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1949-P os B oard #B679 PROBING THE UNBINDING KINETICS OF DNA-H-NS-DNA PROTEIN COMPLEXES BY A HIGH-SPEED AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE-MOLECULE PULLING ASSAY USING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY. Yan Liang , Marian Baclayon, Ramon van der Valk, Remus Th. Dame, Wouter H. Roos, Gijs J.L. Wuite 1950-P os B oard #B680 INSTRUMENT FREE BIOMOLECULAR INTERACTION MEASUREMENT WITH DNA NANOSWITCHES. Ken Halvorsen, Mounir Koussa, AndrewWard , Wesley P. Wong 1951-P os B oard #B681 SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF FORCES AND CURRENTS USING AN AFM-FET HYBRID SENSOR FOR STUDYING SINGLE BIOMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS. Byung I. Kim 1952-P os B oard #B682 FORCES IN T CELL ANTIGEN RECOGNITION. Enrico Klotzsch , Gerhard J. Schütz 1953-P os B oard #B683 NOVEL GENERATION OF CROSSLINKERS ALLOWS SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY ON OLIGOMERIC RECEPTORS. Doris Sinwel , Andreas Karner, Andreas Ebner, Rong Zhu, Peter Hinterdofer, Hermann J. Gruber 1954-P os B oard #B684 DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF A HIGH FORCE NEODYMIUM IRON BORON BASED MAGNETIC TWEEZERS DEVICE USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS. Nicholas A. Zacchia , Timothy Thomas, Megan T. Valentine 1955-P os B oard #B685 SMAP: MANIPULATING DNA BY ULTRASOUND - SINGLE- MOLECULES GO ACOUSTIC. Gerrit Sitters , Douwe Kamsma, Erwin J.G. Peterman, Gijs J.L. Wuite 1956-P os B oard #B686 AN AFM FORCE PULLING STUDY OF RIBOFLAVIN RECEPTOR TARGETING NANOPARTICLES. Abigail N. Leistra , Amanda Witte, Jong Hyun Han, Seok Ki Choi, Kumar Sinniah 1957-P os B oard #B687 ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY OF DNA-CTAB AGGREGATES. Adam Rimawi, Pamela M. St. John 1958-P os B oard #B688 ENERGETICS AND KINETICS OF SNARE ZIPPERING. Yongli Zhang 1959-P os B oard #B689 international travel awardee DENGUE VIRUS CAPSID PROTEIN INTERACTS SPECIFICALLY WITH VERY LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS. André F. Faustino , Filomena A. Carvalho, Ivo C. Martins, Miguel A. R. B. Castanho, Ronaldo Mohana-Borges, Fabio C. L. Almeida, Andrea T. Da Poian, Nuno C. Santos 1960-P os B oard #B690 education travel awardee CHARACTERIZING THE INTERACTION OF DESMOSOMAL CADHERINS AT SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL. Omer Shafraz , Sabyasachi Rakshit, Molly Lowndes, W. James Nelson, Sanjeevi Sivasankar 1961-P os B oard #B691 education travel awardee SINGLE MOLECULE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ROLE OF DIVALENT IONS IN PRION PROTEIN AGGREGATION. Chi-Fu Yen , Sanjeevi Sivasankar

1962-P os B oard #B692 THE EFFECTS OF MEDICALLY RELEVANT COMPOUNDS ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOFILMS. Nicole C. Rodgers , Anne E. Murdaugh 1963-P os B oard #B693 INCREASED CYTOSKELETAL STIFFNESS OF SCHLEMM’S CANAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IN GLAUCOMA. Rocio Vargas-Pinto , Mark Johnson 1964-P os B oard #B694 CELL VISCOELASTICITY AS A FUNCTION OF SUBSTRATE STIFFNESS. Rachel Brunetti , Gawain Thomas, Qi Wen 1965-P os B oard #B695 A SYSTEMATIC, HIGH RESOLUTION MAPPING OF THE ELASTIC MODULUS OF MOUSE CARTILAGE MATRIX. Preethi L. Chandran, Jessica Yuan, Ferenc Horkey, Edward Mertz, Emilios K. Dimitriadis 1966-P os B oard #B696 CELL ADHESION ON SILICON NANOWIRES. Anna Murello, Laura Andolfi, Damiano Cassese, Marco Lazzarino 1967-P os B oard #B697 CHARACTERIZATION OF MECHANOTRANSENSITIVITY OF ARTICULAR CHONDROCYTES. Whasil Lee , Holly Leddy, Farshid Guilak, Wolfgang Liedtke 1968-P os B oard #B698 USING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY TO PROBE MICROALGAL RESPONSE. Kristin M. Warren , Jeremiah Mpagazehe, C. Fred Higgs, III, Philip LeDuc 1969-P os B oard #B699 THE EFFECT OF DISEASE AND EXERCISE ON SINGLE FIBRIN FIBER MECHANICAL PROPERTIES. Wei Li , Justin Sigley, Stephen Baker, Peter Brubaker, Marlien Pieters, Christine Helms, Martin Guthold 1970-P os B oard #B700 INVESTIGATING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SHORT POLYMERS WITH OPTICAL TWEEZERS. Naghmeh Rezaei , Andrew Wieczorek, Nancy R. Forde 1971-P os B oard #B701 THE EFFECTS OF HISTONE VARIANT H2A.Z ON CHROMATIN STRUCTURE AND KINETICS-A SINGLE MOLECULE OPTICAL TWEEZERS STUDY. Masha Kamenetska , Daniel Schlingman, Andrew H. Mack, Prateek S. Baghel, Simon G.J. Mochrie, Lynne J. Regan 1972-P os B oard #B702 international travel awardee EXPERIMENTAL AND SIMULATION STUDIES ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUMO PROTEINS. Hema Chandra Kotamarthi , Ravindra Venkatramani, Sri Rama Koti Ainavarapu 1973-P os B oard #B703 DIRECT OBSERVATION OF THE TIME EVOLUTION OF A BIOMOLECULAR TRANSITION. Andrew H. Mack , Daniel Schlingman, Masha Kamenetska, Maxwell Birger, Lynne Regan, Simon Mochrie 1974-P os B oard #B704 MECHANICALLY TIGHTENING A PROTEIN SLIPKNOT INTO A TREFOIL KNOT. Chengzhi He , Hongbin Li 1975-P os B oard #B705 LARGE-SCALE MOLTEN-GLOBULE DYNAMICS CONTRIBUTE TO TITIN CONTRACTILITY. Zsolt Martonfalvi , Pasquale Bianco, Katalin Naftz, Miklos Kellermayer

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