Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2021

Annual Meeting

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Virtual Travel Awards! BPS provided Virtual Travel Awards to the Society’s 2021 Annual Meeting for members who are students, postdoctoral researchers, and scientists of all career levels to recognize excellence in biophysics and promote greater interaction among biophysicists throughout the world. The winners are listed below. Santosh Adhikari , University of Minneosta, USA Trishit Banerjee , Tohoku University, Japan Andrea Basciu , University of Cagliari, Italy Mac Kevin Braza , University of California, San Diego, USA Alexandra Brown , Dalhousie University, Canada Daniel Capelluto , Virginia Tech, USA Nicholas Castaneda , University of Central Florida, USA Xi Chen , University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Wooyoung Choi , Van Andel Institute, USA Anuska Das , Florida State University, USA Anirban Das , Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Steven Fried , University of Arizona, USA Kirin Gada , Northeastern University, USA Francesco Garzella , Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy Jenisha Ghimire , Tulane University, USA Ankita Gupta , Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Valeria Guzman Luna , University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Fatlum Hajredini , CUNY Graduate Center, USA Ashwini Hariharan , University of Maryland Baltimore, USA Tara Hickman , Willamette University, USA Soonwoo Hong , University of Texas at Austin, USA Rachel Hutchinson , University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Pankaj Jadhav , Indian Institute of Science, India Shobhna Kapoor , Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Taranpreet Kaur , University at Buffalo, State University, USA Sarah Hyun Ji Kim , University of Pennsylvania, USA Bojian Ding , Stony Brook University, USA Fathima Doole , University of Arizona, USA Mandy Erkelens , Leiden University, the Netherlands Hammad Faizi , Northwestern University, USA Anneliese Faustino , Johns Hopkins University, USA

Zhaowei Liu , University of Basel, Switzerland Wen Ma , University of California San Diego, USA Julene Madariaga Marcos , Universität Leipzig, Germany Shankar Mandal , University of Michigan, USA Louisa Mezache , The Ohio State University, USA Molly Mollica , University of Washington, USA Guillermo Moreno Pescador , University of Copenhagen, Demark Abigail Nagle , University of Washington, USA Fiona Naughton , Arizona State University, USA Cassandra Nunez , Pennsylvania State University, USA James Osei-Owusu , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Sara Osorio Valencia , Loyola University Chicago, USA Jinho Park , University of Central Florida, USA Maria Queralt-Martin , Universitat Jaume I, Spain Fatema Zahra Rashid , Leiden Institute of Chemistry, the Netherlands Rosa Romero , University of Michigan, USA Priti Roy , Indian Institute of Science Education and Research- Kolkata, India Michelle Sahai , Univ Roehampton, United Kingdom Abhilash Sahoo , University of Maryland, USA Lara Scofano , University of Oxford, United Kingdom Hannah Seppala , University of Buffalo, USA Honglue Shi , Duke University, USA Prakash Shrestha , Boston Children’s Hospital, USA Jenaro Soto , University of California, Irvine, USA Shwetha Srinivasan , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA David Svintradze , University of Georgia - Tbilisi Pamela Swiatlowska , New York University, USA Prince Tiwari , University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA Philip To , Johns Hopkins University, USA Semire Uzun Göçmen , Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey Kathleen Vergunst , Dalhousie University, Canada Lili Wang , Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA Yaqiang Wang , University of California Los Angeles, USA Qi Wang , New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA Natalie Weber , Hannover Medical School, Germany Robert Wiener , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA Xiaoan Wu , University of Miami, USA Oscar Zabala-Ferrera , University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Xianwei Zhang , University of California, Davis, USA Shiying Zhu , Bio21 Institute, Australia

Sai Li , The Rockefeller University, USA Haixing Li , Columbia University, USA

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