Biophysical Society Bulletin | September 2023

Thematic Meeting

In addition to speakers, 33 posters were presented during the three active poster sessions, which allowed for vigorous discussions and the generation of new ideas. Biophysical Journal sponsored four awards for outstanding poster presentations by graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Congratulations to the four awardees! In addition to science, there was time for social interactions and sightseeing in the medieval town of Canterbury, such as the historic Canterbury Cathedral, and the ocean-side town of Whitstable. The meeting was organized by Michael Regnier (University of Washington, USA) and Michael Geeves (University of Kent, United Kingdom), with Neil Kad (University of Kent, United Kingdom) as the local organizer. The organizing committee also consisted of Silvia Blemker (University of Virginia, USA), William Lehman (Boston University, USA), Andrew McCulloch (University of California San Diego, USA), Jil Tardiff (University of Arizona, USA), and Jolanda Vander Veldon (Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands).

Congratulations to the Winners of the Biophysical Journal Poster Competition Student Winners and Poster Titles: Saffie Mohran , University of Washington, USA Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mutation R403Q Develops Ac tin-Mediated Mechanical and Structural Dysfunction in Porcine Ventricle Tissue Ateeqa Naim , University of Kent, United Kingdom Investigating the Spatial Distribution of SRX in Cardiac Myofibrils Using Single Molecule Imaging Abigail Teitgen , University of California San Diego, USA 2-Deoxy-ATP Improves Systolic Ventricular Function in a Multi scale Computational Model of Heart Failure

Poster Award Winners with Judging Panel Co-Chair Sam Harris (right)

Postdoc Winner and Poster Title: Divya Pathak , Stanford University, USA HCM-Causing Mutations G256E and G768R in B-Cardiac Myosin Cause Hypercontractility by Opening Myosin Heads

BPS 2024 IUPAB Lecturer

The IUPAB-sponsored invited speaker at BPS 2024 will be Tamara Rosenbaum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Rosenbaum will speak at the symposium “New Insights into Ion

Channel Regulation.” She is currently a full-time professor and Chair of the Department of Cogni tive Neurosciences at the Institute for Cellular Physiology of UNAM, where she works on several aspects of the structure of TRP channels and their roles in physiology. Rosenbaum is a member of the Biophysical Society, the Mexican Society for Neurosciences, the Mexican Society for Physiolog ical Sciences, the advisory editorial board of the Journal of General Physiology , and editorial board of Cell Calcium . She is also an elected member of the Academies of Sciences of Latin America and an elected fellow of the Academy of Physiology of the International Union of Physiological Sciences. She has received several awards for her work including the award for the Best Young Investigator in Natural Sciences by the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the award for Best Young Investigator in Natural Sciences by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Glaxo-Smith-Klein Na tional Prize for Biomedical Research, two special grants by the Miguel Aleman Foundation, and the Marcos Moshinky Fellowship, among others.

Tamara Rosenbaum

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