Biomolecular Structure and Function

Presentations

• The Impact of Cholesterol on Lateral Organization in a Three-Species Non-Equilibrium Model of a Biomembrane

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 2:30 PM – March 15, 2006, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Andrew P. Paradis

  • Susan R. McKay

  • Samuel T. Hess

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469-5709

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• Lipid Bilayers and Titanium: Controlling Surface Adsorption

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 2:42 PM – March 15, 2006, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Linda S. Hirst

    • MARTECH, Dept. of Physics, Florida State University

  • Emily Parker

  • Noel C. MacDonald

    • Dept of Mechnical \& Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Cyrus R. Safinya

    • UC, Santa Barbara
    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
    • Materials Dept. University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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• Growth and Morphology of Solid-like Domains in Binary Giant Lipid Vesicles

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 2:54 PM – March 15, 2006, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Paul Beales

    • University of Edinburgh

  • Vernita Gordon

  • Zhijun Zhao

  • Stefan Egelhaaf

  • Wilson Poon

    • University of Edinburgh

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• Laser Tweezer Deformation of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 3:06 PM – March 15, 2006, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Cory Poole

    • University of Maryland

  • Jozsef Meszaros

  • Kumar Senthil

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland at College Park

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• Nanoscale characterization of solid-supported phospholipid multilayer films

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 3:18 PM – March 15, 2006, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Wilfred Ngwa

  • Andrew Gao

  • Tania Cubano

  • Kezheng Chen

  • Alok Sahgal

  • Weili Luo

    • University of Central Florida
    • Department of Physics, University of Central Florida

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• A quasi-elastic neutron scattering study of the stabilization of freeze-dried cholesterol-containing DPPC liposomes by trehalose

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 3:30 PM – March 15, 2006, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Victoria Garcia Sakai

    • NIST Center for Neutron Research
    • NIST Center for Neutron Research and Univ. of Maryland

  • Emmanouil Doxastakis

    • Dept. of Chem. \& Biol. Engr., Univ. of Wisconsin

  • A.S. Reddy

  • Juan de Pablo

    • Dept of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Dept. Chem. Eng. University of Wisconsin
    • UW Madison
    • Dept. of Chem. \& Biol. Engr., Univ. of Wisconsin
    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Janna Maranas

    • Dept. Chem. Eng., Penn State University
    • Pennsylvania State University

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• A Density Functional Theory Study of the Non-local Correlations between Nucleic Acid Base Pairs

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 3:42 PM – March 15, 2006, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Valentino R. Cooper

    • Rutgers, The State Univ. of N.J.

  • Timo Thonhauser

  • David C. Langreth

    • Rutgers University

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• Low Temperature Orbital Paramagnetism in B-DNA

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 3:54 PM – March 15, 2006, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Michael J. Harrison

    • Michigan State University

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• Kinetic Modelling of Transcription Elongation

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 4:06 PM – March 15, 2006, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Daibhid O'Maoileidigh

    • Rutgers University

  • Vasisht Tadigotla

    • Rutgers University

  • Anirvan Sengupta

    • Rutgers University

  • Vitaly Epshtein

    • New York University Medical Center

  • Richard Ebright

    • Rutgers University

  • Evgeny Nudler

    • New York University Medical Center

  • Andrei Ruckenstein

    • Rutgers University

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• Understanding spontaneous sharp bending of DNA

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 4:18 PM – March 15, 2006, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Chongli Yuan

  • Elizabeth Rhoades

  • Lynden Archer

    • Cornell University

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• The role of stacking interactions in the folding dynamics of DNA hairpins

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 4:30 PM – March 15, 2006, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Marta Sales-Pardo

    • Northwestern University

  • Jon Widom

    • Northwestern University

  • Luis Amaral

    • Northwestern University

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• Thermodynamic Model of Transcription Elongation

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 4:42 PM – March 15, 2006, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Vasisht Tadigotla

    • Rutgers University

  • Daibhid O'Maoileidigh

    • Rutgers University

  • Anirvan Sengupta

    • Rutgers University

  • Vitaly Epshtein

    • New York University Medical Center

  • Richard Ebright

    • Rutgers University

  • Evgeny Nudler

    • New York University Medical Center

  • Andrei Ruckenstein

    • Rutgers University

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• The role of telomere dynamics in aging and cancer

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 4:54 PM – March 15, 2006, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Krastan Blagoev

  • Edwin Goodwin

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Optical Investigation of the Phases of Liquid Crystals of Nanoscale Duplex DNA

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 5:06 PM – March 15, 2006, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Giuliano Zanchetta

    • U. of Milano (IT)
    • U. of Milano, Italy

  • Michi Nakata

    • U. of Colorado

  • Tommaso Bellini

    • University of Milano, Italy
    • U. of Milano
    • U. of Milano, Italy

  • Noel Clark

    • University of Colorado
    • LCMRC and Univ of Colorado
    • U. of Colorado
    • Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

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