2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Thermophysical Properties of Biological Systems II

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.

Chair

Mittal, J., Lehigh University

Co-Chair

Shell, M. S., University of California Santa Barbara

Presentations

12:30 PM

(308a) Thermodynamically Dominant Hydration Strutures of Amino Acids
Merchant, S., Asthagiri, D.

12:50 PM

(308b) Microscopic Models of Chiral Amplification and Symmetry Breaking
Hatch, H. W., Lombardo, T. G., Stillinger, F. H., Debenedetti, P.

01:10 PM

(308c) Helix Stabilization of Poly(ethylene glycol)-Peptide Conjugates
Ashbaugh, H., Jain, A. S.

01:30 PM

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

01:50 PM

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

02:10 PM

(308f) The Crystallization Thresholds Determined by the Residual Entropy Rule for the Two-Term Yukawa Potential as a Model for Protein Solutions
Lee, L. L., Simon, S. J., Ramos, F. S., Hara, M. C., Winkle, A. J., Bomont, J.

02:30 PM

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