Nucleic Acids: Structure and Function

Presentations

• Toward multiscale modeling of the chromatin fiber: a coarse grain model for DNA

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:15 AM – March 13, 2008, 10:27 AM

  Authors

  • Alexey Savelyev

    • Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290

  • Garegin Papoian

    • Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290
    • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3290

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• Sequence and Temperature Dependence of DNA Bending Fluctuations

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:27 AM – March 13, 2008, 10:39 AM

  Authors

  • Robert A. Forties

    • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210\--1117, USA

  • Ralf Bundschuh

    • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210\--1117, USA

  • Michael G. Poirier

    • Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210\--1117, USA

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• Mechanically unzipping dsDNA with built-in sequence inhomogeneities and bound proteins

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:39 AM – March 13, 2008, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Abhijit Sarkar

    • Virginia State University

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• Base-pair elasticity of free and complexed DNA

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:51 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Nils B. Becker

    • Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon and MPI-PKS Dresden

  • Ralf Everaers

    • Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon

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• Hartree-Fock Cluster Study of Electronic Structures and Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Solid Nucleobases.

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:03 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • R.H. Scheicher

    • Uppsala University, Sweden

  • Archana Dubey

    • UCF Orlando

  • S.R. Badu

    • SUNY Albany
    • SUNY, Albany

  • H.P. Saha

    • UCF, Orlando
    • UCF Orlando

  • R.H. Pink

    • SUNY Albany
    • SUNY, Albany

  • K. Nagamine

    • UC, Riverside
    • UC Riverside

  • E. Torikai

    • Yamanashi University, Japan

  • Lee Chow

    • UCF Orlando
    • UCF, Orlando

  • T.P. Das

    • SUNY Albany, UCF Orlando

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• Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction Study as a Probe of Interaction between Nucleobases and Suger Rings and Phosphate Groups in DNA.

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • R.H. Pink

    • SUNY Albany
    • SUNY, Albany

  • R.H. Scheicher

    • Uppsala University, Sweden
    • Upsala University, Sweden
    • Uppsala University,Sweden

  • S.R. Badu

    • SUNY Albany
    • SUNY, Albany

  • T.P. Das

    • SUNY Albany, UCF Orlando

  • Archana Dubey

    • UCF Orlando

  • K. Nagamine

    • UC, Riverside
    • UC Riverside

  • E. Torikai

    • Yamanashi University, Japan

  • H.P. Saha

    • UCF, Orlando
    • UCF Orlando

  • Lee Chow

    • UCF Orlando
    • UCF, Orlando

  • M.B. Huang

    • SUNY Albany
    • SUNY, Albany

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• Extraction of complementary from non-complementary DNA sequences through phase separation and centrifugation

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:27 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Taiquitha Robins

    • Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

  • Dacia McPherson

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  • Chenhui Zhu

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  • Mark Moran

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

  • Dave Walba

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

  • Giuliano Zanchetta

    • Dipartimento di Chimica, Biochimica e Biotecnologie per la Medicina, Universit\`a di Milano, Milano, Italy

  • Tommaso Bellini

    • Dipartimento di Chimica, Biochimica e Biotecnologie per la Medicina, Universit\`a di Milano, Milano, Italy

  • Noel Clark

    • Department of Physics and Liquid Crystal Material Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder
    • Department of Physics, The University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
    • Department of Physics and Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
    • University of Colorado

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• Phase Separation and Liquid Crystallization of Complementary Sequences in Mixtures of Random Oligonucleotides

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:39 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Michi Nakata

    • University of Colorado

  • Giuliano Zanchetta

    • Universita di Milano

  • Marco Buscaglia

    • Universita di Milano

  • Tommaso Bellini

    • Universita di Milano

  • Noel Clark

    • University of Colorado
    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy study of ssDNA-CNT on Au(111) surface

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM – March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Xinghua Lu

    • Harvard University

  • Eric Brandin

  • Jene Golovchenko

  • Daniel Brandon

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• Liquid Crystal Alignment on Sheared DNA Films

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Michi Nakata

    • University of Colorado

  • Giuliano Zanchetta

    • Universita di Milano

  • Marco Buscaglia

    • Universita di Milano

  • Tommaso Bellini

    • Universita di Milano

  • Noel Clark

    • University of Colorado
    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Cholesterol improves the transfection efficiency of lipoplexes by increasing the effective membrane charge density

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Cyrus Safinya

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

  • Alexandra Zidovska

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

  • Heather M. Evans

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

  • Kai K. Ewert

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

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• Measuring the 3D Size of Large RNA Molecules

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Ajaykumar Gopal

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Defne Egecioglu

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Li Tai Fang

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Charles M. Knobler

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • William M. Gelbart

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Marc Niebuhr

    • Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab, Menlo Park

  • A. L. N. Rao

    • University of California, Riverside

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• Predicting the Size of Large RNA Molecules

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Aron Yoffe

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

  • Peter Prinsen

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

  • Ajaykumar Gopal

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Charles Knobler

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • UCLA, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • William Gelbart

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

  • Avinoam Ben-Shaul

    • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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• Observations of simple RNA suboptimal structures including pseudoknots suggests that the folding landscape is often funnel shaped

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Wayne Dawson

    • Chiba Institute of Technology

  • Gota Kawai

    • Chiba Institute of Technology

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• Simplified Hamiltonians for coarse-grained properties of large single-stranded RNA molecules

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 1:03 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Peter Prinsen

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

  • Aron Yoffe

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

  • William Gelbart

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

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