Program Book

Travel Grant Awardees

Hanne Poulsen , University of Aarhus, Denmark 2161-Plat SOMATIC MUTATIONS IN THE NA,K-ATPASE CAN CAUSE HYPERTENSION. Wednesday Mily Bhattacharya , Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India 3461-Pos, #B189

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Sunday Kseniya Korobchevskaya , Italian Institute of Technology, Italy 1016-Pos, #B771 DEVELOPMENTOF PUMP-PROBE NANOSCOPY ARCHITECTURE. Elena Molokanova , Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute 772-Pos, #B527 DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF SYNAPTIC AND EXTRASYNAPTIC NMDA RECEPTORS ON A β -INDUCED NITRIC OXIDE PRODUCTION IN CEREBROCORTICAL NEURONS. Eva Sevcsik , Yale University 452-Pos, #B207 CREATING OBSTACLE COURSES FOR RAFT PROTEINS - HOW MICROPATTERNING CAN HELP DECIPHER PLASMA MEMBRANE ORGANIZATION. Yi H. Zhang , University of Bristol, United Kingdom 709-Pos, #B464 INVERSTIGATING STEREOSELECTIVITY OF PHARMACOLOGICAL INHIBITION OF HERG CHANNELS. Monday Autumn Carlsen, Wake Forest University School of Medicine 2088-Pos, #B818 SOLID-STATE NANOPORE MAPPING OF DNA WITH SITE- SPECIFIC BOUND LIGANDS. Irena Ivanovska , University of Pennsylvania 1596.2-Pos, #B326B LAMIN-A IS MECHANOSENSITIVE TO MATRIX STIFFINESS AND COUPLES TO THE RETINOIC ACID PATHWAY IN DIFFERENTIATION Radda Rusinova , Weill Cornell Medical College 1519-Pos, #B249 REGULATION OF ION CHANNEL FUNCTION BY THE HOST LIPID BILAYER EXAMINED BY A STOPPED-FLOW SPECTROFLUORIMETRIC ASSAY. Liqun Zhang , Case Western Reserve University 1571-Pos, #B301 EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF ALL-ATOM MODELS FOR THE PLEXIN TRANSMEMBRANE RECEPTOR BOUND TO GTPASES AND TO LIPID BILAYER. Tuesday Simona Casini , Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands 2795-Pos, #B487 ISOGENIC SETS OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS AS MODEL OF LQT2 SYNDROME. Ulrike Endesfelder , Frankfurt University, Germany 2464-Pos, #B156 SUPER-RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY OF TRANSCRIPTION SITES IN E. COLI. Hannah R. Malcolm , University of Texas Southwestern 2802-Pos, #B494 A LACK OF SIGNIFICANT LIPID INTERACTIONS IN THE OPEN STATE OF MSCS IMPLIES A JACK-IN-THE-BOX TYPE CHANNEL GATING MECHANISM.

NANOSCALE ASSEMBLY OF PROTEINS INTO AMYLOID OLIGOMERS, PORES AND FIBRILS. Irina Moreira , University of Porto, Portugal 3534-Pos, #B262 HOT-SPOTS DETECTION - APPLICATION TO A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT PROTEIN-BASED SYSTEMS. Priyanka Prakash , University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 3353-Pos, #B81 LIGAND BINDING SITE IDENTIFICATION IN MEMBRANE- BOUND ONCOGENIC K-RAS. Milica Vukmirovic , Florida State University 3910-Pos, #B638 MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN ISOFORM SWITCHING IN SKELETAL MUSCLES IN AN A8V-TROPONIN C HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY KNOCK-IN MOUSE MODEL. EDUCATION Sunday Maïwenn Beaugrand, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada 703-Pos, #B458 EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION OF A FUNCTIONAL HERG PORE DOMAIN FOR BIOPHYSICAL AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES. Ben C. Chung , Duke University 89-Plat CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF MRAY, AN ESSENTIAL MEMBRANE ENZYME FOR BACTERIAL CELL WALL SYNTHESIS. Rebekah Daniel , Willamette University 903-Pos, #B658 A ROLE FOR MYOSIN VI IN RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM PHAGOCYTOSIS. Yue Ding , Emory University 984-Pos, #B739 A COMBINED SINGLE MOLECULE FRET / MAGNETIC TWEEZERS INSTRUMENT TO CALIBRATE MOLECULAR TENSION - BASED FLUORESCENCE PROBES. Thais A. Enoki , University of São Paulo, Brazil 453-Pos, #B208 THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE K-HYA1 AND MODEL MEMBRANES: DISTINCT ACTION IN NEUTRAL OR NEGATIVELY CHARGED BILAYERS. Amy D. Hanna, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 594-Pos, #B349 MECHANISMS OF ANTHRACYCLINE-INDUCED DYSFUNCTION OF CALCIUM HANDLING PROTEINS IN THE HEART.

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Biophysical Society 58 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California