Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Awards 2023

Named in honor Professor Margaret C. Etter (pictured),each Scientific Interest Group (SIG) and the Canadian Division have the opportunity to invite one student to receive an award and to present a lecture in one of the sessions organized by that SIG. Selections are based upon submitted abstracts and are independent of whether the student presenter originally requested an oral or poster presentation. Award winners are determined by the elected officers of the SIGs. Students who accept the invitation will receive a monetary award of $250, which is independent of any requests for support via the ACA Travel Awards.  

We are proud to announce the following recipients of the 2023 ACA Etter Student Lecturer Awards:

Title: Design and implementation of suspended drop crystallization

Author: Cody Gillman

Sponsoring SIG: MicroED

Session: 4.2.5: Microcrystal Electron Diffraction of Proteins*

Title: Mapping of pathological inclusions in human brain tissue with Alzheimer’s disease

Author: Abdullah Al Bashit

Sponsoring SIG: Best Practices for Data Analysis & Archiving SIG 

Session: 1.2.4: Small Angle Scattering To Characterize Structurally Complex Materials*

Title: Structure of a 10-23 Deoxyribozyme Captured in a Precatalytic State

Author: Evan Cramer

Sponsoring SIG: Biological Macromolecules 

Session: 3.2.6: Structure of nucleic acid*

Title: Solution characterization of the dynamic conjugative entry exclusion protein TraG

Author: Nicholas Bragagnolo

Sponsoring SIG: Canadian Division 

Session: 4.2.2: The Future of Light Sources*

Title: Deep learning for reconstructing in situ structural landscapes from cryo-electron tomography

Author: Ellen D Zhong

Sponsoring SIG: CryoEM

Session: 2.2.4: Machine learning in cryo-EM*

Title: 3D Flexible Refinement: Determining Structure and Motion of Flexible Proteins from Cryo-EM

Author: Ali Punjani

Sponsoring SIG: Industrial SIG 

Session: 2.2.4: Machine learning in cryo-EM*

Title: Micro-structured polymer fixed-targets (MISP-chips) for serial crystallography at synchrotrons and XFELs

Author: Melissa Carrillo

Sponsoring SIG: Light Sources 

Session: 2.2.5: Serial Crystallography*

Title: Metal Oxygen Bond Anisotropy and Size Effects Scattering in V1-xMxO2 (M = Nb, Mo)

Author: Jacob Phillips

Sponsoring SIG: Materials 

Session: 3.1.1: Total Scattering: Applications and advances in complex materials*

Title: Coupling of charge density wave to a spin cycloid in topological semimetal NdSbxTe2−x−δ

Author: Tyger Salters

Sponsoring SIG: Neutron Scattering 

Session: 4.1.6: Magnetism, symmetry, and electronic correlations in topological materials and other quantum systems*

Title: A Snowball Effect of Opening Doors and Offering Sustained Support for Early Career Scientists

Author: Lindsey Backman

Sponsoring SIG: Powder 

Session: 2.1.5: DEI: expanding access & opportunities in structural science*

Title: Think, Pair, Share: Insight into Electronic Structure from Single Crystal Structures of Redox-Active Ligands

Author: Sophie Anferov

Sponsoring SIG: Service 

Session: 2.2.1: Cool Structures II*

Title: Redefining the characterization paradigm of RNA lipid nanoparticles

Author: Sarah J Shepherd

Sponsoring SIG: SAS

Session: 4.1.2: SAS in Vaccines and Drug Delivery Systems*

Title: Synthesis and Structural investigation of novel Barium Molybdenum Hollandite structures

Author: Eslam E Elbakry

Sponsoring SIG: Small Molecule 

Session: 1.2.1: Exploring structure through complex modeling of multimodal experiments*

Title: Redox-coupled structural distortions in quasi-1-dimentional Au2MP2

Author: Scott Lee

Sponsoring SIG: Young Scientist Interest Group 

Session: 2.1.1: Cool Structures I*

*The sessions listed are tentative and subject to the scheduling of session chairs. Definitive sessions will be posted after the final schedule is confirmed.