Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2018

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Biophysical Journal Poster AwardWinners Congratulations to the winners of the Biophysical Journal Outstanding Poster Awards given at the meeting The Heart by Numbers: Integrating Theory, Computation and Experiment to Ad- vance Cardiology held September 4–7, 2018, in Berlin, Germa- ny. The poster winners were selected by a committee made up of top biophysicists including organizers of the meeting and editors of Biophysical Journal . The winners were recognized at the close of the meeting and received a certificate recognizing their achievement and a monetary prize.

Funding Increase for NIH Approved; NSF Left Flat On September 13, House and Senate negotiators approved a conference committee report and advanced a “minibus” fund- ing package, which included appropriations for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In the package, NIH is set to receive a $2 billion funding increase compared to Fiscal Year 2018 levels. However, the package also included a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR), which provided flat, continued funding to keep federal agencies from shuttering on September 30. Unfortu- nately, the National Science Foundation (NSF) fell under the CR and any increase in funding will have to wait until the lame duck session begins, after the midterm elections. This is partic- ularly unfortunate as both House and Senate appropriators had proposed funding increases for the agency.

and passed the package by a 361–61 vote on September 26. On September 28, President Trump signed the package into law, averting a potential government shutdown on September 30. The House is now expected to be in recess through the mid- term elections. The Senate is likely to remain in session, period- ically, to consider various nominations for executive and judicial positions. The Society would like to thank our members for taking action over the last month in support of the NIH funding increase. BPS members generated over 225 messages to Congress in support of the package.

Winners of the Biophysical Journal Outstanding Poster Awards, from left, Meruyert Kudai- bergenova, Chon Lik Lei, Ilse van Herck, and Caroline Mendonca Costa. Meruyert Kudaibergenova University of Calgary, Canada State-Dependent Block of the HERG K+ Channel by Ivabradine: Allosteric Coupling to Drug Lipophilic Access Ilse van Herck Simula Research Laboratory, Norway In Silico Model of SK Channel Gating, Temperature Dependence and Calcium Sensitivity

The postdoctoral fellow poster winner and poster title are:

Caroline Mendonca Costa Kings College London, United Kingdom

Investigating the Role of Left Ventricular Lead Location in Arrhythmogenic Risk in Infarct Patients Undergoing Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy The student winners and posters titles are: Chon Lok Lei University of Oxford, United Kingdom Rapid Characterisation of HERG Kinetics Using Optimised Protocols on a High-Throughput System

On September 18, the Senate advanced this package by a re- sounding 93–7 bipartisan vote. The House quickly followed suit

British Scientists Fret a “No Deal” Brexit Scientists in the United Kingdom (UK) are raising alarms over the impacts to the research community of a “no deal” Brexit. Scientists for the EU, a campaign group started by British sci- entists, released a report in late August on the British govern- ment’s latest technical notes on Brexit stating the UK will no longer be eligible for three of the European Union’s (EU) major research funding programs. Their analysis states that up to 45 percent of EU research funding to the UK would be lost in a “no deal” Brexit. The British government maintains that it hopes to avoid leav- ing the EU without a deal, and is working hard to ensure that the UK maintains access to EU-supported research projects. The British government must put a deal in place with the EU by March 29, 2019, or risk a hard Brexit.

Golden Goose Awards Highlight Federally Supported Research

The Golden Goose Award was established in 2012 and officially recognizes scientists whose federally funded basic research has led to in- novations or inventions that have a significant impact on humanity or society. The Biophysical Society is an annual sponsor of the event. The awardees and the funding source for their research are:

The Biophysical Society series is pleased to present the completely revised second edition of Physics of Cancer by Claudia Mierke. Featuring updated, new content and figures to make this the must-have two-volume set of books on the topic.

BiophysicalSocietyseries Physics of Cancer Interplay between tumor biology, inflammation and cell mechanics

BiophysicalSocietyseries Physics of Cancer Cellular and microenvironmental effects

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Chickens, Cells and Cytokines Stanley Cohen Funded by NIH Implicit Bias, Explicit Science Mahzarin Banaji , Anthony Greenwald , and Brian Nosek Funded by NIH and NSF

The Goose Gland: Discoveries in Immunology Bruce Glick (posthumously) Funded by NIH, NSF, and US Department of Agriculture

Author: Claudia Mierke Expected publication: September 2018

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