BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
8
MARCH
2014
58
TH
ANNUAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 15–19, 2014
|
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
The 15 winners of the annual Student Re-
search Achievement Awards (SRAA) were
recognized at the 58
th
Annual Meeting Awards
Ceremony on February 17. These students
were selected by judges from the Society’s
subgroups for their outstanding presentations
during the poster competition. One hundred
and thirty-nine students participated in the
competition. The winners are:
Bioenergetics
Soroosh Solhjoo
, Johns Hopkins University;
Inhbition of Mitochondrial N
a+
/Ca
2+
Exchanger
Suppresses Ischemia/Reperfusion-induced Reentry
in Monolayers of Cardiomyocytes.
Biological Fluorescence
Katherina Hemmen
, Heinrich-Heine
University;
Deciphering Folding Pathways of
Phage T4 Lysozyme: Influence of Multiple Con-
formations
.
Biopolymers in vivo
Shasha Chong
, Harvard University;
Mechanism
of Transcriptional Bursting in Bacteria
.
Exocytosis & Endocytosis
Czuee Morey
, University of Lausanne;
Interac-
tion of Munc18c with Syntaxin4 and the Role of
Munc18c in Exocytosis
.
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Kiersten Ruff
, Washington University in St.
Louis;
Role of Intrinsic Helicity within N-
Terminal Flanking Sequences on Huntingtin
Aggregation Mechanisms
.
Alex Holehouse
, Washington University
in St. Louis;
Parsing the Contributions of Poly-
peptide Backbones and Sidechains to Denatur-
ation in Concentrated Aqueous Solutions of Urea
and Guanidinium Chloride
.
Mechanobiology
Hema Chandra Kotamarthi
, Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research;
Experimental and
Simulation Studies on the Mechanical Properties
of Sumo Proteins
.
Membrane Biophysics
Donald Chang
, Columbia University;
Cardio-
myocyte Endpoints Distinguish Non-Canonical
Regulation of the RGK GTPses Rad and Rem
.
Membrane Structure & Assembly
Jonathan Zerweck
, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology;
Structure Activity Relationship for
a Synergistic Pair of Antimicrobial Peptides from
the Magainin Family
.
Melinda Diver
, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center;
Mapping the Substrate Binding
Sites of the Integral Membrane Methyltransferase
ICMT by Mutational Analysis
.
Molecular Biophysics
Zackary Scholl
, Duke University;
N-Terminal
Domain of Luciferase Controls Misfolding
Avoidance
.
Motility
Darshan Trivedi
, Pennsylvania State Univer-
sity;
Dynamics of the Lever-Arm Swing in
Myosin V
Nanoscale Biophysics
Karin Kornmueller
, Medical University of
Graz;
Self-Assembly of an Amphiphilic Designer-
Peptide into Double Helical Superstructures
.
Jaime Ortega Arroyo
, University of Oxford;
Label-Free, All-Optical Detection, Imaging and
Nanometric Tracking of Single Proteins
.
Permeation & Transport
Felix Hohendanner
, Rush University Chicago;
IP3 Receptor Mediated Ca Release in Atrial Cells
from Normal and Failing Hearts
.
2014 SRAA Winners
A Few Words
from Annual
Meeting
Attendees
Biophysical Society
Annual Meeting is an
opportunity to rein-
force what I know,
to learn a lot of new
things relevant to my
own research, and
also to learn about
cool things outside
my field.
– Archana Madhavan,
BPS Blogger
This is a wonderful
opportunity to gain
a better understand-
ing for why so many
scientists pursue bio-
physics research and
how I can play a role
within the scientific
community in the
near future.
– Joshua Yoon, BPS
Blogger
