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Two ASU physics professor named as Scialog fellows Scialog – Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation havenamed Banu Ozkan and Steve Presse, physics professors at Arizona State University, as outstanding Scialog fellows. Scialog invests high-risk and highly-impactful discovery research on untested ideas with the ultimate goal of providing fundamental principles that make a collection of molecules within a cell produce behaviors associated with life. |
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Douglas Shepherd, an assistant professor in Arizona State University’s Department of Physics, was recently awarded two Scialog Advanced Bioimaging awards that will fund two research projects using optics to visualize and quantify molecular biology in challenging settings. |
Matthias Heyden awarded the ACS Cadence/Open Eye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Dr. Matthias Heyden, Center for Biological Physics faculty member and Assistant Professor in the School of Molecular Science has been awarded the ACS Cadence/Open Eye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for Fall 2023. Dr. Heyden will be presenting "Unlocking the Secrets of Low-Frequency Molecular Vibrations" a the ACS Fall 2023 meeting.
Article and Image featured on the cover of ACS Physical Chemistry Au - Vol 3 Issue 5
Long-Range Conductivity in Proteins Mediated by Aromatic Residues (ACS Physical Chemistry Au 2023 3 (5), 444-455) includes research from CBP Members Stuart Lindsay and Dmitry Matyushov, with an image from Lindsay making the cover of the issue. Full publication can be viewed here.
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Protein Dynamics Illustration and Analogy In the newest issue of the journal Nature, a Career Feature |
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HSQC NMR data indicate that GNCA-XYZ is more dynamic than GNCA β-lactamase. Arizona State University researchers Tushar Modi and Banu Ozkan of the Department of Physics, and Wade Van Horn and Mubark Mebrat, both of the School of Molecular Sciences, along with colleagues from other institutions, report on a breakthrough that improves understanding of the relationship between protein structure, dynamics and function. Their results have important implications for medical, biotechnological and molecular research. |
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MDAnalysis: Faster, Extensible Molecular Analysis for Reproducible Science The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) awarded Dr. Oliver Beckstein (Arizona State University, Center for Biological Physics) funding for work toward creating foundational open source software tools essential to biomedicine. Dr. Beckstein is lead on the MDAnalysis project, one of the most widely used libraries for the analysis of biomolecular simulations and structures, has established a mature core functionality that underpins analysis workflows in academia and industry. |
Student Achievements
APS Chapter at Arizona State University (ASU) is highlighted by APS for their new video series - APS Chapter at ASU Research Highlights
The American Physical Society (APS) recently highlighted a new video series created by the Arizona State University Chapter. The APS Chapter at ASU Research Highlights series involves professional shoots featuring graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, presenting their research and its impacts in easy-to-understand videos disseminated to a broad audience on YouTube. Click here to see the full article.
BPS 2020 Art Contest Winner : Fiona Naughton
Fiona Naughton, post-doctoral scholar working with Dr. Oliver Beckstein, won first place in the Art of Science Image Contest at this year's annual BPS (BioPhysical Society) meeting with her illustration, “If Proteins Were Cats.” The Art of Science Image Contest is a feature every year, with approximately 10 finalists chosen to display their work in an open exhibit. Winners are determined by the vote of the conference attendees. “Often, the entries are more directly obtained in the course of research, and I was a bit worried people might find a cat sketch too silly or irrelevant — so I was happy to know that people had liked it and really excited to win first place!” Naughton said. “It was great to see the effort I'd put into it pay off.”