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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
12
SEPTEMBER
2017
BPS Student Poster Awards at EBSA 2017
The Biophysical Society (BPS) again supported the European Biophysical Societies Association (EBSA)
conference, which was held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 16–20, by sponsoring a student poster
competition. This was the fifth EBSA meeting at which BPS sponsored this competition. The 2017 EBSA
conference was held jointly with the International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB). Over 80
students applied for the BPS awards. The 12 students selected, listed below, represent the breadth and diver-
sity of biophysics. But, most importantly, they represent the future strength of the field.
The Society is indebted to the work of the selection committee:
Daumantas Matulis
, chair,
Mibel Aguilar
,
Paolo Bianchini
,
Tharin Blumenschein
,
Felix Goñi
,
Robin Maytum
,
Manuel Prieto
,
Catherine Royer
, and
Ilpo
Vattulainen
.
The twelve winners each received a $500 travel award and a complimentary membership to the
Biophysical Society.
Amy Beedle
Kings College London,
United Kingdom
Tailoring Protein Nanomechanics
with Chemical Reactivity
Lukas Braun
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Multi-scale Simulations of Focal
Adhesion Kinase at PIP Containing
Membranes
Amira El Merhie
Italian Institute of Technology
CHO Cells on Uniform and Patterned
SLG: Adhesion and Proliferation
Alberto Hidalgo
Complutense University, Spain
Pulmonary Surfactant and Drug
Delivery: Sharing an Interfacial Trip
Madlen Luckner
Humboldt University of Berlin,
Germany
Influenza Virus vRNPs: Quantitative
Investigations via Fluorescence Cross-
correlation Spectroscopy
Sara Mattana
University of Perugia, Italy
Brillouin Microspectroscopy and
Raman Analysis for the Study of
Amyloid Plaques in Transgenic Mouse
Oleg Mikhajlov
Institut Curie, France
Mechanosensing and Dynamics of Cell
Filopodia
Jonas Mücksch
Max Planck Institute, Germany
Quantification of Surface Binding by
Wide-field Total Internal Reflection
FCS
The majority of articles submitted to
Biophysical Journal
are from authors outside of the United
States —58% compared with 42% from authors in the United States.
Numbers
By the