Ahmet Yıldız (scientist)

Ahmet Yıldız is a graduate student in Biophysics. He has participated is significant work in discovering the mechanism of "molecular motors" in living cells.

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 Fancisco. The Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award was created in 1997, and is awarded annually.

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 Jan 2003) ("Myosin VI is a molecular motor that walks 'backwards' on filaments of actin.")
• [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/300/5628/2061 "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 Huughs Medical institure 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)