- Ahmet Yıldız
Ahmet Yıldız (born 1982) is a postdoc in the field of single-molecule
Biophysics . He has contributed significantly to the understanding of how motor proteins walk along their filaments.In 2003 Yildiz received the Foresight Distinguished Student Award for his study of the motion of the molecular motor myosin V. According to the
Foresight Institute : "The Distinguished Student Award recognizes the college graduate or undergraduate student whose work is deemed most notable in advancing the development and understanding of molecularnanotechnology ." The award was presented during the Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, October 10-12, 2003, in San Francisco. The Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award was created in 1997, and is awarded annually.Yildiz was awarded the 2005 GE & "Science" Prize for Young Life Scientists.
External links
* [http://www.nanotech-now.com/Foresight-release-10152003.htm Foresight Award notice]
* [http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/People/Faculty/Selvin/PSCV.html CV of Yıldız's Graduate advisor, listing several papers of which Yıldız is a co-author]
* [http://www.innovations-report.com/print/print_en01.php3?id=33011&ctyp=1 "Molecular motor Myosin VI moves ’hand over hand’, researchers say" by James E. Kloeppel] (accessed 13 January 2003) ("Myosin VI is a molecular motor that walks 'backwards' on filaments of actin.")
* [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/300/5628/2061 "Myosin V Walks Hand-Over-Hand: Single Fluorophore Imaging with 1.5-nm Localization"] by Ahmet Yildiz, Joseph N. Forkey, Sean A. McKinney, Taekjip Ha, Yale E. Goldman, and Paul R. Selvin in "Science" (27 June 2003: Vol. 300. no. 5628, pp. 2061 - 2065)
* [http://www.cnsi-uc.org/events/nanoseminar/ref_materials/Selvin_ref1.pdf Full PDF version of "Myosin V Walks..." paper]
* [http://www.hhmi.org/news/vale2.html "Cell's Motor Is a Mountain Climber, Not an Inchworm"] Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research news, December 19, 2003.
* [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/5658/676 "Kinesin Walks Hand-Over-Hand"] by Ahmet Yildiz, Michio Tomishige, Ronald D. Vale, and Paul R. Selvin. ("Science" 30 January 2004: Vol. 303. no. 5658, pp. 676 - 678)
* [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/aaft-tsd020306.php Young Scientist of the year award winner 2006] Turkish scientist's discovery of how proteins work
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