Focus Session: Spectroscopic Probes of Biomolecular Structure and Function III

Presentations

• UV Resonance Raman Discovery of Gibbs Free Energy Landscape for Protein Alpha Helix Folding

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 17, 2009, 2:30 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Sanford Asher

    • University of Pittsburgh
    • University of Pittburgh

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• IR/UV laser spectroscopy of secondary structures in isolated peptide chains: an original insight onto the non-covalent interactions that shape proteins

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 17, 2009, 3:06 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Eric Gloaguen

    • Laboratoire Francis Perrin, URA 2453 CNRS, Service des Photons, Atomes et Mol\'ecules - CEA Saclay

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• Inhibition of urinary calculi -- a spectroscopic study

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:42 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Felicia Manciu

    • Physics Department, University of Texas at El Paso, TX 79968
    • Physics Department

  • Jayesh Govani

    • Physics Department

  • William Durrer

    • Physics Department

  • Layra Reza

  • Luis Pinales

    • Physics Department, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968

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• Application of a Newly Built Chirped-Pulse Fourier Transform Microwave (CP-FTMW) Spectrometer to Study Biomolecules in the Gas Phase

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:54 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ryan Bird

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • David Pratt

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Justin Neill

    • University of Virginia

  • Brooks Pate

    • University of Virginia

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• Optical Conformational Transition Pathways of DsRed, Elucidated by Polarization-Modulated Fourier Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Andrew Marcus

    • University of Oregon

  • Eric Senning

    • University of Oregon

  • Geoffrey Lott

    • University of Oregon

  • Michael Fink

    • Omega Optical, Inc

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• Insights on the Structural Details of Endonuclease EcoRI-DNA Complexes by Electron Spin Resonance

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Jessica Sarver

    • University of Pittsburgh

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• 1D and 2D-IR spectroscopy of blended polymer-porphyrin thin films

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Aaron Massari

    • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Audrey Eigner

    • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Patrick Konold

    • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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• Microtubule-associated-protein (MAP) Tau Regulates the Number of Protofilaments in Microtubules: A Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Study

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Myung Chul Choi

    • UCSB

  • Uri Raviv

    • Univ. Jerusalem Israel

  • Herbert Miller

    • UCSB

  • Michelle Gaylord

    • UCSB

  • Erkan Kiris

    • UCSB

  • Donovan Ventimiglia

    • UCSB

  • Daniel Needleman

    • Harvard Univ.

  • Mahn Won Kim

    • KAIST

  • Leslie Wilson

    • UCSB

  • Stuart Feinstein

    • UCSB

  • Cyrus Safinya

    • UCSB

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• ESR distance measures show that Cu$^{2+}$ coordinates to Histidine 114 in the EcoRI-DNA complex

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2009, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Zhongyu Yang

    • University of Pittsburgh

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