Biophysical Society 65th Annual Meeting Program Guide

Virtual Travel Grant Awardees

Jenaro Soto, University of California, Irvine, USA 81-Pos , Board B15 DYNAMIC CONSEQUENCES OF SPECIFICITY WITHIN THE CYTIDINE REPRESSOR DNA-BINDING DOMAIN. Robert Wiener, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA 306-Pos , Board B240 NANOINDENTATION OF IPSC-DERIVED AORTIC SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS REVEALS A BIOMECHANICAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BASIS FOR ANEURYSM LOCALIZATION IN MARFAN SYNDROME Wednesday, February 24 Santosh Adhikari, University of Minnesota, USA 880-Pos , Board B331 QUANTITATIVE LIVE-CELL PALM REVEALS NANOSCOPIC FAA4 REDISTRIBUTIONS AND DYNAMICS ON LIPID DROPLETS DURING METABOLIC TRANSITIONS IN YEAST Andrea Basciu, University of Cagliari, Italy 554-Pos , Board B5 IN SILICO GENERATION OF HOLO-LIKE CONFORMATIONS OF VERY FLEXIBLE ALLOSTERIC PROTEINS BEARING MULTIPLE BINDING SITES Nicholas Castaneda, University of Central Florida, USA 773-Pos , Board B224 COUNTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF ELECTROSTATICS AND MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING ON ACTIN BUNDLE MECHANICS AND SECONDARY STRUCTURE. Fathima Doole, University of Arizona, USA 683-Pos , Board B134 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE-MEMBRANE INTERACTIONS: INSIGHTS FROM MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS. Steven Fried, University of Arizona, USA 630-Pos , Board B81 HYDRATION AND PROTONATION EFFECTS ON ACTIVATION OF G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTORS. Jenisha Ghimire, Tulane University, USA 691-Pos , Board B142 SYNTHETIC MOLECULAR EVOLUTION TO IDENTIFY HEMOCOMPATIBLE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES EFFECTIVE AGAINST DRUG-RESISTANT, BIOFILM-FORMING BACTERIA. Fatlum Hajredini, City University of New York, USA 615-Pos , Board B66 ALLOSTERIC REGULATION OF THE ACTIVITY OF BY-KINASES, A UNIQUE FAMILY OF BACTERIAL PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASES. Rachel Hutchinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 478-Plat A NOVEL APPROACH COMBINING FLUORESCENCE-ANISOTROPY DECAYS AND MICROVISCOMETRY TO EXPLORE THE COTRANSLATIONAL COMPACTION OF NASCENT PROTEINS. Shobhna Kapoor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 488-Plat MEMBRANE BIOPHYSICS AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY PLATFORM TO MAP THE LANDSCAPE OF VIRULENT LIPID-INDUCED EFFECTS ON HOST CELL MEMBRANE AND SIGNALING. Sai Li, Rockefeller University, USA 652-Pos , Board B103 NONRECIPROCAL AND CONDITIONAL COOPERATIVITY DIRECTS THE PIONEER ACTIVITY OF PLURIPOTENCY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS.

Tuesday, February 23 Trishit Banerjee, Tohoku University, Japan 424-Pos , Board B358

ENGINEERING OF GENOME EDITING PROTEIN CAS9 THAT SLIDES ALONG DNA FASTER AND MIGHT ENABLE EFFICIENT TARGET SEARCH. Alexandra Brown, Dalhousie University, Canada 29-Plat INVESTIGATING THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF COACTIVATOR RECRUITMENT BY THE MELANOGENIC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MITF. Anuska Das, Florida State University, USA 78-Pos , Board B12 STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF A METHYLATION SENSITIVE CAS9. Anirban Das, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India 70-Pos , Board B4 FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE BINDING OF THE N-TERMINAL HELIX OF SHAPE FLUCTUATIONS OF GIANT UNILAMELLAR VESICLES AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO STUDY ELECTRIFIED MEMBRANES AND MEMBRANE VISCOSITY. Ankita Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 356-Pos , Board B290 STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND ENERGETICS OF GLUCOSE TRANSPORT VIA RICE SWEET SUGAR TRANSPORTER. Pankaj Jadhav, Indian Institute of Science 84-Pos , Board B18 2 09 Å RESOLUTION STRUCTURE OF E COLI HIGBA TOXIN-ANTITOXIN COMPLEX REVEALS AN ORDERED DNA-BINDING DOMAIN AND INTRINSIC DYNAMICS IN ANTITOXIN. Sarah Hyun Ji Kim, University of Pennsylvania, USA 324-Pos , Board B258 INTEGRIN CROSSTALK MODULATES STIFFNESS-INDEPENDENT MOTILITY IN CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTES. Julene Madariaga Marcos, Universität Leipzig, Germany 453-Plat DISSECTING THE TARGET RECOGNITION BY CRISPR/CAS EFFECTOR COMPLEXES WITH ULTRAFAST TWIST MEASUREMENTS. Shankar Mandal, University of Michigan, USA 473-Plat SINGLE-MOLECULE FRET BASED INTRA-MOLECULAR KINETIC FINGERPRINTING FOR ULTRAFAST AND HIGH-CONFIDENCE COUNTING OF MUTANT DNA Guillermo Moreno Pescador, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 221-Pos , Board B155 INVESTIGATING PLASMA-MEMBRANE REPAIR EMPLOYING THERMOPLASMONICS. Fiona Naughton, Arizona State University, USA 357-Pos , Board B291 ENERGETICS OF SUBSTRATE BINDING AND CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE OF THE BILE ACID TRANSPORTER ASBT NM Abhilash Sahoo, University of Maryland, USA 138-Pos , Board B72 EFFECTS OF MEMBRANE CURVATURE ON AMYLOID-BETA AGGREGATION. HUMAN ACE2 TO SPIKE PROTEIN OF SARS-COV2. Hammad Faizi, Northwestern University, USA 203-Pos , Board B137

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