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Session V40: Nucleic Acids: Structure and Function

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Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: Noel Clark, University of Colorado
Room: Morial Convention Center 232


Thursday, March 13, 2008
11:15AM - 11:27AM

 V40.00001: Toward multiscale modeling of the chromatin fiber: a coarse grain model for DNA
Alexey Savelyev , Garegin Papoian

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
11:27AM - 11:39AM

 V40.00002: Sequence and Temperature Dependence of DNA Bending Fluctuations
Robert A. Forties , Ralf Bundschuh , Michael G. Poirier

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
11:39AM - 11:51AM

 V40.00003: Mechanically unzipping dsDNA with built-in sequence inhomogeneities and bound proteins
Abhijit Sarkar

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
11:51AM - 12:03PM

 V40.00004: Base-pair elasticity of free and complexed DNA
Nils B. Becker , Ralf Everaers

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:03PM - 12:15PM

 V40.00005: Hartree-Fock Cluster Study of Electronic Structures and Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Solid Nucleobases.
R.H. Scheicher , Archana Dubey , S.R. Badu , H.P. Saha , R.H. Pink , K. Nagamine , E. Torikai , Lee Chow , T.P. Das

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:15PM - 12:27PM

 V40.00006: Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction Study as a Probe of Interaction between Nucleobases and Suger Rings and Phosphate Groups in DNA.
T.P. Das , Archana Dubey , R.H. Scheicher , S.R. Badu , R.H. Pink , K. Nagamine , E. Torikai , H.P. Saha , Lee Chow , M.B. Huang

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:27PM - 12:39PM

 V40.00007: Extraction of complementary from non-complementary DNA sequences through phase separation and centrifugation
Taiquitha Robins , Dacia McPherson , Chenhui Zhu , Mark Moran , Dave Walba , Giuliano Zanchetta , Tommaso Bellini , Noel Clark

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:39PM - 12:51PM

 V40.00008: Phase Separation and Liquid Crystallization of Complementary Sequences in Mixtures of Random Oligonucleotides
Giuliano Zanchetta , Michi Nakata , Marco Buscaglia , Tommaso Bellini , Noel Clark

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:51PM - 1:03PM

 V40.00009: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy study of ssDNA-CNT on Au(111) surface
Xinghua Lu , Eric Brandin , Jene Golovchenko , Daniel Brandon

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:03PM - 1:15PM

 V40.00010: Liquid Crystal Alignment on Sheared DNA Films
Michi Nakata , Giuliano Zanchetta , Marco Buscaglia , Tommaso Bellini , Noel Clark

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:15PM - 1:27PM

 V40.00011: Cholesterol improves the transfection efficiency of lipoplexes by increasing the effective membrane charge density
Cyrus R. Safinya , Alexandra Zidovska , Heather M. Evans , Kai K. Ewert

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:27PM - 1:39PM

 V40.00012: Measuring the 3D Size of Large RNA Molecules
Ajaykumar Gopal , Defne Egecioglu , Li Tai Fang , Charles M. Knobler , William M. Gelbart , Marc Niebuhr , A. L. N. Rao

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:39PM - 1:51PM

 V40.00013: Predicting the Size of Large RNA Molecules
Aron Yoffe , Peter Prinsen , Ajaykumar Gopal , Charles Knobler , William Gelbart , Avinoam Ben-Shaul

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:51PM - 2:03PM

 V40.00014: Observations of simple RNA suboptimal structures including pseudoknots suggests that the folding landscape is often funnel shaped
Wayne Dawson , Gota Kawai

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
2:03PM - 2:15PM

 V40.00015: Simplified Hamiltonians for coarse-grained properties of large single-stranded RNA molecules
Peter Prinsen , Aron Yoffe , William Gelbart

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