Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2019

Annual Meeting

Membrane Structure and Function Chantelle Leveille , University of Washington The Role of Ergosterol in Phase Separation of Yeast Vacuole Membranes. Xinxin Woodward , Wayne State University Single-Lipid Sorting and Dynamics at Membrane Curvature Sites: The Effects of Fluorescence Labeling, Composition, Phase, and Temperature. Elmer A. Zapata-Mercado , Johns Hopkins University Mechanism of Epha2 Dimerization in Response to Monomeric Ligands. Membrane Transport Kehan Chen , Baylor College of Medicine Functional Characterizations of Purified Ctr Copper Transporter Proteins Reveal a Novel Mechanism of Ion Selectivity and Trans- port. Williams E. Miranda , University of Calgary Molecular Mechanisms of Filter-Level Gating and Loss of Selectivi- ty In Herg1 N629d Mutant From Microseconds MD Simulations. Molecular Biophysics Abigail D. Wilson , University of Oxford Impaired Ligand Regulation of Native Ryr2 Channels in the Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia Mutation, Ryr2-V2475f(+/-). Alexander J. Bryer , University of Delaware Gpu Accelerated Computation of Isotropic Chemical Shifts Offers New Dimension Of Structure Refinement in Largescale Molecular Dynamics Simulation. David Wahl , University of Southern Indiana Molecular Dynamics Investigation of the Physical Binding of the Nnk Diazonium Ion to Exon 5 of Tp53. Motility & Cytoskeleton Anjali Gupta , National University of Singapore Tuning of Membrane Sphingolipid Content Influences the Links of Outer-Leaflet Membrane Lipid Dynamics to Cholesterol and Cytoskeleton. Nanoscale Biophysics Riccardo Marongiu , Instituto Italiano di Tecnologica, Genova Label-Free Chromatin-DNA Imaging by Circular Polarized Light Scattering Scanning Microscopy.

Golam Mustafa , Kent State University Converting FRET Signal into Force Information Using Short Looped Dna as Force Transducer. 2019 Undergraduate Student Poster Award Winners Congratulations to the following students who won awards at the 2019 Annual Meeting for their poster presentations: Brian Soong , Johns Hopkins University Designing a Photo-switchable Helicase through Structure- Function Relationship. Claire Evensen , University of Wisconsin-Madison Characterizing Transient Intermediates in Productive RNAP Transcription Initiation. Joie Ling , Haverford College The Placement of Vibrational Probe Labeled Substrates to the Phosphopantetheine Arm of the E. coli acyl Carrier Protein for Site Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy. Nicolae Sapoval , University of Chicago A New Open Structure of the Insulin Degrading Enzyme Provides Insights into the Conformational Transition. These students were selected by judges based on the quality and scientific merit of their research, knowledge of the research problem, contribution to the project, and the overall presentation of their poster.

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