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Structure, function, and biophysics of bacterial motility and the flagellar motor-IUPAB2024 session commentary.

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-10-28 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01243-0

Matthew A B Baker, Seiji Kojima

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Meet the IUPAB Councillor: A/Prof Matthew AB Baker (UNSW Sydney, Australia).

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-10-28 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01240-3

Matthew A B Baker

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"Meet the IUPAB councilor"-Thomas Gutsmann.

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-10-21 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01226-1

Thomas Gutsmann

{"title":"\"Meet the IUPAB councilor\"-Thomas Gutsmann.","authors":"Thomas Gutsmann","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01226-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-024-01226-1","url":null,"abstract":"As one of the twelve newly elected councillors, it is my pleasure to provide a brief biographical sketch for the readers of Biophys. Rev. and the members of the Biophysical Societies. I have been actively involved in the German Biophysical Society (DGfB) since 2008, initially as the speaker for the \"Membrane Biophysics\" section and, since 2015, as the secretary. Within the IUPAB council I follow Prof. Hans-Joachim Galla, former Secretary and President of the German Biophysical Society, who served as a councillor for two terms from 2018 to 2024. Thus, a direct continuation of the German contribution to the IUPAB is guaranteed. My journey in biophysics began during my studies of physics at the University of Kiel, where I specialized in physiology and biophysics. After earning my doctorate in the lab of Ulrich Seydel at the Research Center Borstel, I spent two years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working in Paul Hansma's lab on the development and application of atomic force microscopy. During my time at UCSB, I also collaborated with Jacob Israelachvili's lab on membrane properties. Since 2008, I have been leading the Biophysics Research Group at the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center. In 2010, I was appointed as a professor at the University of Lübeck. Additionally, since 2023, I have been serving as an associate member at the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) in Hamburg.","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 5","pages":"515-517"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604882/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142766096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An attempt of Seibutsu-Butsuri in Kyoto IUPAB Congress 2024.

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-10-18 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01241-2

Tamiki Komatsuzaki

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Biophysical Reviews special issue for the 21st IUPAB congress and 62nd meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, Kyoto, Japan, 2024.

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-10-17 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01247-w

Damien Hall, Wilma K Olson

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Novel imaging and biophysical approaches to study tissue hydraulics in mammalian folliculogenesis.

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-10-07 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01231-4

Jake Turley, Kim Whye Leong, Chii Jou Chan

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Nonthermal fluctuations accelerate biomolecular motors.

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-10-02 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01238-x

Takayuki Ariga

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Extreme-value analysis in nano-biological systems: applications and implications.

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-10-02 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01239-w

Kumiko Hayashi, Nobumichi Takamatsu, Shunki Takaramoto

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Dimensional reduction and adaptation-development-evolution relation in evolved biological systems.

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-09-30 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01233-2

Kunihiko Kaneko

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Microtubule choreography: spindle self-organization during cell division.

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Biophysical reviews Pub Date : 2024-09-30 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01236-z

Amruta Sridhara, Yuta Shimamoto

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