Biophysical Society Bulletin | July-August 2022

Council Update

Officers President

Gail Robertson President-Elect Taekjip Ha Past-President Frances Separovic Secretary Erin Sheets Treasurer Samantha Harris Council Patricia Bassereau Henry Colecraft Erin C. Dueber Martin Gruebele Gilad Haran Kumiko Hayashi Syma Khalid Francesca Marassi Susan Marqusee Carolyn A. Moores

exciting! In terms of BPS in 2030, we brainstormed more than 50 ideas, including challenges and opportunities for what the Society will look like and how we’ll be supporting members into the future. From here, we began to design our path to that defined future and considered what we could realistically achieve in the next few years, thinking about what outcomes we want to achieve and how we would measure success. A good strategic plan should cover a maximum of three to five years and should be reviewed annually so that, as things change, we can change too, and reprioritize or revise as needed. We accomplished a lot in Madison, but there is still work to be done. Our strategic planning consultant, Elisa Pratt , is synthesizing everything we did during those 10.5 hours of strategic discussion and will be working with the Council and senior staff to review and reconcile a final draft that encapsulates our potential, our priorities, and our plan forward. It will include performance measures, metrics, and milestones. Staff will then be tasked with extrapolating the tactics necessary to achieve our objectives by way of an implementation matrix to guide future work of staff, committees, and other volunteers. Our goal is to have this new strategic plan ready for Council to approve this fall, and we look forward to sharing it with all of you as we look forward to the next several years and leading biophysics and the Biophysical Society into the future.

Kandice Tanner Valeria Vasquez Biophysical Journal Vasanthi Jayaraman Editor-in-Chief The Biophysicist Sam Safran Editor-in-Chief Biophysical Reports

Jörg Enderlein Editor-in-Chief

Society Office Jennifer Pesanelli Executive Officer Newsletter

Executive Editor Jennifer Pesanelli Managing Editor John Long Production Ray Wolfe Proofreader/Copy Editor The Biophysical Society Newsletter (ISSN 0006-3495) is published eleven times per year, January-December, by the Biophysical Society, 5515 Security Lane, Suite 1110, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Distributed to USA members and other countries at no cost. Cana dian GST No. 898477062. Postmaster: Send address changes to Biophysical Society, 5515 Security Lane, Suite 1110, Rockville, MD 20852. Copyright © 2022 by the Biophysical Society. Darren Early Laura Phelan

Renew Your Membership for 2023 Let’s stay connected, continue collaborations, and advance science together. Don’t wait to renew your membership. Renew today and take advantage of all your

membership benefits for 2023. biophysics.org/renew

Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

July-August 2022

3

T H E N E W S L E T T E R O F T H E B I O P H Y S I C A L S O C I E T Y