAT ARE THE DYNAMICS OF DNA NANOCAGES? FROM DESIGN TO APPLICATIONS IN DRUG DELIVERY.  Jonathon B. Ferrell , Garrett J. Chan, Marlo L. Zorman, Jianing Li 1770-Pos Board B133 A SPECTROSCOPIC APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND THE STRUCTURAL INTRICACIES OF NON-CANONICAL NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATIONS USING FLUORESCENT BASE ANALOGUES. Kirsten P. Lawson, Michal M. Kalisz, Christopher G. Bentsen, Davis Jose 1771-Pos Board B134 USE OF CYANO PROBES IN QM/MM SIMULATIONS TO STUDY THE EF- FECT OF ION CONCENTRATION AND TEMPERATURE OF THE ENVIRON- MENT ON A URACIL NUCLEOTIDE AND DNA. Anmol Kumar , Alexander D. MacKerell 1772-Pos Board B135 BACTERIAL NUCLEIC ACID QUADRUPLEX FORMATION. Amelia Cecere , Hikari Murayama, Sally Shepardson-Fungairino, Megan E. Nunez Jingyi Fei 1761-Pos A. Hoskins 1764-Pos

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