NESS 2020 Posters

 

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Arianna, Gianluca Interactions of PIP and RIR motifs in TLS Polymerases with PCNA and Rev1-CT. UConn Health arianna@uchc.edu
Belfon, Kellon The Development of Parameters for Modified Amino Acids to Study Protein Dynamics. Stonybrook University kellonbelfon@gmail.com
Bettin, Tom Diverse Environment Related (Der) protein is a novel OMP85 subfamily present in free-living bacteria and pathogenic Leptospira spp. UConn Health, Universidade Federal de Pelotas tombbettin@gmail.com
Bregnard, Thomas Conformational exchange at a C2H2 zinc-binding site facilitates redox sensing by the PML protein. UConn Health bregnard@uchc.edu Tom Bregnard
Davenport, Timothy The Rationale and Building Blocks of “NucleVar”: an Automated, “Genomics-to-Structural Vaccinology” Approach to Expedite Vaccine Design against Syphilis. UConn Health tcdavenport@wisc.edu
Dudley, Joshua Characterizing Structural Heterogeneity in Computationally Designed Miniproteins. Wesleyan
jdudley@wesleyan.edu
Feinstein, Aaron Investigation into the Effect of Dimerization on PKR Activation with Enhanced Sampling Molecular Dynamics Method. UConn Storrs aaron.feinstein@uconn.edu
Grassmann, Andre PlzA is a unique dual function c-di-GMP effector protein required for survival of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, within its arthropod vector and mammalian host. UConn Health grassmann@uchc.edu
Hawley, Kelly The global Treponema pallidum OMPeome: a structural platform for deciphering stealth pathogenicity and developing a syphilis vaccine with worldwide efficacy. UConn Health, CCMC hawley@uchc.edu
He, Chengming Structural studies f Hetero-Amyloid Signaling Complexes Using SSNMR. Columbia University ch3370@columbia.edu
Hills, Ronald Elucidating the Transport Mechanism of Endotoxin and Xenobiotics. University of New England rhills@une.edu
Hollingsworth, Louis DPP9 directly sequesters the NLRP1 C-terminus to repress inflammasome activation. Harvard louishollingsworth@g.harvard.edu
Huang, Qiu Yu Structural analysis of influenza A virus morphology using convolutional neural networks. UMass Medical School qiuyu.huang@umassmed.edu
Jaiswal, Nancy Deciphering structure-activity relationship of USP7 enzyme. UConn Health njaiswal@uchc.edu
Kwon, Jack GCN Sensitive Protein Translation in Yeast. Wesleyan hkwon01@wesleyan.edu
Liu, Yuting The first heterologous expression of the human zinc transporter hZIP4. Worcester Polytechnic Institute yliu23@wpi.edu
MacDonald, Meagan Kinetics and NMR Studies on Xylanase A mutant to elucidate Thumb Flexibility in Enzymatic Mechanism. Wesleyan mmacdonald@wesleyan.edu
McPherson, Kerry Assembly of S. cerevisiae Polymerase ζ. UConn Health KerrySMcPherson@gmail.com
Montezuma-Rusca, Jairo M Pyrococcus furiosus thioredoxin as a platform to express extracellular loops of Treponema pallidum outer membrane proteins to assess antigenicity and isolate antigen-specific B-cells: a new structural approach for syphilis vaccine development. UConn Health montezumarusca@uchc.edu
Nordquist, Erik Physical Origins of Selective Promiscuity to Hsp70s Revealed Through Physics-Based Modeling. UMass-Amherst enordquist@umass.edu
Prignano, Lindsey

Calcium Selectivity in Channelrhodopdin Chimera is Governed by Electrostatic Interactions in Central Pore.

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute laprignano@wpi.edu
Raguette, Lauren

Amber Force Field Parameters for Simulations of Phosphorylated Amino Acids.

 Stonybrook University lauren.raguette@stonybrook.edu
Robinson, Victoria A Conserved Arginine in Switch I is Critical for ppGpp Binding to the Prokaryotic Translational GTPase BipA. UConn Storrs victoria.robinson@uconn.edu
Sullivan, Shannon Reveal the Allosteric Pathway Regulating Alternate Ribosome Binding by the Translation Factor BipA.

 

 UConn Storrs shannon.m.sullivan@uconn.edu
Wells, Nick ALS-causing SOD1 mutations cause common perturbations to maturational free energy. Wesleyan nwells@wesleyan.edu
Whitehead, Richard NMR Mapping of Disordered Segments from a Viral Scaffolding Protein Enclosed in a 23 MDa Procapsid. UConn Storrs richard.whitehead_iii@uconn.edu