Biophysical Society Bulletin | February 2018

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Know the Editor Amedeo Caflisch

BJ Sponsors Awards at Recent IDP Conference The Biophysical Journal was pleased to support young inves- tigators by sponsoring poster awards at the recent Interna- tional Conference on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Forms, Functions, and Diseases in Mohali, India. Four winners, including three students and one postdoc, were selected from more than 100 posters. Students Reema Kathuria, Department of Biological Sciences Centre for Protein Science, Design and Engineering Indian Institute Of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali Aishwarya Agarwal, Amyloid Biology Laboratory Indian Institute of Science and Educational Research (IISER), Mohali Sasirekha Narayanasamy, Department of Biotechnology Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta school of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) Postdoc Bankinidhi Sahoo, Department of Chemical Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Department of Biochemistry Univeristy of Zurich Editor, Proteins

Amedeo Caflisch

Who would you like to sit next to at a dinner party? The late Mario del Monaco (1915–1982) and Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007). In my opinion, they have been the best dra- matic tenor and lyric tenor, respectively, of the past century. Del Monaco excelled, both as a singer and actor in Verdi’s Otello, which is arguably the most difficult tenor part of all of Verdi’s production. Luciano Pavarotti’s voice was the per- fection, and in several operas of Italianrepertoire, including the most difficult tenor roles in the operas of Rossini, Bellini, Verdi, and Puccini. Both del Monaco and Pavarotti had a great talent and the so-called “squillo” in the voice, which is a very rare gift. Importantly, they were practicing and/or rehearsing every day. Professional singing, particularly operatic singing, is similar to research science as you need both talent and hard work. At the dinner, I would not ask them to sing but rather which vocal exercises they practiced. (Singing, mainly in choirs, is my major hobby). How do you stay on top of all the latest developments in your field? This is difficult because of the explosion of journals and papers. The problem is exacerbated because the research activities in my group are rather broad as we not only develop simulation protocols and analysis tools for complex systems (mainly atomistic simulations of proteins) but also perform biochemical and biophysical assays to validate the predictions of our high-throughput docking campaigns. My PhD stu- dents and postdocs keep me updated. They are very efficient in identifying relevant papers with novel methods and/or results. Furthermore, I receive periodically table of contents by e-mail from a few journals that I want to scan myself. In addition, I read many manuscripts as reviewer for several journals and as member of the editorial board of the Biophysical Journal.

Meet the Editor-in-Chief at the BPS Annual Meeting

Meet Jane Dyson , Editor-in-Chief of Biophysical Journal at Booth 200 in the Exhibit Hall, Monday, February 19. Stop by between 2:00 and 3:00 pm to discuss publication of your work or to let her know your thoughts about Biophysical Journal .

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In 2017, 12% of articles published in Biophysical Journal were open access.

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