Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

Jonas Skogestad (533-Pos, B313) Board S42

Joan Bleecker (1216-Pos, B167) Board S54 SOLID-STATE 2H NMR INVESTIGATION OF TRANSDUCIN ACTIVATION BY RHODOPSIN. Xiaolin Xu (2072-Pos, B209) Board S55 MEASUREMENT OF INTERLEAFLET COUPLING IN PHASE SEPARATED BILAYERS USING HIGH SHEAR. Matthew Blosser (1211-Pos, B162) Board S56 BIOPHISICAL EVALUATION OF DRUG IMPACT ON PULMONARY SURFACTANT PERFORMANCE. Alberto Hidalgo (1240-Pos, B191) Board S57 THE AVERAGE AREA PER MOLECULE OF CHOLESTEROL/PC- LIPID BILAYERS: A REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND A PHYSICALLY INSPIRED MODEL. Jonathan Litz (2030-Pos, B167) Board S58 DPPC MONOLAYERS EXHIBIT AN ADDITIONAL PHASE TRANSITION AT HIGH SURFACE PRESSURE. Chen Shen (429-Pos, B209) Board S59 ACTIVITY OF ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE PROTEGRIN-1 IS TUNED BY MEMBRANE CHOLESTEROL CONTENT. J. Henderson (2792-Pos, B222) Board S60 THE STUDY OF COMPLEXATION PROCESS BETWEEN CATIONIC GEMINI SURFACTANTS AND DNA USING STRUCTURAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS. Weronika Andrzejewska (1972-Pos, B109) Board S61 THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF MONOLAYER SCISSION. Shachi Katira (2040-Pos, B177) Board S62 LOCAL BILAYER REORGANISATION BY THE JM REGIONS OF ALL HUMAN RTKS: A MULTISCALE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY. George Hedger (1304-Pos, B255) Board S63 UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC EFFECTS INDUCED BY KEY COMPONENTS OF THE HCV POLYMERASE REPLICATION COMPLEX. Ester Sesmero (243-Pos, B23) Board S64 PROTON AS A DUAL REGULATOR FOR TRPV1. Bo Hyun Lee (620-Pos, B400) Board S65 NANOSYSTEM BASED ON PHOSPHOLIPIDS AND SURFACTANTS AS INNOVATIVE DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR GENE THERAPY. Michalina Skupin (1239-Pos, B190) Molecular Biophysics

NMDA RECEPTOR SMFRET STUDIES REVEAL ROLE OF DYNAMICS OF THE AGONIST-BINDING DOMAIN IN MEDIATING AGONIST EFFICACY. Drew Dolino (1432-Pos, B383) Board S43 INVESTIGATIONS OF THE STRUCTURAL MECHANISM OF MODULATION OF THE NMDA RECEPTOR. Rita Sirrieh (1430-Pos, B381) Board S44 THE ENVIRONMENT MODULATES THE CONFORMATION OF TRANSMEMBRANE HELIX 1A IN THE LEUCINE TRANSPORTER (LeuT). Kumaresan Jayaraman (2322-Pos, B459) Board S45 ENGINEERING SELECTIVITY IN RGK PROTEIN INHIBITION Board S47 MEMBRANE-LIPID MEDIATED RHODOPSIN SIGNALING INVOLVES AN ENSEMBLE OF CONFORMATIONAL SUBSTATES. Udeep Chawla (2819-Pos, B249) Board S48 COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF THE NTERMINUS OF THE HUMAN DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER (hDAT) Milka Doktorova (1274-Pos, B225) Board S49 QUANTITATIVE MAPPING OF INTERACTIONS IN THE VOLTAGE-SENSOR PORE INTERFACE OF THE SHAKER POTASSIUM CHANNEL Kevin Oelstrom (594-Pos, B374) Board S50 SENSING THE ELECTROCHEMICAL K + GRADIENT: THE VOLTAGE GATING MECHANISM IN K2P POTASSIUM CHANNELS. Marcus Schewe (2150-Pos, B287) Board S51 DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL FOR EXCITABILITY STUDIES OF CAV1/CAV2 CHANNELS. Akil Puckerin (2922-Pos, B352) Board S46 A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF MELANOPSIN PHOTOTRANSDUCTION. Abigail Jackson (750-Pos, B530)

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USING XENOPUS OOCYTES Aaron Corbin (1409-Pos, B360)

Membrane Structure and Assembly

Board S52 UNRAVELING THE DUAL ROLE OF SURFACTANT PROTEIN A AT ATOMISTIC DETAIL. Boon Chong Goh (1293-Pos, B244) Board S53 COMPARING LO/LD MEMBRANE THICKNESS MISMATCH AND MISCIBILITY TRANSITION TEMPERATURES USING FLUORESCENCE AND ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY.

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Biophysical Society 59 th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland