Biophysical Society Bulletin | July/August 2020

Subgroups

Subgroups We are delighted to announce Multiscale Genome Organization (MGO) as the newest Biophysical Society Subgroup. Thomas C. Bishop (Louisiana Tech) and Tamar Schlick (NYU) will serve as the founding Co-Chairs of the Subgroup. Special thanks to Lars Nordenskiöld (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and Andrzej Stasiak (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) who helped initiate the formation of the MGO Subgroup. The formation of this new Subgroup is entirely thanks to our community. At the March – April 2019 BPS Thematic Meeting on chromatinmultiscale modeling held in Les Houches, France, participants enthusiastically proposed and endorsed the forma- tion of this Subgroup. The aimof the Subgroup, is to bring together biologists, chemists, physicists, andmathematicians to discuss and launch collabora- tions and advance the field of genome structure, dynamics, func- tion, and applications through new conceptual approaches and perspectives. We are particularly excited about bringing together experimentalists and theoreticians/modelers and emphasizing the interplay between techniques and ideas. The Multiscale Genome Organization Subgroup is interested in understanding better the complex multiscale features and properties of genomes, frombases to chromosome organization and interactions, and inspiring scientists to developmodels and experimental strategies onmany spatial and temporal scales to address all relevant components of the chromosome fold- ing problem and the epigenomic regulation of gene expression. Suchmultiscale approaches, combining experimental data and Grants & Opportunities James Prize in Science and Technology Integration This $50,000 prize honors outstanding contributions made by researchers who are able to adopt or adapt information or techniques from outside their fields, and thus integrate knowledge from two or more disciplines (e.g., engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biol- ogy, biomedicine, computational sciences, and more) to solve a major contemporary challenge not addressable from a single disciplinary perspective. Deadline: October 5, 2020 Website: http:/www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/ James-Prize.html

modeling and informatics, are necessary to extract and identi- fy structure and function relationships on various scales, from individual nucleic acids to whole genomes, and to pursue import- ant applications inmedicine and genomics. The special issue of Biophysical Journal publishedMay 5, 2020 (Volume 118), describes our dazzling subject and the inventivemethods already developed for and applied to its study. As we continue with our efforts, we welcome your ideas and sug- gestions on how tomove forward and advance our field. We hope to see you all soon, whether virtually or in person. — Tamar Schlick , Subgroup Co-Chair — Tom Connor Bishop , Subgroup Co-Chair

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