Biophysical Society Bulletin | May 2020

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Important Dates May 31, 2020 • Deadline for BPS Award Nominations

July 1, 2020 65th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting • Abstract Submission Open

Student Spotlight Maiwase Tembo University of Pittsburgh

Department of Biological Sciences What do you wish you knew before you began your studies in biophysics?

I wish I knew there was a place where my love for physics and biology met and complimented each other. I liked physics concepts but not enough to ask many questions in that area. I liked biology but was not excited about it. I learned about biophysics in my first year of graduate school from my research mentor Anne Carlson . As she described the fast block to polyspermy, the way I thought about cells changed. I was drawn to their electrical properties. When we read Bertil Hille ’s Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes together, biophysics went from some- thing I knew nothing about, to all I wanted to learn.

Maiwase Tembo

Members in the News Kristian Franze , University of

Two Society members were named Cottrell Scholars: Carlos Baiz , University of Texas at Austin and Society member since 2012, and Elena Koslover , University of California, San Diego, and Society member since 2008.

Cambridge and Society member since 2008, was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship.

Kristian Franze

Carlos Baiz

Elena Koslover

George D. Rose , Johns Hopkins University and Society member since 1980, received an honorary degree from Bard College.

Karen Fleming Cathermine Drennan

Martin Gruebele James Bowie

George D. Rose

Five Society members received awards from the Protein Society: Karen Fleming , Johns Hopkins University and Society member since 2004, received the Carl Brändén Award; Stephen Sligar , (not pictured) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Society member since 1985, received the Christian B. Anfinsen Award; Catherine Drennan , Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Society member since 2011, received the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award; Martin Gruebele , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Society member since 1998, received the Hans Neurath Award; James Bowie , University of California, Los Angeles and Society member since 2004, received the Stein & Moore Award.

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