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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
5
JANUARY
2016
Welcome New Editorial
Board Members
As mentioned above, BJ prides itself on the dedi-
cation of its editors to assure the fair and rapid
handling of submitted papers. Editors are all work-
ing scientists who volunteer their time to maintain
the quality of BJ for the biophysics community.
They are charged with seeking qualified reviewers
and making editorial decisions based on their own
judgments, as informed by the reviews. Editorial
Board members serve three-year terms and the
terms are staggered. We have already welcomed
the new members of Section I, above. Here, I am
pleased to welcome the other newly appointed
members of Editorial Board class of 2018 and
thank them very much for agreeing to serve.
A full roster of the current Editorial Board, new
and continuing, is available through the BJ
website.
Section II. Proteins:
Nancy Forde
,
James Shorter
,
Jill Trewhella
Section III. Channels and Transporters:
Henry
Colecraft
,
Peter Hegemann
,
Vasanthi Jayaraman
,
Eric Sobie
Section IV. Membranes:
Stephen Evans
,
Georg
Pabst
,
Ana-Sunčana Smith
Section V. Molecular Machines, Motors and
Nanoscale Biophysics:
Thomas Perkins
,
David
Thomas
Section VI. Cell Biophysics:
Julie Biteen
,
Alex
Dunn
,
Catherine Galbraith
,
Philip LeDuc
,
Valentin
Nägerl
,
Elsa Yan
Section VII. Systems Biophysics:
Natalie Balaban
Reference
1. Loew, L. M. 2015. Author Appreciation.
Biophysical Journal 109:E1-2.
Paper of the Year Award
Congratulations to
Jochen Hub
of the Institute for
Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University,
Göttingen, Germany, and winner of the 2015
Biophysi-
cal Journal
Paper of the Year Award. His paper,
Inter-
pretation of Solution X-Ray Scattering by Explicit Solvent
Molecular Dynamics
was coauthored with
Po-chia Chen
and was published in Volume 108 (10) (May 19, 2015)
of
Biophysical Journal.
The Paper of the Year Award was established to recognize one outstanding
paper by a corresponding author who is also a young investigator. Papers are
nominated for the award by the Associate Editors of the Journal. Upon learn-
ing of the award, Hub responded, “This is a surprise; I am very very hon-
ored.” Hub will receive his award and give a short talk at the Awards Sympo-
sium during the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting.
Jochen Hub