Ahmet Yildiz
Encyclopedia
Ahmet Yıldız is a Turkish
professor of Physics
and Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley
. He has contributed significantly to the understanding of how motor proteins walk along their filaments.
He received a B.S. in physics from the Boğaziçi University
, Istanbul, in 2001, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
, and a postdoctoral position at UCSF.
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, 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.
Yildiz currently teaches lower-division physics at University of California, Berkeley
.
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
professor of Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
and Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. He has contributed significantly to the understanding of how motor proteins walk along their filaments.
He received a B.S. in physics from the Boğaziçi University
Bogaziçi University
Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has five faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees...
, Istanbul, in 2001, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
, and a postdoctoral position at UCSF.
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
Foresight Institute
The Foresight Institute is a Palo Alto, California-based nonprofit organization for promoting transformative technologies. They sponsor conferences on molecular nanotechnology, publish reports, and produce a newsletter....
: "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
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
." 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
Science (journal)
Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is one of the world's top scientific journals....
Prize for Young Life Scientists.
Yildiz currently teaches lower-division physics at University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
.
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.")
- "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 Hughes Medical Institute 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