Biophysical Society Bulletin | September 2021

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BPS-EBSA Student Poster AwardWinners The Biophysical Society (BPS) was pleased to sponsor student poster awards at the recent Biophysics Congress in Vienna, Austria, July 24–28, 2021. This was the 13th European Biophysical Societies Association (EBSA) Conference. This was also the seventh EBSA meeting at which BPS held this competition. Due to the ongoing pandemic, there were 45 students participating in person and virtually this year. Twelve winners were selected to receive a $500 poster award, complimentary membership to the Biophysical Society, and meeting registration to the 66th BPS Annual Meeting in San Francisco in February 2022. The winners, along with their home institutions and poster titles, are listed below.

Veronika Aleksandrova, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation Possible Mechanism of Multi-step Microtubule Catastrophe Revealed by Monte-Carlo Modeling Leticia Alves da Silva, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Microsecond-Long Molecular Dynamic Simulation fromHuman Dopamine Transporter in Outward-Open State Amy V. Clarke, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Lipid Binding to the Transient Receptor Potential Canonical Channel 3 Zaret G. Denieva, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation Gag Polyprotein of HIV-1 Interacts with Lipid Membranes Like a Surfactant Yves Haufe, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Bispyridinium Compounds Act as Open Channel Blockers of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Callum Ives, University of Dundee, United Kingdom Cation Permeation and Ca 2+ -Selectivity Mechanisms in TRPV Channels

Elif Senem Köksal, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway, Norway Spontaneous Formation of Prebiotic Compartment Colonies on Hadean Earth and Pre-Noachian Mars Kristina A. Makasheva, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland A Single-Molecule Multiplexed Approach to Study Cas9 Nucleosomes Invasion Dheeraj Prakaash, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Molecular Dynamics and Lipid Interactions of the Complete T Cell Receptor in a Plasma Membrane Model Shreya Pramanik, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany Binding of Histidine Tagged Molecules to Vesicles with DGS-NTA (Ni) Anchor Lipids Marko Šimić, University of Graz, Brave Analytics GmbH, andMedi- cal University of Graz, Austria Optofluidic Force Induction Scheme for the Characterization of Nanoparticle Ensembles Barbora Spodniaková, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Bis-Coumarin Homodimers – Towards Understanding of Anti- amyloid Potential on Globular and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

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