At the recent Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, graduate student Alex Komin was awarded the Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) in Bioengineering. The poster competition took place on Sunday, February 18th and consisted of participants giving 3-5 minute poster presentations to one or more judges. The student researchers were able to choose two subcategory selections from 14 topics that included Bioenergetics, Exocytosis & Endocytosis, Molecular Biophysics, Bioengineering, Intrincially Disordered Proteins (IDP), Motility & Cytoskeleton, Biological Fluorescence, Mechanobiology, Nanoscale Biophysics, Biopolymers in vivo, Membrane Biophysics, Permeation & Transport, Cryo-EM, Membrane Structure and Assembly (MSAS).