Logo design contest winner to be announced

Because the MPSD C website is our primary means of communicating with the biophysical community at large, we are currently planning significant improvements to our website in terms of content, organization, and overall aesthetics. As part of this broader redesign initiative, last year we announced a contest to design our official logo for use on the website and in official publications. The contest was open to all post docs, graduate students, lab technicians, and lab personnel associated with the Consortium, who were asked to submit a stylized design that informs and captures the spirit of the Consortium. These logos were reviewed by the Executive Committee of the MPSDC, who judged the logos based on creativity, originality, aesthetics, use of space, and color. The prize for the winning logo designer will be an Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and 32GB Memory.

We are pleased to announce that we have made our decision, which will be made public shortly. We would like to thank all of the Consortium affiliates who participated in the contest for their time and creativity. What follows after the jump are several of the submissions that we received.

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Klaus Schulten named 2012 Biophysical Society Fellow

Today, the Biophysical Society announced its seven 2012 Society Fellows, which includes Computational Core member Klaus Schulten. Fellows are chosen based on their demonstrated excellence in science, contributions to the expansion of the field of biophysics, and support of the Biophysical Society. The Fellows will be honored at the Awards Ceremony during the Biophysical Society’s 56th Annual Meeting on Monday February 27, 2012 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.

Klaus Schulten was nominated for his groundbreaking effort to develop computational molecular biology as an important tool to solve problems in biophysics.

Congratulations, Klaus, and the rest of the Theoretical and Computational Physics Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign!

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Bezanilla Voted President-Elect of the Biophysical Society

Francisco Bezanilla, the Principal Investigator of Bridge 1: Conformational Transitions in P-class ATPases was elected President-Elect of the Biophysical Society in the 2011 Society elections. He will assume that office at the 2012 Annual Business Meeting in San Diego, California. His term as President will begin at the 2013 Annual Business Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In addition to Bezanilla’s election, Merritt Maduke was nominated as a councilor of the Biophysical Society.

Congratulations, Pancho and Merritt!

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MPSDC Advisory Committee Meeting

The MPSDC Advisory Committee Meeting is due to meet on Saturday, October 29th at the University of Chicago. Please save the date!

Steve Goldstein named Provost at Brandeis University


Steve Goldstein, the principal investigator of the Phage Display Synthetic Toxin Pipeline core will be moving to Waltham this fall to take over academic policy at Brandeis. Congratulations, Steve!

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