Biophysical Society Bulletin | December 2021

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Subgroups Biological Fluorescence Young Fluorescence Investigator Award: Call for Nominations Nomination Deadline: December 30, 2021

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins The Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) Subgroup is looking forward to welcoming you to Subgroup Saturday on February 19, 2022, where all our speakers will attend in person: Birthe Kragelund , Keren Lasker , Guanghong Wei , Louise Jawerth , Jeremy Schmit , Manuel Müller , Sarah Rauscher , and Miao Yu (www. biophysics.org/2022meeting/program/subgroup-saturday). We also highly encourage all postdoctoral candidates to apply for this year’s IDP Subgroup postdoctoral award, which will come with an invitation to give a talk on Subgroup Saturday and a $500 honorarium sponsored by Keith Dunker (www. biophysics.org/awards-funding/subgroup-awards). We are also inviting all IDP Subgroup members, and in partic- ular students and postdocs, to join an informal get-together for dinner. You can register online for the event and prepay, and we have lowered the cost for students from $75 to $55 (https:/www.biophysics.org/store/products/product-de- tails?ProductName=2022-intrinsically-disordered-pro- teins-dinner-only). We look forward to seeing you all in San Francisco soon! Until then, and to help you keep up with the very dynamic and ever-evolving IDP research trends, our graduate student and postdoc representatives, Noah Wake and Aritra Chowdhury , have set up an online virtual journal club, the IDP State Letter, that publishes brief digests of interesting IDP reads by early career researchers in the community every month. We also would like to encourage you to register to receive updates of the newsletter (you can also register by visiting the website directly), and contact Noah and Aritra directly if you’d like to contribute or make suggestions: https:/docs.google.com/ forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNA_0J9YUqKH_xPlVCycSJGYSIvn- rk8iLqe9aZo8otMAi3HQ/viewform. — Edward Lemke , Chair — Carlos Castaneda , Secretary-Treasurer Membrane Transport The Membrane Transport Subgroup is happy to announce its program for the Subgroup symposium at the 2022 BPS Annual Meeting! We cannot wait to meet you back in person in San Francisco! We are looking forward to an excellent line- up of confirmed speakers: Isabelle Baconguis , Oregon Health Sciences University; Bill DeGrado , University of California, San Francisco; Jan-Philipp Machtens , FZ Jülich; and Crina Nimigean , Weill Cornell. In addition, there will be short talks from train- ees who were selected from our membership: Hoa Quynh Do , Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; Sepehr Deh- ghani-Ghahnaviyeh , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Sean R. Cleary , Loyola University Chicago.

The Young Fluorescence Investigator Award is given to an outstanding researcher at the beginning of his or her career for significant advancements and/or contributions in or using fluorescence methodologies. This award is sponsored by Horiba Scientific and consists of a $1,000 honorarium and an invitation to present a 20-minute research talk at the Sub- group Meeting during the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. Eligibility: All pre-tenure faculty or junior-level investigators who have completed their PhD and are working in the field of fluorescence; self-nominations are not allowed. Nomination packets must include the following: a Letter of Nomination that highlights how the candidate’s work rep- resents novel and exciting applications of fluorescence to biology and biophysics. Include the candidate’s CV, a reprint that exemplifies the candidate’s contribution, and two to three letters of support. Please send all nominations to gilad.haran@weizmann.ac.il. — Gilad Haran , Chair — Joachim Mueller , Secretary-Treasurer Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism The 2022 Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism Subgroup Symposium at the Annual Meeting, starting at 1:30 PM on Saturday, February 19, 2022, will cover exciting “New Insights into Mitochondrial Function” that have been enabled by advances in light and electron microscopy. Chaired by Karin Busch and Carmen Mannella , the symposium will feature pre- sentations on calcium signaling and regulation of ATP produc- tion ( Liron Boyman ), metabolic remodeling of crista structure ( Andrea Dlaskova ), the outer sheath of sperm mitochondria ( Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai ), TRAK2 regulation of mitochondri- al transport ( Adam Fenton ), and the perturbation of nucleoid dynamics by mutations in OPA1 ( Veronica Eisner ). — Uwe Schlattner and Evgeny Pavlov , Co-Chairs

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