RD. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: BIO-RELEVANT MOLECULES

THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2005 - 8:30AM

Room: 1015 McPHERSON LAB

Chair: HEATHER ALLEN, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

RD01 INVITED TALK 30min8:30

SECONDARY STRUCTURES OF SHORT PEPTIDE CHAINS IN THE GAS PHASE AS REVEALED BY IR/UV DOUBLE RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY.

MICHEL MONS, WUTHARATH CHIN, JEAN-PIERRE DOGNON, FRANÇOIS PIUZZI AND ILIANA DIMICOLI, Laboratoire Francis Perrin (URA CNRS 2453), Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Bât. 522, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.

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RD02			15min9:05

VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF GAS-PHASE PEPTIDES: A MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING THE SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF PROTEINS.

ISABELLE COMPAGNON, JOS OOMENS, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen", Nieuwegein, The Netherlands; GERT VON HELDEN, GERARD MEIJER, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.

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RD03			15min9:22

GAS-PHASE IR SPECTROSCOPY OF PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS.

JOS OOMENS, NICK POLFER, DAVID T. MOORE, FOM Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen", Nieuwegein, The Netherlands; GERT VON HELDEN, GERARD MEIJER, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.

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RD04			15min9:39

ELUCIDATING THE EFFECTS OF AMIDE SIDE CHAIN INTERACTIONS IN FLEXIBLE BIOMOLECULES.

V. ALVIN SHUBERT, ESTEBAN BAQUERO, JASPER R. CLARKSON, TIMOTHY S. ZWIER, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

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RD05			15min9:56

CONFORMATIONAL SPECIFIC SPECTROSCOPY OF JET COOLED 3-(4-HYDROXYPHENYL)-N-BENZYL-PROPIONAMIDE..

ESTEBAN BAQUERO, V. ALVIN SHUBERT, TIMOTHY S. ZWIER, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

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RD06			15min10:13

BASE STACKING, NOT BASE PAIRING, GOVERNS EXCITED-STATE DYNAMICS IN AT-CONTAINING DNA.

CARLOS E. CRESPO-HERNANDEZ, BERN KOHLER, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210..

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INTERMISSION

RD07			15min10:45

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TRANS ISOMERIZATION OF NAPHTHOL IN THE ELECTRONIC EXCITED STATE.

K. KOUYAMA, N. MIKAMI, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578; T. EBATA, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan.

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RD08			15min11:02

ULTRAFAST HYDRATION DYNAMICS OF MELITTIN : HELIX FORMATION AND TETRAMER SELF-ASSEMBLY .

LUYUAN ZHANG, WEIHONG QIU AND DONGPING ZHONG, Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, OSU Chemical Physics and Biophysics Programs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

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RD09			15min11:19

FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION STUDIES ON THE PROTON INDUCED STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS OF POLYCYTIDYLIC POLYMERS.

BOIKO COHEN, MATTHEW H. LARSON AND BERN KOHLER, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210.

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RD10			15min11:36

SOLVENT EFFECTS ON THE EXCITED STATE DYNAMICS OF 1-CYCLOHEXYLURACIL.

PATRICK M. HARE, BERN KOHLER, Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, 100 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210.

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RD11			15min11:53

DIRECT OBSERVATION OF DNA REPAIR IN PHOTOLYASE.

YA-TING KAO, CHAITANYA SAXENA, LIJUAN WANG AND DONGPING ZHONG, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, OSU Biophysics, Chemical Physics and Biochemistry Programs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210.

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