Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2020

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Important Dates April 17, 2020 Spatial Organization of Biological Functions, Bangalore, India

May 1, 2020 Physical and Quantitative Approaches to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance, Stockholm, Sweden • Abstract Submission Deadline May 20, 2020 Physical and Quantitative Approaches to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance, Stockholm, Sweden • Early Registration Deadline

• Early Registration Deadline • Abstract Submission Deadline May 1, 2020 • Deadline for BPS Award Nominations

Student Spotlight Valentin Dunsing

University of Potsdam, Germany Institute of Biochemistry and Biology What do you wish you knew before you began your studies in biophysics?

Originally, I trained in physics so I knew fairly little about biology when I became interested in biophysics during my graduate studies. When I started reading biological papers, I literally needed to look up every second word. Although this was very difficult, everything I read was fascinating and opened a new world for me. Nevertheless, the more I learn about the complexity of biological systems, the harder I find it to combine this knowledge with a naive physicist’s view. In addition, it took me some time to realize that cartoons in textbooks or papers are mostly hypotheses rather than safe knowledge, which would have been useful to be aware of from the beginning.

Valentin Dunsing

Members in the News

Amitabha Chattopadhyay , CSIR Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, and Society member since 1984, received the Prof. G.N. Ramachandran Gold Medal for Excellence in Biological Sciences & Technology from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), government of India.

Amitabha Chattopadhyay

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