Focus Session: Knots and Loops in Biomolecules

Presentations

• Dodging the crisis of folding proteins with knots

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 18, 2009, 2:30 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Joanna Sulkowska

    • Center of Theoretical Biological Physics, Department of Physics, UCSD, and Insititue of Physics Polish Academy of Science, Poland
    • University of California, San Diego

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• Size and Shape of Knotted Polymers

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 3:06 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Eric Rawdon

    • University of St. Thomas

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• On the geometry of stiff knots

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 3:18 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Olivier Pierre-Louis

    • Oxford Theoretical Physics and LSP, Univ. J.Fourier, Grenoble

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• Conformation and Dynamics of Linear Chains, Circular and Partial Loops

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Jen-Fang Chang

    • Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica
    • Institute of physics, Academia Sinica

  • Y.-L. Chen

    • Institute of Physics \& Research Center for Applied Science, Academia Sinica
    • Institute of physics, Academia Sinica

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• Modeling the behavior of DNA-loop-extruding enzymes

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2009, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Elnaz A. Baum-Snow

    • Northwestern University

  • John F. Marko

    • Northwestern University

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• Intricate knots in proteins: statistics, function and evolution

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 18, 2009, 3:54 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Peter Virnau

    • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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• The Role of Entropic Effects on DNA Loop Formation

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • David Wilson

    • U of Michigan

  • Alexei Tkachenko

    • University of Michigan
    • Physics Department, University of Michigan

  • Todd Lillian

  • Noel Perkins

  • Jens-Christian Meiners

    • University of Michigan

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• Helical growth trajectories in plant roots interacting with stiff barriers

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2009, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Sharon Gerbode

    • Physics Department, Cornell University

  • Roslyn Noar

    • Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University

  • Maria Harrison

    • Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University

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• The Penrose-Hameroff Orchestrated Objective-Reduction Proposal for Human Consciousness is Not Biologically Feasible

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2009, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Jeffrey Reimers

    • The University of Sydney
    • University of Sydney, Australia

  • Laura McKemmish

    • The University of Sydney

  • Noel Hush

    • The University of Sydney

  • Ross McKenzie

    • The University of Queensland

  • Alan Mark

    • The University of Queensland

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