Award Winners for 3rd Annual BSC Meeting

BSC Travel Award Winners

3rd Annual BSC Meeting

2017 Award Recipients

Calem Kenward
MSc candidate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University
Supervisor: Dr. David Langelaan, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
Work presented: Structure Determination of a Class IB Hydrophobin by NMR

Dennis Fernandes
PhD Candidate in Physics at the University of Toronto and Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga
Supervisor: Dr. Claudiu Gradinaru, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, and Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga
Work presented: Probing the Spatial Organization & Conformational Dynamics of G protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) and G proteins using Single-molecule Fluorescence

Haydee Mesa-Galloso
PhD Student in Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
Supervisor: Dr. D.Peter Tieleman, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
Work presented: More than a pore: The role of the dimeric intermediate in the pore-forming mechanism of fragaceatoxin C, an actinoporin from the sea anemone Actinia fragacea

Karelia H. Delgado-Magneroe
Biophysical Chemistry MSc Candidate, University of Calgary
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Tieleman, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary
Work presented: Molecular Views of a Eukaryotic Plasma Membrane Model

Mona Habibi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia
Supervisors: Dr. Jörg Rottler, Dr. Steven Plotkin, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia
Work presented: Exploring the Fidelity of Coarse-Grained Protein Models for Simulated Force Spectroscopy

Rashmi Panigrahi
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta, Department of Biochemistry
Supervisor: Supervisor: Dr. Joanne Lemieux, University of Alberta, Department of Biochemistry
Work presented: Mechanistic Insight into a Possible Regulatory Region of an Intramembrane Enzyme Diacylglycerol acyltransferase