Biophysical Society announces winners of 2008 Student Travel Awards

• Christopher P. Toseland, MRC-National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom, “Helicase Superfamily 1 and 2 ATPase Mechanisms.”

• Martijn E. van Raaij, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, “Quantitative Atomic Force Microscopy Establishes Free Energy Parameters of Amyloid Fibril Formation.”

• James A. Svetlovics, University of North Carolina Wilmington, “Domain Formation of POPC/DPPC Binary System Investigated by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer and Monte Carlo Simulations.”

• Nathaniel Traaseth, University of Minnesota, “Binding Interface of Phospholamban and Ca2+-ATPase(SERCA) in Lipid Bilayers by Solid-State NMR.”

• Srinivasan P. Venkatachalan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “An intrasubunit Salt-Bridge Linking Loop A and Loop 2 is Critical for GABAA Receptor Activation.”

• Paula A. Vivas, University of Illinois at Chicago, “New Insights into the Transition Pathway from Nonspecific to Specific Complex of DNA with Escherichia coli Integration Host Factor.”

• Irmgard Waldner-Scott, Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Graz, Austria, “Low Resolution Model of Solubilized Apolipoprotein B-100.”

• Qi Wang, Cornell University, “Structure and Plasticity of Endophilin and Sorting Nexin 9.”

• Yi Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Dissecting Lipid- and Protein-Mediated Exchange of Gas Molecules across Biological Membranes.”

• Ling Wu, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Conformational Study of Different Beta-turns Coupled to a Cyclic Disulfide Bond to Model the Turn Roles in â-hairpin Stability.”

• Qianru Yu, The Pennsylvania State University, “Fluorescence-based Biochemistry on Intrinsic Cofactors in Human Breast Normal and Cancerous Cells.”

The Biophysical Society's Annual Meeting is the world's largest meeting of biophysicists -over 6,000 attendees are expected. Over 3000 scientific abstracts have already been submitted for presentation at this event. Complete information about the Meeting can be found at http://www.biophysics.org/meetings/2008/.

The International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics is a member of the ICSU (International Council for Science) family. Affiliated to it are the national adhering bodies of 50 countries. Its function is to support research and teaching in biophysics. Its principal regular activity is the triennial International Congresses and General Assemblies.