Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2023

Annual Meeting

2023 Student Research Achievement Award Poster Competition Winners The 36 winners of the annual Student Research Achievement Awards (SRAA) were recognized at the 67th Biophysical Soci ety Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 20, 2023. These students were selected by judges from the Society’s Subgroups for their outstanding presentations during the poster competition. A total of 127 students participated in the competition. The winners are: Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism Subgroup Yukai Huang , University of California, Irvine, USA Metabolic Profiling of Transferred Mitochondria Using FLIM Intensity Based Image Segmentation (FIBIS) Bioengineering Subgroup Chu Zheng , Stanford University, USA A Unifying Electrostatic Basis for Designing Enzymes Faster Than Natural Ones Peiyi Zhang , Purdue University, USA Deep Learning Driven Adaptive Optics for Single Molecule Localization Microscopy Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Iulia Carabadjac , University of Freiburg, Austria Quantifying the Interactions of Micellar Drug Delivery System Components with Albumin Using Time-Resolved Fluorescent Method Rohit M. Vaidya , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Probing Synaptic Distribution and Arrangement of Native Surface AMPARs in Mouse Brain Slices with 3D Super-Resolution Microscopy Wenyan Guan , University of California, Merced, USA The Interaction of CC Chemokine Binding Protein VCCI with CCL17(TARC) Biopolymers in Vivo Subgroup Jhullian J. Alston , Washington University in St. Louis, USA Combining Simulations and Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Understand SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein RNA Interaction Jennifer Simien , University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Folding and Threading of Leptin as a Model for Pierced Lasso Topologies

Channels, Receptors, and Transporters Subgroup Miaomiao He , Stony Brook University, USA Two Gates Mediate NMDAR Activity and Are Under Subunit-Specific Regulation Simone Pelizzari , Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria Identifying the CaV1.1 Voltage-Sensing Domains Involved in Channel Gating and Excitation Contraction Coupling Wietske E. Tuinte , Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria STAC Proteins Inhibit the Voltage Dependent Inactivation of L-Type Calcium Channels Cryo-EM Subgroup Przemyslaw Dutka , California Institute of Technology, USA Structure of Anabaena Flos-Aquae Gas Vesicles Revealed by Cryo-ET Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup Ignacio Sanchez Burgos , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Condensate’s Ageing Modelled Through Molecular Dynamics: Protein Structural Transitions Critically Transform the Network Connectivity and Viscoelasticity of RNA-Binding Protein Condensates Shraddha KC , University of Wyoming, USA Functional Synergy between Disordered Proteins and Sugars in Desiccation Protection Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies Subgroup Adam Grosvirt-Dramen , University of California, Irvine, USA Stimuli Responsive Hierarchical Assembly of Supramolecular Conductive Fibers from Coiled-Coil Building Blocks Juliet O. Obi , University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA Inter-Domain Coordination Essential for Dengue Virus Non-Structural (5) NS5 Interaction with Stem Loop A (SLA) Nidhi Walia , Florida State University, USA Understanding the Effects of Higher-Order Assembly on the Structure of the Sulfite Reductase Mechanobiology Subgroup Jana Sipkova , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom The Mechanical Regulation of Eph/Ephrin Signaling in the Developing Brain Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic Subgroup Lisa Hua , University of Freiburg, Austria Vesicle Budding Caused by Lysolipid-Induced Asymmetry Stress Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup Jennifer A. Rybak , University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA Inhibition of EGFR via an Acidity-Responsive Transmembrane Peptide Ligand

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