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1/27/2020
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BPS is Proud to Announce Four New Student Chapters

Following the fall 2019 Call for Student Chapters, BPS is pleased to welcome four new chapters into its Student Chapter Program: the University of Alabama/Mississippi State University, University of Buffalo, Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia, and UMASS Lowell Student Chapters!

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1/31/2020
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My Favorite Biophysical Journal Papers of 2019 – Part 1

This is the first blog post in a 3-part series from social media contributor Navish Wadhwa, covering his favorite Biophysical Journal papers of 2019.

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2/3/2020
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Career Conversations Over Coffee

The Arizona Student Chapter of the Biophysical Society recently organized a networking event, “Career Conversations over Coffee.” The event was organized to bring together a panel of scientists to share their experiences of being in academia and/or industry and the journey that led them there.

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2/4/2020
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Chromatin Condensates in the Cell Nucleus

The idea that liquid droplets contribute to the structure of the cell interior has existed since the late 1800s. In the past decade, interest in this concept has been rejuvenated with the discovery that many proteins (some of them characteristic of well-studied membraneless structures in cells), with or without nucleic acids, can spontaneously form liquid droplets in vitro via liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS).

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2/10/2020
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Introducing the 2020 Annual Meeting Guest Bloggers!

Each year at the Annual Meeting, we invite a group of attendees to share their experiences and perspectives on the Society's blog. Read about this year's crop of bloggers below, and then follow their adventures here on the blog throughout the meeting. 

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2/12/2020
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Genipin: A Versatile Chemical That Wears Many Different Molecular Hats

Genipin is a natural product found in the fruits of flowering plants such as Gardenia jasminoides and Gardenia americana. Interestingly, genipin is a natural cross-linking agent, meaning it can react with chemical groups on different biochemical molecules and effectively link them together.

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2/13/2020
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New pre-conference preparations

Where I remind everyone to wash their hands before they eat, and update my travel luggage essentials.

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2/16/2020
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San Diego & Subgroup Saturday

I went into Subgroup Saturday with two burning questions. I came out with some cool scientific insight and sore quads.

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2/21/2020
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Social gatherings, mixers and corridor discussions at BPS are equally valuable to the scientific programme.

Social gatherings, mixers and corridor discussions at BPS are equally valuable to the scientific programme.

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2/23/2020
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Cryo-EM for dummies + Cryo-EM @ BPS 2020

Having no background in Cryo-EM and after witnessing such widespread use of the technique at BPS2020 I thought of doing some research and write about it for people like myself.

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2/25/2020
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Unraveling the Substrate Preference of an Uncharacterized E.coli Homolog

It is estimated that about 30–35 percent of proteins in the human proteome are integral membrane proteins. However, only a small fraction of membrane proteins, such as G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) and ion channels, have been considered as drug targets. 

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SAHELI MITRA:

A must read.

Coronavirus Structure, Vaccine and Therapy Development
Brennan Weaver:

Pretty nice read. I wish I could have written something about Pi. It's my 2nd favorite number value. Also, I don't think Pi is as mysterious as everyone thinks it is. It's just a number with a lot of personalities. And I do believe there is a last digit.

Pi Is Encoded in the Patterns of Life
Harel Weinstein:

Just perused the article "From Dynamics to Membrane Organization- Experimental Breakthroughs Occasion a ‘‘Modeling Manifesto’’ in the August 21 issue. While the Perspective is intriguing, the sheer Chutzpah of writing a "manifesto" about a field of modeling with lists of "demands" based on experiments that in many cases are more limited in scope or reality than any physics-based model, is quite astounding. Neither artificial membrane slabs, nor "live cells" imaged under conditions in which cells have a shabby life that doesn't last long (how much of this is due to the mistreatment of the membrane proteins?) share established behaviors that must be matched or else.... No experiment, computational or using imaging, is meant to mimic reality, only to probe it based on models and assumptions that can be falsified.

As to the role of the cytoskeleton, what does this tell us about the membrane itself, or the behavior of membrane proteins as individual molecules in their interplay with the membrane? And since this unrelated scaffold differs greatly between cells, what is the "correct matching standard"? All models are wrong, some (computational, or on the stage of a microscope) are useful, but in my opinion, self-critical, humble, and rigorous scientific reasoning are preferable to a manifesto in order to foster progress.

In Search of…Protein Interaction Partners
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