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Biophysical Society 59
th
Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland
Tuesday, February 10
7:30
am
–5:00
pm
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harles
S
treet
L
obby
Registration/Information
8:00
am
–9:00
am
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oom
327/328/329
Biophysical Society Business Meeting
8:00
am
–4:30
pm
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all
C
Poster Viewing
8:00
am
–5:30
pm
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oom
301/302/303
Career Center
8:15
am
–10:15
am
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allroom
I
Symposium
Biophysics of RNA Processing: Degradation,
Splicing, DEAD Box Proteins
Chair
Sun Hur, Harvard University
1684-S
ymp
8:15
am
INSIGHTS INTO HELICASE EVOLUTION FROM THE
SPECIFICITY AND MECHANISM OF A DEAD-BOX PROTEIN.
Anna L. Mallam
, David J. Sidote, Alan M. Lambowitz
1685-S
ymp
8:45
am
SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING OF PRE-MRNA SPLICING.
Sanjay Tyagi
1686-S
ymp
9:15
am
AUXILIARY FACTORS AND RNA SUBSTRATES REGULATE
DEAD-BOX PROTEIN ACTIVITY BY MODULATION OF THE
DEAD-BOX PROTEIN CONFORMATIONAL CYCLE. Ulf Harms,
Alexandra Z. Andreou, Airat Gubaev,
Dagmar Klostermeier
1687-S
ymp
9:45
am
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF VIRAL RNA DETECTION:
RIG-I AND MDA5.
Sun Hur
8:15
am
–10:15
am
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allroom
II
Symposium
Molecules of Memory: Glutamate Receptor
Channels
Chair
Mark Mayer, NIH
1688-S
ymp
8:15
am
CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES UNDERLYING GLUTAMATE
RECEPTOR GATING.
Mark Mayer
1689-S
ymp
8:45
am
AMPA RECEPTOR STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND DYNAMICS.
Robert E. Oswald
, Ahmed H. Ahmed, Christopher P. Ptak, Madeline
Martinez
1690-S
ymp
9:15
am
INTRACELLULAR DOMAINS OF NMDA RECEPTORS
CONTROL CHANNEL PERMEATION AND GATING
PROPERTIES.
Gabriela K. Popescu
1691-S
ymp
9:45
am
NMDA RECEPTORS AS DYNAMIC ALLOSTERIC MACHINES.
Pierre Paoletti
8:15
am
–10:15
am
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allroom
III
Platform
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
Co-Chairs
H. Peter Lu, Bowling Green State University
Lori Goldner, University of Massachusetts
1692-P
lat
8:15
am
NMDA RECEPTOR ION CHANNEL DYNAMICS IN
LIVING CELLS BY A NOVEL SINGLE-MOLECULE PATCH-
CLAMP FRET MICROSCOPY: REVEALING THE MULTIPLE
CONFORMATIONAL STATES ASSOCIATED WITH A CHANNEL
AT ITS ELECTRICAL OFF STATE. Dibyendu Sasmal,
H. Peter Lu
1693-P
lat
8:30
am
EXPLORING TAU CONFORMATIONS AT THE SINGLE-
MOLECULE LEVEL IN A MICROFLUIDIC TRAP.
Randall H. Goldsmith
, Sharla Wood, Lydia Manger, Michael Holden,
Martin Margittai
1694-P
lat
8:45
am
3D TRACKING OF SINGLE QUANTUM DOTS THROUGH
OFF-FOCUS IMAGING.
Lucia Gardini
, Marco Capitanio, Francesco
Saverio Pavone
1695-P
lat
9:00
am
DECONSTRUCTING PIFE: A SPECTROSCOPIC
INVESTIGATION OF THE “PROTEIN INDUCED
FLUORESCENCE ENHANCEMENT” PHENOMENON IN CY3.
Elana Maria Shepherd Stennett, Monika Anna Ciuba,
Marcia Levitus
1696-P
lat
9:15
am
FABRICATION AND SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION OF
HIGHLY BIREFRINGENT RUTILE PARTICLES FOR TRAPPING
IN AN OPTICAL TORQUE WRENCH.
Seungkyu Ha
, Yera
Ussembayev, Richard Janissen, Maarten van Oene, Nynke H. Dekker
1697-P
lat
9:30
am
ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE FROM A SINGLE
BIOMOLECULE.
Richelle M. Teeling-Smith
, Young Woo Jung,
Nicolas J. Scozzaro, Jeremy Cardellino, Isaac Rampersaud, Justin A.
North, Marek Simon, Vidya P. Bhallamudi, Arfaan Rampersaud, Ezekiel
Johnston-Halperin, Michael G. Poirier, P. Chris Hammel
1698-P
lat
9:45
am
DYNAMICS OF POLYMERIC PROTEIN ASSEMBLIES IN LIVE
CELLS REVEALED BY FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION
IMAGING OF SINGLE MOLECULES.
Shalin B. Mehta
, Molly
McQuilken, Patricia Occhipinti, Amitabh Verma, Rudolf Oldenbourg,
Amy S. Gladfelter, Tomomi Tani
1699-P
lat
10:00
am
SINGLE-MOLECULE-SENSITIVE FRET IN FREELY-DIFFUSING
ATTOLITER DROPLETS. Peker Milas, Sheema Rahmanseresht, Kieran
P. Ramos, Ben D. Gamari,
Lori S. Goldner