Theoretical and Computational Biophysics

Presentations

• Noise-Optimized Speciation in a Simple Evolutionary Model

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:00 AM – March 18, 2009, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Nathan Dees

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri at St. Louis

  • Sonya Bahar

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri at St. Louis

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• Cyclic Process as a Tool for Considering Evolution

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:12 AM – March 18, 2009, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Victor Bondarenko

    • WSU

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• Stepping in the bacterial flagellar motor

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:24 AM – March 18, 2009, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Thierry Mora

    • Princeton University

  • Howard Yu

    • Princeton University

  • Ned S. Wingreen

    • Princeton University

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• Actin-Polymerization-Driven Motility with Site Specific Tethering

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:36 AM – March 18, 2009, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Edward J. Banigan

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Dept of Physics and Astronomy; Univ of Pennsylvania

  • Andrea J. Liu

    • Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

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• FKBP binding free energies obtained via non-equilibrium simulation

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:48 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • F. Marty Ytreberg

    • University of Idaho

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• Computational Research Needs for Renewable and Alternative Energy: Studies of Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:00 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Victor Batista

    • Yale University

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• Systematic Coarse-Graining of Peptides to Understand their Effective Molecular Interactions

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:12 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Luca Larini

    • Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation and Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA

  • Gregory A. Voth

    • University of Utah
    • Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation and Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA

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• Rigorous treatment of electrostatics for spatially varying dielectrics: how far can one go using energy minimization?

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:24 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Yi-Kuo Yu

    • National Center for Biotechnology Information/NIH

  • Oleg Obolensky

    • National Center for Biotechnology Information/NIH

  • Rajarshi Ray

    • National Center for Biotechnology Information/NIH

  • T. Doerr

    • National Center for Biotechnology Information/NIH

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• Ab-Initio Based Computation of Rate Constants of Spin Forbidden Transitions in (Bio)inorganic Complexes and Metalloproteins

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:36 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Abdullah Ozkanlar

  • Jorge H. Rodriguez

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• Electrostatic properties of two finite width charged dielectric slabs in water

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:48 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Y.S. Jho

    • UCSB

  • M. Kanduc

    • SI-1000 Ljubljana

  • A. Naji

    • UCSB

  • M.W. Kim

    • KAIST/UCSB

  • R. Podgornik

    • SI-1000 Ljubljana

  • F.L.H. Brown

    • UCSB

  • P.A. Pincus

    • UCSB

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• Electronic Structure Analysis for Proteins on the FMO Method

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:00 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Tomoki Kobori

    • University of Tokyo

  • Shinji Tsuneyuki

    • University of Tokyo

  • Keitaro Sodeyama

    • University of Tokyo

  • Kazuto Akagi

    • Tohoku University

  • Kiyoyuki Terakura

    • JAIST

  • Hidetoshi Fukuyama

    • Tokyo University of Science

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• Helical secondary structure of polyalanine peptides in vacuo: Ac-Ala$_n$-LysH$^+$ ($n$=5,10,15), experiment and theory

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:12 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Mariana Rossi

  • Volker Blum

  • Peter Kupser

  • Gert von Helden

  • Frauke Bierau

  • Gerard Meijer

  • Matthias Scheffler

    • Fritz Haber Institute, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

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• Hofmeister effect and the phase diagram of lysozyme

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:24 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Steven Lettieri

    • Lehigh University

  • Xiaofei Li

    • Lehigh University

  • James Gunton

    • Lehigh University

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• Infrared Spectroscopy with ab initio molecular dynamics simulations : gas phase floppy peptides of increasing size and complexity, in relation with IR-MPD experiments

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:36 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Marie-Pierre Gaigeot

    • Universite d'Evry val d'Essonne - LAMBE UMR8587

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• Linear irreversible thermodynamics, efficiency and coefficient of performance of a thermal Brownian motor in tight coupling

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:48 AM – March 18, 2009, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Mulugeta Bekele

    • Department of Physics, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Anteneh Getachew

    • Department of Physics, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Arun Jayannavar

    • Institute of Physics, Sachielaya Marg, Bhubaneshwar, India

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