Proteins in Membranes and the Cytoskeleton

Presentations

• Hierarchy of Specific Lipid-Peptide Interactions Produces the Activity of Cell-penetrating and Cell-permeating Peptides

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 7:00 AM – March 13, 2008, 7:12 AM

  Authors

  • Matthew Davis

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Daniel Parente

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Vernita Gordon

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Abhijit Mishra

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Nathan Schmidt

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Lihua Yang

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Robert Coridan

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Abhigyan Som

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Gregory Tew

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Gerard Wong

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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• Simulations of the pore structures for a M2G1yR derived channel forming peptide in membrane

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 7:12 AM – March 13, 2008, 7:24 AM

  Authors

  • Ahlam N. Al-Rawi

    • Kansas State University

  • Asma Al-Rawi

    • Kansas State University

  • Jianhan Chen

    • Kansas State University

  • Alvaro Herrera

    • Kansas State University

  • John Tomich

    • Kansas State University

  • T.S. Rahman

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

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• Membrane-mediated mechanism of amyloid oligomer toxicity in Alzheimer's Disease.

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 7:24 AM – March 13, 2008, 7:36 AM

  Authors

  • Frank Heinrich

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Yuri Sokolov

    • University of California, Irvine

  • James E. Hall

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Rima Budvytyte

    • Institute of Biochemistry, Vilnius

  • Gintaras Valincius

    • Institute of Biochemistry, Vilnius

  • Mathias Loesche

    • Carnegie Mellon University

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• Molecular target of synthetic antimicrobial oligomer in bacterial membranes

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 7:36 AM – March 13, 2008, 7:48 AM

  Authors

  • Lihua Yang

    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engr., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Vernita Gordon

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engr., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Abhigyan Som

    • Dept. of Polymer Science and Engr., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • John Cronan

    • Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Gregory Tew

    • Dept. of Polymer Science and Engr., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Gerard C. L. Wong

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • UIUC
    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engr., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science Engineering, Department of Physics, and Seitz Materials Research Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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• Interaction of Arginine-Rich Peptides with Model Cell Membranes

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 7:48 AM – March 13, 2008, 8:00 AM

  Authors

  • Abhijit Mishra

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Nathan Schmidt

    • UIUC
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Vernita Gordon

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engr., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Jianjun Cheng

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Timothy Deming

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Gerard C. L. Wong

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • UIUC
    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engr., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science Engineering, Department of Physics, and Seitz Materials Research Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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• Lipid and Protein Sorting during Membrane Tube Formation

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 8:00 AM – March 13, 2008, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Hongyuan Jiang

    • Division of Engineering, Box D, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

  • Thomas Powers

    • Division of Engineering, Box D, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
    • Division of Engineering, Brown University
    • Brown University

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• Equilibrium Stability of Transmembrane Proteins : A Hard-Core Gas Problem.

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 8:12 AM – March 13, 2008, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • David Schwab

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
    • UCLA
    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Robijn Bruinsma

    • University of California at Los Angeles
    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
    • University of Calfornia Los Angeles
    • UCLA

  • Karim Wahba

    • UCLA
    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

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• Diffusion of Transmembrane Proteins: Beyond the Saffman-Delbr\"{u}ck Model

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 8:24 AM – March 13, 2008, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Tatiana Kouriabova

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Mark Henle

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Alex Levine

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Department of Chemistry \& Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles
    • UCLA, Department of Chemistry \& Biochemistry

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• Lateral organization of a non-equilibrium membrane model with immobile randomly-distributed impurities

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 8:36 AM – March 13, 2008, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Andrew P. Paradis

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

  • Susan R. McKay

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

  • Samuel T. Hess

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469

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• Multidrug efflux transporter activity in sea urchin embryos:Does localization provide a diffusive advantage?

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 8:48 AM – March 13, 2008, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Xianfeng Song

    • Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington

  • Sima Setayeshgar

    • Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
    • Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington
    • Indiana University

  • Bryan Cole

    • Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove

  • Amro Hamdoun

    • Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove

  • David Epel

    • Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove

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• Observation of a single particle diffusive motion on the membrane by 3-dimensional particle tracking microscope.

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 9:00 AM – March 13, 2008, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Seungyong You

    • Department of Physics and Center for Materials Research and Technology, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

  • Jing Yuan

    • Department of Physics and Center for Materials Research and Technology, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

  • David Van Winkle

    • Department of Physics and Center for Materials Research and Technology, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

  • Thomas Fischer

    • Institution for Experimental Physics V, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

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• Oxygen dynamics in photosynthetic membranes.

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 9:12 AM – March 13, 2008, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Sergei Savikhin

    • Purdue University

  • Shigeharu Kihara

    • Purdue University

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• Identification of co-evolving sites in the ligand binding domain of G protein-coupled receptors using mutual information

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 9:24 AM – March 13, 2008, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Sarosh N. Fatakia

    • LBM, NIDDK, NIH

  • Stefano Costanzi

    • LBM, NIDDK, NIH

  • Carson C. Chow

    • LBM, NIDDK, NIH

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• Dynamics of Actin Cable Polymerization in Fission Yeast

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 9:36 AM – March 13, 2008, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Hui Wang

    • Lehigh University

  • Dimitrios Vavylonis

    • Lehigh University

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• Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Neurofilament Networks Interaction under Osmotic Pressure

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 9:48 AM – March 13, 2008, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • R. Beck

    • University of California, Santa-Barbara
    • UC Santa-Barbara

  • J. Deek

    • UC Santa-Barbara

  • J.B. Jones

    • UC Santa-Barbara

  • H. Hesse

    • UC Santa-Barbara

  • M.C. Choi

    • UC Santa-Barbara

  • Cyrus Safinya

    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UC Santa-Barbara

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