Biophysical Society Bulletin | June 2024

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Gratitude for Our Volunteers The Society would like to express our gratitude for the outgoing committee members listed below for their time, participation, and expertise. These volunteers have made a tremendous impact and difference within the Biophysical Society and the bio physics community. Thank you again—your efforts are truly appreciated! Awards Committee Jonathon Howard Timothy M. Lohman Committee for Inclusion and Early Careers Committee Francisco N. Barrera Robert K. Nakamoto

Public Affairs Leah Cairns Luyi Cheng Edward H. Egelman Steven Moss Michael Rudokas Eric J. Sundberg Elmer Zapata-Mercado Publications Committee Carlos R. Baiz Kathleen B. Hall Diego Krapf Waldemar Kulig Daumantas Matulis

Jennifer L. Ross Harpreet Singh Ragothaman M. Yennamalli Education Committee Liskin Swint-Kruse Fellows Committee Mauricio Montal Ruth Nussinov Membership Committee

Diversity (CID) Anna N. Bukiya

Stephen Jett Vivian Onyali Committee on Professional Opportunities for Women (CPOW)

Kasper B. Hansen Michaela Jansen Hong Li Emily Liman Leslie M. Loew Vera Moiseenkova-Bell David Piston Kenton Swartz

Melanie J. Cocco Seda Kocaman Alla S. Kostyukova Roger Bryan Sutton David V. Svintradze Manuela Zoonens

Call for Thematic Meetings Seize the chance to organize a meeting on a topic close to you, with administrative support from the Society. Three to four Thematic Meetings will be selected on focused topics that have not been recently presented. The Society under writes each meeting up to $10,000 and provides complete meeting management, including all web and onsite components. What makes these meetings unique from other small meetings is that they bring together researchers from disparate dis ciplines to work on a common problem, which is what biophysicists do. Thematic Meetings have taken place throughout the world, reaching communities that often cannot attend the Society’s Annual Meeting. Criteria for BPS Thematic Meetings are: • Organizers must be Society members; • Topics must be timely, not recently addressed, and should foster interdisciplinary and international research; • Each must be a standalone meeting, not a satellite meeting that already meets periodically; • Speakers must present new and exciting research; • The proposed list of speakers must represent the geographic, gender, and ethnic diversity of Society membership; and • International sites are recommended. Only complete proposals submitted through the online submission site (https:/www.surveymonkey.com/r/WWF5WG8) will be considered by the Thematic Meetings Committee. Previous and upcoming Thematic Meetings can be viewed at www.biophysics.org/thematic-meetings. Submission deadline for proposals is Tuesday, July 16, 2024.

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