Biophysical Society announces 2008 International Travel Awards

Silvina B. Gayol, Centro de Neurociencia de Valparaiso, Chile, “In Xenopus Oocytes Glycosylation of Shaker K+ Channels Alters its Expression in the Plasma Membrane and Activation Kinetics.”

Iffath A. Ghouri, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, “Spectroscopic, Confocal and 2-Photon Characterisation of Intrinsic Fluorescence in Isolated Heart Cells for Metabolic Studies.”

Priscila V. Goliatt, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Petrópolis, Brazil, “Temperature Effects on Structural Properties of Active Sites: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Cruzipain Isoforms.”

Debanjan Goswami, National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India, “Steady State Distribution and Dynamics of GPI-anchored Protein-Nanoclusters in Cell Membranes is Modulated By Cortical Actin Activity.”

Vivian M. Gonzalez-Perez, Centro de Neurociencia de Valparaiso, Chile, “Addition of a Charge to the Shaker Potassium Channel Voltage Sensor.”

Manuel Gutierrez-Aguilar, Instituto de Fisiologia Celular, Mexico, “In Yeast, Ca2+ and Octylguanidine Interact with Porin (VDAC) Preventing the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition.”

Vanesa S. Herlax, Instituo de Investigaciones Bioquimicas de La Plata, Argentina, “The Interaction of Alpha-hemolysin with Specific Microdomains at Sublytic Concentration.”

Miki Hirabayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan, “Dynamical Modeling of Decision Making Based on Hierarchically Optimized Memory.”

Md. I. Hossain, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan, “Voltage Range for Tuning of Phosphatase of Ci-vsp as Measured by Two PIP2-Sensors.”

Naranamangalam R. Jagannathan, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, “Role of Various in vivo MR Methodologies in the Evaluation of Prostate Cancer.”

Rishi Jain, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, “Crystal Structure of the Complex of Cameline Peptidoglycan Recognition Protein with Disaccharide at 3.2Å Resolution.”

Jiansen Jiang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, “Architecture of DegP Oligomers in Capturing Substrate Proteins Revealed by Cryo-electron Microsopy.”

Nevenka Juretic, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, “Gene Expression upon Electrical Stimuli in Normal and Dystrophic Muscle Cell Lines.”

Denis E. Kainov, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Biology, France, “Molecular Basis of TTDA Disorder.”