Session: Vibrational Spectroscopy as a Probe of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics: Theory and Experiment


PHYS		Wednesday, March 28, 2007

1:20 PM-5:00 PM McCormick Place South -- Room S401B/C, Level 4, Oral
Vibrational Spectroscopy as a Probe of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics: Theory and Experiment
Vibrational Probes of Biomolecules
Sponsored by:	PHYS
Organizers:	Martin T. Zanni John E. Straub
Presiding:	Kevin J Kubarych
1:20 PM	218	Peptide solvation, aggregation dynamics, and amyloid morphology via isotope-edited infrared spectroscopy Sean M. Decatur
2:00 PM	219	Infrared study of the hydration, folding and aggregation of short peptides Feng Gai
2:40 PM	220	Folding dynamics of isotopically labeled beta-hairpin peptides Karin Hauser, Carsten Krejtschi, Rong Huang, Timothy A. Keiderling
3:00 PM		Intermission
3:20 PM	221	IR- and fluorescence-detected fast folding dynamics Martin Gruebele
4:00 PM	222	Direct observation of specific protein vibrations Floyd Romesberg
4:40 PM	223	Vibrational stark effect probes: Calculation and measurement of electrostatic fields in human aldose reductase using a nitrile probe Lauren J. Webb, Vanessa Oklejas, Daniel L. Ensign, Vijay S. Pande, Steven G. Boxer

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