BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
13
SEPTEMBER
2014
BIV
Get ready for the upcoming Annual
Meeting and BIV Symposium
Hello and fall greetings from the new Biopolymers
in Vivo subgroup graduate student and postdoc
representatives! We have several exciting subgroup
events planned for the 2014-15 academic year.
Coming up first is the BIV subgroup logo contest.
Students and postdocs:
Be sure to enter the
contest to get a chance to create the new face of
the BIV subgroup and win a $350 award as well
as a free logo t-shirt! Entries are due November
30, 2014. Next, be sure to renew your Biophysical
Society membership and to register for the Bio-
physical Society 59th Annual Meeting, which will
take place in Baltimore, Maryland, on February
7-11, 2015.
We have several BIV-specific events planned at
the meeting, including an exciting BIV subgroup
symposium on Saturday February 7 focusing on
the theme
Interaction Networks in Living System
s,
followed by a BIV dinner. To secure a seat at the
dinner, sign up for it when you renew your BIV
membership. The BIV symposium promises to be
a lot of fun and will include
Xiaowei Zhuang
, Har-
vard University, and
Jamie Williamson
, Scripps
Research Institute, as keynote speakers, as well
as
Ivet Bahar,
University of Pittsburgh,
Gerhard
Hummer
, Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt,
Robert
Singer
, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and
Jin Zhang
, Johns Hopkins University. Two ad-
ditional speakers will be chosen from the abstracts
submitted by postdocs/junior faculty.
Students:
When you submit your poster abstract
for the 2015 Annual Meeting, be sure to also ap-
ply for a travel award by October 3 and to apply
for the Student Research Achievement Award
(SRAA) poster competition by October 1. Learn
more about the SRAA competition at http://
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tabid/4845/Default.aspx. Note that Biopolymers
in Vivo, is one of the featured SRAA categories.
Finally, keep up with the latest BIV subgroup
news and announcements by following us on twit-
ter (username:
-
vivo) or by liking us on facebook (
.
facebook.com/bioplymrsinvivo).
See you in Baltimore next February!
—
Anna Simon
, graduated student representative,
BIV subgroup
—
Max Prigozhin
, postdoc representative,
BIV subgroup
Anna Simon
Max Prigozhin
Sandra Schmid
, University
of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center and So-
ciety member since 2008,
has recently been awarded
the WICB Senior Lead-
ership Award from the
American Society for Cell
Biology.
Michael Sheetz
, Columbia
University and Society
member since 1984, is the
most recent recipient of
the Keith R. Porter Lecture
Award from the American
Society for Cell Biology.
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