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Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
February 25–29, 2012
San Diego, California
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Special Feature
Faculty of 1000
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Current Issue
Volume 102, Issue 2: January 18, 2012
Cover picture: Hair cell stereocilia studied in Powers et al. Adjacent stereocilia are connected with tip links (5–6 are visible in the image): deflection of the hair bundle causes stereocilia to slide, increasing force on tip links. Tip-link force deforms the membrane at the lower end of the link and gates mechanotransduction channels, a process that is modeled in Powers et al. on page 201.
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Podcast
Optical Tweezers: Biophysics, One Molecule at a Time
We are pleased to provide a presentation by and discussion with Steven Block from Stanford University, National Lecturer at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.
In this podcast, you will learn about a variety of ways that optical tweezers have been applied to understanding the complex behavior of kinesins, RNA polymerases, and riboswitches at the single-molecule level. Also stay tuned through the end of the presentation to hear the follow-up interview between Steven and Laura Finzi of Emory University as they discuss his career and his views on where the field and technology is heading next.
Research Highlights
This featured article is available for free:
Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Supramolecular Assemblies
Shailesh Tripathi, Vukica Srajer, Namrta Purwar, Robert Henning, and Marius Schmidt
Mini-Reviews Collection
Visit a collection of all Mini-Reviews published in the Biophysical Journal.
One Year Ago ...
Biophysical Journal featured these papers in volume 100, issue 2:
What drives amyloid molecules to assemble into oligomers and fibrils?
Jeremy D. Schmit, Kingshuk Ghosh, and Ken Dill
Shear stress increases the residence time of adhesion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Sigolene Lecuyer, Roberto Rusconi, Yi Shen, Alison Forsyth, Hera Vlamakis, Roberto Kolter, and Howard Stone
Real time monitoring of epithelial cell-cell and cell-substrate interactions by infrared surface plasmon spectroscopy
Michelle A O'Malley, Matthew E. Helgeson, Norman J. Wagner, and Anne S. Robinson
Synchronization of stochastic Ca2+ release units creates a rhythmic Ca2+ clock in cardiac pacemaker cells
Anna V. Maltsev, Victor A. Maltsev, Maxim Mikheev, Larissa A. Maltseva, Syevda G. Sirenko, Edward G. Lakatta, and Michael Stern
Most-Read Papers
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