Biophysical Society Newsletter - November 2016

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2016

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From the BPS Blog http://biophysicalsociety.wordpress.com

Members in the News

Martin Gruebele , University of Illinois, Urbana Cham- paign, and Society member since 1998, was awarded the Nakanishi Prize Endow- ment.

Domain Organization in the 54kDa Chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle Rory Henderson , Feng Gao ,

Cornelia Bargmann (not pictured), Rockefeller University, and Society member since 2000, was named the President of Sci- ence at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The following members were named 2016 Faculty Scholars by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Clifford Brangwynne

Srinivas Jayanthi , Alicia Kight , Priyanka Sharma , Robyn Goforth , Colin Heyes , Ralph Henry , and Thal- lapuranam Suresh Kumar write about their research featured on the cover of the September 20 issue of

Biophysical Journal . The image on the cover depicts a cellular transport machine in chloroplasts, a chlo- roplast signal recognition particle (cpSRP). Read the full blog post here: https://biophysicalsociety. wordpress.com/2016/09/20/domain-organization- in-the-54kda-chloroplast-signal-recognition- particle/. From the Field—The Rally for Medical Research

Princeton University, and Society member since 2003.

Alex Dunn Stanford University, and Society member since 2005.

Celeste Nelson Princeton University, and Society member since 201.

Joseph DeRisi , University of California, San Francisco, and Society member since 2016, and Stephen Quake , Stanford University, and Society member since 2016, were named co-presidents of the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub.

BPS member Eric Jakobsson details his experience attending the Rally for Medical Research, a Capi- tol Hill Day event in which researchers, patients, and advocates meet with policymakers to advocate for funding for NIH. Jakobsson shares both his ex- periences and his personal reasons for participating in the event. https://biophysicalsociety.wordpress. com/2016/09/26/from-the-field-the-rally-for- medical-research/.