Biophysical Society announces winners of 2010 International Travel Awards

• Luciana Bruno, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, "ANOMALOUS DIFFUSIVE BEHAVIOR IN INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT MEDIATED BY MOLECULAR MOTORS."
  
  
• Martha Burgos, National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, "PROTEIN OLIGOMERIZATION: THERMODYNAMIC AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE DIMERIZATION OF beta-LACTOGLOBULIN."
  
  
• Jon Busto, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain, "CHOLESTEROL DISPLACES CERAMIDE FROM ITS TIGHT PACKING WITH SPHINGOMYELIN."
  
  
• Renato Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, "CHARACTERIZATION OF A HOMOLOGOUS SERIES OF FLUORESCENT FATTY AMINES. PHOTOPHYSICS, AQUEOUS SOLUBILITY AND BINDING TO ALBUMIN AND TO POPC BILAYERS."
  
  
• Bruno Castro, CQB, FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal, "CHOLESTEROL-RICH FLUID MEMBRANES SOLUBILIZE CERAMIDE GEL DOMAINS. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF MAMMALIAN MEMBRANES."
  
  
• Tatiana Domitrovic, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, "STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY REVEALS A NEW PROTEIN FAMILY FROM S.CEREVISIAE WITH A NOVEL FOLD AND IMPLICATED IN THE METABOLISM CONTROL AND DRUG RESISTANCE."
  
  
• Svetlana Efimova, Institute of Cytology RAS, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, "PHLORETIN AFFECTS THE VOLTAGE GATING OF ALPHA-HEMOLYSIN CHANNEL."
  
  
• Hugo Filipe, FCTUC, Coimbra, Portugal, "NEW METHOD FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF BINDING CONSTANTS FOR AMPHIPHILES WITH A VERY SMALL SOLUBILITY IN AQUEOUS MEDIA."
  
  
• Bagavananthem Andavan Gowri Shankar, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria, "MODULATION OF NAV 1.5 VARIANTS BY SRC TYROSINE KINASE."
  
  
• Bilge Guvenc, Hacettepe Medical School, Ankara, Turkey, "A DYNAMIC APPROACH REVEALS NONMUSCLE MYOSIN INFLUENCES THE OVERALL SMOOTH MUSCLE CROSS-BRIDGE CYCLING RATE."
  
  
• Alok Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, "NON-COVALENT INTERACTIONS INVOLVING AROMATIC RESIDUES IN PROTEIN STRUCTURES: STABILITY AND DYNAMICS IN MEMBRANE AND GLOBULAR PROTEINS USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS."
  
  
• Anupam Jha, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, "A SEARCH FOR ENERGY MINIMIZED SEQUENCES OF PROTEINS."
  
  
• Chirlmin Joo, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, "SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDY ON MICRORNA MACHINERIES: MICRORNA PROCESSING WITH IMMUNOPRECIPITATES AT THE SINGLE-MOLECULE LEVEL."
  
  
• Morteza Khabiri, Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic, "INFLUENCE OF ORGANIC SOLVENTS ON THE STRUCTURE AND ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY OF HALOALKANE DEHALOGENASE DHAA."
  
  
• Olga Kopach, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev, Ukraine, "IMPAIRED MITOCHONDRIA FAIL TO ENSURE SUSTAINED SOCE: POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR DECREASED SALIVARY SECRETION UNDER DIABETES."
  
  
• Malgorzata Kotulska, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, "COMPUTATIONAL EVALUATION OF NANOPORE CONDUCTIVITY IN ELECTROPORATION."
  
  
• Erika Kovacs, Institute of Enzymology, Budapest, Hungary, "NEW ASPECTS OF LIPID-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS REVEALED BY CALMODULIN BINDING TO THE LIPID MEDIATOR SPHINGOSYLPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE."
  
  
• Manju Kumari, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India, "EXPLORING THE CONFORMATIONAL SPACE FOR THE INTERACTIONS OF AROMATIC RESIDUE ANALOGS WITH BIOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT SACCHARIDES."
  
  
• Ang Li, Singapore-MIT Alliance, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, "BINDING KINETICS AND BINDING SITE LOCATIONS OF CYTOADHERENT MOLECULES ON THE SURFACE OF MALARIA INFECTED CELLS."
  
  
• Luis Alberto Luévano, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, "IDENTIFICATION OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL CARRIER THAT PROVIDES YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA WITH A FATTY ACID- INDUCED AND NUCLEOTIDES- SENSITIVE UNCOUPLING PROTEIN- LIKE ACTIVITY."
  
  
• Souvik Modi, National Centre For Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India, "I-Switch: A DNA NANOMACHINE THAT MAPS SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PH CHANGES INSIDE LIVING CELLS."
  
  
• Aura Moreno-Vega, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Juriquilla,Querétaro, México "HOW TO USE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY IN SEARCH OF A HIGHLY RESOLVED HOLOGRAM."
  
  
• Andrés Nieto-Posadas, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, Mexico, Mexico, "INTERACTIONS BETWEEN QUATERNARY AMMONIUMS AND THE GATE OF THE TRPV1 CHANNEL."
  
  
• Cesar Oyarce, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, "GSK3-β INHIBITION IS INVOLVED IN TESTOSTERONE-INDUCED CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY."
  
  
• Tatyana Rokitskaya, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, "EFFECT OF ANTIBACTERIAL PEPTIDE INDOLICIDIN ON THE MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY: CARRIER MECHANISM VERSUS PORE FORMATION."
  
  
• Eniko Takacs, Institute of Enzymology, BRC, HAS, Budapest, Hungary, "PECULIAR REGULATORY ROLE OF MAGNESIUM IN NUCLEOTIDE HYDROLYSIS OF DUTPASES."
  
  
• Zoltan Ujfalusi, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, "THE EFFECT OF HEAVY MEROMYOSIN ON THE FLEXIBILITY OF FORMIN-BOUND ACTIN FILAMENTS."
  
  
• Mahalingam Vijayabaskar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, "CONSTRUCTION OF ENERGY BASED PROTEIN STRUCTURE NETWORKS: APPLICATION IN THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THERMOPHILES AND MESOPHILES."
  
  
• Yunxin Zhang, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, "STEADY STATES OF A TUG-OF-WAR MODEL FOR ORGANELLE TRANSPORT."
  
  

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