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Biophysical

Society

DEADLINES

AUGUST

2016

President's Message

2

Biophysicist in Profile

4

Public Affairs

6

Annual Meeting

8

Thematic Meetings

11

Biophysical Journal

12

Subgroups

14

Student Center

14

Members in the News

14

Networking Events

15

Molly Cule

16

Grants and Opportunities

16

Obituary

18

Upcoming Events

20

Meetings 2017

61

st

Annual Meeting

February

11

15

New Orleans, Louisiana

October 3

Abstract Submission

January 9

Early Registration

Single-Cell Biophysics:

Measurement, Modula-

tion, and Modeling

June

17–21

Taipei, Taiwan

March 1

Abstract Submission

March 24

Early Registration

Conformational Ensembles

from Experimental Data

and Computer Simulations

August

25–29

Berlin, Germany

April 3

Abstract Submission

Early Registration

Early Registration

Jane Dyson Named next Editor-in-Chief

of

Biophysical Journal

The Biophysical Society and

Biophysical Journal

are pleased to announce the appointment of

Jane Dyson

as the Journal’s next Editor-in-Chief,

effective July 1, 2017, when

Les Loew

completes

his five-year term in that position.

“It’s a great honor to be selected as Editor-in-

Chief of

Biophysical Journal

. I’m looking forward

to working with the premier journal in biophys-

ics, and to interacting with the Journal staff and

Society members to maintain and enhance the

Journal’s high standards. It’s a big challenge, and

I’m excited to begin,” commented Dyson.

Dyson is a professor in the Department of Inte-

grative Structural and Computational Biology

at The Scripps Research Institute, where her re-

search focuses on the understanding of how the

amino acid sequence of a protein determines its

final folded structure and the understanding of

enzyme and protein function through study of

structure and dynamics. She uses NMR spectros-

copy to study structure and dynamics, as well as

mass spectrometry, and equilibrium and kinetic

CD and fluorescence spectroscopy. Additionally,

molecular cloning techniques are used to prepare

labeled proteins in the amounts necessary for

structural studies by NMR. Biophysical Society

President Suzanne Scarlata calls her “an incred-

ible biophysicist who will certainly continue to

bring quality science and prestige to the

Journal.”

Dyson received her

PhD in inorganic chem-

istry from the Universi-

ty of Sydney, Australia,

where she also did her

undergraduate work in

biochemistry. She did a

postdoctoral fellowship

at Massachusetts Insti-

tute of Technology and

from 1979 to 1984 was

a UNESCO Lecturer in

the School of Chemistry

at the University of New South Wales.

Dyson will be the 15th and first woman editor

of the

Biophysical Journal

. She is well-known for

her groundbreaking work with intrinsically dis-

ordered proteins and has published extensively

on this and other topics in more than 260 peer-

reviewed papers and book chapters. In addition,

she has served on numerous editorial boards and

as guest editor for several journal publications,

including

Peptide Research

,

Folding and Design

,

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

,

Biopolymers

,

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

,

Comprehensive Biophysics

, and

Quarterly Reviews

of Biophysics

. Her experience as a member of

the

Biophysical Journal

Editorial Board will serve

her well in her new role, as will her service as

a faculty representative on the Scripps Library

Committee, which grapples with current chal-

lenges in scholarly publishing.

(Continued on page 2)

Jane Dyson