Biophysical Society Bulletin | January 2019

Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting

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Membership Committee The BPS Bulletin is running a series highlighting the Society’s committees to help members learn more about them and the kinds of things committee members do on behalf of BPS. The Membership Committee is charged with assessing changes in Society membership and needs, looking for nascent and underserved areas, and based on those assessments, developing plans to attract new members and retain existing members. The membership committee organizes several events at the BPS Annual Meeting. The First Time Attendee Drop-by orients newcomers in the navigation of the meeting and offers an opportunity to interact with committee members. The Dinner Meet-ups involve local student volunteers and engage attendees who came alone to the meeting or are interested in an insider view of the meeting city. Many first-time attendees also go the New Member Welcome Coffee. At this event, Society leaders provide information on Society activities and resources. The Industry Panel discusses topics of interest to members considering employment in this non-academic sector. At the Education & Career Opportunities Fair, participating institutions advertise their programs and opportunities. All these Annual Meeting activities have a strong component of networking. They are aligned with the Society goal of promoting career development of current and future biophysicists and fostering a global biophysical community. Starting this year, the committee is reviewing Travel Award demographics to assess whether awards are equitably given to various groups of biophysicists, including those whose country of residence is not the United States. On the lighter side, the Membership Committee designs the Biophysics Week T-shirt, composes the Daily Trivia, and chooses entries for the Biophysics World Cup (formerly “Biophysics Madness”). In outreach to future biophysicists, the committee selects Networking Events sponsored by the Society. These one-day grass- root events are organized across the globe; they bring together members and non-members to promote interactions and build the local biophysics community. To encourage continuity in membership and allow attendance to the Annual Meeting, the committee also selects recipients of the Bridging Award. The committee is made up of volunteer members who serve staggered three-year terms, renewable once. The current chair is Juliette Lecomte of Johns Hopkins University. The committee meets in person at the BPS Annual Meeting and via conference call in late summer each year to plan activities and evaluate their success.

Thismeeting will focus on how recent discoveries by single-moleculemanipulation and nanoscale imaging enablemolecular level understanding of biophysics with emphasis on replication, transcription, protein synthesis, chaperone-mediated protein folding/degradation, andmolecular motors. In addition, the goal is to feature the latest cutting-edge developments in singlemolecule instrumentation and nanoscale visualization, steeredmolecular dynamics simulations, and single-molecule applications for the study of pathogens and infectious diseases. The research done at the single-molecule level is inherently interdisciplinary, taking place at the interface of cell biology, physics, bioengineering, biochemistry, and computational biology. Thismeeting will bring together researchers with a wide range of expertise and interests who use single-molecule tools to address problems in each of these fields. Thismeeting will feature keynote speakers, selected talks from the submitted abstracts, discussion sessions, and poster presentations. Together, these events will provide the attendees—particularly students and junior researchers—multiple ways to interact with the leaders in the field, stimulate the exchange of ideas, and foster collaborations among them. Furthermore, thismeeting will provide a platform for scientists in other fields to get interested in single-molecule approaches and foster interdisciplinary collaborations. Revisiting the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology at the Single-Molecule Level July 18–21, 2019 | UTEC - Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología Lima, Peru

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Carlos Bustamante , University of California at Berkeley, United States Daniel Guerra , Cayetano Heredia University, Peru Victoria Guixé , University of Chile, Chile RodrigoMaillard , Georgetown University, United States EdwardMálaga-Trillo , Cayetano Heredia University, Peru Lía Pietrasanta , University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Piere Rodriguez Aliaga , Stanford University, United States Julio Valdivia , Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC), Peru Christian A.M. Wilson , University of Chile, Chile Francisco Barrantes , Pontifical University of Argentina, Argentina Carlos Bustamante , University of California, Berkeley, United States Olga Dudko , University of California at San Diego, United States Ruben Gonzalez , Columbia University, United States Tomas Kirchhausen, Harvard University, United States Melike Lakadamyali , Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, United States Rodrigo Maillard , Georgetown University, United States Matthias Rief , Technische Universität München, Germany Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga , Stanford University, United States Simon Scheuring , Weill Cornell Medical College, United States MichelleWang , Cornell University, United States Christian A.M. Wilson , University of Chile, Chile GijsWuite , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Jie Xiao , Johns Hopkins University, United States Xiaowei Zhuang , Harvard University, United States SPEAKERS Mauricio Baez , University of Chile, Chile

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BPS is already providing funding for science fair awards across the United States, and can also provide funding for awards at additional fairs where a BPS member wishes to judge. Fairs must be regional or state, high school level fairs. It is not required that they are in the United States. To view the fairs which we are already working with and to volunteer to judge, visit www.biophysics.org/science-fairs. To tell us about a fair that you’d like us to add, email scifairs@biophysics.org.

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 8, 2019

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