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Session U17: Proteins in Membranes and the Cytoskeleton

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Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: Robijn Bruinsma, University of California, Los Angeles
Room: Morial Convention Center 209


Thursday, March 13, 2008
8:00AM - 8:12AM

 U17.00001: Hierarchy of Specific Lipid-Peptide Interactions Produces the Activity of Cell-penetrating and Cell-permeating Peptides
Matthew Davis , Daniel Parente , Vernita Gordon , Abhijit Mishra , Nathan Schmidt , Lihua Yang , Robert Coridan , Abhigyan Som , Gregory Tew , Gerard Wong

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
8:12AM - 8:24AM

 U17.00002: Simulations of the pore structures for a M2G1yR derived channel forming peptide in membrane
Ahlam N. Al-Rawi , Asma Al-Rawi , Jianhan Chen , Alvaro Herrera , John Tomich , Talat S. Rahman

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 U17.00003: Membrane-mediated mechanism of amyloid oligomer toxicity in Alzheimer's Disease.
Frank Heinrich , Yuri Sokolov , James E. Hall , Rima Budvytyte , Gintaras Valincius , Mathias Loesche

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 U17.00004: Molecular target of synthetic antimicrobial oligomer in bacterial membranes
Lihua Yang , Vernita Gordon , Abhigyan Som , John Cronan , Gregory Tew , Gerard Wong

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 U17.00005: Interaction of Arginine-Rich Peptides with Model Cell Membranes
Abhijit Mishra , Nathan Schmidt , Vernita Gordon , Jianjun Cheng , Timothy Deming , Gerard Wong

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 U17.00006: Lipid and Protein Sorting during Membrane Tube Formation
Hongyuan Jiang , Thomas Powers

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 U17.00007: Equilibrium Stability of Transmembrane Proteins : A Hard-Core Gas Problem.
Karim Wahba , David Schwab , Robijn Bruinsma

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 U17.00008: Diffusion of Transmembrane Proteins: Beyond the Saffman-Delbr\"{u}ck Model
Tatiana Kouriabova , Mark Henle , Alexander J. Levine

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 U17.00009: Lateral organization of a non-equilibrium membrane model with immobile randomly-distributed impurities
Andrew P. Paradis , Susan R. McKay , Samuel T. Hess

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 U17.00010: Multidrug efflux transporter activity in sea urchin embryos:Does localization provide a diffusive advantage?
Xianfeng Song , Sima Setayeshgar , Bryan Cole , Amro Hamdoun , David Epel

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

 U17.00011: Observation of a single particle diffusive motion on the membrane by 3-dimensional particle tracking microscope.
Seungyong You , Jing Yuan , David Van Winkle , Thomas Fischer

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

 U17.00012: Oxygen dynamics in photosynthetic membranes.
Sergei Savikhin , Shigeharu Kihara

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
10:24AM - 10:36AM

 U17.00013: Identification of co-evolving sites in the ligand binding domain of G protein-coupled receptors using mutual information
Sarosh N. Fatakia , Stefano Costanzi , Carson C. Chow

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
10:36AM - 10:48AM

 U17.00014: Dynamics of Actin Cable Polymerization in Fission Yeast
Hui Wang , Dimitrios Vavylonis

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
10:48AM - 11:00AM

 U17.00015: Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Neurofilament Networks Interaction under Osmotic Pressure
R. Beck , J. Deek , J.B. Jones , H. Hesse , M.C. Choi , C.R. Safinya

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