Biophysical Society Newsletter | December 2017

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2017

DECEMBER

BJ Poster Award Winners

as the Basis for Targeting Allosteric Modulation Sites for Drug Design Leticia Stock, Universidad de Brasilia, Brasilia, DF, Brazil Molecular Insights into Kv1.2 Channel Modulation by General Anesthetic Sevoflurane Post docs Marisol Sampedra Castenada, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Disorders, UCL Institute of Neu- rology, London, United Kingdom Gating Modifier Toxins as Hits for Developing Blockers of Nav1.4 Sodium Channel Omega Cur- rents: Domain I-specific Effect of Spider Toxin Hm-3 David Baez-Nieto, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts The T-type Calcium Channel CaV3.3 (CACNA1I) and Schizophrenia: A Case Study in What We Can Learn from Human Population Genetics to Un- derstand Structure-Function Relationships in Ion Channels

Left to right, Marisol Sampedra Castenada, Leticia Stock, Marc A. Dämgen, and David Baez-Nieto.

The Biophysical Journal sponsored a poster com- petition at the Mexico City Thematic Meeting. Two student and two postdoctoral winners were selected. Congratulations to these young scientists! Students Marc A. Dämgen , University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Studying Protein-Lipid Interactions of a Pentameric Ligand-gated Ion Channel in a Synaptic Membrane

New at the 2018 Annual Meeting!

DataVisualization Monday, February 19, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

This interactive session will focus on how to best represent your data visually, whether for a talk, a poster, or publishing a paper. Different types of data require different approaches to presentation while the emergence of new ways to publish and present results are challenging traditional ways of showcasing outcomes and data. New tools and approaches are now enhancing how we interact with our data. How to determine the best approach, summarize complex material in easily digest- ible forms, and why simpler is better will all be discussed. Datasets and real examples of visual interpretations by participants will be discussed.