Biophysical Society Bulletin | September 2018

Member Corner

Members in the News

Angela Gronenborn , University of Pitts- burgh, current Society President and Society member since 1996, was award- ed the Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Jennifer Doudna , University of California, Berkeley and Society member since 2015, received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9.

Angela Gronenborn

Jennifer Doudna

A. James Hudspeth (not pictured), Rockefeller University and Society member since 1986, and Christine Petit (not pictured), Institut Pasteur and Society member since 2008, were awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for pioneering work on the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing

Important Dates BPS Thematic Meetings 63 rd BPS Annual Meeting March 2–6, 2019, Baltimore, Maryland Abstract Submission Deadline: October 1, 2018

Quantitative Aspects of Membrane Fusion and Fission May 6–10, 2019, Padova, Italy Abstract Submission Deadline: January 14, 2019 Early Registration Deadline: February 1, 2019 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

Multiscale Modeling of Chromatin: Bridging Experiment with Theory March 31–April 5, 2019, Les Houches, France Abstract Submission & Registration Deadline: December 1, 2018

Student Spotlight Shunshi Kohyama

NewMembership Benefit in 2019 Beginning with the 2019 dues cycle, Society membership will include one complimentary subgroup membership. Members may always join additional subgroups for $20 each. As before, all emeritus and student members may join as many subgroups as they wish for no additional fee. BPS subgroups are an integral part of the Society, providing year-round opportunities for members to meet, network, and collaborate within their more focused research communities while still enjoying the rich benefits of belonging to the broader biophysics world of the Biophysical Society.

Center for Biosciences and Informatics School of Fundamental Science and Technology, Keio University As you move forward in science, what type of re- search do you see yourself doing? Why? I would hope to contribute to experimental and some theoretical investigations into self-organizing sys- tems of life in a single-celled organism by bottom-up synthetic biological approach such as building-up of artificial cell models. I believe that these simplified but reliable approaches can give a more refined under- standing to the physical aspects of the living cell and the question of “what is life?”

Shunshi Kohyama

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