Biophysical Society Newsletter - November 2014

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2014

NOVEMBER

2014 Thematic Meeting Poster Award Winners Beginning this year, Biophysical Journal is sponsoring poster awards to deserving students and postdocs who present posters at the Biophysical Society Thematic Meetings. The winners each receive a certificate and a $250 prize. Below are the winners for the meetings held in September and October 2014. Modeling of Biomolecular Systems Interactions, Dynamics, and Allostery: Bridging Experiments and Computations Istanbul, Turkey, September 10-14, 2014 Student Winners Gozde Eskici , University of Pennsylvania Simulated Amyloid Fibril Nucleation in Reverse Micelles Elif Korkmaz , University of Wisconsin-Madison Molecular Dynamics and X-Ray Crystallography Reveal the Role of the Skip Regions in Human Cardiac Muscle Protein Myosin Postdoc Winners Seyit Kale , University of Chicago Multi-layered, Iterative Protocols for Quantum Chemical Calculations Kristen Marino , University College London Allosteric Communication within the B-Raf Dimer: The Effect of the V600E Mutation and Inhibitor Binding Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2014 Student Winners Aleksandre Japaridze , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Atomic Force Microscopy Study of DNA Knots in Confined Geometry

Postdoc Winner Szymon Niewieczerzal , University of Warsaw Folding Knotted Proteins in a Chaperonin Cage

Disordered Motifs and Domains in Cell Control Dublin, Ireland, October 11-15, 2014

Student Winners Hadar Amartely , The Hebrew University, Israel The STIL Protein Contains Intrinsically Disordered Regions that Mediate Its Protein-Protein Interactions Rebecca Beveridge , University of Manchester, United Kingdom A Mass Spectrometry-based Framework to Identify (Non)-Structural Order in p27 Postdoc Winners Sarah Shammas , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Coupled Folding upon Binding of Transcription Factors and Allostery within the KIX System Andrea Soranno , University of Zurich, Switzerland Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Reveals Polymer Effects of Disordered Proteins in Crowded Environments Senior Faculty Position Modeling and Analysis of Cellular Systems The Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling ( http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/ ) (CCAM) at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) is a multi-disciplinary research center with 15 faculty members focused on development of new pho- tonic, microscopic and computational approaches for the study of cellular systems. CCAM is the home of the Virtual Cell Project ( http://vcell.org ). We occupy a new award winning research building close to the main campus. UCHC is poised to undergo unprecedent- ed growth through the State “Bioscience Connecticut” initiative and through the establishment of the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine on our campus. We have an opening at the Associate or Full professor level for an established funded investigator whose research program elucidates processes that control cell function. A research program that integrates computational modeling with experiments at multiple scales would be especially appropriate. The successful can- didate will be expected to assume a leadership role in the continued growth of CCAM. Opportunities will also be available to participate in the CCAM graduate program. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a letter of application, cur- riculum vitae, research plan and statement of teaching interests, and names (with address and e-mail address) of at least three references via the University of Connecticut Health Center Employment Services website, https://jobs.uchc.edu , search number 2012-1038. Questions regarding this search should be addressed to Leslie Loew at les@volt.uchc.edu Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer (M/F/M/PwD/PV)

Nicole Lim , University of Cambridge Mechanistic Insights into the Folding of Trefoil-knotted Proteins

Calin Plesa , Delft University of Technology Study of DNA Knots with Solid-State Nanopores