Young Biophysicist Award

In 1995, the Society instituted an award for young investigators: the Young Biophysicist Award (YBA). Its purpose is to encourage members of the Society who were about to or had recently embarked on a career in biophysics, but there are no age restrictions. The award carries a cash prize of $500.

The conditions of the award are that applicants:

  1. should be a Ph.D. candidate, or be within 5 years following the award of a Ph.D. or equivalent degree;
  2. be members of the Society of at least 12 months standing at the time of application;
  3. make an oral presentation at the annual conference of the Society (finalists only);
  4. submit one ELECTRONIC copy of the application (either in pdf or MS Word) and send it to the ASB Secretary (currently, Dr Paul Smith; email address: paul.smith@anu.edu.au).
  5. Let the local conference organiser know that you are applying for a YBA when you submit your abstract.
  6. The above application should be sent by the time abstracts are due for the annual conference. The application should include a curriculum vitae, together with a full publication list.
The Society reserves the right to not make an award in any one year.

 
2007 Recipient: Dr John Gehman
John presented his talk entitled: "Boltzmann-statistics analysis of solid state NMR experiments" at the 31st Annual Conference of the Society held in Newcastle.

 
2006 Recipient: Dr Catherine Clarke
Catherine presented her talk entitled: "A helically structured M1-P1 loop "fine tunes" the pH sensitivity of acid sensitive two-pore domain potassium (TASK) channels" at the 30th Annual Conference of the Society held in Sydney.

 
2005 Recipient: Dr Ben Corry
Ben presented his talk entitled: "The mechanism of fast gating in ClC chloride channels" at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society held in Canberra.



2004 Recipient: Dr Matthew Perugini (University of Melbourne)
Matt presented his talk entitled: "Hexameric structure of GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase: a key enzyme and novel drug target in Leishmania" at the 28th Annual Conference of the Society held in Fremantle.

2002 Recipient: Louise Brown (UNSW)
Louise presented her talk "Structure of the Inhibitory Region of Troponin I in the ternary complex by Site-Directed Spin Labeling EPR Spectroscopy" at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society held in Melbourne.
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