Biophysical Society 67th Annual Meeting Program Guide

Travel Grant Awardees

Clinton A. Gabel, Purdue University 605 -Pos, Board B426 BREAKING DOWN THE HAUS: MOLECULAR INSIGHTS INTO BRANCHING MICROTUBULE NUCLEATION Kirin Gada, Northeastern University 510 -Pos, Board B331 CRITICAL REGULATION OF THE VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL, NA V 1 4, BY PIP 2 Cristina García Mouton, Complutense University of Madrid 420 -Pos, Board B241 CONTRIBUTION OF SURFACE-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANES TO PULMONARY SURFACTANT-MEDIATED DRUG DELIVERY Stefanie M. Geisler, University of Innsbruck 515 -Pos, Board B33 GENETIC DELETION OF STAC2 ADAPTOR PROTEIN ALTERS ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF MOUSE CHROMAFFIN CELLS Shefin Sam George, Stanford University 457 -Pos, Board B278 CHOLESTEROL AS A TOOL TO PROBE THE ROLE OF MEMBRANE IN COCHLEAR HAIR CELL MECHANOTRANSDUCTION Laura I. Gil Pineda, Virginia Tech 666 -Pos, Board B487 USING TETRAPEPTIDE GSSS AND β-CATENIN 17-48 TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF PHOSPHOSERINE ON POLYPEPTIDE CONFORMATIONAL ENSEMBLES Margaret B. Jameson, University of Wisconsin - Madison 60 -Plat PAIRWISE BIOSYNTHESIS ESTABLISHES ION CHANNEL BALANCE AND MITIGATES ARRHYTHMIA John Janetzko, Stanford University 240 -Pos, Board B61 ARRESTIN C-TAIL DYNAMICS REGULATE ACTIVATION AND GPCR ENGAGEMENT Veronica Jimenez, California State University, Fullerton 444 -Pos, Board B265 MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION IS REGULATED BY MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNELS IN TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI Isik Kantarcioglu, Sabanci Universty 291 -Pos, Board B112 EFFLUX OF ANTIBIOTICS BY THE HOMOTRIMERIC TOLC TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN Kristen Kennison, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 400 -Pos, Board B221 UTILIZING ASYMMETRIC GIANT UNILAMELLAR VESICLES TO DETERMINE HOW LOW-MELTING PHOSPHOLIPIDS AFFECT INTERLEAFLET COUPLING STRENGTH Eugene Klyshko, University of Toronto Plat-153 LAWS: LOCAL ALIGNMENT OF WATER SITES - DESCRIBING ALLOSTERIC WATER NETWORKS IN ENZYMES

Sunday Mena Abdelsayed, Stanford University 171 -Plat ACTION POTENTIAL HETEROGENEITY IN THE MYOSIN BINDING PROTEIN C3 MUTANT, R943X Anna Katarina Antonovic, Queen Mary University of London 570 -Pos , Board B391 A RATIONAL APPROACH TO SELECTIVE TARGETING OF SKELETAL MYOSIN Christopher A. Azaldegui, University of Michigan 44 -Plat SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING OF THE MCDA ATPASE REVEALS MECHANISTIC DETAILS OF CARBOXYSOME TRAFFICKING Chelsea Brown, Warwick University 661 -Pos , Board B482 SUPRAMOLECULAR ORGANISATION AND DYNAMICS OF MANNOSYLATED PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL LIPIDS IN THE MYCOBACTERIAL PLASMA MEMBRANE Tianxin Cao, University of Illinois at Chicago 586 -Pos , Board B407 THE C-TERMINAL END SEGMENT OF TROPONIN T IS A NOVEL TROPOMYOSIN-BINDING SITE DIRECTLY REGULATED BY CA 2+ TO DETERMINE THE KINETICS OF CARDIAC MUSCLE Karen Castillo, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso 531 -Pos, Board B352 THE BISPHOSPHONATE ZOLEDRONIC ACID IS A TRPV1 CHANNEL INHIBITOR Elizabeth Crumley, University of Tennessee 385 -Pos, Board B206 THE USE OF IODINATED CHOLESTEROL TO ENHANCE CONTRAST IN CRYO-EM IMAGES OF LIPID MEMBRANES Caroline Davis, University of Virginia 187 -Pos, Board B8 REFINING HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN CONFORMATIONAL DATA FROM DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTAL SOURCES USING BIAS-RESAMPLING METHODS AND INFORMATION THEORY Guy W. Dayhoff, II, University South Florida 300 -Pos, Board B121 RAPID PREDICTION AND ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN INTRINSIC DISORDER Daisy Duan, Yale University 603 -Pos, Board B424 ABL2 MEDIATES MICROTUBULE NUCLEATION AND REPAIR VIA TUBULIN CO-CONDENSATION Axel J. Fenwick, Johns Hopkins University 594 -Pos, Board B415 HF P EF ANIMAL MODELS DISPLAY DIFFERENCES IN MYOFIBRIL MECHANICS Yekaterina Fyodorova, University of Michigan 81 -Plat IDENTIFYING THE ROLE OF THE FACT HISTONE CHAPERONE IN EPIGENETICS THROUGH SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE IMAGING

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