Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting | Program Guide

COMMITTEE FOR INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY Sunday

Tuesday George A. Cortina , University of Virginia 1557-Plat

PREDICTING RESIDUES THAT INCREASE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE OF CTX-M9 ENZYMES USING MOLECULAR SIMULATION AND STATISTICAL LEARNING. Dania M. Figueroa , Wellesley College 1875-Pos, B195 DEVELOPMENT OF CELL-WALL DEFICIENT BACTERIA FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF HISTONE-DERIVED ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES THROUGH CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY. Carla Perez , Wellesley College 2552-Pos, B159 INVESTIGATING BUFORIN II INTERACTIONS WITH NUCLEIC ACIDS UNDER CROWDED CONDITIONS Nancy Wells , Case Western Reserve University 1810-Pos, B130 STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS TO THE 3’ UTR OF GAIT ELEMENTS. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Sunday Anais M. E. Cassaignau , University College London, United Kingdom 206-Plat STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF AN IMMUNOGLOBULIN DOMAIN ON THE RIBOSOME USING NMR SPECTROSCOPY. Adam Cawte , Imperial College London, United Kingdom 353-Pos, B118 LIVE CELL IMAGING OF GENOMIC LOCI USING FLUORESCENT RNA APTAMERS. Assaf Elazar , Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 434-Pos, B199 DECIPHERING MEMBRANE PROTEIN ENERGETICS USING DEEP SEQUENCING; TOWARDS ROBUST DESIGN AND STRUCTURE PREDICTION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS. Manuela Gabriel , University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 722-Pos, B487 3D ORBITAL TRACKING OF SINGLE GOLD NANOPARTICLES: A NEW APPROACH TO STUDY VESICLE TRAFFICKING IN CHROMAFFIN CELLS. Giulia Paci , European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany 107-Plat FOLLOWING A GIANT’S FOOTSTEPS: SINGLE-PARTICLE AND SUPER- RESOLUTION APPROACHES TO DECIPHER THE NUCLEAR TRANSPORT OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS CAPSIDS. Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman , Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, India 665-Pos, B430 STRESS-INDUCED DIFFERENTIAL REGULATION LEADS TO DECOUPLING OF THE ACTIVITY BETWEEN MPFC AND AMYGDALA. Li-av Segev-Zarko , Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 121-Plat CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTI-BIOFILM PEPTIDE ACTIVITY: A BIOPHYSICAL APPROACH.

Matthew L. Ferguson , Boise State University 739-Pos, B504

IN VITRO BINDING OF 6S RNA MANGO TO RNA POLYMERASE BY TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE CROSS CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY. Joshua Francois , University of California, San Diego 618-Pos, B383 UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANICS OF NEUTROPHIL MIGRATION IN THREE- DIMENSIONAL EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES. Sebastian Hendrickx-Rodriguez , New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 462-Pos, B227 EFFECTS OF OPSONIN DENSITY AND TYPE ON THE PHAGOCYTOSIS OF BEADS. O’Jay Stewart , City University of New York, John Jay College 371-Pos, B136 BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES OF LIPOSOME ENCAPSULATED POKEWEED ANTIVIRAL PROTEIN AND ITS USE AS A HIV THERAPEUTIC. Jessica R. Thomas , University of Iowa 536-Pos, B301 UNMASKING THE MOLECULAR DETERMINANTS IMPORTANT FOR CA 2+- DEPENDENT REGULATION OF CAV2.2. Juan M. Vanegas , University of Vermont 681-Pos, B446 BEYOND LATERAL PRESSURE PROFILES: LOCAL STRESS AND THE TRACTION VECTOR IN MD SIMULATIONS. Brittany Williams , University of Iowa 537-Pos, B302 C-TERMINAL SPLICE VARIATION REVEALS NEW INSIGHTS INTO CALMODULIN REGULATION OF CAv1.4 CHANNELS. Wade Zeno , University of Texas at Austin 213-Plat INDUCED MIXING OF PHASE-SEPARATED LIPID BILAYERS BY STERIC PRESSURE BETWEEN ADSORBED PROTEINS. Monday T.M. Ayodele Adesanya , The Ohio State University 1095-Pos, B163 MG53-MEDIATED PROTECTION IN HEART VALVE BIOLOGY. Manal Ahmidouch , Wake Forest University 1052-Pos, B120 MD SIMULATIONS AND CD SPECTROSCOPIES OF (BENZ)ACRIDINE: RDNA G-QUADRUPLEX COMPLEXES. David A. Price , Southern Illinois University 1065-Pos, B133 PREFERENTIAL LENGTH FOR G-QUADRUPLEX FORMATION REVEALED BY IR SPECTROSCOPY. Lucero Sanchez , Indiana University 1489-Pos B557 HALF PEGYLATED PARTICLES EVADE MACROPHAGES AS EFFECTIVELY AS FULLY PEGYLATED ONES

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