The Biophysical Society has announced the winners of its international travel grants to attend the Biophysical Society's 62nd Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, February 17-21, 2018. The purpose of these awards is to foster and initiate further interaction between American biophysicists and scientists working in countries experiencing financial difficulties. Recipients of this competitive award are chosen based on scientific merit and their proposed presentation at the meeting. They will be honored at a reception on Sunday, February 18 at the Moscone Center.
The 2018 recipients of the International Travel Award, along with their institutional affiliation and abstract title, are listed below.
Zainab Ahdash, King's College, London, MECHANISTIC INSIGHT INTO THE ASSEMBLY OF THE HERA-NURA HELICASE-NUCLEASE DNA END RESECTION COMPLEX USING NATIVE MASS SPECTROMETRY
Chiara Autilio, Complutense University of Madrid, EFFECT OF HYPOTHERMIA ON THE BIOPHYSICAL PERFORMANCE OF PULMONARY SURFACTANT FROM NEONATES WITH AND WITHOUT LUNG INJURY
Deniz Aydin, Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), A COMBINED COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF COQ9 IN PROMOTING COENZYME Q BIOSYNTHESIS
Gaurav Bajpai, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, DNA-BENDING NON-HISTONE PROTEINS CAN MAKE CHROMATIN IRREGULAR AND MORE COMPACT
Sreenath Balakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, HEPATITIS C VIRUS ALTERS NUCLEAR MECHANICS BY DOWN-REGULATING LAMIN A/C
Zsofia Bata, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, BIOACTIVE 3D STRUCTURE OF PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA-LYASE REVEAL KEY INSIGHTS INTO LIGAND BINDING DYNAMICS
Pablo Carravilla, University of the Basque Country, SINGLE VIRION SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY UNVEILS MECHANISTIC DETAILS OF ENV GLYCOPROTEIN RECOGNITION BY THE BROADLY NEUTRALIZING HIV-1 ANTIBODIES 4E10 AND 10E8
Jose Castillo-Sanchez, Complutense University of Madrid, LOOKING FOR GROUNDBREAKING STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL FEATURES IN THE LUNG SURFACTANT SYSTEM USING A SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT PURIFIED FROM HUMAN AMNIOTIC FLUID
Francesca Cella Zanacchi, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), QUANTITATIVE SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY USING DNA ORIGAMI
Jung Ho Chun, Yonsei University, South Korea, SPECIFIC INTERACTIONS AND VISUALIZATION ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION BETWEEN HUMAN PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 (PD-1), AND ITS LIGAND 1 (PD-L1), WITH AB INITIO FRAGMENT MOLECULAR ORBITAL METHOD
Mathias Clausen, University of Southern Denmark, THE MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE OF CRUNCHY AND CRISPY JELLYFISH
Madhura De, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), THE OTHER HISTONE: PROBING THE ROLE OF LINKER HISTONE IN A CHROMATOSOME
Melody Di Bona, Italian Institute of Technology, PROBING CHROMATIN ORGANIZATION BY SORTING OF SHORT SEQUENCE FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY
Priyanka Dogra, Indian Institute of Science, PROTON-INDUCED SWITCHING OF AN INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED DOMAIN OF A MELANOSOMAL PROTEIN INTO A POLYMORPHIC FUNCTIONAL AMYLOID
Valentin Dunsing, University of Potsdam, Germany, DIRECT EVIDENCE OF APLP1 TRANS INTERACTIONS IN CELL-CELL ADHESION PLATFORMS INVESTIGATED VIA FLUORESCENCE FLUCTUATION SPECTROSCOPY
Barbara Eicher, University of Graz, Austria, CURVATURE-MEDIATED TRANSMEMBRANE COUPLING IN ASYMMETRIC LIPID VESICLES
Eli (Ilya) Elyas, Linköping University, Sweden, MEASUREMENT OF FLUID MOVEMENT IN SCALA VESTIBULI
Haig Eskandarian, École Polytechnique Dédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, REVEALING BACTERIAL SURFACE PHYSIOLOGY USING DUAL ATOMIC FORCE AND OPTICAL TIME-LAPSE MICROSCOPY
Francesco Gentile, University of Alberta, INVESTIGATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE XPF-ERCC1 FUNCTIONAL ENDONUCLEASE USING A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
David Gnutt, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, SOD1 FOLDING MODULATION IN THE CROWDED CELL
Sebastian Himbert, McMaster University, Canada, THE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF HUMAN RED BLOOD CELL MEMBRANES FROM HIGHLY ORIENTED, SOLID SUPPORTED MULTI-LAMELLAR MEMBRANES
Hadeel Khamis, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, SINGLE-MOLECULE DNA UNZIPPING REVEALS ASYMMETRIC MODULATION OF THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EGR-1 BY ITS BINDING SITE SEQUENCE AND CONTEXT
Shruti Khare, Indian Institute of Science, MUTANT PHENOTYPE PREDICTION AND MODEL DISCRIMINATION USING DEEP SEQUENCING DATA
DONGHWEE KIM, Korea University, LAMIN A/C GUIDED NUCLEAR MECHANOTRANSDUCTION
Yoel Klug, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, HIV GP41 ENVELOPE PROTEIN EARLY AND LATE MEMBRANE FUSION STAGES ARE IMPAIRED BY A SPHINGANINE BASED LIPO-PEPTIDE
Nidhi Kundu, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, EXPLORING A NOVEL OLIGOMERIZATION MECHANISM OF THERMOSTABLE DIRECT HEMOLYSIN, A PORE-FORMING PROTEIN
Fabio Lolicato, University of Helsinki, Finland, INITIAL STEPS IN THE PI(4,5)P2 DEPENDENT FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2 OLIGOMERIZATION
Julene Madariaga-Marcos, Spanish National Center for Biotechnology, LATERAL MAGNETIC TWEEZERS TO STUDY DNA:PROTEIN INTERACTIONS
Barun K. Maity, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, DYNAMICS BASED DRUG DESIGN FOR INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS
Haydee Mesa Galloso, University of Calgary, Canada, UNDERSTANDING THE PORE-FORMING MECHANISM OF PEPTIDES DERIVED FROM THE N-TERMINUS OF STICHOLYSIN
Lukas Milles, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, DECONSTRUCTING THE SINGLE MOLECULE MECHANICS OF AN ULTRASTABLE PATHOGEN ADHESIN
Roumita Moulick, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India, pH-INDUCED FRUSTRATION IN THE FREE ENERGY LANDSCAPE DICTATE MISFOLDING OF THE PRION PROTEIN
Wieslaw Nowak, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, PHOTOSWITCHABLE DRUGS AND INSULIN RELEASE:MOLECULAR EVENTS IN EPAC2A PROTEIN
Rosemary Nyamboya, King's College London, EVOLUTION OF ANTIBODY STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION THROUGH STUDIES OF IgE AND IgM
Paula Perez, IMSaTeD, Argentina, REGULATION OF CILIARY LENGTH IN LLC-PK1 RENAL EPITHELIAL CELLS
Irene Pertici, University of Florence, Italy, THE POWER OF A SYNTHETIC MACHINE BASED ON THE FAST MYOSIN ISOFORM OF SKELETAL MUSCLE
Adolfo Poma, Polish Academy of Sciences, GENERALIZATION OF THE ELASTIC NETWORK MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF LARGE CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN PROTEINS
Arne Raasakka, University of Bergen, Norway, FLEXIBILITY OF THE MYELIN SCAFFOLDING PROTEIN PERIAXIN
Hyuni Ryu, Inha University, South Korea, DETECTION OF BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS HD-73 SPORES USING PROTEIN NANOPORES AND COMPLEMENTARY APTAMERS WITH DNA HAIRPIN PROBES
Neelanjana Sengupta, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata, EFFECT OF HYPERGLYCEMIC CONDITIONS ON THE EARLY SELF-ASSEMBLY OF THE ALZHEIMER'S AMYLOID BETA PEPTIDE: IMPLICATIONS FOR NEUROTOXICITY
Haitham Shaban, Laboratory of Eukaryotic Molecular Biology, France, CBI HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING OF CHROMATIN DYNAMICS DURING TRANSCRIPTION IN MAMMARY TUMOR CELLS
Jai Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, UNDERSTANDING THE STRUCTURAL BASIS OF RECOGNITION BETWEEN PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM AND HUMAN SUMOYLATION MACHINERY
Maria Tsemperouli, University of Geneva, Switzerland, FREE-STANDING LIPID BILAYERS: A VERSATILE PLATFORM FOR THE MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYES AND MEMBRANE ION TRANSPORT
Tayana M. Tsubone, University of São Paulo, Brazil, EFFECTS OF TPPS2a-PHOTOSENSITIZATION LYSOSOMAL MEMBRANES
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