[3dem] Cryo-EM Subgroup of the Biophysical Society

Edward Egelman ehe2n at virginia.edu
Wed Mar 25 06:26:24 PDT 2015


Many thanks to those of you who responded to the previous call with an 
email to the Biophysical Society! However, we have still not reached 100 
names. We therefore urge those of you who are members and did not send 
an email to do so now, and those of you who are not members of the 
Society to join so that you may send an email. This is a great 
opportunity to have an extended session focused on cryo-EM every year at 
the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. The next meeting will be in LA 
(Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2016) and it would be terrific to have a Cryo-EM 
Subgroup session on Saturday, Feb. 27. So here is the previous call:


Dear Colleagues,

It is a remarkable time for Cryo-EM! Given a very successful Cryo-EM 
Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in Baltimore 
last month, the idea arose to create an official Cryo-EM Subgroup of the 
Biophysical Society. There would be many advantages to having such an 
official subgroup, the principal one being that we would be able to 
organize a Subgroup Scientific Meeting every year on Saturday at the 
Annual Meeting of the Society. Since > 6,000 people attend these annual 
meetings (including quite a few cryo-EM people) the scientific session 
on Saturday would be a wonderful forum for presenting new results in 
methods, techniques and applications to biological problems. We envision 
a session that could be held perhaps 7:30 - 10:00 pm, which would not 
conflict with other subgroup meetings, and would allow for five-seven 
talks that might be selected from submitted abstracts or from 
nominations. There would be many people outside of the cryo-EM community 
who would be interested in such talks, and these might be in addition to 
the cryo-EM talks that are given within the regular Platform Sessions 
and Symposia. The Subgroup would also be able to help nominate Cryo-EM 
people for Society awards, as well as help to increase the visibility of 
cryo-EM within the Society, since many cryo-EM people have been 
associated with the Society for many years. There are also wonderful 
opportunities for cryo-EM people to interact with people using 
techniques ranging from molecular dynamics to fluorescence. So we see 
many benefits to having such a subgroup, and no downside.
     To form this subgroup, we need 100 signatures from current (2015) 
Regular, Emeritus or Early Career members of the Society (unfortunately 
student members are not counted). To sign this petition, simply send an 
email to subgroups at biophysics.org indicating your support.

We have created a link that will allow you to see the proposed bylaws of 
the subgroup:

http://www.biophysics.org/CryoEM

If you are a member of the Society, please sign the petition! If you are 
not a member, please join so that you may then sign the petition!

Regards,
Bridget Carragher
Yifan Cheng
Edward Egelman (President of the Biophysical Society)
Irina Serysheva
David Stokes
Da-Neng Wang

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