PHYSThursday, April 10, 2008

8:20 AM-12:20 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 340/341, Oral
Multiscale Modeling in Biophysics
Protein Folding and Misfolding: Coarse-graining and Multiscale Approaches
Organizers:Cecilia Clementi
Gregory A. Voth
M. Scott Shell
Presiding:José N. Onuchic
8:20 AMKinetics and thermodynamics of nonnative protein aggregation from a multilevel approach
Jennifer M. Andrews, Teresa M. Young, Christopher J. Roberts
9:00 AMThe energy landscape for folding and molecular motors
Jose N. Onuchic
9:40 AMForced unfolding of proteins: The role of chain dynamics
Ruxandra I. Dima
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMFrom monomer structure to polymorphism: Computational and experimental studies of the alzheimer's abeta peptide
Teresa Head-Gordon, Nicolas Lux Fawzi, Jory Z. Ruscio
11:00 AMMultiscale simulations of protein aggregation
Joan-Emma Shea
11:40 AMUse of coarse-grained Langevin dynamics to extract folding times from replica exchange simulations
Angel E. Garcia, Sichun Yang, Dietmar Paschek, Jose N. Onuchic, Herbert Levine

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The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008