5th Annual Meeting of the BSC, Mississauga, May 2019
Sponsored by Avanti Polar Lipids Inc. and the Biophysical Society of Canada
Left to right: Aidan Tremblett, Jane Gagne, Benjamin Martial, Bala Xavier, Sarika Kumari
Jane Gagne
- MSc candidate, Université Laval
- Supervisors: Drs. Auger and Lefevre
- Work presented: Effect of spinning rate on the molecular structure and dynamics in native and supercontracted spider silk
Sarika Kumari
- PhD candidate, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Supervisor: Dr. Valerie Booth
- Work presented: Whole cell 2H Solid-State NMR of Antimicrobial Peptides Interacting with cell envelopes: Role of lipopolysaccharide
Benjamin Martial
- PhD candidate, Université Laval
- Supervisors: Drs. Auger and Lefevre
- Work presented: Vibrational Circular Dichroism Reveals Supramolecular Chirality Inversion of α-Synuclein Peptide Assemblies
Aidan Tremblett
- MSc candidate, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Supervisor: Dr. Stefan Wallin
- Work presented: Systematic Coarse-Graining Method for Molecular Simulations using Relative Entropy
Bala Xavier
- Postdoctoral researcher, University of Ottawa
- Supervisor: Dr. J.-Y. Lee
- Work presented: Functional studies of the human cholesterol transporter ABCG5/ABCG8 in lipid-bilayer nanodiscs
Biophysical Society Meeting, Baltimore, March 2019
Sponsored by Avanti Polar Lipids Inc. and BBA Biomembranes
Kari Gaalswyk
- PhD Candidate, University of Calgary
- Supervisor: Dr. Justin MacCallum
- Work presented: A physical modeling approach to determine protein structures from paramagnetic NMR measurements
Kathrin Lehmann
- Postdoctoral fellow, Simon Fraser University
- Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Forde
- Work presented: Multiple interaction modes of the nucleosomal histone H3 N-terminal tail revealed by high precision single-molecule FRET
Jeff Li
- PhD candidate, University of British Columbia
- Supervisor: Dr. Hongbin Li
- Work presented: The folding mechanism of rubredoxin revealed by optical tweezers at the single-molecule level
Medha Sharma
- PhD candidate, University of Toronto
- Supervisor: Dr. Tony Harris
- Work presented: The physical bases of forming a smooth boundary between an expanding ARP 2/3 actin network and a contractile actomyosin network
Deniz Meneksedag-Erol
- PDF, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Rauscher
- Work presented: Uncovering the molecular basis for the clinical N642H mutation in STAT5B using atomistic molecular simulations
Stefan Warkentin
- MSc candidate, Dalhousie University
- Supervisor: Dr. Jan Rainey
- Work presented: Investigating recombinant aciniform silk nanoparticles as potential drug carriers and as intermediates in silk fibrillogenesis