Program Book

Taylor P. Light , James Madison University 3365-Pos, #B93 INFLUENCE OF HOFMEISTER SALTS ON THE STRUCTURE, AGGREGATION, AND UNFOLDING OF RECA. Nicole L. Michmerhuizen , Calvin College 3526-Pos, #B254 A BIOPHYSICAL STUDY OF THE G-QUADRUPLEX-INSULIN INTERACTION. William B. Monteith , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3724-Pos, #B452 PROTEIN STABILITY IN LIVING CELLS. Suchithranga M. D. C. Perera , University of Arizona 3206-Plat G-PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR ACTIVATION INVESTIGATED USING SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING. Priya Putta , Kent University 3629-Pos, #B357 INTERPLAY OF MEMBRANE LIPIDS DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECTS LIPID BINDING OF PHOSPHATIDIC ACID EFFECTORS Utsab R. Shrestha , Wayne State University 3288-Pos, #B16 DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF OLIGOMERIC INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE (IPPASE) STUDIED BY QUASIELASTIC NEUTRON SCATTERING. A. Catalina Vélez-Ortega , University of Kentucky 4024-Pos, #B752 HIGH-SPEED HOPPING PROBE SCANNING ION CONDUCTANCE MICROSCOPY. Xiaolin Xu , University of Arizona 3293-Pos, #B21 GENERALIZED MODEL-FREE SPECTRAL DENSITY ANALYSIS APPLIED TO RHODOPSIN ACTIVATION IN MEMBRANES. DECARBOXYLASE (MCD) KNOCKOUT MICE LEADS TO CARDIAC REMODELLING AND HIGH MORTALITY DURING PERI-WEANING PERIOD. Daniela Araiza-Olivera , National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City 824-Pos, #B579 IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE A GLYCOLYTIC METABOLON IS STABILIZED BY F-ACTIN. Victor Banerjee , Bose Institute, India 319-Pos, #B74 INHIBITION OF INSULIN FIBRILLATION BY A NON TOXIC PEPTIDE NK9 Prajwal Ciryam , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 321-Pos, #B76 PROTEOME METASTABILITY IN HEALTH, AGING, AND DISEASE. INTERNATIONAL Sunday Dunja Aksentijevic , King’s College London, United Kingdom 945-Pos, #B700 METABOLIC INFLEXIBILITY OF MALONYL CoA

Leonel Malacrida , Clinical Hospital, Uruguay 449-Pos, #B204 PHASOR PLOTS AND SPECTRAL PHASOR ANALYSIS OF LAURDAN AND PRODAN FOR MEMBRANE HETEROGENEITY STUDIES: NEW FRONTIERS IN MEMBRANE BIOPHYSICS. Guy Nir , Bar Ilan University, Israel 126-Plat STUDYING PROTEIN-DNA DYNAMICS AND PROTEIN UNFOLDING USING A FORCE-FREE SINGLE-MOLECULE TECHNIQUE. Sarah O. Oni , Lead City University, Nigeria 955-Pos, #B710 IDENTIFICATION OF HEAVY METALS IN WILD PLANTS GROWN ON BATTERY WASTE. Yaroslav V. Tkachev , V.A.Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russia 797-Pos, #B552 ROLE OF THE COIL-HELIX TRANSITION WITHIN LOOP2 IN CARDIAC MYOSIN KINETICS MODULATION. Donna R. Whelan , Monash University, Australia 1040-Pos, #B795 MONITORING THE CONFORMATION AND CONCENTRATION OF DNA IN LIVE CELLS USING FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY. Monday Debanjan Bhowmik , Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India 1371-Pos, #B101 DECOUPLING CONFORMATION, AGGREGATION AND FUNCTION OF AMYLOID- β MONOMERS AND OLIGOMERS: AN FCS, SERS AND AFM STUDY. Jenu V. Chacko , Italian Institute of Technology, Italy 2001-Pos, #B731 INSIGHT INTO HYBRID NANOSCOPY TECHNIQUES: STED AFM & STORM AFM. Ksenia Chekashkina , A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russia 1468-Pos, #B198 LIPIDS AS REGULATORS OF EFFECTIVE MEMBRANE RIGIDITY. André F. Faustino , University of Lisbon, Portugal 1959-Pos, #B689 DENGUE VIRUS CAPSID PROTEIN INTERACTS SPECIFICALLY WITH VERY LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS. Hema Chandra Kotamarthi , Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India 1972-Pos, #B702 EXPERIMENTAL AND SIMULATION STUDIES ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUMO PROTEINS. Ariane Nunes-Alves , University of São Paulo, Brazil 2062-Pos, #B792 A COMPUTATIONAL METHOD INCLUDING PROTEIN FLEXIBILITY TO ESTIMATE AFFINITIES WITH SMALL LIGANDS. Andrea Soranno , University of Zürich, Switzerland 1363-Pos, #B93

SINGLE-MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY REVEALS POLYMER EFFECTS OF DISORDERED PROTEINS IN CROWDED ENVIRONMENTS.

Biophysical Society 58 th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California

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