As previously announced, Anatrace has graciously sponsored travel awards and poster prizes for students and postdocs attending the meeting. Four travel awards ($500) and two poster prizes were decided by a panel on the basis of merit. Winners of these awards were announced at the meeting, and can now be released to the public.
The winners of the Anatrace poster & travel awards are:
Poster Awards:
Anne Georges, Washington University of St. Louis
Investigating the inhibitory effects of a novel monobody on EmrE transport activity
Zachary James, University of Minnesota
EPR Detects Changes in the Transmembrane Region of the SERCA-PLB Complex Upon Ser16 Phosphorylation
Travel Awards:
Adam Chamberlin, University of Calgary
The gating pathway in the voltage-gated proton channel
Michael V. LeVine, Weill Cornell Medical College
NbIT – a new information theory-based analysis of allosteric mechanisms reveals residues that underlie function in the leucine transporter
Nicholas Woodall, University of California, Los Angeles
The positive-inside rule is a local effect
Emilia Ling Wu, University of Kansas
E. coli Outer Membrane and Interactions with OmpLA
Congratulations to all recipients!