Biophysical Society announces winners of 2008 Student Travel Awards

Ann C. Kimble-Hill, Indiana University-Purdue University, “Biophysical Mechanisms of Protein Recruitment to Raft Domains Studied Using Planar Model Membranes: Recruitment by Native Binding Ligands versus GPI-anchored Proteins.”

Joel M. Kralj, Boston University, “The Protonation State of Glu142 Differs in the Green and Blue Absorbing Variants of Proteorhodopsin.”

Kareen L. Kreutziger, University of Washington, “Coupled Interactions of Troponin C Ca2+-Binding Kinetics and Strong Crossbridge Formation in Cardiac Muscle Contraction.”

Khamir Mehta, University of Michigan, “Quantitative Inference of Protein Binding Affinities from FRET Imaging Data.”

Brannon McCullough, Yale University, “The Actin Severing Protein, Cofilin, Modulates the Mechanical Properties of Actin Filaments.”

Moritz Mickler, TU Munich, Garching, Germany, “Single Molecule Fluorescence Studies on the Hsp90.”

Hau B. Nguyen, Florida State University, “Solution Structure of Integral Membrane Protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Insight into Rv0008c —An FtsZ Inhibitor and Its Complex.”

Michelle A. O'Malley, University of Delaware, “Biophysical Characterization of the Human Adenosine A2a G-Protein Coupled Receptor.”

Laura J. Porter-Peden, Calvin College, “Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Enzyme-Inhibitor Interactions.”

Ronak N. Shah, Drexel University, “Heme-Protein Interactions in Horse Heart Ferricytochrome c Induced By Changes of Ionic Strength and Anion Binding to Protein Surface Charges.”

Leila Shokri, Northeastern University, “The Reaction of Glyoxal with Single DNA Molecules: Structural Evidence of Force-Induced DNA Melting.”

Suman Nag Tata, Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, “Kinetics of Misfolding and Aggregation of Amyloid Proteins.”

Sarah B. Scruggs, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Ablation of Ventricular Regulatory Light Chain Serine-15 Phosphorylation in Mice Leads to Cardiac Dysfunction in Vivo and Affects Neighboring Myofilament Protein Phosphorylation.”

Peter A. Sims, Harvard University, “Force Measurements and Submillisecond Tracking of Dynein- and Kinesin-Driven Cargoes in Living Cells.”

James R. Thompson, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, “Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging of Alpha-Hemolysin Assembly Using Water-in-Oil Droplet on Hydrogel Bilayers.”