Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2020

Annual Meeting

2020 SRAA Poster CompetitionWinners

Channels, Receptors and Transporters Natsuki Mizutani , Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan

COUPLING MECHANISMS OF VSD MUTANTS OF CI-VSP. Che Chun Alex Tsui , University of Oxford, UK & Scripps Re- search Institute MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS STUDIES OF THE PROTON CHANNEL OTOPETRIN AND OTHER MECHANICAL- LY-ACTIVATED ION CHANNELS. Cryo-EM Hamidreza Rahmani , Florida State University INSIGHTS INTO VARIOUS TYPES OF MYOPATHY USING THE ATOMIC MODEL OF LETHOCERUS MYOSIN FILAMENTS Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Ibraheem Alshareedah , University at Buffalo SEQUENCE-ENCODED INTERACTIONS MODULATE REENTRANT LIQUID CONDENSATION OF RIBONUCLEOPRO- TEIN-RNA MIXTURES. Andrea Guljas , University of Toronto, Canada ROLE OF π-π INTERACTIONS IN LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION. Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies Joel C. Heisler , University of California – Merced CLOCK OUTPUT SERVES DUAL PURPOSE OF GENE REGULATION AND TIME KEEPING. Jenny Liu , Northwestern University THE ROLE OF BACKBONE AND SIDECHAIN DYNAMICS ON FIMH ALLOSTERY. Dhiman Ray , University of California – Irvine HOOGSTEEN BASE PAIRING IN DNA VS RNA: THERMODY- NAMICS AND KINETICS FROM ENHANCED SAMPLING SIMULATION AND MARKOV STATE MODELING. Mechanobiology Jeffrey Lotthammer , Ohio State University IN-SILICO ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF INNER-EAR MECHANO- TRANSDUCTION CHANNEL MODELS. Hao-Che Wang , University of Wisconsin-Madison DISCRIMINATOR EFFECTS ON OPEN COMPLEX FORMATION, STABILIZATION, AND TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION.

The 31 winners of the annual Student Research Achievement Awards were recognized at the 64th Biophysical Society An- nual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 17, 2020. These students were selected by judges from the Society’s sub- groups for their outstanding presentations during the poster competition. One hundred twenty-two students participated in the competition. The winners are: Bioenergetics, Mitochondria and Metabolism Santosh Adhikari , University of Minnesota LIVE-CELL SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY OF FAA4 RE-DISTRIBUTION ON LIPID DROPLETS DURING METABOLIC TRANSITIONS IN YEAST. Bioengineering Kartik Lakshmi Rallapalli , University of California – San Diego RATIONALIZING THE EFFECT OF MUTATIONS ON THE EDIT- PREPARATION OF PEPTIDES WITH HIGH AFFINITY TO CAN- CER TARGETS IN MRNA DISPLAY VIA CONTINUOUS-FLOW MICROFLUIDICS. Biological Fluorescence Reena R. Beggs , University of Alabama at Birmingham STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO DESMOSOME ARCHITECTURE DURING ASSEMBLY AND MATURATION. Jia Hui Li , Freie Universität Berlin, Germany DIRECTED MANIPULATION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS BY FLUORESCENT MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES. Jinho Park , Seoul National University, South Korea REAL-TIME OBSERVATION OF DNA CLEAVAGE BY CRIS- PR-CAS9 ENDONUCLEASE USING PYRENE MOLECULE AS A SENSITIVE PROBE FOR DETECTING SUB-NM STRUCTURAL CHANGE. Biopolymers in Vivo Furqan Dar , Washington University in St. Louis MULTIDIMENSIONAL PHASE DIAGRAMS FOR MULTICOMPO- NENT SYSTEMS COMPRISING MULTIVALENT PROTEINS. Meranda Masse , University of Wisconsin – Madison EFFECT OF NASCENT PROTEINS ON THE STABILITY OF THE RIBOSOME. ING EFFICIENCY OF ADENINE BASE EDITORS. Wan-Zhen Lin , University of Southern California

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