{"id":9970,"date":"2025-10-16T08:32:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/?post_type=news_events&#038;p=9970"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:42:52","slug":"taren_ginter_bpsj_award","status":"publish","type":"news_events","link":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/en\/news_events\/news\/2025\/taren_ginter_bpsj_award\/","title":{"rendered":"ELSI student Taren Ginter won the Student Presentation Award and IUPUB Nara Memorial Student Presentation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FY2025-029.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FY2025-029.png 383w, https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FY2025-029-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 70%; margin: 0px auto; text-align: center;\">Taren Ginter<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taren Ginter won the Student Presentation Award and IUPUB Nara Memorial Student Presentation Award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan held at Nara from 24-26 September 2025. Ginter is a 1st year doctoral student at ELSI (Earth-Life Science Course) and supervised by Associate Professor Kosuke Fujishima.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Student Presentation Award involved a preliminary written review and a secondary review consisting of oral presentations at 10 venues. Her presentation title was \u2018<em>Molecular Simulation of Prebiotically Plausible Interactions Between Amino Acids and Fatty Acid Membranes*.<\/em>\u2019\u00a0 IUPUB Nara Memorial Student Presentation Award was presented to the best presenter at each venue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I&#8217;m so grateful to have received\u00a0these awards, and I&#8217;m excited to continue working on this research as I progress to my Doctoral Studies!\u2019 commented Ginter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*This\u00a0work was completed in collaboration with Ryoji Abe, who is also an Earth-Life Course student, Professor Masayuki Imai (Tohoku Univ.), Professor Wataru Shinoda and Research Scientist Yusuke Miyazaki (Okayama Univ.), and Associate Professor Kosuke Fujishima.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9968,"template":"","news_events_cat":[7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events\/9970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_events_cat?post=9970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}