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Rally for Medical Research Makes the News

Last week we asked you to join the Rally for Medical Research, either in person or online, to draw attention to the importance of federal funding for medical research and the National Institutes of Health.  I am happy to report … Continue reading

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Let Your Voice Be Heard!

The Biophysical Society is joining 200 other organizations is sponsoring the Rally for Medical Research on Monday April 8, 2013 at 11 am.  Join fellow researchers and advocates for medical research on the steps of the Carnegie Library in Washington, … Continue reading

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Networking Gets Hands-On in Portugal

Event organizers in Lisbon, Portugal were careful to provide hands-on practical learning sessions as part of their three day course that brought together 49 PhD and MD students with backgrounds ranging from medicine and biology to biochemistry and engineering. Held … Continue reading

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Improve Biophysics Information on Wikipedia and Enter to Win!

Biophysics topics on Wikipedia are currently rated “C-Class,” so the Biophysical Society is joining with WikiProject Biophysics to sponsor a six month Wiki-Edit Contest aimed at improving the quality of existing pages and increasing the number of biophysics topics covered. … Continue reading

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The 2013 Workshop on FRET microscopy will be held from March 11-16, 2013.

Dear BPS members, I thought i should definitely share this event with you all, since many stopped by my poster and also requested about learning more about fluorescence microscopy and FRET technique. Here is your opportunity …….. The W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, a … Continue reading

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A week of ‘FRET’ing with all the biophysicist….

The week of featured  presentation sessions, interspersed by keynotes, highlight presentations and poster sessions. I was surprised to discover that the field of biophysics/imaging has moved on from traditional sequence analysis to more of a structural-biology approach; there was a … Continue reading

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Information for Communication

I haven’t had the chance up until now to look into the information that some kind individuals shared with me after the communicating science workshop.  I was surprisingly able to decode the scribbling in my notebook and find everything online … Continue reading

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Science III (part2)

The tone is always friendly, and we have found great socializing with different labs of common grounds, especially the people from Baumgarts lab who are also investigating partioning and are specialists with GUVs, and also the french Amphipathic Helix-pack from … Continue reading

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Science III (part1)

This conference has shown to be a cornucopia of interesting data regarding membrane curvature sensing/deformation, especially regarding amphipathic helices and N-BARs, as are my specific metier. Hence, we find ourselves constantly inspired and challenged by results and methods from other … Continue reading

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How to do it like a Biophysicist?

With my limited experience of attending the BPS annual meeting, I made certain observations of how biophysicists do things. Please feel free to let me know if my observations are inaccurate! How to attend talks/poster sessions like a biophysicist? Run! Just … Continue reading

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