Biophysical Society Bulletin | September 2025

Meetings

Congratulations to the Winners of the Biophysical Journal Poster Competition Biophysical Journal sponsors poster awards at BPS Thematic Meetings to highlight and support the work being done by the next generation of researchers. At the Beyond Simple Models: The Consequences of Membrane Complexity in Living Sys tems Thematic Meeting, 4 presenters were selected for their excellent research from the 25 posters that were shown. Student Winner and Poster Title: Elissa Moller , University of Maryland, USA Polymer-Extracted Structure of MSCS Reveals Mechanism of Inactivation Postdoc Winners and Poster Titles: Chelsea Brown , University of Groningen, The Netherlands An Integrative Modeling Approach to the Mitochondrial Cristae

Abigail Dommer , University of Groningen, The Netherlands When Lipids Go Airborne: Multiscale Modeling of Biological Aero sols Karan Sharma , Stockholm University, Sweden Investigating Membrane Asymmetry using Cryo-EM and Molecu lar Dynamics Simulations Biophysical Journal poster award presentation (from left to right): Sarah Veatch (judging committee), Elissa Moller, Chelsea Brown, Karan Sharma, Abigail Dommer, and Ilya Levental (judging committee).

2025 BPS-EBSA Student Poster Award Winners The Biophysical Society was pleased to sponsor student poster awards at the 15th European Biophysical Societies’ Association (EBSA) Conference in Rome, Italy that took place from June 30 through July 4. The winners, along with their home institutions and poster titles, are listed below. Blanca Bruschi , University of Pisa, Italy Performance of the LOCUAZ Binder Design Platform Anuj Tiwari , University of Exeter, United Kingdom Federico Nolasco , Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Italy Enhancing Nanobody Specificity: Experimental Evidence of the

Automated Screening of Polymicrobial Communities and Bac teria-Phage Interactions in Microdroplets using Image-Based AI Tools Marius F. W. Trollmann , Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlan gen-Nürnberg, Germany Decoding pKa Shifts in Lipid Nanoparticles through Constant-pH Simulations Emelie Weinhold , University of Stuttgart, Germany Parametrization of Interactions of Coarse Grained DNA Origami with Lipid Membranes Carter J. Wilson , Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany A Tale of Two Aquaporins: Structural Mechanisms of Gating and Inhibition in AQP3 and AQP7

Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy to Study Chromatin Organization during Cells Differentiation on Specific Substrates Chiara Caldini , University of Florence, Italy Investigating Molecular Compartmentalization in Bacteria with 3D Multicolour Expansion-PALM (Ex-PALM) Microscopy María González-Viegas , Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Contrasting Environments of the Two Flavins of Bifurcating Electron Transferring Flavoprotein Inspected via Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroelectrochemistry Ngoc Lan Le Nguyen , Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Charge Scaling to Dampen Overstabilization of Salt Bridges in Molecular Dynamics: Insulin–Receptor Case Lisa Longo , National Research Council, Italy Studying a Rare Disease from a Biophysical Point of View: The Example of cblC

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