Biophysical Society Bulletin | July/August 2019

Career Development

Undergraduate Poster Award Competition In the past three years, the BPS’ Education Committee has held an Undergraduate Poster Award Competition (UPAC) during the Society’s Annual Meeting. The goal of this compe- tition is to recognize the increasingly high quality of under- graduate research and to encourage further participation of undergraduates in the Biophysical Society and at the Annual Meeting. This past March, 75 talented students participated in the competition in Baltimore, Maryland. The students were judged on the quality and scientific merit of their research, knowledge of the research problem, contribution to the project, and overall presentation of the poster. Judges looked for students to present a clearly stated question, hypothesis, results, and conclusions. The following four students were chosen as the recipients of the award and were recognized during the BPS Lecture: Claire Evensen University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Characterizing Transient Intermediates in Productive RNAP Transcription Initiation Joie Ling Haverford College, USA The Placement of Vibrational Probe Labeled Substrates to the Phosphopantetheine Arm of the E. coli Acyl Carrier Protein for Site-Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy Nicolae Sapoval University of Chicago, USA A New Open Structure of the Insulin Degrading Enzyme Provides Insights into the Conformational Transition of the Molecule Brian Soong Johns Hopkins University, USA Designing a Photo-switchable Helicase through Structure-Function Relationship The UPAC is a great opportunity for students to give a scientific presentation and get immediate feedback about their work. The next Undergraduate Poster Award Competition will be held at the BPS 64th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, on Saturday, February 15, from 3 PM–5 PM. Watch for more information in the October issue of the BPS Bulletin and on the Annual Meeting website.

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