Session: Biomolecular Engineering (2010 Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 12:30 PM

255 B Room (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Description:

This session invites contributions on novel methods for engineering biomolecules and the applications of these in therapeutics, diagnostics, sensors, and other engineering applications. Fundamental experimental and computational studies on the structure and structure-function properties of engineered biomolecules are also welcome.

Sponsor:

Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science

Chair:

S. Patrick Walton
Email: spwalton@egr.msu.edu

Co-Chair:

Anant K. Paravastu
Email: paravastu@eng.fsu.edu

12:30 PM

(260a) Predicting Accessible Splice Sites for Trans-Splicing Ribozymes: Modeling and Experiments
Dario Meluzzi, Karen Olson, Ulrich Muller and Gaurav Arya

12:50 PM

(260b) VEGF - DNA Aptamer Interactions: Ensemble and Single Molecule Studies and Implications for Aptamer Design
Indhu Kanakaraj, Katerina Kourentzi, Ajish Potty, J. Nick Taylor, Xing Zhang, Ulrich Strych, Christy F. Landes and Richard C. Willson

1:10 PM

(260c) Liposomes Stabilized by Bilayer Conjugation to a Hydrogel Core
Noah Malmstadt and Yasaman Dayani

1:30 PM

(260d) Experimental and Computational Analyses of Palmitic Acid-Binding to PKR
Hyun Ju Cho, Shayantani Mukherjee, Betul Bilgin, Pratheeba Palasuberniam, Catherine Nezich, S. Patrick Walton, Michael Feig and Christina Chan

1:50 PM

Break

2:00 PM

(260e) Directed Evolution of the Intrinsically Disordered and Allosterically Regulated Beta Roll Subdomain for Biomolecular Recognition
Oren Shur, Geza R. Szilvay, Mark A. Blenner, Donald M. Cropek and Scott A. Banta

2:20 PM

(260f) A Novel Method for the Construction of Custom Peptide Libraries From Oligonucleotide Arrays
Saadet Albayrak, Jean-Marie Rouillard and Erdogan Gulari

2:40 PM

(260g) Probing Into the Mechanism for Bacterial Biosensor for Nuclear Receptor Ligand
Jingjing Li, Izabela Hartman and David W. Wood

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