(Press-News.org) ROCKVILLE, MD – The 10 winners of the annual Undergraduate Poster Award Competition (UPAC) were recognized at the 69th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 17, 2025. After two rounds of judging, judges from every career level selected these students for their outstanding presentations during the poster competition. Seventy-four students participated in the competition.
The 2025 UPAC winners are:
Adam Gatch, Clemson University, USA – “AΒ42 Accelerates Pathogenic Structural Transformation Within the Amyloidogenic Core Region Of TDP-43”
Chaelin Lee-Eom, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea – “Spatial Regulation of Tau-Microtubule Networks: Active Dynamics Revealed by Tessellation Analysis”
Daniel Tan, Princeton University, USA – “Networked Interactions in Biomolecular Condensates Formed by Disordered Proteins Reveal Structural and Dynamic Inhomogeneities”
Esai J. Cisneros, New Mexico State University, USA – “Optimizing BIO-AFM for Force Spectroscopy of Brassica Guard Cells”
Iren Saffarian-Deemyad, Stanford University, USA – “Ancestral RNA-Guided TNPB Nuclease Interrogates DNA In Discrete Supercoiling-Sensitive Steps”
Jinglang Sun, University of Texas at Austin, USA – “Non-Selective Effects of CAV3 T-Type Channel Blockers ML218 & Z944 on CAV1 L-Type Channels”
Megan Parada, Stanford University, USA – “Bispecific Antibodies Binding the Lower Stalk and Stem Helix of Betacoronavirus Spike Glycoproteins”
Paul-Pierre Boutet, Reed College, USA – “Towards Structural and Functional Characterization of a Bacterial Manganese Exporter”
Sam C. Carey, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA – “Nuclear-Spin Hyperpolarization of Biomolecules on an 80 MHZ Benchtop NMR Spectrometer”
Tara M. Young, University of Washington, USA – “A DNA Binding Protein Interacts with Type II Topoisomerases to Promote DNA Replication”
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