Biophysical Society Bulletin | October 2019

Member Corner

On The Move Clarice D. Aiello has moved from her postdoc position at Stanford University to lead the Quantum Biology Tech Lab at UCLA. Josh Wand will move from the University of Pennsylvania to become head of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University in College Station.

Have you changed positions recently or know of a BPS member who has? Send news of your move to ccurry@biophysics.org.

Student Spotlight Jan Huertas

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine Department of Physics As you move forward in science, what type of research do you see yourself doing? Why? In the future, I see myself still working to understand how chromatin gets packed in the nucleus. I find it amazing how so much genetic information is stored in such a small space, and I believe we still have a long way towards understanding all the players in this process (chromatin remodellers, histones and their mod- ifications, transcription factors and all the transcription machinery...). I’m currently looking at transcription factor nucleosome interactions at the atomic level, but I would like to work on it on larger scales, and figure out ways of bridging every scale of simulation and experiments.

Jan Huertas

Members in the News

Gregory Caputo , Rowan University, and Society member since 1999 was named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Gregory Caputo

Grants & Opportunities Kavli Prize This prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for outstanding scientific achievements in Astrophysics, Nanoscience, and Neuroscience.

Alan T. Waterman Award This award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by the National Science Foundation. A candidate must be a US citizen or permanent resident. He or she must be 40 years of age or younger, OR not more than 10 years beyond receipt of their PhD degree. Deadline: October 21, 2019 Website: https:/www.nsf.gov/od/waterman/water- man.jsp

Deadline: December 1, 2019 Website: http:/ kavliprize.org/

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