Bethesda, MD—The 9500-member Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the 2011 Student Research Achievement Award Winners. 309 society student members participated in this competitive event held during the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting on March 6 in Baltimore, Maryland. Judges from the Society's subgroups selected twenty winners. The winners were recognized at an awards ceremony on March 7 and received a monetary award. The winners are:
Bioenergetics
Marcela Gonzalez-Granillo
Joseph Fourier University
Ariel Lewis-Ballester
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albrecht von Hardenberg
University of Saarlandes
Biological Fluorescence
Patrick Cutler
University of New Mexico
Ruoyi Qiu
North Carolina State University
Exocytosis & Endocytosis
Vimal Gangadharan
University of Delaware
Prattana Samasilp
Case Western Reserve University
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
William Elam
Johns Hopkins University
Albert Mao
Washington University
Elizabeth Middleton
Yale University
Natasha Pirman
University of Florida
Davit Potoyan
University of Maryland
Membrane Biophysics
Paolo Lobo
University of British Columbia
Friedrich Roder
University of Osnabrueck
Membrane Structure and Assembly
Jason Perlmutter
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Preston Moon
Johns Hopkins University
Cynthia Stanich
University of Washington
Molecular Biophysics
Monica Yun Liu
Yale University
Motility
Zachary Wissner-Gross
Harvard University
Permeation
Kene Piasta
Brandeis University
The Biophysical Society, founded in 1956, is a professional, scientific society established to encourage development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. The Society promotes growth in this expanding field through its annual meeting, monthly journal, and committee and outreach activities. Its members are located throughout the U.S. and the world, where they teach and conduct research in colleges, universities, laboratories, government agencies, and industry.