BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
5
NOVEMBER
2014
2014 Thematic Meeting
Poster Award Winners
Beginning this year,
Biophysical Journal
is
sponsoring poster awards to deserving students and
postdocs who present posters at the
Biophysical Society Thematic Meetings. The winners
each receive a certificate and a $250 prize. Below are
the winners for the meetings held in September and
October 2014.
Modeling of Biomolecular Systems Interactions,
Dynamics, and Allostery: Bridging Experiments
and Computations
Istanbul, Turkey, September 10-14, 2014
Student Winners
Gozde Eskici
, University of Pennsylvania
Simulated Amyloid Fibril Nucleation in Reverse Micelles
Elif Korkmaz
, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Molecular Dynamics and X-Ray Crystallography
Reveal the Role of the Skip Regions in Human
Cardiac Muscle Protein Myosin
Postdoc Winners
Seyit Kale
, University of Chicago
Multi-layered, Iterative Protocols for Quantum
Chemical Calculations
Kristen Marino
, University College London
Allosteric Communication within the B-Raf Dimer:
The Effect of the V600E Mutation and Inhibitor
Binding
Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of
Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2014
Student Winners
Aleksandre Japaridze
, École Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne (EPFL)
Atomic Force Microscopy Study of DNA Knots in
Confined Geometry
Nicole Lim
, University of Cambridge
Mechanistic Insights into the Folding of
Trefoil-knotted Proteins
Calin Plesa
, Delft University of Technology
Study of DNA Knots with Solid-State Nanopores
Postdoc Winner
Szymon Niewieczerzal
, University of Warsaw
Folding Knotted Proteins in a Chaperonin Cage
Disordered Motifs and Domains in Cell Control
Dublin, Ireland, October 11-15, 2014
Student Winners
Hadar Amartely
, The Hebrew University, Israel
The STIL Protein Contains Intrinsically Disordered
Regions that Mediate Its Protein-Protein Interactions
Rebecca Beveridge
, University of Manchester,
United Kingdom
A Mass Spectrometry-based Framework to Identify
(Non)-Structural Order in p27
Postdoc Winners
Sarah Shammas
, University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Coupled Folding upon Binding of Transcription Factors
and Allostery within the KIX System
Andrea Soranno
, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Reveals Polymer Effects of
Disordered Proteins in Crowded Environments
Senior Faculty Position
Modeling and Analysis of Cellular Systems
The Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
(
/
) (CCAM) at the University of
Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) is a multi-disciplinary research
center with 15 faculty members focused on development of new pho-
tonic, microscopic and computational approaches for the study of
cellular systems. CCAM is the home of the Virtual Cell Project
. We occupy a new award winning research building
close to the main campus. UCHC is poised to undergo unprecedent-
ed growth through the State “Bioscience Connecticut” initiative and
through the establishment of the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic
Medicine on our campus. We have an opening at the Associate or Full
professor level for an established funded investigator whose research
program elucidates processes that control cell function. A research
program that integrates computational modeling with experiments at
multiple scales would be especially appropriate. The successful can-
didate will be expected to assume a leadership role in the continued
growth of CCAM. Opportunities will also be available to participate in
the CCAM graduate program. Applications will be accepted until the
position is filled. Applicants should submit a letter of application, cur-
riculum vitae, research plan and statement of teaching interests, and
names (with address and e-mail address) of at least three references
via the University of Connecticut Health Center Employment Services
website,
, search number 2012-1038.
Questions regarding this search should be addressed to Leslie Loew
at
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer (M/F/M/PwD/PV)
