PHYSTuesday, April 8, 2008

8:00 AM-12:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 344, Oral
Optical Probes of Dynamics in Complex Environments
Protein Dynamics
Organizers:Andrei Tokmakoff
Roseanne J. Sension
Presiding:Jens Bredenbeck
8:00 AMRapid-scan 2-D IR spectroscopy using mid-IR pulse shaping and application to amyloid folding
Martin T. Zanni
8:40 AMSolvation dynamics in protein environments: Comparison of fluorescence upconversion measurements of coumarin 153 in monomeric hemeproteins with molecular dynamics simulations
Sayantan Bose, Mintu Halder, Prasun Mukherjee, Mark S. Hargrove, Xueyu Song, Jacob W. Petrich
9:00 AMWatching the protein mambo: Spectroscopic probes of enzyme dynamics
Christopher M. Cheatum, Jigar N. Bandaria, Sarah E. Hill, Samrat Dutta, Amnon Kohen
9:20 AMModeling 2-D infrared spectroscopy of polypeptides and proteins
Jasper Knoester
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMMultiple population period transient spectroscopy (MUPPETS) to determine the origin of nonexponential relaxation: The Laplace-domain analog of spectral hole burning
Champak Khurmi, Mark A. Berg
10:40 AMNovel infrared and fluorescence probes for protein folding and binding studies
Feng Gai
11:20 AMPhotoinduced isomerization of retinal in complex environments
Chutintorn Punwong, Todd J. Martinez

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