Dr. Milka Doktorova
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia
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DateMarch 22, 2022The transbilayer distribution of lipids in mammalian plasma membranes (PMs) is functionally important and incompletely understood…Presenter
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia- DateMarch 20, 2022Lipid bilayers form the main matrix of functional cell membranes, including plasma membranes. Their dynamics are inherently related to a wide range of physical and biological processes and thus have justifiably been the subject of both experimental and theoretical investigations…
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- DateMarch 24, 2022Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is among the most powerful tools available for interrogating the nanoscale structure of biological structures…
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University of TennesseeSpeakers
- The mechanical properties of cell membranes are essential to cell function, including shape deformations, viral budding, and mechanical resistance against pathogens. Importantly, these properties depend on local membrane compositions…
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Miss, Virginia TechSpeakers
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaOak Ridge National LaboratoryVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - The lipid make-up of a bilayer determines its measurable properties but how the motions of individual molecules combine to produce these properties remains unclear…
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- The mechanical properties of cell membranes are essential to cell function, including shape deformations, viral budding, and mechanical resistance against pathogens. Importantly, these properties depend on local membrane compositions…
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Miss, Virginia TechPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaOak Ridge National LaboratoryVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - : [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry
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University of California DavisUniversity of ConnecticutVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityOak Ridge National LaboratoryAtul N. Parikh, Ph.D.Professor, University of California, DavisThe University of Texas at AustinUniversity of MassachusettsSandia National LaboratoriesMiss, Virginia TechPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaIndiana Purdue UnivGraduate Student, University of California, MercedUniversity of California, Merced - The lipid make-up of a bilayer determines its measurable properties but how the motions of individual molecules combine to produce these properties remains unclear…
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - : [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry
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University of California DavisUniversity of ConnecticutOak Ridge National LaboratoryAtul N. Parikh, Ph.D.Professor, University of California, DavisPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityUniversity of TennesseeOak Ridge Natl Lab - : [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry
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University of California DavisUniversity of ConnecticutOak Ridge National LaboratoryAtul N. Parikh, Ph.D.Professor, University of California, DavisUniversity of TennesseeOak Ridge Natl LabPostdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia - The mechanical properties of cell membranes are essential to cell function, including shape deformations, viral budding, and mechanical resistance against pathogens. Importantly, these properties depend on local membrane compositions…
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Miss, Virginia TechPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaOak Ridge National LaboratoryVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - : [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry
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University of California DavisUniversity of ConnecticutVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityOak Ridge National LaboratoryAtul N. Parikh, Ph.D.Professor, University of California, DavisThe University of Texas at AustinUniversity of MassachusettsSandia National LaboratoriesMiss, Virginia TechPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaIndiana Purdue UnivGraduate Student, University of California, MercedUniversity of California, Merced - The lipid make-up of a bilayer determines its measurable properties but how the motions of individual molecules combine to produce these properties remains unclear…
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - : [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry
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University of California DavisUniversity of ConnecticutOak Ridge National LaboratoryAtul N. Parikh, Ph.D.Professor, University of California, DavisPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityUniversity of TennesseeOak Ridge Natl Lab - : [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry
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University of California DavisUniversity of ConnecticutOak Ridge National LaboratoryAtul N. Parikh, Ph.D.Professor, University of California, DavisUniversity of TennesseeOak Ridge Natl LabPostdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia - The mechanical properties of cell membranes are essential to cell function, including shape deformations, viral budding, and mechanical resistance against pathogens. Importantly, these properties depend on local membrane compositions…
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Miss, Virginia TechPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaOak Ridge National LaboratoryVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - : [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry
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University of California DavisUniversity of ConnecticutVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityOak Ridge National LaboratoryAtul N. Parikh, Ph.D.Professor, University of California, DavisThe University of Texas at AustinUniversity of MassachusettsSandia National LaboratoriesMiss, Virginia TechPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaIndiana Purdue UnivGraduate Student, University of California, MercedUniversity of California, Merced - The lipid make-up of a bilayer determines its measurable properties but how the motions of individual molecules combine to produce these properties remains unclear…
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - : [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry
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University of California DavisUniversity of ConnecticutOak Ridge National LaboratoryAtul N. Parikh, Ph.D.Professor, University of California, DavisPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityUniversity of TennesseeOak Ridge Natl Lab - : [COLL] Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry
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University of California DavisUniversity of ConnecticutOak Ridge National LaboratoryAtul N. Parikh, Ph.D.Professor, University of California, DavisUniversity of TennesseeOak Ridge Natl LabPostdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia - DateMarch 26, 2023The lipid make-up of a bilayer determines its measurable properties but how the motions of individual molecules combine to produce these properties remains unclear…
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- DateMarch 27, 2023The mechanical properties of cell membranes are essential to cell function, including shape deformations, viral budding, and mechanical resistance against pathogens. Importantly, these properties depend on local membrane compositions…
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Miss, Virginia TechSpeakers
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaOak Ridge National LaboratoryVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - DateMarch 26, 2023Plasma membranes (PMs) are composed of hundreds of different lipids varying in structure and chemical properties. A major challenge in membrane biophysics is to determine how different classes of lipids contribute to the physical properties of the PM…
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University of TennesseePostdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia - DateMarch 17, 2024Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly impactful in membrane biophysics because they offer atomistic resolution into individual carbon-deuterium (CH) bond fluctuations of lipid assemblies…
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Computational investigation of compositional asymmetry and its effects on mixed-chain lipid bilayers
DateMarch 17, 2024Eukaryotic cells are enclosed by a complex semi-permeable plasma membrane (PM) that consists of hundreds of structurally distinct lipids and exhibits both composition and number asymmetry between its two leaflets…Presenter
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia- DateMarch 17, 2024Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a rapidly emerging, probe-free imaging technique that makes use of extremely low temperatures to preserve biological samples in their native state…
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- DateMarch 17, 2024Lateral lipid heterogeneity (i.e., raft formation) in biomembranes plays a functional role in living cells…
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia - DateMarch 17, 2024Structural and mechanical characteristics of biomembranes composed of phospholipids and cholesterol play key roles in cell functions. Here we describe how solid-state NMR experiments and theory are combined to yield both structural and elastic information for membrane lipids…
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Graduate Student, University of ArizonaPostdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaMiss, Virginia TechVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 
DateApril 13, 2021Cholesterol is an essential molecule in eukaryotic cell membranes. It plays a key regulatory role in how membranes deform and fluctuate, how they interact with proteins, and how they withstand attacks from viruses and other pathogens…Speakers
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaMiss, Virginia TechOak Ridge National LaboratoryPresenter
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
DateApril 14, 2021Sphingomyelin is a major component of functional lipid domains in eukaryotic membranes…Speakers
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaOak Ridge National LaboratoryPresenter
DateApril 9, 2021Phospholipid membranes are biological liquid crystals in which intermolecular interactions play key roles in the emergence of membrane properties on mesoscopic length scales…Speakers
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityPresenter
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityPresenter
- DateMarch 22, 2022Plasma cell membranes have a rich diversity of lipids that vary by cell type. However, a common feature among plasma membranes is the predominance of cholesterol and phosphatidylcholine (PC) lipids with different degrees of chain unsaturation, i.e., number of double bonds in the acyl chains…
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of VirginiaMiss, Virginia TechGraduate Student, University of ArizonaUniversity of TennesseeOak Ridge National LaboratoryPresenter
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - DateMarch 24, 2025Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of lipid membranes are increasingly prevalent because they offer atomistic resolution of structural fluctuations in relation to their functional outputs…
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