SAN DIEGO, CA - The 31 winners of the annual Student Research Achievement Awards (SRAA) were recognized at the 64th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 17, 2020. These students were selected by judges from the Society's subgroups for their outstanding presentations during the poster competition. One hundred twenty-two students participated in the competition.
The 2020 SRAA winners are:
Bioenergetics, Mitochondria & Metabolism
Santosh Adhikari, University of Minnesota, USA
Bioengineering
Kartik Lakshmi Rallapalli, University of California, San Diego, USA
Wan-Zhen Lin, University of Southern California, USA
Biological Fluorescence
Reena R. Beggs, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Jia Hui Li, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Jinho Park, Seoul National University, South Korea
Biopolymers in vivo
Furqan Dar, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Meranda Masse, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Channels, Receptors & Transporters
Natsuki Mizutani, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan
Che Chun Alex Tsui, University of Oxford, UK and Scripps Research Institute, USA
Cryo-EM
Hamidreza Rahmani, Florida State University, USA
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Ibraheem Alshareedah, University of Buffalo, USA
Andrea Guljas, University of Toronto, Canada
Macromolecular Machines & Assembly
Joel C. Heisler, University of California Merced, USA
Jenny Liu, Northwestern University, USA
Dhiman Ray, University of California Irvine, USA
Mechanobiology
Jeffrey Lotthammer, Ohio State University, USA
Hao-Che Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Membrane Fusion, Fission & Traffic
Elif S. Köksal, University of Oslo Center for Molecular Medicine, Norway
Travis J. Morgenstern, Columbia University, USA
Membrane Structure & Function
Ewa Drab, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Moshe T. Gordon, University of Colorado, USA
Membrane Transport
Shanlin Rao, University of Oxford, UK
Maiwase Tembo, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Motility & Cytoskeleton
Abby Jurgensmeier, Wichita State University, USA
Zhenhui Liu, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Nanoscale Approaches
Sean Carney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Rachel Leicher, Rockefeller University, USA
Kamila R. Mustafina, McGill University, Canada
Physical Cell Biology
Dushyant Mehra, Mayo Clinic, USA
Vinh H. Vu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
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