Biophysical Society Bulletin | March 2019

Member Corner

Important Dates BPS Thematic Meetings Multiscale Modeling of Chromatin: Bridging Experiment with Theory March 31–April 5, 2019, Les Houches, France

Revisiting the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology at the Single-Molecule Level July 15–18, 2019, Lima, Peru Abstract Submission Deadline: March 8, 2019 Early Registration Deadline: April 5, 2019

Quantitative Aspects of Membrane Fusion and Fission May 6–10, 2019, Padova, Italy

Student Spotlight Chon Lok Lei University of Oxford

Department of Computer Science As you move forward in science, what type of research do you see yourself doing? Why? My current research is in computational/mathematical modelling of electrophysiology. In particular, I am interested in tailoring mathematical models to individual stem-cell derived cardiomyocytes for studying pharmaceutical drug safety. I foresee myself continuing to use mathematical and computational models to explore and explain biological processes. As a physicist-turned-computational biologist, my goal would be to study biological systems in the way that physicists quantify physical systems, using advanced statistical models to design and analyze experiments to help in building models.

Chon Lok Lei

Members in the News

Jane Richardson , Duke University, and Society member since 1977, received the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Alexander Hol- laender Award in Biophysics. (photo credit: Jared Lazarus, Duke University)

Gregory Voth , University of Chicago, and Soci- ety member since 1996, received the Ameri- can Chemical Society’s Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical & Experimental Chemistry of Liquids.

Jane Richardson

Gregory Voth

Eve Marder , Brandeis University, and Society member since 1995, received the NAS Award in the Neurosciences.

Lewis Kay , University of Toronto, and Society member since 1998, received the Nakanishi Award.

Eve Marder

Lewis Kay

Two Society members were named co-winners of the American Physical Society’s Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics: Ken Dill , State University of New York, Stony Brook, and Society member since 1979; and Jose Onuchic , Rice University, and Society member since 1991.

Ken Dill

Jose Onuchic

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