Biophysical Society 66th Annual Meeting Program Guide

542-Pos Board B366 MICROVILLI, MYOSIN CONTRACTILITY AND APICAL ACTIN ORGANIZATION ARE REGULATED LOCALLY THOUGH EZRIN BOUND GAPS. Andrew T. Lombardo , Riasat Zaman, David McDermitt, Anthony P. Bretscher 543-Pos Board B367 STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL BASIS OF RAPID ACTIN DYNAMICS IN LEISHMANIA PARASITES. Tommi Kotila , Hugo Wioland, Selvaraj Muniyan - di, Konstantin Kogan, Lina Antenucci, Antoine G. Jegou, Juha Huiskonen, Guillaume Romet-Lemonne, Pekka Lappalainen 544-Pos Board B368 ZYXIN DYNAMICS AND F-ACTIN REORGANIZATION IN DENDRITIC SPINES. Nisan Sele , Braxton R. Schuldt, Ana B. Varona Ortiz, Sally A. Kim 545-Pos Board B369 MUTATION E334Q IN ACTG1 LEADS TO PERTURBED INTERACTIONS WITH COFILIN AND CYTOSKELETAL MYOSIN ISOFORMS. Johannes N. Greve , Manuel H. Taft, Nataliya Di Donato, Dietmar J. Manstein Microtubules, Structure, Dynamics, and Associated Proteins (Boards B370 - B392) 546-Pos Board B370 ANTI-VIRULENCE ACTIVITY OF PLANT-BASED ANTIFUNGALS THROUGH MICROTUBULE INHIBITION. Zinnat Shahina, Ragothaman M. Yennamalli, Tanya E.S. Dahms 547-Pos Board B371 METHODS TO CONTROL CHAOTIC ACTIVE NEMATIC FLOW. Dimitrius A. Khaladj , Linda S. Hirst 548-Pos Board B372 THE KINESIN-1 REGULATION MECHANISM OF MAP7. Jon Fernandes 549-Pos Board B373 EVALUATION OF THE FLEXURAL RIGIDITY OF MICROTUBULES WITH A MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON MODEL. Hideki Hotta , Hang Zhou, Kazuya Fujimoto, Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Ryuji Yokokawa 550-Pos Board B374 SPASTIN ACCUMULATES ON SHRINKING MICROTUBULE TIPS BY SLOW - ING THEM DOWN. Amer Al-Hiyasat , Yazgan Tuna, Yin-wei Kuo, Jonathon Board B375 PLUS AND MINUS ENDS OF MICROTUBULE RESPOND ASYMMETRICALLY TO KINESIN BINDING BY A LONG RANGE DIRECTIONALLY DRIVEN AL - LOSTERIC MECHANISM. Huong T. Vu , Zhechun Zhang, Riina Tehver, Dave Thirumalai 552-Pos Board B376 BENDING-TORSIONAL ELASTICITY AND ENERGETICS OF THE PLUS-END MICROTUBULE TIP. Maxim Igaev , Helmut Grubmuller 553-Pos Board B377 DIVALENT CATIONS INDUCE NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHASE TRANSITIONS IN TAU-MEDIATED MICROTUBULE BUNDLES UNDERGOING DYNAMIC INSTABILITY. Bretton Fletcher , Phillip A. Kohl, Chaeyeon Song, Peter J. Chung, Herbert P. Miller, Youli Li, Myung Chul Choi, Leslie Wilson, Stuart C. Feinstein, Cyrus R. Safinya 554-Pos Board B378 XMAP215 PROMOTES MICROTUBULE CATASTROPHE BY DISRUPTING THE GROWING MICROTUBULE END. Veronica J. Farmer, Goker Arpag , Sarah L. Hall, Marija Zanic 555-Pos Board B379 CDK5RAP2 DIMERS ACTIVATE MICROTUBULE NUCLEATION BY OPPOSING INHIBITORY PATHWAYS. Michael J. Rale , Sophie Travis, Brianna Romer, Brian P. Mahon, Sabine Petry Howard 551-Pos

556-Pos Board B380 A STRUCTURAL MECHANO-CHEMICAL MODEL OF MICROTUBULE SEEDED NUCLEATION. Kenneth Tsui , Shannon F. Stewman, Ao Ma 557-Pos Board B381 USING NMR TO PROBE THE DYNAMICS AND PROPERTIES OF THE C- TERMINAL TUBULIN TAILS. Allison Whited , Genesis M. Ferrer, Emma L. Seidler, Kathryn P. Wall, Loren Hough 558-Pos Board B382 PROKARYOTIC CYTOSKELETAL FILAMENTS: A TOOL TO BUILD A MINIMAL DNA SEGREGATION SYSTEM FOR SYNTHETIC CELLS. Reza Amini Hounejani , Catalina IJspeert, Marileen Dogterom 559-Pos Board B383 INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS AND STRUCTURE OF R5L TAU. Gabryelle Kolk , Zachary J. Donhauser 560-Pos Board B384 ALPHA TUBULIN POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION BY TAURINE IS VERY UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED IN DIFFERENT TISSUES AND DIFFERENT CELLS. Anna Leigh White , Dan L. Sackett 561-Pos Board B385 USING KNOCKOUTS OF POST TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION ENZYMES TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF TUBULIN POST TRANSLATIONAL MODIFI - CATIONS ON THE MOTILITY AND VIABILITY OF TRYPANOSOMA BRU - CEI. Katherine C. Wentworth , Subash Godar, Lucy Fischer, Joshua Alper 562-Pos Board B386 Travel Award Winner PREFERENCE OF CAMSAP3 TO EXPANDED MICROTUBULES CONTRIBUTES TO MINUS END STABILIZATION. Hanjin Liu , Tomohiro Shima, Sotaro Board B387 SUPERRESOLUTION IMAGING OF DEPOLYMERIZING MICROTUBULE ENDS. Perla A. Viera, Raisa Fatima , Douglas S. Martin 564-Pos Board B388 ELUCIDATING HOW ABL2 TYROSINE KINASE REGULATES MICROTUBULE DYNAMICS. Daisy Duan , Wanqing Lyu, Tony Koleske 565-Pos Board B389 INTENSE ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS ON MICROTUBULES. Daniela Guadalupe Blanco Campoy , Tomáš Zakar, Michal Cifra 566-Pos Board B390 BREAKING DOWN MICROTUBULE SEVERING MOTORS WITH MACHINE LEARNING. Amanda C. Macke , Ruxandra I. Dima, Rohith Anand Varikoti, Maria S. Kelly 567-Pos Board B391 A MODEL SUGGESTING THAT MECHANICAL COUPLING CAN EXPLAIN THE COORDINATION OF MICROTUBULES WITHIN A K-FIBER BUNDLE DURING MITOSIS. Bonnibelle K. Leeds , Charles L. Asbury 568-Pos Board B392 PATTERN OF COLLECTIVE MOTION IS REGULATED BY THE PERSISTENCE LENGTH OF MICROTUBULES. Hang Zhou , Wonyeong Jung, Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Kazuya Fujimoto, Taeyoon Kim, Ryuji Yokokawa Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, and Motility I (Boards B393 - B409) 569-Pos Board B393 A UNICELLULAR WALKER CONTROLLED BY A MICROTUBULE-BASED FINITE STATE MACHINE. Ben T. Larson , Jack Garbus, Jordan B. Pollack, Wallace F. Marshall Uemura 563-Pos

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