Focus Session: Conformations and Dynamics of Biopolymers I

Presentations

• Comparison of the Single Molecule Dynamics of Linear and Circular DNAs in Planar Extensional Flows

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:00 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Yanfei Li

    • Texas Tech University

  • Kai-Wen Hsiao

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Graduate student at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Christopher Brockman

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Daniel Yates

    • Texas Tech University

  • Gregory McKenna

    • Texas Tech Univ
    • Texas Tech University
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 79409, Texas, USA

  • Charles Schroeder

    • Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
    • Associate professor at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Michael San Francisco

    • Texas Tech University

  • Julie Kornfield

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Rae M. Robertson-Anderson

    • University of San Diego

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• Ratchet rectification effect on the translocation of a flexible polyelectrolyte chain induced by spatial asymmetry of the channel

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:12 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Debasish Mondal

    • University of Massachusetts

  • Murugappan Muthukumar

    • University of Massachusetts

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• Comparison of Translocations of Ring and Linear Polymers

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:24 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Ning Ouyang

    • University of Massachusetts

  • Murugappan Muthukumar

    • University of Massachusetts

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• Increasing polymer diffusivity by increasing the contour length: The surprising effect of YOYO-1 on DNA dynamics

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:36 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Seunghwan Shin

    • Univ of Minn - Minneapolis

  • Kevin Dorfman

    • Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
    • Univ of Minn - Minneapolis
    • University of Minnesota

  • Xiang Cheng

    • University of Minnesota
    • Univ of Minn - Minneapolis
    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

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• Using an effective dimensionality to map the force-extension relation for a semi-flexible polymer in a nanoslit

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:48 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Hendrick de Haan

    • University of Ontario Institute of Technology

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• Correlated Fluctuations of DNA Between Nanofluidic Traps

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:00 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Alexander Klotz

    • McGill Univ

  • Lyndon Duong

    • McGill Univ

  • Mikhail Mamaev

    • McGill Univ

  • Walter Reisner

    • McGill Univ
    • McGill University

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• Metastable Tight Knots in DNA

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:12 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Liang Dai

    • Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

  • C. Benjamin Renner

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Patrick Doyle

    • MIT
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Translocation of a Polymer Chain Through a Nanopore Starting From a Confining Nanotube: The Limit of high Peclet Numbers

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:24 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Gary W. Slater

    • University of Ottawa

  • David Sean

    • University of Ottawa

  • Hendrick de Haan

    • University of Ontario Institute of Technology

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• Dynamics of a fluctuating semi-flexible membrane

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:36 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Nathaniel Tukdarian

    • University of Central Florida

  • Aiqun Huang

    • University of Central Florida

  • Ramesh Adhikari

    • University of Central Florida

  • Aniket Bhattacharya

    • University of Central Florida

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• Expanded experimental parameter space of semiflexible polymer assemblies through programmable nanomaterials

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:48 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • David Smith

    • Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology

  • Carsten Schuldt

    • Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology

  • Jessica Lorenz

    • Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology

  • Teresa Tschirner

    • Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology

  • Maximilian Moebius-winkler

    • Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology

  • Josef Kaes

    • University of Leipzig, Institute for Soft Matter Physics

  • Martin Glaser

    • University of Leipzig, Institute for Soft Matter Physics

  • Tina Haendler

    • University of Leipzig, Institute for Soft Matter Physics

  • Joerg Schnauss

    • University of Leipzig, Institute for Soft Matter Physics

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• Molecular stress sensors constructed from DNA

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:00 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Meenakshi Prabhune

    • Third Institute of Physics-Biophysics, Georg August University, Goettingen

  • Jonathan Bath

    • University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK

  • Andrew J. Turberfield

    • University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK

  • Florian Rehfeldt

    • Third Institute of Physics-Biophysics, Georg August University, Goettingen

  • Christoph F. Schmidt

    • Third Institute of Physics-Biophysics, Georg August University, Goettingen
    • Georg-August University of G\"ottingen, Germany
    • Georg August University Goettingen

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• AFM Studies of Conformational Changes in Proteins and Peptides

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:12 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Nicoleta Ploscariu

    • Kansas State University

  • Pinakin Sukthankar

    • Kansas State University

  • John Tomich

    • Kansas State University

  • Robert Szoszkiewicz

    • Kansas State University

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• Reptation Theory and Many Body Effects in Semiflexible Polymer Dynamics

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 5, 2015, 10:24 AM – March 5, 2015, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Erwin Frey

    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
    • Ludwig Max Univ Muenchen
    • Univ Muenchen

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