Monthly Archives: June 2012

Vibrant BPS Networking Event at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis

As spring returned to the southeastern U.S., St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. provided the site of the first Symposium on Biomolecular Structure, Dynamics and Function, April 27-29, 2012. More than 140 attendees from California to Massachusetts gathered … Continue reading

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The Shape of Worms on the BiophysJ Cover

Author Jean-Marc Di Meglio discusses the science behind the featured cover of the June 20 issue of Biophysical Journal. The figure is from the article, Locomotion control of Caenorhabditis elegans through confinement, by authors Félix Lebois, Pascal Sauvage, Charlotte Py, … Continue reading

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NIH Investigators Face Increased Scrutiny of Financial Conflicts of Interest

Last August, the US Department of Health and Human Services adopted new Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) regulations that apply to NIH-funded investigators.  The rules must be implemented by Institutions receiving public health service funds by August 24, 2012, which … Continue reading

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BPS Networking Event in the Bluegrass State

The Bluegrass Molecular Biophysics Networking Symposium was held at the University of Kentucky on Friday May 11, 2012. Over eighty biophysicists and other interested scientists attended. Participants were faculty, postdocs and students from ten universities located in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, … Continue reading

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