Biophysical Society Bulletin | September 2019

Communities & Outreach

BPS-EBSA Student Poster AwardWinners The Biophysical Society was pleased to sponsor student poster awards at the recent Biophysics Congress in Madrid, Spain, July 20-24, 2019. This was the 12 th European Biophysical Societies Association (EBSA) and 10 th International Conference on Biological Physics–International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Biophysics Congress. This was also the sixth EBSA meeting at which BPS held this competition, with over 170 students participating this year. Twelve winners were selected to receive a $500 poster award and a complimentary membership to the Biophysical Society. The winners, along with their home institutions and poster titles, are listed below.

Valentin Dunsing , University of Potsdam, Germany Microviscosity of Bacterial BiofilmMatrix Characterized by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and Single Particle Tracking Jan Ebenhan , Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Measuring Protein Insertion Areas in Lipid Monolayers by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Mónica Gutiérrez-Salazar , University of San Buenaventura Cali, Spain Photoswitchable Hydrophobic Helical Peptide Shows Slow and Multiexponential Folding Kinetics in POPC Membranes Sandra Ionescu , University of Oxford, England Protein Sensors Screened from a Genetically Engineered Nanopore Library Alejandro Melero Carrillo , Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, England Membrane Curvature Generation by COPII Proteins Resolved by Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy Tetiana Mukhina , Institut Laue–Langevin, France Out-of-Equilibrium Active Membranes: Incorporation of Bacteriorhodopsin in a Floating Lipid Bilayer

Mónica Muñoz-Úbeda , Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Gemini/DOPE/PEGylated-based Lipoplexes for the Efficient Expression of Opa1 Mitochondrial Protein in In Vitro and In Vivo Experiments Sara Roig , Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands TRPV5 – Calmodulin Interaction: Surfaces Involved and Calcium Dependency Mathias Schenkel , Technical University of Dresden, Germany Molecular Insights into the Structural Effects of Pathogenic CFTR Mutations and the Action of a Pharmacological Corrector Till Siebenmorgen , Technical University of Munich, Germany Evaluation of Predicted Protein–Protein Complexes by Binding Free Energy Simulations Ho Wah Siu , University of Konstanz, Germany Design of PolyQ Peptides to Study the Dynamics of Glutamine Interactions Spectroscopically Kevin Sule , University of Calgary, Canada Toxic and Essential Metals Influence Membrane Packing and Size of Biomimetic Biological Membranes

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