Biophysical Society Newsletter - August 2016

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 13
AUGUST 2016
BJ Poster Award Honorees
Each year, Biophysical Journal sponsors poster
awards to deserving students and postdocs who
present posters at the Biophysical Society thematic
meetings. The winners each receive a certificate
and a check for $250.
Congratulations to the following individuals who
presented outstanding posters at the Biophysical
Society meeting Engineering Approaches to Biomo-
lecular Motors: From in vitro to in vivo, which was
held in June in Vancouver, Canada.
Student awardees
Damiano Verardo
Lund University, Sweden
Chapin Korosec
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Synthesis and Characterization of the Lawnmower:
An Artificial Protein-based, Burnt-Bridges
Molecular Motor
Tom Zajdel
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Impedance-based Electrochemical Readout of
Bacterial Flagellar Rotation
Jasmine Nirody
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Dynamics of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor:
Theoretical Model and Validation
Postdoc awardee
Aidan Brown
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Maximizing Irreversibility and Minimizing Energy
Dissipation for Simple Models of Mechanochemical
Machines
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Jayaraman, highlights research articles in the area
of Brain Biophysics. The 12 articles show the
use of diverse techniques such as computational,
structural, spectroscopic and/or electrophysiology
in investigating components of the neural systems
involved in physiological and pathophysiological
conditions. They address a wide range of research
from gating at the channel level, exocytosis, and
long-term potentiation, to conformational states
of proteins involved in diseases such as Alzheim-
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