Young Biophysicist Award

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.
   

2010 Recipient: David Szekely
David presented a talk entitled: ": Toward the virtual heart: graphics processor accelerated interactive simulations of cardiac function"

2009 Recipient: Megan O'Mara
Megan presented a talk entitled: "Linking bacterial structures to human multi-drug transporter function"

2008 Recipient: Dr Till Böcking
Till presented a talk entitled: "Chasing the Mechanism of Clatherin Coat Disassembly by Single Object Fluorescence Imaging" at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Society held in Canberra.

2007 Recipient: Dr John Gehman
John presented a 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 a 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 a 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
Matt presented a 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
Louise presented a 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.