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CONTENTS
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