Tianyi (Teddy) Yang, a Ph.D. student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program, has won the anniversary award in the Protein Society 35^th annual symposium. To encourage young scientists to participate and benefit from the annual symposium, the Protein Society awards undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs who present a poster or present a talk in the annual symposium. Teddy presented a poster entitled “Dynamic features of the unactivated  c-Cbl”. Under the direction of Professor Huo, Teddy has investigated c-Cbl, an E3 ligase, conformational transitions using computer simulations. His work provides insights into the role of protein dynamics in the process of protein degradation, which would benefit future drug design to remove disease-causing proteins.