Jonathon (Joe) HowardProfessor, Department of Biophysics & BiochemistryProfessor, Department of PhysicsDirector, Yale Quantitative Biology InstituteYale University

PRESIDENT-ELECT NOMINEE VOTE FOR ONE

Research Interests: Mechanics of motor proteins and the cytoskel-eton, single-molecule techniques, cilia and flagella, cell motility, mitosis, neuronal morphogenesis, mechanical signaling

Education: B.Sc. Pure Mathematics, Australian National Univer-sity 1979; Ph.D. Neurobiology, Australian National University 1983.

Summary of Professional Experience: Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology, Bristol UK 1984; Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology, UC San Francisco 1984-87; Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, 2013-present; Direc-tor, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden, Germany, 2001-2013; Professor of Physiology & Bio-physics, University of Washington, Seattle, 1989-2000; Assistant Research Physiologist, UC San Francisco, 1988-89.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: Australian National Under-graduate Scholar, 1976; Australian Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Scholar, 1979; M.G.F. Fuortes Traveling Scholar, 1981; Fondation pour l’Etude du Système Nerveux Fellow, 1988; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1990; Pew Scholar, 1990; NIH MERIT Award, 2000; Member of the Max Planck Society, 2000; Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, 2004; NIH Pio-neer Award, 2015; Fellow of the Biophysical Society, 2017.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society member since 1988; Sym-posium Speaker, 1993, 2000, 2003 (Chair), 2012, 2016 (Chair); Awards Committee, 2016-present; eBooks Advisory Board, 2016-present; 14 papers published in Biophysical Journal and many manuscripts refereed as a reviewer.

Candidate’s Statement: If elected President of Biophysical Society, I will work to strengthen its mission and its organization. I think the most important mission of the Society is to bring technologi-cal and conceptual innovation into biology. This innovation often comes from the physical sciences. The meetings should continue to showcase new techniques, and Biophysical Journal should continue to demonstrate, by example, how new methods can solve im-portant problems in biology. In addition to the Society’s strength

in molecular biophysics, we should have a broad definition of biophysics and encourage physical approaches extending to the cellular and tissue levels. I believe that the future of biology is the synthesis from molecules to more complex systems, for example through application of single-molecule and other techniques (e.g. cryoEM, NMR) to cells and organisms. My own work has covered a broad range of biophysics from molecules to cells, in vitro and in vivo.

A tremendous strength of the Biophysical Society is that it is a tru-ly international organization; it is distinguished from other leading scientific societies, which are nominally American ones. I would bring international experience to the Presidency, having done my PhD in Australia, a short postdoc in the UK, and twelve years in Germany directing a research institute.

Education is another important mission, both of students and the public. I am committed to education, a major motivation for my joining the faculty at Yale, where I teach undergraduates. My monograph on the Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskel-eton has been used in many courses.

There are three issues that will challenge the leadership of the Society over the next few years. (i) Covid-19 poses several threats: to the annual meeting, to the international spirit of the society, and to the funding of research. The Biophysical Society will need to work with other societies to find solutions. (ii) While less immedi-ate, Plan S will disrupt the publishing model of scientific societies and Biophysical Society will need to secure new sources of revenue. (iii) In the longer term, the crisis of reproducibility in biomedical research threatens to shake the public’s faith in science; Biophysical Society can play an important role by setting an example for rigor in the application of the scientific method.

My background and administrative experience put me in a strong position to lead Biophysical Society.

Gail A. RobertsonProfessorNeuroscienceUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

PRESIDENT-ELECT NOMINEE VOTE FOR ONE

Research Interests: mechanisms of membrane excitability in the heart and central nervous system; ion channel biophysics; ion channel biogenesis and assembly; cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms; hERG technologies for drug discovery and safety testing; single-molecule fluorescence approaches

Education: BS Neurobiology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1979; PhD Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, 1986.

Summary of Professional Experience: Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986-1991; Professor of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-present; Co-founder and Director, UW-Madison M.S. in Biotechnology Program, 2001-2008; T32 Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science Co-director, 2011-2019, Director, 2019-present.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: American Heart Association Fellowship, 1988-1989; NIH NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1989-1991; Fellow of the American Heart Association, 1993; NSF CAREER Award, 1997-2002; American Heart Established Investigator Award, 1998-2002; NIGMS/NIH Biomedical Research and Research Training (BRT) Review Committee, regular member and chair, 2001-2006; Editorial board member, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2003-2011; California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), Scientific and Medical Research Funding Working Group, 2008-present; AAMC Mid-Ca-reer Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar, 2009; Schuster Price for Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, 2009; Editorial board member, The Journal of General Physiology, 2009-present; NIH Electrical Signaling, Ion Trans-port and Arrhythmias (ESTA) Review Committee, regular member, 2012-2018; Ion Channels Working Group, Safety Pharmacology Society for the Compre-hensive in vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA), 2014-2016; Vice-chair, 2015 and Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, 2017; UW-Madison Kellett Mid-Career Award, 2018-2023; K.S. Cole Award in Mem-brane Biophysics, 2019.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society member since 1991; Symposium Speaker, 2003, 2005, 2011; Symposium Speaker and Chair, 2012; Council member, 2011-2014; Chair, Nominating Committee, 2013-2014; Publications Committee member, 2016-present; K.S. Cole Lecturer, 2019.

Candidate’s Statement: Biophysical Society’s greatest resource is its member-ship, but we face significant barriers to participation due to pandemic disease, economic inequality, and a dwindling pipeline in some STEM fields. Scientific meetings are key to our sense of community, yet are particularly vulnerable in today’s climate. We need to be nimble in implementing technology to maintain our community and promote synergies even when travel is interrupted or is less feasible for those with limited resources, which has been a problem long before the recent pandemic hit. International journal clubs, seminars and, increasingly, meetings of other scientific societies are delivered online. There are challenges to these platforms but potential advantages in terms of broader access. Imagine how many additional trainees and international investigators could gain access to cutting-edge science and leaders in the field if BPS Thematic Meetings or Subgroup Saturday had online components, even after we find ourselves gathering

in convention centers again. I view inclusivity and excellence as two sides of the same coin. If I were elected BPS President, promoting scientific interactions in unconventional ways would be a primary objective.

Another point of great concern to many BPS members is dissemination of infor-mation and an increasing array of publication models. We wish simply for a fair review process and a fair cost basis without paywalls wherever possible. As a mem-ber of the BPS Publications Committee, I have engaged in much discussion on this matter both with other committee members and with colleagues around the world. I note a marked diversity of opinions. At a minimum, I believe we should embrace current trends that remove unnecessary roadblocks to disseminating results of our studies while maintaining high standards inherent in peer review. Likely a range of different formats will continue to be utilized, but, if elected President, I would support innovations that expedite our ability to complete our work, disseminate the information, and benefit in a timely way from the advances of our colleagues.

Scientifically, Biophysical Society is a forum for promoting methodological innovation, cross-disciplinary studies and multiscale approaches. BPS has been a beacon for me as I have taken an unconventional path through neural circuits, gene cloning, ion channel structure-function, ion channel assembly and transla-tional control of membrane excitability. I feel it is sometimes important to ignore disciplinary boundaries and traverse multiple scales in the quest to make advances or challenge dogma. My own attendance at the annual meeting may look like a random walk to some as I dart among presentations on ion channel biophysics, cardiac physiology, mechanisms of protein translation and folding, and spec-troscopic methods development. As President, I would support all scientific disciplines represented in the Society and incentivize integration across diverse fields of biophysics.

In my professional life with Biophysical Society, I have felt welcomed, supported, challenged and excited by the rapid pace of scientific discovery. In turn I have mentored many others in a similar spirit, in both official and unofficial capac-ities. In addition to the many trainees in my laboratory over the years, I have also served on mentoring committees at my home institution and elsewhere. For example, I was a founding member of the American Heart Association Men-tor-Mentee Program for junior faculty and I continue to meet quarterly with my original cohort in the Journal of General Physiology Junior Faculty Mentorship Program. As part of my efforts were I elected President of the Biophysical Society, I would support ongoing BPS efforts and advocate for enhanced Society mentor-ing for investigators at all stages of professional development.

In summary, as President I would seek to foster more effective scientific commu-nication through innovative meetings and contemporary publication strategies, support all disciplinary areas represented in the Society and their interactions, and promote the career development particularly of the junior membership. I would work for greater access and inclusivity as a key to excellence. I would be honored to serve in a capacity that would enable me to repay a debt of gratitude to Biophysical Society.

Samantha HarrisProfessorCellular and Molecular Medicine; Physiology;Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Arizona

TREASURER NOMINEE VOTE FOR ONE-UNCONTESTED

Research Interests: Muscle contractile proteins, regulation of muscle contraction, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenesis, mechano-electrical signaling.

Education: BS, Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1988; PhD, Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994; Postdoctoral Researcher, Physiology, University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1995–2003.

Summary of Professional Experience: Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering, 2003-2007; Assistant Professor University of California, Davis, 2007-2011; Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, 2011-2013; Associate Professor, University of Arizona, 2013–2019; Professor, University of Arizona, 2019–present, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Physiology; Biomedical Engineering.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: American Heart Association, Western States Affiliate, Laverna Titus Young Investigator Award, 2008; Marion J. Siegman Lectureship Award, American Physiological Society, 2019; Biophysical Journal Editorial Board, 2020-present; NIH CCHF study section 2016-2020; American Heart Association BCVS Leadership Committee, 2017-2020.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society Member since 1994; Regular attendance at annual meetings of the Biophysical Society since 1996; Committee for Professional Opportunities for Women (CPOW), 2009-2014; Program Co-Chair, Motility and Cytoskeleton Sub-group, 2015; Biophysical Society Council, 2012-2015; Finance committee, 2015-present; Public Affairs Committee 2015-present.

Candidate’s Statement: I am honored to be considered for service as the Biophysical Society Treasurer during this particularly challeng-ing time of global pandemic crisis. Now more than ever, the principles of fiscal responsibility continually exercised by Biophysical Society will serve to ensure the Society’s continued growth and its mission to support our diverse and international membership of scientists. I have been privileged to serve on the Finance Committee since 2015. As Treasurer, I will continue to work in concert with Society Officers and Finance Committee members to ensure the solid financial footing of the Society with the goal of continuing proactive investments in scientific discovery, outreach, and leadership for dissemination and cross-pollination of biophysical ideas to scientists and non-scientists alike.

COUNCIL NOMINEES VOTE FOR ONE ASIA BASED CANDIDATE

Kumiko HayashiAssociate Professor Department of Applied PhysicsTohoku UniversityJapan

Research Interests: Non-equilibrium statistical physics; Biophysics: theoretical and experimental.

Education: BS, Physics, Waseda University, 2000; MS, Physics, University of Tokyo, 2002; PhD, Philosophy, University of Tokyo, 2006.

Summary of Professional Experience: Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2006–2010; Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, 2010–2018; Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, 2018–present; PRESTO Researcher of the Japan Science and Tech-nology Agency, 2018–present.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: Early Career Award in Biophysics from Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ), 2010; Outstanding Early Career Investigator Team Presentation from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Develop-ment and the New York Academy of Sciences, 2017; Committee Member, BSJ, 2013–2014; Co-Organizer, Japan-China-Taiwan Joint BSJ Symposium, 2014; Co-Organizer, Japan-Australia BSJ Joint Symposium, 2016; Co-Organizer, Taiwan-Japan Biophysics BSJ Symposium, 2018; Preparatory Committee of the 21st IUPAB Congress, Kyoto, 2023.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society member since 2009; regular attendee of annual meetings.

Candidate’s Statement: I have organized international symposia through An-nual Meetings of the Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ) as a platform to interact with scientists from Asian countries and other countries worldwide. These ex-periences have allowed me to appreciate high-quality biophysics studies carried out in Asia. As a council member of the BPS, I intend to serve as a link between The Biophysical Society of Asia and BPS, with a primary goal of increasing participation among researchers in Asia. I am an advocate for interdisciplinary research, as evident from my unique academic background, with reference to the change in my specialization from theoretical physics to experimental biology after completing my PhD. I have previously applied nonequilibrium physics to single-molecule experiments, and in the immediate future, I intend to apply this approach to further provide quantitative insights into intracellular phenomena, some of which are associated with human diseases.

Ryota Iino ProfessorInstitute for Molecular ScienceNational Institutes of Natural SciencesJapan

Research Interests: Molecular motors, Molecular machines, Energy transduc-tion, Single-molecule biophysics, Optical microscopy, Protein engineering

Education: BE, Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University, 1995; ME, Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University, 1997; PhD, Biophysics, Nagoya University, 2003.

Summary of Professional Experience: Research Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 2000-2005; Specially-appointed Assistant Professor, Osaka University, 2005-2006; Assistant Professor, Osaka University, 2006-2011; Lec-turer, The University of Tokyo, 2011-2013; Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo, 2013-2014; Professor, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 2014-2018; Professor, Institute for Mo-lecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 2014-present.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: Emerging Investigator, Lab on a Chip, The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 2012; Guest Editor of Chemical Reviews The-matic Issue Molecular Motors, 2020; Board Member, The Biophysical Society of Japan, 2019-present.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society member since 2003; regularly attend Annual Meetings; Platform Chair, 2012 and 2019 Annual Meetings; Speaker, 2016 Thematic Meeting; Symposium speaker, 2020 Annual Meeting; Editorial Board Member, Biophysical Journal, 2020-present; Member, Motility and Cy-toskeleton Subgroup, 2017-present; Member, Nanoscale Approaches Subgroup, 2019-present.

Candidate’s Statement: I have been a member of the Biophysical Society since 2003. I vividly remember first BPS Annual Meeting I attended, in Baltimore in 2004. It was an exciting experience for me to be on the front lines of outstand-ing science, and it became my starting point as a professional researcher. Since then, I have attended Annual Meetings as often as possible. If elected to Coun-cil, I would like to contribute to the Biophysical Society in terms of its interna-tional relationships, especially with Asian countries. I believe that the excellence of the Biophysical Society will be further developed by facilitating more active Annual Meeting participation from researchers in these areas.

COUNCIL NOMINEES VOTE FOR THREE

Henry ColecraftProfessorPhysiology and Cellular BiophysicsColumbia University

Research Interests: Molecular biophysics of voltage-gated Ca2+ and K+ chan-nels; post-translational regulation of ion channels; ion channel engineering; ion channelopathies.

Education: BS, Physiology, King’s College London, 1988; MS, Pharmacology, University of Rochester, 1992; PhD, Pharmacology, University of Rochester, 1996.

Summary of Professional Experience: Postdoctoral, Johns Hopkins Univer-sity, 1997-2000; Assistant Professor, BME Dept., Johns Hopkins University, 2001-2007; Associate Professor, and Professor, Dept. of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, 2007-present; Vice Chair, Dept. of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, 2016-present.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: Gordon K. Moe Young Investigator, Upstate New York Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, 1995; Wallace O. Fenn Award, University of Rochester, 1996; Established Investigator Award, AHA, 2009-2013; Chair, Membrane Biophysics (Channels, Receptors & Transporters) Subgroup, 2013-2014; Councilor, Society of General Physiologists, 2012-2017; Faculty Mentor Award, Columbia University, 2014; NIH - Biophysics of Neural Systems (BPNS) member 2013-2019; Co-chair, FASEB SRC on Ion Channel Regulation, 2019; Co-chair, AHA-SFRN Arrhythmia & SCD Basic review group, 2019.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society member since 1992; regular attendee of Annual Meetings; Abstract Sort Committee, 2003; Poster judge, SRAA, 2006; Speaker, 2006 Membrane Biophysics (Channels, Receptors & Transporters) Subgroup Symposium; Chair, Membrane Biophysics Subgroup, 2013-2014; Chair, Workshop on “Chemical Biology Tools for Biophysics”, 2020; Associate Editor, Biophysical Journal, 2016-present.

Candidate’s Statement: I attended my first Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in 1992 as a graduate student, and I have been a regular attendee ever since. The annual meeting is linked to several important events over my career: at the 1996 meeting I met my future postdoctoral advisor while presenting a poster; I gave my first platform talk as a postdoctoral fellow at the 1999 meeting; I was elected chair of the Membrane Biophysics Subgroup in 2013. Several of my students have won Student Research Achievement Awards, and I have chaired or participated in platform sessions, symposia and workshops. The annual meeting has been a critical forum for us to present our work, learn new things, establish collaborations, catch up with colleagues, and network. If elected to Council, I will work diligently to maintain the vitality of the Society and the Annual Meeting to the benefit of all members, especially trainees in early stages of their scientific careers.

Andrea BrüggemannChief Scientific OfficerNanion Technologies - MunichGermany

Research Interests: Ion Channels, electrophysiology and automated patch clamp combined with other techniques like optical stimulation, fluorescent measurements, photopharmacology as well as optogenetics, structure and func-tion of ion channels, reconstitution and lipid interaction

Education: Diploma in Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum and Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH) Germany, 1994; PhD Biophysics, Max-Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen, Germany, 1997

Summary of Professional Experience: Laboratory manager, Project leader and Head of the Ion Channel Platform at Sanofi-Aventis in Frankfurt, Germany, 1998-2001; Head of the Biological Department at Cytion SA, Switzerland 2002, CSO and Owner of Nanion Technologies GmbH Munich, Germany, 2003 – present.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: With Nanion Technologies: Nominated for the Deutscher Zukunftspreis (German Future Prize, Federal President’s Award for Technology and Innovation), 2007 & 2014; Step Award, 2009; German Founder’s prize, “Newcomer” winner, 2009;

Teaching: CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Program, Ion channels in the brain in health and disease, Bordeaux Neurocampus, France, 2017; MBL September Course in Woods Hole, Observing Proteins in Action: How to Design and Build Your Own, 2018; Southern School of Biophysics, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias de Valparaíso (CINV), 2019; Mentor at Ion Channel GRS 2012 & 2014; Career panelist at GRC, FASEB, MPI & BPS meetings.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society Member since 2008, Channels, Recep-tors & Transporters Subgroup Member and regularly attend annual meetings; workshop organizer and exhibitor for over a decade; Nanion Technologies has Co-organized the Satellite Meeting “Drug Discovery for Ion Channels” for the past 20 years.

Candidate’s Statement: I presented my first poster as an undergraduate student at the Biophysical Society meeting in 1994. Since then it has a fixed place in my calendar and it became the most important annual meeting for me personally, but also for Nanion Technologies. If elected as a Council member, my goal will be to give back a small measure of what the Biophysical Society has given to me. My expertise in research, pharma and entrepreneurship can provide insights into the different fields of interest, especially for students and postdoctoral fellows.

COUNCIL NOMINEES VOTE FOR THREE

Susan MarquseeProfessorBiochemistry & Molecular BiologyUniversity of California – Berkeley

Research Interests: Protein Folding, Dynamics, and Energetics; Development of tools to study protein dynamics/energetics including HDX-MS, quantitative proteolysis, and single molecule approaches using the optical trap.

Education: AB Chemistry and Physics, Cornell University, 1982; MD/PhD Biochemistry, Stanford University 1990.

Summary of Professional Experience: Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, 1990-1992; Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1992- present; Director, California Institute for Quan-titative Biosciences (QB3) – Berkeley, 2010 – present; Professor Chemistry University of California, Berkeley, 2018 – present.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: Co-chair, 63rd Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, 2019; Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award, Protein Society, 2018; Co-Chair, Protein Society Annual Meeting, 2001, 2018; Member of Board of Scientific Advisors, Jane Coffins Childs Memorial Fund, 2018-present; Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award, Stanford Medical School Alumni Association, 2017; Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016-present; Elected Member, Nation-al Academy of Sciences, 2016; Fellow, Biophysical Society, 2015; Executive Council, ASBMB, 2015-2018; NSF BIO Advisory Committee, 2014-2017; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013; William C. Rose Award, ASBMB, 2012; San Francisco Times’ Bay Area 100 Most Influential Women 2011-2012; Executive Committee, US Protein Folding Consortium, 2010 – 2020; Chair, Gordon Research Conference Protein Folding Dynamics, 2010; Fellow, AAAS, 2009; Program Committee, ASBMB Annual meeting, 2008; Executive Council Member, Protein Society, 2005-2008; Chair – Proteins, Gor-don Research Conference, 1999; Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award, Biophysical Society, 1996.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society member since 1996; Regular attendee at BPS annual meetings; Co-Chair for the 63rd Annual Meeting in 2019; Program Committee member for the annual meeting 2018-2020; and Regular mem-ber of both the Biopolymers in vivo and the Intrinsically Disordered Proteins subgroups.

Candidate’s Statement: Biophysical Society has been an important scientific home to me for my entire career. The first scientific meeting I attended as a graduate student was the BPS Annual Meeting and I have been a regular at-tendee ever since. It was an honor to organize the 2019 Annual Meeting. It also gave me a chance to see the impact, input, and hard work that the Council and staff put into our Society. The Society provides unique access to a community, exciting new science, career development, and plays an important role in driving US national agenda in policy and funding. As a council member I would work hard to contribute to all of this.

Johan ElfProfessorCell and Molecular BiologyUppsala UniversitySweden

Research Interests: Single molecule fluorescence measurements in bacteria, stochastic kinetics, transcriptional regulation, intracellular biophysical models

Education: MSc Engineering, Uppsala University, 2000; PhD Biotechnology, Uppsala University, 2004; Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University 2005-2007.

Summary of Professional Experience: Assistant Professor, Uppsala University, 2008 – 2009; Senior Lecturer Bioinformatics, Uppsala University 2009; Profes-sor of Physical Biology, Uppsala University 2013.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: Member, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (Class IV Chemistry) 2016-; Wallenberg Scholar 2020-; Member, Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala 2018-; EMBO Young Investigator 2012; The Göran Gustafsson Prize in Molecular Biology 2010; Utilization Prize for the fASTest technology (Swedish Foundation of Strategic Research) 2017; Academy Re-search Fellow in Chemistry (Royal Academy of Science) 2010-2014; Member, Research Politics Committee of Royal Academy of Science; Board Member, Uppsala University 2020- ; Board Member, Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Uppsala University, 2019-; Scientific Advisory Board Member, Graduate School of Quantitative Biosciences, Munich; Founder and Board Member, Astrego Diagnostics, 2017-; European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 2008; ERC Consolidator Grant 2014; ERC Advanced Grant 2020.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society member since 2007; regularly attend Annual Meetings; Member and current Program Chair of the Physical Cell Biology Subgroup.

Candidate’s Statement: I have always been impressed by the activities in the Biophysical Society, and I enjoy participating in the annual meeting. We have recently started the Physical Cell Biology Subgroup with the support of the Society; this has been both fun and professionally rewarding. By participating in Council activities, I hope to give something back to the Society. In terms of research interest and skills, I particularly like to develop ways to make detailed measurements aimed at testing quantitative models of intracellular processes. I will encourage activities in which the Society promotes the application of meth-ods from biophysics in living cells.

COUNCIL NOMINEES VOTE FOR THREE

Kandice TannerStadtman InvestigatorNational Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Research Interests: in vivo fluorescence microscopy, cancer mechanobiology, cell-extra-cellular matrix interactions, and active microrheology in living animals

Education: Dual degree BS Electrical engineering technology and Physics (summa cum laude), South Carolina State University, 2002; MS, Physics, University of Illinois, Urba-na-Champaign, 2003; PhD, Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006.

Summary of Professional Experience: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine, 2006-2008; Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2008-2012; Stadtman Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH 2012- present; and Adjunct Assistant professor of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2014-present

Awards, Honors and Activities: Dissertation of the Year Award, National Society of Black and Hispanic Physicists, 2007; Department of Defense Breast Cancer Post-Doc-toral Fellowship, 2009-2012; NCI Director’s Intramural Innovation Award, 2013; Leading Diversity Award, NCI, 2015; Scialog Fellow, 2018-2020; Federal Technology award, 2016, 2018; Deputy Director for Intramural Research Innovation Award, 2018; Young Fluorescence Investigator Award- Biological Fluorescence Subgroup, Biophysical Society, 2016; Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering Society, 2016; Co- organizer, Aspen Physics of Development and Disease, 2016; Co-organizer, Mid Atlantic Soft Matter Physics Conference, 2016; Guest Editor, Special Issue - Focus on Physics of disease and development - Joint issue- Convergent Science Physical Oncology and Physical Biology, 2016; Program Committee Member, American Physical Society, Division of Biological Physics, 2017; Co-chair, Cytoskeletal Dynamics, Mechanics, and Cell Motility Minisymposium, 2017 ASCB/EMBO Meet-ing; Membership Committee Member, American Society for Cell Biology, 2013-2016 and 2016-2018; Member-at-Large, American Physical Society, Division of Biological Physics, 2016-2019; Program Committee, Biomedical Optics Symposium at Photonics West, 2020, 2019; Member, NIH Intercellular Interactions Study Section (2019-2023); F1000Prime Faculty, Cancer Therapeutics, 2019-present; Editor, Scientific Reports, 2015-present; and Editorial Board Member, Physical Biology, 2019-present.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society Member, 2006-present; Member, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2010-2013, 2013-2016, and 2017-present; Travel Award Judge (Annual); Member, Fluorescence Subgroup, 2010-present; and Early Careers Committee Panelist, Postdoc to Faculty Q&A, 2019.

Candidate Statement: The Biophysical Society has been my academic home since I was a graduate student (over 14 years ago). The Society has provided me with invaluable opportunities to present my research and complete service, which have been extremely beneficial to my career. As science has evolved, biophysicists are making seminal contri-butions to topics ranging from basic science to more applied aspects in biomedical fields. I believe that the Society must be the standard bearer of excellence as our topics expand to embrace emerging fields but not at the expense of existing fields. If I am fortunate enough to be elected a Council Member, I will ensure that the Biophysical Society re-mains the natural home for biophysicists both in terms of diversity of research topics and backgrounds. I look forward to working with the members of the Biophysical Society Council to guarantee that this fantastic organization continues to promote and enrich the scientific and professional needs of its members.

Tatyana PolenovaProfessorDepartment of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Delaware

Research Interests: structure and dynamics of HIV-1 protein assemblies; magnetic resonance; microtubule-associated protein assemblies.

Education: BA, Chemistry, Moscow State University (Moscow, Russian Federation), 1992; PhD, Chemistry, Columbia University, 1997.

Summary of Professional Experience: Postdoctoral Scientist, Chemistry, Columbia University, 1997-1999; Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Hunter College, CUNY, 1999-2003; Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, 2003-2006; Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, 2006-2011; Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, 2011 – present; Director, NIH-COBRE “Molecular Design of Advanced Biomaterials”, 2014 – present.

Awards, Honors, and Activities: Elected Fellow of the International Society for Mag-netic Resonance (ISMAR), 2018; Georgina Sweet Travel Award for a Female Keynote Speaker in Quantitative Biomedical Science, Australian Research Council, 2019; Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2020; Stanford Distinguished Wom-en in Science Speaker Series, Stanford University, April 2015; Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Visiting Professor at the University of Lille, Lille, France, 2012; Varian Lecturer, Uni-versity of Ottawa, 2005; Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University, 1994; Associate Editor, Journal of Structural Biology, 2019 – present, Journal of Biomo-lecular NMR, 2018 – present; Trends Editor, Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 2017 – present; Section Editor, eMagRes, 2008 – present; Editorial Board, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2017 – present, Scientific Reports, 2018 – present; The 55th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (ENC) Conference, Chair, 2014; Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (ENC) Conference, Executive Committee, 2009-2015; EUROMAR, Board of Trustees, 2016 – present; The 2019 joint ISMAR/EUROMAR conference, Scientific Committee, Berlin, Germany, 2019; NIH Biochem-istry and Biophysics of Membranes Study Section, 2007 – 2011; NIH Biophysics of Neural Systems Study Section, 2016 – 2022.

Biophysical Society Activities: Society member since 2008, regular attendee of the Annual Meetings.

Candidate’s Statement: I am honored and excited to be nominated to Biophysical Society Council. The Society has played a tremendous role in my development as a researcher. The Annual BPS meetings have been a continued source of inspiration for their cutting-edge scientific program, stimulating interactions with colleagues represent-ing our diverse international Biophysics community, and educational programs offered to early-career scientists. My leadership experience in different professional organizations provided me with a unique perspective on what it takes to effectively serve a large orga-nization such as BPS, and I would like to contribute to the Society in a leadership role. In these uncertain times of the COVID-19 global pandemic, we are faced with the need to find long-term solutions to the health crisis. Scientists across the globe are working diligently to find treatments for COVID-19, and biophysics research is contributing essential knowledge and technological innovations. It is now particularly important for scientists to be active in educating the public about the central role of fundamental research in addressing societal challenges. As a Council member, I will strive to maintain and further expand our vibrant and diverse international Biophysical community, to promote biophysics internationally, and to empower early-career investigators.