Biophysical Journal Selects Paper of the Year for 2018

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Biophysical Society Welcomes New Executive Officer

Jennifer Pesanelli became the new Executive Officer of the Biophysical Society on January 2, 2019. Pesanelli comes to the Society from Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) where she was Deputy Executive Director for Operations and Director of Publications.

NIH’s Francis Collins Expresses Concern over Epic Scientific CRISPR Misadventure

On November 28, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Francis Collins expressed deep concern about He Jiankui’s announcement, presented at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, describing his efforts using CRISPR-Cas9 technology on human embryos.

NSF Lifts Submission Cap for BIO Directorate

On September 27, Joanne Tornow, Acting Assistant Director for the Biological Sciences (BIO), National Science Foundation (NSF), unveiled reforms to the BIO division’s grant/solicitation process. BIO proposed placing caps on the number of annual grant submissions from a single principal investigator (PI) (or co-PI) to its various programs.

Open Access – Surveying the Landscape

By now the science community is well aware of Plan S, the initiative by a group of European government funding agencies to ensure that by 2020 all authors whose research is funded by the now 17 signatory countries only publish in open access journals that abide by the ten rules of Plan S. A brief article on this subject appeared in the November issue of the BPS Bulletin (Page 5).

A Journal for All Biophysics

As the journal of the Biophysical Society, the Biophysical Journal serves a diverse and multi-discipline research community of authors and readers. It needs to reflect the mission to publish “…work that elucidates important biological, chemical, or physical mechanisms and provides quantitative insight into fundamental problems at the molecular, cellular, and systems and whole-organism levels.

Biophysicist in Profile

Jung-Chi Liao

Jung-Chi Liao studied mechanical engineering as an undergraduate at National Taiwan University in Taipei. He was interested in mechanical vibration, so following his graduation he went to MIT to pursue a PhD working on understanding fluid-structure interaction of oil drilling pipes with Kim Vandiver.