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2018 MBTP Symposium - List of Poster Titles and Presenters

1. New Ru(II) Complexes with Red and Near-IR Absorption for Photochemotherapy
Malik Al-Afyouni             

2. Further Structural Elucidation of the Signaling Pheromone Er-23 using NMR Structural Techniques
David Bowles                     

3. Crystal structure of a synaptosome complex for DNA repair by single strand annealing
Brian Caldwell  

4. NMR characterization of K-Ras loop dynamics and functionality
Daniel V. Cantu

5. Binding mechanisms for cross-β-sheet directed imaging agents
Claire Chandler                 

6. Thermal and Ultraviolet Acceleration of Bio-Chemo-Mechanical Aspects of Lens Aging
Sam Croarkin    

7. Hp1 binding to nucleosomes influences transcription factor accessibility
Michael Darcy                    

8. Reb1 is a pioneer factor that dynamically regulates nucleosomal DNA accessibility
Ben Donovan    

9. Paraoxonase-1 Operates via Metal-Mediated Water Activation Hydrolysis
Timothy Grunkemeyer 

10. Polarity and Charge as determinants of translocase requirement for Membrane protein insertion
Balasubramani Hariharan                              

11. Interrogating the conformation of HIV-1 Gag and its stoichiometry of binding to genomic RNAs
Samantha Hinckley                          

12. Kinetic Model predicts end-to-end annealing of tau protein filaments
Carol Huseby    

13. Biomolecular structural dynamics & function and metabolomics by NMR and computation
Gregory Jameson                             

14. Accurately predicting disordered regions of proteins using Rosetta Residue Disorder application
Stephanie Kim

15. GB1 from Sequence to Structure to Function: Using a Small Protein to Answer Big Questions
Allyson Langley

16. Tunable DNA Nanocalipers to Probe Structure and Dynamics of Chromatin
Jenny Le

17. DNA nanotechnology: understanding the spatial interactions of oligonucleotide-modified nanoparticles
Kilho Lee

18. Probing the Homotropic Cooperativity of Ligand-Responsive Regulator TRAP via Statistical Thermodynamic Modeling and Protein Engineering                            
Weicheng Li       

19. Diffusion to function: stochastic processes governing DNA mismatch repair
Jiaquan Liu

20. SHAPE analysis of the RSV genomic RNA 5'-leader secondary structure and Gag interactions
Shuohui Liu        

21. Cooperative membrane binding with Rng10 targets the F-BAR protein Rga7 to the fission yeast division site
Yajun Liu             

22. Biological Water: How Proteins and Water Interact
Nicolas Macro

23. Exploring alternate exon junction complexes
Robert Patton                   

24. Molecular dynamics study of tau fibril aggregation
Jaehoon Yang   

25. Development of a Semisynthetic Metalloeznyme Capable of CO2 Reduction: A Study of Key Catalytic Contributions
Camille Schneider                            

26. Clustering of discoidin domain receptors impacts ligand binding and receptor phosphorylation
Nirvan Shanker                 

27. Molecular Biophysics as a Probe of the Biological Roles of Essential Metals in Structure, Function, and Catalysis
Zechariah Thompson     

28. Membrane tension dictates the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of endocytic clathrin coat dynamics in cells
Nathan Willy      

29. Structural, Biochemical and Cellular Investigation of Argonaute and Non-coding RNAs
Ekram Wassim Abd El-Wahab Helmy                       

30. Protein clamp mechanics in DNA mismatch repair
Kyle Crocker                       

31. Exploring packing defects, loop interactions and the fitness landscape of a four-helix bundle protein, Rop
Anusha Kumar  

32. Reengineering Human Butyrylcholinesterase for the Catalytic Degradation of Organophosphorus Compounds
Kevin McGarry

33. The evolutionary biophysics of a force converying protein complex composed of PCDH15 and CDH23
Collin Nisler

34. MoFlow: Visualizing Conformational Changes in Molecules as Molecular Flow Improves Understanding
William Ray

35. Solid-state NMR Structural Studies of Y145Stop Prion Protein Amyloids
Theint Theint                     

36. Impact of Divalent Metal Ion Cofactors on the Fidelity and Sugar Selectivity of Human PrimPol
Jack Tokarsky

37. Split-intein mediated reconstitution of functional diphtheria toxin catalytic domain in cancer cells
Vedud Purde