Doctoral student Anna Tarakanova, who works in Professor Markus Buehler‘s Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, received a poster award at the Gordon Research Conference on Elastin and Elastic Fibers held at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, in August. The paper and poster were titled “Elastic Network Model of Tropoelastin Implicates Bridge Region in Assembly and Cell-Binding.”