Biopolymers: Molecules, Solutions and Networks I

Presentations

• Nonlinear elasticity of semiflexible polymer networks

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 23, 2005, 8:15 AM – March 23, 2005, 8:51 AM

  Authors

  • Fred MacKintosh

    • Vrije Universiteit
    • Division of Physics \& Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit
    • Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

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• RNA gels with negative Poisson ratio

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 8:51 AM – March 23, 2005, 9:03 AM

  Authors

  • Amir Ahsan

  • Joseph Rudnick

  • Robijn Bruinsma

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

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• DNA intercalation by ethidium bromide: A quantitative binding study using DNA stretching and force-induced melting

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 9:03 AM – March 23, 2005, 9:15 AM

  Authors

  • Mark C. Williams

  • Ioana Vladescu

  • Micah McCauley

    • Department of Physics, Northeastern University

  • Ioulia Rouzina

    • Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota

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• Stretching DNA by a Constant Field

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 9:15 AM – March 23, 2005, 9:27 AM

  Authors

  • Yuko Hori

  • Ashok Prasad

  • Jane' Kondev

    • Physics Department, Brandeis University
    • Brandeis University

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• Beyond Wormlike Chain: An effective theory of mesoscale DNA mechanics

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 9:27 AM – March 23, 2005, 9:39 AM

  Authors

  • Philip Nelson

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Paul Wiggins

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Rob Phillips

    • Caltech
    • California Institute of Technology

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• Semiflexible Chain Networks Formed via Self-Assembly of Beta-Hairpin Molecules

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 9:39 AM – March 23, 2005, 9:51 AM

  Authors

  • Bulent Ozbas

  • Darrin Pochan

    • University of Delaware
    • Materials Science and Engineering Department, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware
    • University of Delaware and Delaware Biotechnology Institute
    • Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Delaware
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

  • Karthikan Rajagopal

  • Joel Schneider

    • Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, University of Delaware

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• The Rheological Properties of the Biopolymers in Synovial Fluid

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 9:51 AM – March 23, 2005, 10:03 AM

  Authors

  • Wendy E. Krause

    • Fiber and Polymer Science Program, North Carolina State University

  • Rebecca R. Klossner

    • Fiber and Polymer Science Program, North Carolina State University

  • Julie Wetsch

    • Polymer and Color Chemistry Program, North Carolina State University

  • Katherine M. N. Oates

    • Materials Science \& Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

  • Ralph Colby

    • Materials Science \& Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
    • The Pennsylvania State University

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• The nonlinear elasticity of alpha helical polypeptides: Analytical and Monte Carlo studies

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 10:03 AM – March 23, 2005, 10:15 AM

  Authors

  • Buddhapriya Chakrabarti

    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

  • Alex J. Levine

    • University of Massachusetts
    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Dept. of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

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• Persistency of single-stranded DNA: the interplay between base sequences and base stacking

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 10:15 AM – March 23, 2005, 10:27 AM

  Authors

  • Bae-Yeun Ha

  • Anirban Sain

  • Jeff Z.Y. Chen

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• Unzipping DNA from the condensed globule state--effects of unraveling

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 10:27 AM – March 23, 2005, 10:39 AM

  Authors

  • Pui-Man Lam

    • Physics Department, Southern University, Baton Rouge

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• Distance measurement along DNA molecules using fluorecent quantum dots

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 10:39 AM – March 23, 2005, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Helmut Strey

    • Stony Brook University

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• AFM Imaging of F-actin Network Formation on a photopolymer surface

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 10:51 AM – March 23, 2005, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Taiji Ikawa

  • Osamu Watanabe

    • Toyota Central R\&D Labs

  • Youli Li

  • Cyrus R. Safinya

    • (Materials, MCDB, \& Physics Departments, UCSB)
    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB
    • University of California Santa Barbara

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• Microtubule Bundling and Shape Transitions

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 11:03 AM – March 23, 2005, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Daniel Needleman

  • Miguel Ojeda-Lopez

  • Uri Raviv

  • Kai Ewert

  • Janya Jones

  • Herbert Miller

  • Leslie Wilson

  • Cyrus R. Safinya

    • (Materials, MCDB, \& Physics Departments, UCSB)
    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB
    • University of California Santa Barbara

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• Higher Order Assembly of Microtubules by Counter-ions

  ORAL

  Authors

  • Daniel Needleman

  • Miguel Ojeda-Lopez

  • Uri Raviv

  • Herbert Miller

  • Leslie Wilson

  • Cyrus Safinya

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