Biophysical Society Bulletin | June 2020

Publications Member C rner

On The Move In the Fall of 2020, Ilya Levental will be moving his lab to the University of Virginia Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and the Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology. The lab will continue their investigations of the compositions-structure-function nexus in complex cellular membranes. Specifically, trying to understand how membrane compositions are determined and regulated and how these regulate the function of membrane proteins.

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Student Spotlight Rachel Leicher Rockefeller University

Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry Tri-Institutional Program in Chemical Biology (TPCB) What do you wish you knew before you began your studies in biophysics?

Rachel Leicher

I first learned about biophysics and single-molecule techniques in an undergraduate physical chemistry class. I became intrigued by optical tweezers. It wasn’t until I started my graduate research in biophysics that I grew to appreciate the broad array of questions that can be studied using optical traps. I continue to be amazed by the creativity of biophysicists as we push techniques further to understand more complex mechanisms.

Members in the News Yu Sun , University of Toronto and Society member since 2018,

Two Society members were named 2020 Goldwater Scholars: Annie Liang , Johns Hop- kins University and Society member since 2019, and Tyler Brittain , James Madison University and Society member since 2018.

was named a 2020 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Yu Sun

Annie Liang

Tyler Brittain

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