Soft Matter Physics of Biological Systems

Presentations

• Antiviral activity of squalamine: Role of electrostatic membrane binding

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:00 AM – March 2, 2012, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Bernard Beckerman

    • Northwestern University

  • Wei Qu

    • Northwestern University

  • Abhijit Mishra

    • UCLA
    • Bioengineering, UCLA
    • Bioengineering Dept, UCLA

  • Michael Zasloff

    • Georgetown University

  • Gerard Wong

    • UCLA
    • Bioengineering, UCLA

  • Erik Luijten

    • Northwestern University

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• Simulating ligand receptor binding at a membrane interface with graphics processing accelerated coarse-grained molecular dynamics

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:12 AM – March 2, 2012, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Sharon M. Loverde

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

  • David N. LeBard

    • Department of Chemistry, Temple University

  • Zhengyu Ma

    • Penn Institute for Immunology, University of Pennsylvania

  • Michael L. Klein

    • Department of Chemistry, Temple University

  • Dennis E. Discher

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

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• Stabilization of concentration fluctuations in mixed membranes by hybrid lipids

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:24 AM – March 2, 2012, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Benoit Palmieri

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Samuel Safran

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

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• Cooperativity in cholesterol-induced demixing of saturated and unsaturated lipids

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:36 AM – March 2, 2012, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • James Kindt

    • Emory University
    • Emory University, Department of Chemistry

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• Steric Repulsion and Compressibility of Protein Resistant Brushes

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 8:48 AM – March 2, 2012, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Maria Santore

    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering University of Massachusetts
    • University of Massachusetts
    • Polymer Sci. \& Eng. Department of University of Massachusetts Amherst

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• Topological defects induced by the retina's curvature improve vision

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 9:00 AM – March 2, 2012, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Johnatan Aljadeff

    • Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute; Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Physics, UCSD

  • Tatyana Sharpee

    • Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute; Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Physics, UCSD

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• Exploring the low temperature thermodynamics of lattice proteins and polymers with chain lengths $> 1000$

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 9:12 AM – March 2, 2012, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Thomas Wuest

    • Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

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• Long-range mechanical force in epithelial tubule self assembly

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 9:24 AM – March 2, 2012, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Chin-Lin Guo

    • Harvard University and Chin-Lin Guo, California Institute of Technology
    • None
    • California Institute of Technology

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• Bottom-up study of flaw tolerance properties of protein networks

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 9:36 AM – March 2, 2012, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Zhao Qin

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Markus Buehler

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• From Nano to Micro: Importance of Structure and Architecture in Spider Silk Adhesives

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 9:48 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Vasav Sahni

    • The University of Akron

  • Ali Dhinojwala

    • The University of Akron
    • University of Akron

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• Light scattering studies of human crystallin proteins and loss of transparency in cataracts

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 10:00 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Benjamin Mohr

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Murugappan Muthukumar

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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• Quantifying the abnormal hemodynamics of sickle cell anemia

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 10:12 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Huan Lei

    • Brown University
    • Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

  • George Karniadakis

    • Brown University

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• The energetics of tightly bent DNA: a composite elastica model including local melting

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 10:24 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Arthur Evans

    • UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • Alex Levine

    • UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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• Dispersion-relation phase spectroscopy of neuron transport

  ORAL

  March 2, 2012, 10:36 AM – March 2, 2012, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Ru Wang

    • Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign

  • Zhuo Wang

    • Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign

  • Larry Millet

    • Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign

  • Martha Gillette

    • Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign

  • Joseph Robert Leigh

    • National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign

  • Nahil Sobh

    • National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign

  • Alex Levine

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

  • Gabriel Popescu

    • Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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