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Session X34: Shape Changes in Biological Membranes

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Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: Peter Jung, Ohio University
Room: Colorado Convention Center 404


Friday, March 9, 2007
8:00AM - 8:12AM

X34.00001: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Lipid Bilayers and Tubules
Linda S. Hirst , Jing Yuan , Yohannes Pramudya , Lam T. Nguyen

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Friday, March 9, 2007
8:12AM - 8:24AM

X34.00002: Dynamics of Encapsulation and Budding in Lipid Membranes
Kurt Smith

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Friday, March 9, 2007
8:24AM - 8:36AM

X34.00003: Lipid tubules Formed by Flow-Controlled Hydration
Jing Yuan , Linda S. Hirst

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Friday, March 9, 2007
8:36AM - 8:48AM

X34.00004: Spontaneous Formation of Lipid Nanotubes and Lipid Nanofibers from Giant Charged Dendrimer Lipids
Alexandra Zidovska , Kai K. Ewert , Cyrus R. Safinya , Joel Quispe , Bridgett Carragher , Clinton S. Potter

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Friday, March 9, 2007
8:48AM - 9:00AM

X34.00005: Hydrodynamic extrusion of membrane nanotubes: the role of the cytoskeleton
Karine Guevorkian , Nicolas Borghi , S\'{e}bastien Kremer , Axel Buguin , Fran\c{c}oise Brochard

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:00AM - 9:12AM

X34.00006: Shape transformations of active tubular membranes
Elnaz Alipour-Assiabi , Thomas Powers

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:12AM - 9:24AM

X34.00007: Effective surface tension of red blood cell membranes induced by cytoskeleton meshworks
Rui Zhang , Frank Brown

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:24AM - 9:36AM

X34.00008: Synthetic antimicrobial oligomers induce composition-dependent topological transition in membranes
Lihua Yang , Vernita Gordon , Abhijit Mishra , Kirstin Purdy , John Cronan , Abhigyan Som , Gregory Tew , Gerard C.L. Wong

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:36AM - 9:48AM

X34.00009: Pore formation by antimicrobial peptides: structural tendencies in bulk and quasi-2D membrane systems
Vernita Gordon , Lihua Yang , Matthew Davis , A. Som , G. Tew , Gerard Wong

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Friday, March 9, 2007
9:48AM - 10:00AM

X34.00010: Role of membrane bending in ASAP1 protein activity
Beatriz E. Burrola Gabilondo , Ruibai Luo , Wolfgang Losert , Paul A. Randazzo

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:00AM - 10:12AM

X34.00011: Shape transformations of human red blood cells under osmotic deflation-inflation
Gerald Lim , Michael Wortis

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:12AM - 10:24AM

X34.00012: Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulations of Deformable Red Blood Cells in Small Blood Vessels
Igor Pivkin , Peter Richardson , George Karniadakis

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:24AM - 10:36AM

X34.00013: Nucleation of holin domains and holes optimizes lysis timing of \textit{E. coli} by phage $\lambda$
Gillian Ryan , Andrew Rutenberg

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:36AM - 10:48AM

X34.00014: Physiological role of stochastic calcium signaling in subcellar microdomains
Yohannes Shiferaw

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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:48AM - 11:00AM

X34.00015: A Systematic Study of Bilayer Failure on Engineered Surfaces
Morgan Mager , Nicholas Melosh

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