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2022 Fall Western Sectional Meeting

• University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• October 22-23, 2022 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1182

Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:

Michelle Ann Manes, University of Hawaii mmanes@math.hawaii.edu

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Special Session on Topology and Geometry of Multi-Stranded Nucleic Acids (associated with the Invited Address by Mariel Vazquez)

• Saturday October 22, 2022, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Geometry of Multi-Stranded Nucleic Acids (associated with the Invited Address by Mariel Vazquez), I
  Alfred Emory Building, Room 320, Alfred Emory Building
  Organizers:
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis mrlvazquez@ucdavis.edu
  Christine E. Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
  Margherita Maria Ferrari, University of Manitoba
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California,Davis
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cations Induce Major Conformational Changes in Negatively but Not Positively Supercoiled Minicircle DNA
    Jonathan M. Fogg, Baylor College of Medicine
    Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine
    (1182-92-17238)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Turns and Handedness in a Tensegrity Triangle of DNA Crystals
    Nataša Jonoska, University of South Florida
    Van Pham*, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1182-52-17527)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of DNA knots with excess links
    Abby Pekoske Fulton*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    David Swigon, University of Pittsburgh
    (1182-92-17465)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimizing Lattice Models of DNA using Multivariate Stochastic Approximation Methods
    Matthew Schmirler*, University of Saskatchewan
    Christine E. Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
    (1182-82-17512)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Genome Rewiring in Time and Space
    Andrew Fire, Stanford University
    Stephen Levene, UT-Dallas
    Massa Shoura*, Stanford University
    (1182-92-17489)
• Saturday October 22, 2022, 3:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Geometry of Multi-Stranded Nucleic Acids (associated with the Invited Address by Mariel Vazquez), II
  Alfred Emory Building, Room 320, Alfred Emory Building
  Organizers:
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis mrlvazquez@ucdavis.edu
  Christine E. Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
  Margherita Maria Ferrari, University of Manitoba
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California,Davis
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Advances and Limitations in Improving RNA Branching Predictions
    Svetlana Poznanovic*, Clemson University
    (1182-92-17402)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    CANCELLED: Representing RNA secondary structures with a tree distinguishing polynomial
    Pengyu Liu*, University of California, Davis
    (1182-92-17513)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantifying the effect of RNA in tau protein aggregation using novel metrics of topological entanglement
    Eleni Panagiotou*, Arizona State University
    (1182-57-17054)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    CANCELLED: Software Tools for Analyzing Knots in Mathematical Bilology
    Robert Glenn Scharein*, Hypnagogic Software
    (1182-92-17400)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    CANCELLED: Exploration of Knot Shadows
    Candice Price*, Smith College
    (1182-57-17237)
• Sunday October 23, 2022, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Geometry of Multi-Stranded Nucleic Acids (associated with the Invited Address by Mariel Vazquez), III
  Alfred Emory Building, Room 320, Alfred Emory Building
  Organizers:
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis
  Christine E. Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
  Margherita Maria Ferrari, University of Manitoba
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California,Davis
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Invariants And Unknotting In Theta Curves
    Allison H Moore*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1182-57-16171)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cancelled: Assessing the dependence of R-loop formation on DNA sequence, topology, and single-strand breaks
    Ethan T Holleman*, UC Davis
    (1182-92-17264)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Formal grammar modeling three-stranded DNA:RNA braids
    Margherita Maria Ferrari*, University of Manitoba
    Nataša Jonoska, University of South Florida
    Jacob Lusk, University of California Davis
    Svetlana Poznanovic, Clemson University
    Manda Riehl, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis
    (1182-92-17096)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Entanglement properties of open curves
    Javier Arsuaga, University of California,Davis
    Maxime Guiffo Pouokam*, University of California Davis
    Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis
    (1182-92-17381)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spatial graphs in the simple cubic lattice
    Koya Shimokawa*, Ochanomizu University
    (1182-57-16876)
• Sunday October 23, 2022, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Geometry of Multi-Stranded Nucleic Acids (associated with the Invited Address by Mariel Vazquez), IV
  Alfred Emory Building, Room 320, Alfred Emory Building
  Organizers:
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis mrlvazquez@ucdavis.edu
  Christine E. Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
  Margherita Maria Ferrari, University of Manitoba
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California,Davis
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Unknotting of 4-plats
    Kai Ishihara*, YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY
    (1182-57-17328)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Links Confined to Tubes in the Simple Cubic Lattice
    Puttipong Pongtanapaisan*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1182-57-16527)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Automated detection confirms DNA organization in cryo-EM reconstruction of bacteriophage P4
    Javier Arsuaga, University of California,Davis
    Wai Ho Chak, University of California Davis
    Tamara Christiani*, University of California Davis
    Mariel Vazquez, University of California, Davis
    (1182-92-17420)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    CANCELLED: Dynamical and stochastic simulations of knotted and linked DNA
    David Swigon*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1182-74-17242)

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