Canada: 2011 Abdus Salam Award Winner, Daniel Badali

I ... performed an  in-depth study of how the random motion of molecules affects their  ability to transfer energy between them; this work has significant  applications to FRET, a common technique used to measure small  distances between biomolecules.

Daniel Badali

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Source/Credit: University of Toronto
By UofT / Daniel Badali | July 27, 2011

The Department would like to congratulate the winner of the first Abdus Salam Award, Daniel Badali! The award is for the best research project done by a UofT Physics undergraduate student and supervised by a UofT Physics faculty member.

Working with Professor Claudiu Gradinaru introduced me to both the  experimental and theoretical aspects of single-molecule biophysics.  I studied the binding kinetics between a new drug which targets the  cancerous protein STAT3, and this work was recently accepted for  publication in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. I then performed an  in-depth study of how the random motion of molecules affects their  ability to transfer energy between them; this work has significant  applications to FRET, a common technique used to measure small  distances between biomolecules.

I am currently in Hamburg working with Professor Dwayne Miller  where I will be continuing my PhD studies. My research involves  using ultrafast low energy electrons to study structural dynamics  of surfaces through diffraction. I am building the world's first  time-resolved transmission LEED machine, and I am happy to report  that it is working; we have electrons flying!

Daniel Badali



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