Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

1523-P os B oard B474 CELL MECHANO-SENSING VIA ACTOMYOSIN CONTRACTILITY. Taeyoon Kim 1524-P os B oard B475 MOLECULAR COUNTING IN TRACTION FORCE MICROSCOPY. Rolf Harkes , Hayri E. Balcioğlu, Erik HJ Danen, Thomas Schmidt 1525-P os B oard B476 THE LEVEL OF SUBSTRATE DEFORMATION AND NOT TRACTION FORCE REGULATES ADHESION-MEDIATED NEURONAL GROWTH CONE ADVANCE. Ahmad I. M. Athamneh , Alexander X. Cartagena-Rivera, Arvind Raman, Daniel M. Suter 1526-P os B oard B477 MALIGNANT MELANOMA CELLS ASSEMBLE A TUMOR BIOFILM THAT PROMOTES SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE IN RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL STRESSES. Anna Afasizheva , Yorihisa Kotobuki, Heather Tillman, Wilfred Vieira, King Leung Fung, Emily Chen, Kandice Tanner 1527-P os B oard B478 PROBING CELLULAR MECHANO-SENSITIVITY USING BIOMEMBRANE-MIMICKING CELL SUBSTRATES OF ADJUSTABLE STIFFNESS. Yu-Hung Lin , Yifan Ge, Lena Lautscham, Wolfgang H. Goldmann, Ben Fabry, Christoph A. Naumann 1528-P os B oard B479 NEXT GENERATION MECHANOPHORES FOR UNRAVELING THE ROLE OF INTEGRIN TENSION IN FOCAL ADHESION ASSEMBLY. Khalid Salaita 1529-P os B oard B480 VISUALIZING THE INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE OF FOCAL ADHESIONS WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION TRACTION MAPS. Masatoshi Morimatsu , Armen H. Mekhdjian, Alice C. Chang, Steven J. Tan, Alexander R. Dunn 1530-P os B oard B481 FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF CELL TRACTION. Ghaidan Shamsan , David J. Odde 1531-P os B oard B482 EFFECT OF SUBSTRATE STIFFNESS ON INTEGRIN-LIGAND BINDING STRENGTH. Gawain Thomas , Qi Wen 1532-P os B oard B483 ACTIVE ELASTIC DIMERS: CELLS MOVING ON RIGID TRACKS. J. M. Schwarz , J. H. Lopez, Moumita Das 1533-P os B oard B484 UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF SUBSTRATE ELASTICITY ON INTRACELLULAR STRESSES DURING CELL SPREADING. Magdalena Stolarska , Ahmad Zoubi, Aravind B oard B485 MEASURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACTION FORCE OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS ON A TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPLIANT SUBSTRATE BY THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD. Hung-huei Lee, Hsuan Yang, Yu-chi Ai, Keng-hui Lin , Jia- B oard B486 SUBSTRATE STIFFNESS REGULATES THE BEHAVIOR OF HUMAN MONOCYTE-DERIVED MACROPHAGES. Heather N. Hayenga, Katrina Adlerz , Helim Aranda-Espinoza Rammohan 1534-P os yang Juang 1535-P os

1536-P os B oard B487 THE EFFECT OF P-SELECTIN DIMERS ON NEUTROPHIL ROLLING ON ENDOTHELIUM. Alex C. Szatmary 1537-P os B oard B488 THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACTION FORCES EXERTED BY FILOPODIA AND MEMBRANE PROTRUSIONS DRIVE NEUTROPHIL INVASION. Yi-Ting Yeh , Ricardo Serrano, Juan C. del Alamo, Juan C. Lasheras 1538-P os B oard B489 MULTICELLULAR REGULATION OF TENSIONAL HOMEOSTASIS. Elizabeth P. Canovic, Sze Nok Tam, Alicia Zollinger, Michael L. Smith, Dimitrije Stamenovic 1539-P os B oard B490 THREE-DIMENSIONAL FOURIER MONOLAYER STRESS MICROSCOPY. Ricardo Serrano , Aereas Aung, Shyni Varghese, Juan Carlos Del Alamo Membrane Pumps, Transporters, and Exchangers II (Boards B491-B513) 1540-P os B oard B491 SINGLE MOLECULE IMAGING REVEALS THE FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF THE NA + /H + EXCHANGER-3 OLIGOMERIZATION. Victor Babich , Komal Vadnagara, Gregory I. Mashanov, Francesca Di Sole 1541-P os B oard B492 THE NA + /H + EXCHANGER NHE6 LINKS ENDOSOMAL PH TO AMYLOID PATHOLOGIES IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. Hari Prasad , Nir Ben-Tal, Rajini Rao 1542-P os B oard B493 A NOVEL APPROACH TO ANALYZING BINDING DATA FROM NA + DRIVEN TRANSPORTERS: BEYOND NON-INTEGER HILL COEFFICIENTS. Silvia Ravera , Matthias Quick, Juan P. Nicola, Nancy Carrasco, Mario L. Amzel 1543-P os B oard B494 cpow travel awardee CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF TRANSLOCATOR PROTEIN 18 KDA (TSPO) AND IDENTIFICATION OF A CHOLESTEROL BINDING ENHANCEMENT MOTIF. Fei Li , Jian Liu, Carrie Hiser, Lance Valls, Michael Garavito, Shelagh Ferguson-Miller 1544-P os B oard B495 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SODIUM IODIDE SYMPORTER BINDING SITES. Igor Zdravkovic , Patrycja J. Lech, Stephen J. Russell, Sergei Y. Noskov 1545-P os B oard B496 EFFECT OF MUTATIONS ON TRANSPORT BY THE SODIUM/ IODIDE SYMPORTER (NIS). Yuly E. Sanchez , L. Mario Amzel, Nancy Carrasco, Juan Pablo Nicola, Giuseppe Ferrandino 1546-P os B oard B497 TOWARDS THE MECHANISM OF SODIUM/PROTON ANTIPORTER IN E. COLI. Yandong Huang , Jana Shen 1547-P os B oard B498 THE MOLECULAR BASIS FOR SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY IN LACTOSE PERMEASE. Magnus Andersson , Erik Lindahl, Stephen H. White, Ronald H. Kaback 1548-P os B oard B499 DEFINING THE CONFORMATIONAL STATES IN AN MFS TRANSPORTER, FUCP. Jo Lee , Philip C. Biggin

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