Vaibhav Mohanty wins DBIO Early Career Prize Session, First Place

Vaibhav Mohanty (Shakhnovich Lab) has placed first among graduate students in the American Physical Society's Division of Biological Physics (DBIO) Early Career Prize Session. Mohanty's talk, “Principles of Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design” had been competitively selected to be featured in the DBIO Early Career Prize Session, placed in the time slot immediately after this year’s invited faculty speaker. 

The judging panel consisted of experimental, computational, and theoretical biophysics professors from around the country, as well as the senior editorial members of the PRX Life journal, APS’s top society journal for physics in the life sciences.

The APA is a nonprofit membership organization that represents more than 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and around the world.  The DBIO unit focuses on the study of biological phenomena using physical approaches and in investigations into the physical principles and mechanisms by which living organisms survive, adapt, and grow.

Read more about Mohanty's work via GSAS's profile.

Photos courtesy of Mohanty