Award Winners for 2nd Annual BSC Meeting

BSC Travel Award Winners

2nd Annual BSC Meeting

2016 Award Recipients

Yoav Atsmon Raz
Post-doctorate fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Tieleman, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
Work presented: Parameterization of Cysteine Palmitoyl, Cysteine Farnesyl, Cysteine GeranylGeranyl and Glycine Myrsitol for the Martini forcefield

William Jennings
Biochemistry MSc Candidate, McMaster University, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Supervisor: Dr. Richard Epand, McMaster University, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Work presented: The Structural and Enzymatic Characterization of Purified Human Diacylglycerol Kinase Epsilon
Brief Description of Work

Phuong Trang Nguyen
PhD candidate in Biochemistry at Université du Québec à Montréal
Supervisor: Dr. Steve Bourgault, Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal
Work presented: Site-specific asparagine deamidation accelerates Islet Amyloid Polypeptide selfassembly

Zhenfu Zhang
Physics, PhD candidate, University of Toronto and Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga
Supervisor: Dr. Claudiu Gradinaru, University of Toronto and Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga
Work presented: Single-Molecule Dissection of the Conformations, Dynamics and Binding of the Disordered 4E-BP2 Protein