The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce winners of the Biophysical Journal Outstanding Poster Awards given at the "Single-Cell Biophysics: Measurement, Modulation, and Modeling," meeting held June 17-20 in Taipei, Taiwan. The purpose of the Society's thematic meetings is to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to discuss important biophysical topics that do not normally attend the same events. The poster winners were selected by a committee made up of top researchers including organizers of the meeting and editors of Biophysical Journal.
The student winners and their poster titles are:
Ivan Alex Lazarte, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Quantifying Tight Junction Morphology of MDCK Epithelial Cells and Its Implications in Cell-Cell Interactions; and
Felix Wong, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Shape Recovery through Mechanical Strain-Sending in Escherichia coli.
The postdoctoral fellow winners and their posters titles are:
Wan-Chen Huang, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Dynamic Analysis of DNA and Topoisomerase II Interaction Based on Fluorescence Fluctuation and Single Molecule Detection
Daniel Jones, Uppsala University. Uppsala, Sweden
Kinetics of dCas9 Target Search in Escherichia coli
The winners were recognized at the close of the meeting and received a certificate recognizing their achievement and a monetary prize.
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