Biophysical Newsletter - August 2014 - page 1

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CONTENTS
Biophysical Society
DEADLINES
AUGUST 2014
BPS Networking Events for 2014
Since 2011, Society members have hosted networking events bringing together local
scientists to discuss various topics in biophysics. This year, three BPS-sponsored networking
events have already taken place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lexington, Kentucky, and Paris,
France, and six more are planned for 2014 in the following locations:
Networking Events in the US:
La Crosse, Wisconsin - October 18
Blacksburg, Virginia - November 6
Networking Events outside the US:
Lisbon, Portugal - September 3-5
Leuven, Belgium - September 24
St. John’s, Canada - October 4
Juelich, Germany - November 6
Do you have an idea for a networking event and want to host one in your area? BPS will be
accepting 2015 networking event proposals from August 25 thru October 30. If selected,
you can receive up to $500 through the Membership Committee’s mini-grant program to
host your event. For more information about networking events and proposal requirements,
visit the Meetings section of the Society website atwww.biophysics.org.
Message from the President 2
Biophysicist in Profile 4
Public Affairs 6
Annual Meeting 8
Molly Cule 11
Biophysical Journal 12
Grants & Opportunities 14
Members in the News 14
Subgroups 15
Upcoming Events 16
59th Annual
Meeting
February 7-11, 2015
Baltimore, Maryland
October 1
Abstract Submission
October 3
Travel Award Application
SRAA Poster Competition
Application
January 7
Early Registration
Congressional
Fellowship
Application
October 14
Application Submission
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Look Inside for a Copy of the
Annual Meeting Poster.
Help spread the word by posting a copy in your lab.
For extra copies, contactsociety@biophysics.org.
www.biophysics.org/2015meeting
OVER 7,000ATTENDEES • MORE THAN4,500 ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS • 950 POSTER PRESENTATIONS DAILY • 100SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
Protein Evolution and
AllostericNetworks
CoreyWilson, YaleUniversity,Chair
ElizabethKomives,Universityof
California, SanDiego
JanetThornton,European
Bioinformatics Institute,
UnitedKingdom
JoeThornton,UniversityofChicago
Extremophiles: Testing the
Physical Limitsof Living Systems
CatherineRoyer,Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute,Chair
LornaDougan,Universityof Leeds,
UnitedKingdom
DouglasBartlett,Universityof
California, SanDiego
Georges Feller,Universityof Liége,
Belgium
Epigenetics
LeneOddershede ,Universityof
Copenhagen,Denmark,Chair
Michael Fried,UniversityofKentucky
AleksandraWalczak, ÉcoleNormale
Supérieure, France
Joan-RamonDaban ,Autonomous
UniversityofBarcelona, Spain
BiophysicsofRNA Processing:
Degradation, Splicing,DEAD
Box Proteins
SunHur,HarvardUniversity,Chair
AnnaMallam,UniversityofTexas
atAustin
DagmarKlostermeier ,Universityof
Münster,Germany
SanjayTyagi,RutgersUniversity
NanoclusteringofMembranes and
Membrane Proteins
KaYee Lee, UniversityofChicago,
Chair
Martin Lohse,Universityof
Würzburg,Germany
Adam Frost,UniversityofUtah
Siewert-JanMarrink,Universityof
Groningen,TheNetherlands
Catalysis in theMembrane
JochenZimmer,UniversityofVirginia,
Chair
ElizabethCarpenter ,Oxford
University,UnitedKingdom
EdithHummler, LausanneUniversity,
Switzerland
YaHa,YaleUniversity
Regulated ProteinBridgesConnecting
Membranes: STIM Proteins inCellular
Signaling
Richard Lewis, StanfordUniversity,
Chair
MuraliPrakriya, Northwestern
University
BarbaraNiemeyer, SaarlandUniversity,
Germany
PatrickHogan, La Jolla Institute
forAllergy and Immunology
Neurostransmitter Transporters
OlgaBoudker,WeillCornellMedical
College,Chair
ChristofGrewer , SUNYBinghamton
SatinderKauerSingh,YaleUniversity
MichaelKavanaugh ,Universityof
Montana
Membrane Trafficking
Kerney JebrellGlover, Lehigh
University,Chair
LoisWeisman,Universityof
Michigan
JennyHinshaw,NIH
AlexanderKros, LeidenUniversity,
TheNetherlands
MoleculesofMemory:Glutamate
ReceptorChannels
MarkMayer ,NIH,Chair
RobertOswald,CornellUniversity
GabrielaPopescu,Universityof
Buffalo
PierrePaoletti,CNRS, IBENS, France
Probing IonChannel Structure/
FunctionUsingNovel Tools
HenryColecraft,Columbia
University,Chair
ChristopherAhern,University
of Iowa
HeikeWulff,UniversityofCalifornia,
Davis
DougTobias,Universityof
California, Irvine
MechanismsofActin Filament
Nucleation andMechanotransduction
RobertoDominguez,Universityof
Pennsylvania,Chair
MargotQuinlan ,UniversityofCalifornia,
LosAngeles
GuillaumeRomet-Lemonne ,CNRS,
France
BradNolen,UniversityofOregon
Cardiomyopathies andContractile
Proteins
Leslie Leinwand,Universityof
Colorado,Chair
LucieCarrier,UniversityofHamburg,
Germany
JilTardiff,UniversityofArizona
Wolfgang Linke,RuhrUniversity
Bochum,Germany
MolecularBasis forMitochondrial
Signaling
TatianaRostovtseva,NIH,Chair
RosarioRizzuto,Universityof
Padova, Italy
FabianaPerocchi,Universityof
Munich,Germany
GyorgyHajnoczky,Thomas
JeffersonUniversity
SystemsBiologyApproaches in
Neuroscience
KristinBranson,HHMI, Janelia Farm,
Chair
EveMarder,BrandeisUniversity
Jeff Litchtman,HarvardUniversity
Additional speaker tobeannounced
Mechanosensors
MarcosSotomayor,Ohio State
University,Chair
PavelTolar,MRC,UnitedKingdom
AlexDunn, StanfordUniversity
AnjaGeitmann,Universityof
Montreal,Canada
Advances in ElectronMicroscopy
YifanCheng,UniversityofCalifornia,
San Francisco,Chair
IriniaSerysheva,UniversityofTexas
MedicalCenter
BettinaBöttcher,Universityof
Edinburgh,UnitedKingdom
HongweiWang,TsinghuaUniversity,
China
Emergent PropertiesandCollectiveBe-
haviorsofComplex Systems
AaronDinner,UniversityofChicago,
Chair
AngelaDePace,HarvardUniversity
SatoshiSawai,UniversityofTokyo,
Japan
DanielBeard,UniversityofMichigan
Nanopores:Methods and
Mechanistic Insights
ZuzannaSiwy,UniversityofCalifornia,
Irvine,Chair
AleksandraRadenovic, École
Polytechnique Fédéral Lausanne,
Switzerland
HaganBayley,OxfordUniversity,
UnitedKingdom
MichaelMayer,UniversityofMichigan
Bacterial SubcellularDynamics
atSuper-Resolution: ThisBrings
Super-Resolution to a
Dynamic Sense
JulieBiteen,UniversityofMichigan,
Chair
DavidSherratt,OxfordUniversity,
UnitedKingdom
Simon Foster, SheffieldUniversity,
UnitedKingdom
MikeHeilemann,Universityof
Frankfurt,Germany
Subgroups
Subgroupswillhold symposiaon Saturday.
•BIOENERGETICS
•BIOLOGICAL FLUORESCENCE
•BIOPOLYMERS INVIVO
•EXOCYTOSIS&ENDOCYTOSIS
•INTRINSICALLYDISORDERED
PROTEINS
•MECHANOBIOLOGY
•MEMBRANEBIOPHYSICS
•MEMBRANESTRUCTURE&
ASSEMBLY
•MOLECULARBIOPHYSICS
•MOTILITY
•NANOSCALEBIOPHYSICS
•PERMEATION&TRANSPORT
Workshops
Microfluidics Tools for
StudyingMolecules andCells
PetraDittrich,ETHZurich,
Switzerland,Chair
DaniellaGoldfarb ,Weizmann
Instituteof Science, Israel
Stephen Jackson, Indiana
University
AydoganOzcan,Universityof
California, LosAngeles
ManagingDataandStatistics in
the InformaticsEra
NathanBaker ,PacificNorthwest
National Laboratory,Chair
PatriceKoehl,Universityof
California,Davis
MukundThattai,National
Center forBiological Sciences,
India
ArvindRamanthan,Oakridge
National Laboratory
StabilizingMembrane Proteins
LindaColumbus,Universityof
Virginia,Chair
AndreasPlückthun,University
ofZurich, Switzerland
JamesBowie,Universityof
California, LosAngeles
ChrisTate,MRC,
UnitedKingdom
Advances inComputing
Large Systems
EmadTajkhordshid,University
of IllinoisatUrbana-Champaign,
Chair
AngelGarcia,Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
Wonpil Im,UniversityofKansas
MargaretCheung ,University
ofHouston
NMRofComplexSystems
IsabelleMarcotte,Universityof
Quebec,Canada,Chair
Jean-PierreSimorre, Instituteof
Biological Structure, France
LynetteCegelski, Stanford
University
GianluigiVeglia,University
ofMinnesota
ArtificialCells:Understanding
and Engineering
Margaret Johnson, Johns
HopkinsUniversity,Chair
ThomasGregor,Princeton
University
TetsuyaYomo,Osaka
University, Japan
Michael Jewett,Northwestern
University
CheemengTan,Universityof
California,Davis
FEBRUARY 7-11, 2015 | BALTIMORE,MARYLAND
BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY 59TH ANNUAL MEETING
BRIDGINGTHESCIENCES:COMPUTATIONANDEXPERIMENT
KlausSchulten
National Lecturer
Universityof IllinoisatUrbana-Champaign
Discoveries inBiophysicsThrough
theComputationalMicroscope
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2014 | EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 7, 2015
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