Biophysical Society Newsletter - April 2016

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2016

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Biophysics 101: FRET During the 60th Annual Biophysical Society meeting, the Education Committee once again sponsored Biophysics 101, a session focusing on educating participants about new or noteworthy biophysical techniques. Steve Vogel , of the National Institutes of Health, and Kalina Hristova , of John’s Hopkins University, gave a presentation on Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), highlighting the power and limitations of this technique. FRET is widely used to study protein structure and protein in vitro and in vivo, in molecular ensembles and in single molecules. The utility of FRET comes from its ability to resolve distances that are smaller than the diffraction limit of light, in the 20 to 100 Angstrom range. A recording of the session is available to Society members.

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61 st Annual Meeting

February 11–15, 2017 NewOrleans, Louisiana

National Lecturer: Eric Betzig, HHMI, Janelia Research Campus Imaging Cellular Structure and Dynamics fromMolecules to Organisms

Housing Opens: March 14

Abstract Submission and Registration Open: July 1

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