Session: Thermophysical Properties of Biological Systems II (2010 Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 12:30 PM

Canyon C (Hilton)

Description:

The focus of this session is the study of complex processes in biological systems. Contributions from theoreticians, simulators, and experimentalists are welcome. This session is focused on hydrophobic and water-mediated interactions.

Sponsor:

Thermodynamics and Transport Properties

Chair:

Jeetain Mittal
Email: jeetain@lehigh.edu

Co-Chair:

M. Scott Shell
Email: shell@engr.ucsb.edu

12:30 PM

(308a) Thermodynamically Dominant Hydration Strutures of Amino Acids
Safir Merchant and Dilip Asthagiri

12:50 PM

(308b) Microscopic Models of Chiral Amplification and Symmetry Breaking
Harold W. Hatch, Frank H. Stillinger, Pablo G. Debenedetti and Thomas G. Lombardo

1:10 PM

(308c) Helix Stabilization of Poly(ethylene glycol)-Peptide Conjugates
Hank Ashbaugh and Amit S. Jain

1:30 PM

(308d) Painting Protein Surfaces with a Nanoscale Paint-Brush: Hydration, Fluctuations, and Interactions of Proteins in Solution
Amish J. Patel, Sumanth Jamadagni, Hari Acharya and Shekhar Garde

1:50 PM

(308e) Osmotic Virial Coefficients of Protein Solutions: Effect of Differing Ensemble Constraints and Connection to Experiment
Daniel W. Siderius, William P. Krekelberg, Christopher J. Roberts and Vincent K. Shen

2:10 PM

(308f) The Crystallization Thresholds Determined by the Residual Entropy Rule for the Two-Term Yukawa Potential as a Model for Protein Solutions
Lloyd L. Lee, Steven J. Simon, Franklin S. Ramos, Michael C. Hara, Andrew J. Winkle and Jean-Marc Bomont

2:30 PM

(308g) Thermal and Mechanical, Multistate Folding Mechanisms of Ribonuclease H
Terry J. Schmitt, Jonathan E. Clark and Thomas A. Knotts IV

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