Biophysical Society Bulletin | September 2021

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The IDP Subgroup is proud to continue promoting talented postdocs through our symposium and we hope you will con- sider nominations (or being nominated) for the Postdoctoral Award by December 15. Instructions can be found at www. biophysics.org/awards-funding/subgroup-awards. The win- ners will be selected for oral presentations at the IDP sympo- sium and will receive an honorarium! To learn more about activities and future seminars in the IDP community, please join the IDP Subgroup at www.biophysics. org/subgroups to receive updates and post comments via BPS discussion forums. Please follow us on Twitter: @BPS_IDP. — Edward Lemke , Chair — Carlos Castañeda , Secretary-Treasurer Mechanobiology The Mechanobiology Subgroup is looking forward to an exciting, in-person 2022 meeting in San Francisco. We have an excellent lineup of invited speakers. We encourage you to submit abstracts for consideration for presentation at the Subgroup meeting. We strongly encourage young investigators to submit nom- inations for the Early Career Award in Mechanobiology. We did not select an awardee for the online meeting in 2021, but we will be presenting the award in 2022. Please publicize this opportunity and submit applications at www.biophysics.org/ awards-funding/subgroup-awards. The Mechanobiology Subgroup is also soliciting nominations for the next Chair Elect of the Subgroup. The current Chair Elect is Virgile Viasnoff , who will be stepping up as Chair after the 2022 meeting. Per the Subgroup bylaws, we are seeking

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins The Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDP) Subgroup is excited to announce our speaker lineup for the Subgroup symposium on Saturday, February 19, 2022 from 8:30 AM–12:30 PM PST at the 2022 Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Our lineup of outstanding investigators will present talks on experimental and computational approaches to studying the structure-function relationship of IDPs in biological systems. Speakers include Birthe Kragelund (University of Copenhagen), who studies the connection between membrane proteins and disorder using NMR spectroscopy; Keren Lasker (Scripps Research), who currently investigates biomolecular conden- sates in bacteria and is exploiting this knowledge to design artificial membraneless organelles in higher order organ- isms; Guanghong Wei (Fudan University), who uses molecular dynamics simulations to study self-assembly and conforma- tional properties of IDPs; Louise Jawerth (Leiden University), who recently received a Vidi grant to investigate the interplay between protein condensation and amyloid fiber formation; Jeremy Schmit (Kansas State University), who develops and employs theoretical and computational methods to model IDP self-assembly and phase transitions; Manuel Mueller (Kings College), who uses chemical biology tools to study how peptide backbone modifications and other post-translational modifications modulate IDP structure and function; and Sarah Rauscher (University of Toronto), who develops computa- tional methods to accurately represent and obtain atomistic descriptions of IDP structure and dynamics. We thank program co-chairs Priya Banerjee , Galia Debelouchina , and Jeetain Mittal for bringing together a very exciting group of investigators on a variety of IDP-related topics.

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