Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2024

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2024 Student Research Achievement Award Poster Competition Winners The 36 winners of the annual Student Research Achievement Awards (SRAA) were recognized at the 68th Biophysical Soci ety Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 12, 2024. These students were selected by judges from the Society’s Subgroups for their outstanding presentations during the poster competition. A total of 157 students participated in the competition. The winners are: Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism Subgroup Kaitlin Abrantes , Weill Cornell Medicine, USA Measuring the Mitochondrial Outer Membrane Potential in Live Cells Bioengineering Subgroup Pedro J. del Rivero Morfin , Columbia University, USA A Genetically Encoded Actuator Selectively Boosts L-Type Calcium Channels in Diverse Physiological Settings Arup Mondal , University of Florida, USA Unraveling BET Proteins: A Multi-Modal Approach to Novel Binders Discovery and Inhibitors Design Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Nadia Sarfraz , Georgetown University, USA Advancing RNA Visualization: Riboglow-Flim Unveils Insights for Multicellular Systems Biopolymers in Vivo Subgroup Kara Hunter , University of California, Merced, USA Designing Disordered Proteins for Desiccation Protection Upasana L. Mallimadugula , Washington University in St. Louis, USA Do Differences in Cryptic Pocket Opening Control Functional Tradeoffs in Filovirus Immune Evasion? Channels, Receptors, and Transporters Subgroup Vladimir Bogdanov , The Ohio State University, USA Distinct Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Calmodulin Genes in Cardiac Myocytes under Beta-Adrenergic Stimulation Marion Pierre , Centre de Recherche CERVO, Canada Electrophysiological Aspects of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 in Cardiomyocytes Derived from Patient Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Seung-Hyun B. Ko , University of Pennsylvania, USA Stochastic Model of Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Immunosup pression Implicates Importance of Biophysical Parameters in T-Cell Signaling

Tala Amawi , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel The Pain Receptor TRPA1 Displays Differential Binding Mechanisms to THC and CBD Cryo-EM Subgroup Irin Pottanani Tom , University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Deciphering the Structural Basis of Molecular Logic in Dual-Sensor Photoreceptor PPHK Jue Wang , California Institute of Technology, USA Tri-Coincident IFLM-CRYOFIB-SEM Platform for Sub-Diffraction Limited Targeted Milling Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup Jeffrey M. Lotthammer , Washington University in St. Louis, USA Direct Prediction of Intrinsically Disordered Protein Conformation al Properties from Sequence Matthew MacAinsh , University of Illinois at Chicago, USA NaCl Mediates the Phase Separation of the HNRNPA1 Low-Complexity Domain by Neutralizing Charges and Bridging Intermolecular Interaction Networks Greeshama Jain , University of Groningen, Netherlands Polyphenol Based Modulation of Structure and Toxicity of Huntingtin Protein Aggregates Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies Subgroup Kai Sheng , The Scripps Research Institute, USA Augmenting the Bacterial Ribosome Assembly Structurome using Anti-Sense Oligonucleotide Analogs Justin M. Van Riper , Baylor College of Medicine, USA Molecular Insight into the Mammalian SLFN14 Ribonuclease Mechanobiology Subgroup Gabriella A. Bertaccini , University of California, Irvine, USA PIEZO1-HALOTAG HISPC Lines: A New Tool to Assay PIEZO1 Localization and Activity from Single Cells to Tissue Organoids Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic Subgroup Yu Xu , University of Minnesota, USA Extracting Structural and Dynamic Information of Vesicle-to-En dosome Maturation in Live Yeast with Motion-Corrected Palm Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup Taylor A. Devlin , Johns Hopkins University, USA FKPA Enhances Outer Membrane Protein Folding using an Extensive Interaction Interfac e Martin Yepes , Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA Molecular Basis of Processive Peptidoglycan Synthesis by FTSWI Sophie Rizzo , Lehigh University, USA Promoting Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase J Activity with a Transmembrane Peptide Agonist Inhibits Cancer-Associated Phenotypes

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