Biophysical Society Announces Winners Of 2008 Student Travel Awards
The 2008 recipients of the Student Travel Award are:
* Joshua K. Au, Yale University, "Widely-distributed Residues in Thymosin â4 are Critical for Actin Binding."
* Khajak Berberian, Cornell University, "Improved Nanofabricated Electrochemical Detector Arrays for Monitoring Exocytosis."
* Yi Cao, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, "How Do Chemical Denaturants Affect the Mechanical Folding and Unfolding of Proteins""
* Ashley R. Carter, JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder, "Stepping of Individual RecBCD Molecules."
* Thomas Chadwick, North Carolina State University, "Molecular Mechanism of Phospholipid Transfer by Lipid Transporter Protein Sec14p."
* Hao Chen, Purdue University, "Predicting the Error of Template-Based Protein Structure Modeling by Suboptimal Alignment Stability."
* Logan R. Chieffo, Boston University, "Vibrational Lifetime of the Anesthetic Gas Nitrous Oxide as a Probe of Interfacial Water in Biological Systems."
* Sepehr Dadsetan, University of California, Davis, "Store-Operated Ca2+-Induced Ca2+ Release Amplifies Cytosolic Ca2+ Signaling and Prevents Store Refilling in Jurkat T Cells."
* Angel M. Davey, The Pennsylvania State University, "Dynamics Imaging of Membrane Nanostructural Changes Associated with Antigen-Mediated IgE Receptor Signaling in Mast Cells."
* Isabelle C. Dragomir, Drexel University, "Characterization of Phenylalanine Based Short Peptides at Varying pHs, Temperatures, and Concentrations via Electronic Circular Dichroism and Absorption Spectroscopy."
* Kyle P. Eagen, Cornell University, "Effect of a Mutation on the Channel-opening Equilibrium of a Malfunctioning GABA(A) Receptor Linked to Epilepsy."
* Thomas C. Edrington, University of Connecticut, "The Effect of Bleaching on the Thermal Stability of Native and Cross-linked Rhodopsin."
* Daniel W. Farrell, Arizona State University, "Constraint-Based Prediction of Essential Degrees of Freedom in Proteins."
* Thomas E. Frederick, University of Florida, "Characterization of Acyl Chain Dynamics, Packing, and Vesicle Morphology of 18:1 BMP: An NMR and EPR Investigation."
* Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, University of Washington, "Line Tensions, Correlation Lengths, and Critical Exponents in Lipid Membranes Near Critical Points."
* Alexandra P. Few, University of Washington, "An Asynchronous Calcium-dependent Current Conducted by Cav2.1 and Cav2.2 Channels: Implications for Asynchronous Neurotransmitter Release."
* John C. Fisher, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, "How PUMA Attacks its Prey: Understanding the Molecular Basis of PUMA-Induced Cell Death."
* Eric W. Frey, Miami University, Ohio, "Fluorescence-based Calcium-ion Sensing at High Hydrostatic Pressures."
* Debanjan Goswami, National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India, "Steady State Distribution and Dynamics of GPI-anchored Protein-nanoclusters in Cell Membranes Is Modulated by Cortical Actin Activity."
* Travis J. Gould, University of Maine, "Nanoscale Dynamics of Hemagglutinin Clusters in Live Cell Membranes Quantified by Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy."
* Pia Guinto, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, "in Silico and in vitro Characterization of Cardiac Troponin T Mutations Known to Cause Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy."
* Nicholas R. Guydosh, Stanford University, "Direct Observation of Individual Head Motions in Kinesin Dimers."
* Sejin Han, University of Maryland, College Park, "Abnormal Formation and Remodeling of Fibers Containing Type I Collagen Homotrimers."
* Pengying Hao, Wellesley College, "Metal Ion Selectivity and Affinity of the LIN-12/Notch-Repeat."
* Sarah K. Higgins, University of North Carolina Wilmington, "A Synthetic Variant of Cecropin A is Significantly More Active Toward Pure POPC Membranes."
* Jill B. Jensen, University of Washington, "FRET Reveals Kinetic Steps of Receptor-mediated Modulation of Kv7 K+ Current and PIP2."
* Sarah G. Kamper, Calvin College, "The Effect of Tether Length in Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy."
* Ann C. Kimble-Hill, Indiana University-Purdue University, "Biophysical Mechanisms of Protein Recruitment to Raft Domains Studied Using Planar Model Membranes: Recruitment by Native Binding Ligands versus GPI-anchored Proteins."
* Joel M. Kralj, Boston University, "The Protonation State of Glu142 Differs in the Green and Blue Absorbing Variants of Proteorhodopsin."
* Kareen L. Kreutziger, University of Washington, "Coupled Interactions of Troponin C Ca2+-Binding Kinetics and Strong Crossbridge Formation in Cardiac Muscle Contraction."
* Khamir Mehta, University of Michigan, "Quantitative Inference of Protein Binding Affinities from FRET Imaging Data."
* Brannon McCullough, Yale University, "The Actin Severing Protein, Cofilin, Modulates the Mechanical Properties of Actin Filaments."
* Moritz Mickler, TU Munich, Garching, Germany, "Single Molecule Fluorescence Studies on the Hsp90."
* Hau B. Nguyen, Florida State University, "Solution Structure of Integral Membrane Protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Insight into Rv0008c -- An FtsZ Inhibitor and Its Complex."
* Michelle A. O'Malley, University of Delaware, "Biophysical Characterization of the Human Adenosine A2a G-Protein Coupled Receptor."
* Laura J. Porter-Peden, Calvin College, "Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Enzyme-Inhibitor Interactions."
* Ronak N. Shah, Drexel University, "Heme-Protein Interactions in Horse Heart Ferricytochrome c Induced By Changes of Ionic Strength and Anion Binding to Protein Surface Charges."
* Leila Shokri, Northeastern University, "The Reaction of Glyoxal with Single DNA Molecules: Structural Evidence of Force-Induced DNA Melting."
* Suman Nag Tata, Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, "Kinetics of Misfolding and Aggregation of Amyloid Proteins."
* Sarah B. Scruggs, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Ablation of Ventricular Regulatory Light Chain Serine-15 Phosphorylation in Mice Leads to Cardiac Dysfunction in Vivo and Affects Neighboring Myofilament Protein Phosphorylation."
* Peter A. Sims, Harvard University, "Force Measurements and Submillisecond Tracking of Dynein- and Kinesin-Driven Cargoes in Living Cells."
* James R. Thompson, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, "Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging of Alpha-Hemolysin Assembly Using Water-in-Oil Droplet on Hydrogel Bilayers."
* Christopher P. Toseland, MRC-National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom, "Helicase Superfamily 1 and 2 ATPase Mechanisms."
* Martijn E. van Raaij, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, "Quantitative Atomic Force Microscopy Establishes Free Energy Parameters of Amyloid Fibril Formation."
* James A. Svetlovics, University of North Carolina Wilmington, "Domain Formation of POPC/DPPC Binary System Investigated by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer and Monte Carlo Simulations."
* Nathaniel Traaseth, University of Minnesota, "Binding Interface of Phospholamban and Ca2+-ATPase(SERCA) in Lipid Bilayers by Solid-State NMR."
* Srinivasan P. Venkatachalan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "An intrasubunit Salt-Bridge Linking Loop A and Loop 2 is Critical for GABAA Receptor Activation."
* Paula A. Vivas, University of Illinois at Chicago, "New Insights into the Transition Pathway from Nonspecific to Specific Complex of DNA with Escherichia coli Integration Host Factor."
* Irmgard Waldner-Scott, Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Graz, Austria, "Low Resolution Model of Solubilized Apolipoprotein B-100."
* Qi Wang, Cornell University, "Structure and Plasticity of Endophilin and Sorting Nexin 9."
* Yi Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Dissecting Lipid- and Protein-Mediated Exchange of Gas Molecules across Biological Membranes."
* Ling Wu, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Conformational Study of Different Beta-turns Coupled to a Cyclic Disulfide Bond to Model the Turn Roles in â-hairpin Stability."
* Qianru Yu, The Pennsylvania State University, "Fluorescence-based Biochemistry on Intrinsic Cofactors in Human Breast Normal and Cancerous Cells."
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