Fordham University Biophysicist Receives 2011 Student Travel Awards for Nanotechnology

The Biophysical Society has announced the winners of its student travel award to attend the Biophysical Society's 55th Annual Meeting at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, March 5-9, 2011.

The recipients of this competitive award are selected based on scientific merit, with priority given to those who will present a paper at the conference. Each awardee receives a travel grant and will be recognized at a reception on Saturday, March 5.

The 2011 recipients of the Student Travel Award are:

• Stacey Barnaby, Fordham University, ELLAGIC ACID NANOTUBULAR AND POLY-CATIONIC CONJUGATES AS NANO-CARRIERS FOR DELIVERY INTO MAMMALIAN CELLS.
• Claudio Berti, University of Bologna, Italy, A NOVEL BROWNIAN-DYNAMICS ALGORITHM FOR THE SIMULATION OF ION CONDUCTION THROUGH MEMBRANE PORES.
• Elizabeth Bode, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, CHANGES OF SERCA ACTIVITY HAVE PROPORTIONATELY SMALLER EFFECTS ON SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM CONTENT.
• Urska Bukovnik, Kansas State University, SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE-BASED CHANNELS: CANDIDATES FOR TREATMENTS OF CHANNELOPATHIES.
• Margaret Elvekrog, Columbia University, THE ROLE OF INITIATION FACTOR 3 STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS IN REGULATING THE FIDELITY OF TRANSLATION INITIATION.
• Sebastian Fiedler, University of Kaiserslautem, Germany, PROTEIN UNFOLDING AND REFOLDING BY MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPECTROSCOPY.
• Maria Frushicheva, University of Southern California, COMPUTATIONAL ENZYME DESIGN: REFINING ARTIFICIAL ENZYMES AND EXPLORING PATHS OF DIRECTED EVOLUTION.
• Ece Gaffarogullari, University of Minnesota, ROLE OF N-MYRISTOYLATION OF CAMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE A IN RECOGNITION AND PHOSPHORYLATION OF MEMBRANE-BOUND SUBSTRATES.
• Maarten Gees, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, MOLECULAR DETERMINANTS OF TRPV1 STIMULATION BY MUSTARD OIL.
• Andree Gravel, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada, THE SELECTIVITY FILTER OF THE HERG CHANNEL - NMR STUDY OF ITS STRUCTURE AND INTERACTION WITH MEMBRANES AND DRUGS INVOLVED IN THE LONG QT SYNDROME.
• Michael Green, Willamette University, STUDIES OF THE FORCE-DEPENDENT MOTOR ACTIVITY OF MYOSIN I.
• Nicola Harris, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE REVERSIBLE FOLDING OF THE TWO DOMAIN HELICAL TRANSPORTER LACTOSE PERMEASE.
• James Henderson, University of Chicago, CHARACTERIZING A DETERGENT-LIKE COMMONALITY AMONG ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES WITH STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC DIFFERENCES.
• Jacqueline Hill Tudor, Case Western Reserve University, PACAP-EVOKED ADRENAL EXCITATION IS DUE TO MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION AND FACILITATION OF AN LVA CALCIUM CHANNEL.
• Derek Ho, University of Guelph, Canada, CHARACTERIZATION OF THE COLICIN E1 CHANNEL USING GENETICALLY ENCODED FLUORESCENCE.
• Annas Javed, University of Texas, CONTROLLED PHOTO ELECTRO THERMAL GENERATION OF MICRO BUBBLE FOR MANIPULATION OF CELLS.
• Robin Johnson, Univeristy of Michigan, DIRECT OBSERVATION OF SINGLE OLIGOMERS OF THE ALZHEIMER'S AMYLOID-β PEPTIDE ON LIVE CELL MEMBRANES.
• David Jones, Simon Fraser University, Canada, TURRET HISTIDINES IN PH MODULATION OF THE CARDIAC VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL.
• Sarah Kampert, University of Michigan, COMBINATION OF PHOSPHOMIMETIC SUBSTITUTIONS WITHIN CARDIAC TROPONIN I CAUSE FUNCTIONAL CROSS-TALK.
• Robert Keller, University of Essex, United Kingdom, INVESTIGATING NUCLEOTIDE EXCISION DNA REPAIR BY SINGLE-MOLECULE IMAGING OF QUANTUM DOT LABELED PROTEINS REVEALS UNIQUE SCANNING MECHANISMS.
• Elena Koslover, Stanford University, TARGET SITE LOCALIZATION DYNAMICS OF DNA-BINDING PROTEINS IN VIVO.
• Pradeep Kota, University of North Carolina, ENGINEERED ALLOSTERIC ACTIVATION OF KINASES IN LIVING CELLS.
• Eileen Krenzel, Boston University, RELATIVE AFFINITIES OF FATTY ACID BINDING SITES ON HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN PROBED BY 2D-NMR.
• Alex Kreutzberger, University of North Carolina, ON THE ORIGIN OF MULTI-EXPONENTIAL KINETICS IN PEPTIDE BINDING TO PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLES.
• Jane Lee, University of California, Merced, USING SIMPLE WATER:VACUUM ENERGETICS TO MODEL PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER ELECTROPERMEABILIZATION.
• Shih-Wei Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, DIRECT OBSERVATION OF REPLICATIVE HELICASE DNAC BY SINGLE-MOLECULE TETHERED PARTICLE MOTION (TPM) EXPERIMENTS.
• Campion Loong, Flordia State University, FLEXIBILITY CHANGE IN HUMAN CARDIAC α-TROPOMYOSIN E180G MUTANT: POSSIBLE LINK TO CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY.
• Benjamin Machta, Cornell University, CRITICALITY IN PLASMA MEMBRANES.
• Matthew Eddy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, INVESTIGATING VDAC GATING VIA MAGIC ANGLE SPINNING NMR AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS UNDER EXTREME PH CONDITIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE VOLTAGE-GATING MECHANISM.
• Boern Meier, Ludwig-Maximillians University, Germany, DYNAMICS OF INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING IN SPATIO-TEMPORALLY VARYING CHEMOTACTIC GRADIENT FIELDS.
• Sandrine Morlot, University of Geneva, Switzerland, QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF MEMBRANE DEFORMATION AND FISSION INDUCED BY DYNAMIN GTPASE ACTIVITY.
• Heather Orrell, University of California, Merced, MULTIVALENT CATION REGULATION OF CARDIAC CALSEQUESTRIN: A SPECTROSCOPIC AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY.
• Wei Ouyang, Syracuse University, PROBING THE RNA BINDING SURFACE OF THE HIV-1 NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN BY SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS.
• Tatiana Perevozchikova, University of Tennessee, STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS IN THE AGGREGATION PATHWAYS OF NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL HUNTINGTIN-LIKE PEPTIDES.
• Ashlee Plummer, North Carolina State University, MAKING SUBSTRATES OUT OF INHIBITORS: DISTAL CAVITY MUTATIONS IN DEHALOPEROXIDASE FROM AMPHITRITE ORNATA.
• Srinivas Ramachandran, University of North Carolina, THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY OF HISTONE H3 IS A NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT DRIVING FORCE FOR ITS EVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATION.
• Anu Rambhadran, University of Texas Health Science Center, CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN THE EXTRACELLULAR DOMAIN ON GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS.
• Fabian Romano, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, INSIGHTS INTO THE MEMBRANE-INTERACTION PROPERTIES OF THE PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA TYPE III SECRETION TRANSLOCATOR POPD.
• Samer Salamekh, University of Michigan, MOLECULAR BASIS OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ZINC AND THE AMYLOIDOGENIC ISLET AMYLOID POLYPEPTIDE.
• Kanayo Satoh, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, VISUALIZATION OF CALCIUM PUMPING ACTIVITY IN LIVING CELLS WITH A NOVEL FRET-BASED SERCA PUMP SENSOR.
• Mark Seeger, Northwestern University, THE KINESIN-1 C-TERMINAL TAIL IS INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED.
• Kathrin Spendier, University of New Mexico, MODELING THE COALESCENCE KINETICS OF CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR CLUSTERS.
• Iehab Talukder, Stony Brook University, CONSTRAINING GATING ACTIONS OF SPECIFIC SUBUNITS DURING NMDA RECEPTOR ACTIVATION.
• Luca Tubiana, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy, SIMULATIONS OF VIRAL DNA PACKAGING AND EJECTION: GEOMETRICAL ORDER AND TOPOLOGICAL DISORDER.
• Cameron Turtle, University of Washington, REDUCING THIN FILAMENT CA2+ AFFINITY WITH A CTNC VARIANT (L57Q) REDUCES FORCE BUT ENHANCES CROSS-BRIDGE DEPENDENCE OF COOPERATIVE ACTIVATION IN DEMEMBRANATED RAT TRABECULAE.
• Lea Veras, Carnegie Mellon University, MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF Ca2+ SELECTIVITY AND Mg2+ BLOCK OF NMDA RECEPTORS.
• Béla Voß, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany, MLOK1 LIGAND BINDING SIMULATIONS: INDUCED FIT VERSUS CONFORMATIONAL SELECTION.
• Rauta Yakubu, University of Missouri, MONITORING PROTEIN ASSOCIATION WITH A MEMBRANE BILAYER USING ULTRAVIOLET RESONANCE RAMAN (UVRR) SPECTROSCOPY.
• David Yampolsky, Vanderbilt University, EFFECTS OF A DISULFIDE CROSSLINK (XL) ON THE TRYPSIN CLEAVAGE PATTERN OF RABBIT CARDIAC TROPOMYOSIN (TM).

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