The Biophysical Society has announced the winner of its Minority Travel Awards to attend the Biophysical Society's 55th Annual Meeting at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, March 5-9, 2011. The awards are meant to encourage participation at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting by minority students currently studying biophysics. Recipients will be honored at a reception on Saturday March 5.
The 2011 recipients of the Minority Travel Award are:
- Shayna Atkins, Spelman College, MOLECULAR MODELING OF ACTIN-VINCULIN INTERACTIONS.
- Christian Berrios, Purdue University, IN VIVO AND IN VITRO ASSEMBLY OF SINDBIS VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID-DEFECTIVE MUTANTS.
- Duad Cole, University of North Carolina, A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF TETRAHYMENA TELOMERASE RNA IN THE MINIMAL TELOMERASE COMPLEX.
- Ziah Dean, University of California, Santa Cruz, SUPERRESOLUTION STUDIES TO REVEAL THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MOTOR PROTEINS AND INDIVIDUAL CARGOS IN CHLAMYDOMONAS FLAGELLA.
- Laura Granell-Ortiz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF A NEW ISOFORM OF INDOLEAMINE 2, 3- DIOXYGENASE.
- Stephanie Hirst, Vanderbilt University, ROSETTAEPR: AN INTEGRATED TOOL FOR PROTEIN STRUCTURE DETERMINATION FROM SPARSE EPR DATA.
- Paul Hoover, Stanford University, STOICHIOMETRIC REQUIREMENTS FOR TRAPPING AND ACTIVATION OF CRAC CHANNELS BY STIM1 AT ER-PLASMA MEMBRANE JUNCTIONS.
- Pierre-Yves Jean-Charles, Flordia Atlantic University, N-TERMINAL TRUNCATED CARDIAC TNI IMPROVES CARDIAC FUNCTION IN VIVO AND RESCUES RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY.
- Jasmine Martich, University of Bridgeport, INVESTIGATION OF THE IHF-HOLLIDAY JUNCTION INTERACTION USING FÖSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER.
- Julia Nepper, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, INCLUSION OF MENAQUINONE IN LIPID MEMBRANES DECREASES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES.
- Dianne Pater, University of New Mexico, PHOTORESPIRATORY AND RESPIRATORY CARBON ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION IN LEAVES.
- Ilyssa Summer, Arizona State University, EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON MEMBRANE ELECTRODIFFUSION.
The Biophysical Society, founded in 1956, is a professional, scientific society established to encourage development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. The Biophysical Society's Annual Meeting is the world's largest meeting of biophysicists -over 6,000 attendees are expected. Over 3700 scientific abstracts have already been submitted for presentation at this event. For more information about the Meeting or the Society's awards, visit http://www.biophysics.org or contact Ellen R. Weiss at (240) 290-5606 or eweiss@biophysics.org.