Ahmet Yıldız
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Ahmet Yıldız 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 molecular nanotechnology." The award was presented during the Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, October 10- 12 October 2003, in San Francisco. The Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award was created in 1997, and is awarded annually.
[edit] External links
- Foresight Award notice
- CV of Yıldız's Graduate advisor, listing several papers of which Yıldız is a co-author
- "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)
- Full PDF version of "Myosin V Walks..." paper
- "Cell's Motor Is a Mountain Climber, Not an Inchworm" Howard Huughs Medical institure Research news, December 19, 2003.
- "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)
- Young Scientist of the year award winner 2006 Turkish scientist's discovery of how proteins work
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[edit] Young Scientist Award Grand Prize Winner 2006
For his contribution to the understating how motor proteins walk along their filaments, Ahmet Yildiz, a regional winner from North America and the Grand Prize winner, today was named to receive the $25,000 Young Scientist Award, supported by GE Healthcare and the journal Science. He will receive his award in St. Louis on Saturday, February 18, during the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, which publishes Science.
"First, Ahmet has improved single molecule fluorescence by developing a technique that can locate the position of a single dye to within 1.5 nanometers, which is 20 times better than has previously been achieved and 200 times better than the classical diffraction limit of light," said Professor Paul R. Selvin, who supervised his graduate work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Ahmet then applied this technique to measure how Myosin V, a biomolecular motor involved in intracellular transport, moves."
Ahmet Yildiz received the grand prize for his essay, "Elucidating the Mechanism of Molecular Motor Movement." Yildiz grew up in Sakarya, Turkey. In 2001, he received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Bogazici University, Istanbul, and started his graduate studies in biophysics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
