From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon May 12 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Carol Gross" Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.biophysics Subject: Biophys. Soc. Members elected to National Academy of Sciences Date: 13 May 1997 14:43:04 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 25 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <199705132132.QAA11169@biosci.cbs.umn.edu> Reply-To: "Carol Gross" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Five members of the Biophysical Society were recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. They are: Donald M. Engelman of Yale University, S. Walter. Englander of the University of Pennsylvania, Peter S. Kim of the Whitehead Institution for Biomedical Research, and Peter B. Moore of Yale University. Johann Deisenhofer of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center was elected as a foreign associate. Peter Kim is currently a member of the Biophysical Society Council and Peter Moore will become the Editor of the Biophysical Journal on July 1. Christine K. Carrico Executive Director Biophysical Society =========================== Biophysical Society Christine K. Carrico, Ph.D. Executive Director 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 Phone: (301)530-7114 FAX: (301)530-7133 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue May 20 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Carol Gross" Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.biophysics Subject: NIGMS Announcement Date: 21 May 1997 12:22:05 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 63 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <199705211849.NAA21518@biosci.cbs.umn.edu> Reply-To: "Carol Gross" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net NIGMS ANNOUNCES PROGRAM TO SUPPORT EXPLORATORY STUDIES FOR HIGH RISK/HIGH IMPACT RESEARCH The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), recently announced a new program to provide pilot-scale support for potentially ground-breaking ideas, methods, or systems. The goal of this program is to promote research that lacks sufficient preliminary data to establish feasibility, but that, if successful, would be likely to have a major, precedent-setting impact on biomedical research. The proposed research must fall within the areas supported by NIGMS, which include basic research on cell biology, biophysics, genetics, developmental biology, pharmacology, physiology, and biological chemistry. Program Highlights + Awards will be made using the R21 mechanism, in amounts not + exceeding $70,000 per year in direct costs for a maximum of two + years. Application receipt dates are February 1, June 1, and + October 1. Applications will be reviewed in NIH Division of + Research Grants initial review groups, but will not receive + percentile scores and will not be included in the base from which + the percentiles of other applications are calculated. Reviewers + will be asked to take into account the NIGMS requirement that the + project show "potential for ground-breaking, precedent-setting + significance of the proposed research, with particular emphasis on + novel and innovative approaches that clearly require additional + preliminary data for their value to be established." There is no + "set-aside" for this program; NIGMS staff will recommend for + funding only those proposals clearly meeting the state + requirements. The award cannot be renewed. If sufficient data are + generated during the term of the award, investigators could then + apply for further funding through research project grant (R01) or + other mechanisms. For More Information Complete details on this program are published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts as Program Announcement PA-97-049. The program announcement and additional information for applicants can be found on the NIGMS World Wide Web home page at http://www.nih.gov/nigms/funding/pa/r21.html. NIGMS contact people for programmatic questions: Cell Biology and Biophysics: Dr. James Cassatt (301) 594-0828 Genetics and Developmental Biology: Dr. Judith Greenberg (301) 594-0943 Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry: Dr. Michael Rogers (301) 594-3827 NIGMS contact person for fiscal questions: Grants Management: Ms. Carol Tippery (301) 594-5135 =========================== Biophysical Society Christine K. Carrico, Ph.D. Executive Director 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 Phone: (301)530-7114 FAX: (301)530-7133 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed May 21 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: David Kristofferson Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.biophysics Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI moving to Stanford! Date: 22 May 1997 07:18:14 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 56 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <199705220406.VAA04593@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net After more than a decade of serving the biology community on the BIOSCI project, I have decided that it is time for me to pass the torch. The demands of my career and family are making it increasingly difficult for me to run BIOSCI adequately on a part-time basis, and I've decided that I would do the project more harm than good by clinging to it. Therefore I have concluded an agreement with the Stanford University Libraries to take over the management of the BIOSCI project effective 6 June 1997. Many of you know the work of the Stanford Libraries through HighWire Press which has done an excellent job bringing the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Science Magazine, and other prestigious journals to the WWW (see http://highwire.stanford.edu/). I have every confidence that Stanford will provide an environment where the BIOSCI project can flourish. The BIOSCI team at Daresbury will continue to support the project in Europe, and Dave Mack and Julie Lawrence on the current BIOSCI staff will continue to assist the new team at Stanford. The project will be managed by Serge Taylor of the Stanford Libraries who is responsible for developing Web-based "knowledge environments" for scientists. I will still participate with the project in an advisory capacity but have to phase myself out of day-to-day operations. Many of you who read bionet.announce, bionet.biology.computational, and bionet.jobs.offered (the groups that I moderate) have been aware of the recent posting delays that my busy schedule has inflicted on those newsgroups. I am pleased to announce that Todd McGee, Scientific Advisor of the HighWire Press, will be taking over moderation of those groups from me this week. ** NOTE ** - The BIOSCI hardware will be down for backups on 6 June and will be moved over the weekend of June 7 and 8. We will be changing the IP number of the machine, but the host name and all mailing addresses will remain unchanged. There may be a few days of service disruption during this time due to the move unfortunately, just as we experienced in BIOSCI's previous move. We hope to keep this to a minimum. We will post status reports on the move to bionet.announce before and after it happens. Please watch that newsgroup for details. It has been a pleasure serving all of you since the "early days" of biology on the Internet. I've had the pleasure of not only "knowing" many of you over the Internet, but have also met literally thousands of biologists around the U.S. and elsewhere during the many Internet training seminars that I gave over the last decade. I've been truly fortunate to have been given the chance to play a role in the growth of biology on the Internet. This is something I will always treasure. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu May 29 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Carol Gross" Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.biophysics Subject: Biophysical Society WWW/Gopher update Date: 30 May 1997 12:13:01 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 76 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <199705301902.OAA01489@biosci.cbs.umn.edu> Reply-To: "Carol Gross" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY WWW/GOPHER SERVERS New additions and updates: May 2 - May 30,1997 WWW URL: http://biosci.umn.edu/biophys/biophys.html Gopher address: biosci.cbs.umn.edu, port 70 Follow the path: CBS Departments-->Biophysical Journal ------------------------------------------------------------- Employment: - Healthcare Employment Links (http://members.aol.com/pjpohly/links.htm) - Healthcare Recruiters on the Net (http://members.aol.com/pjpohly/rec-link.htm) Grant Information - National Institute for General Medical Science (NIGMS) Exploratory Studies for High Risk/High Impact Research (http://www.nih.gov/nigms/funding/pa/r21.html) Journals: - Cell - Journal of Applied Physiology - Journal of Clinical Investigations - Journal of Experimental Medicine - Journal of Neuroscience - Journal of Nutrition - Journal Watch - Neuron - Pediatrics - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Meetings: Gopher - The 8th Cyprus Conference on New Methods in Drug Research May 4-9, 1998 - Limassol, Cyprus Contact: ARRT International, Inc. (email: arrtintl@prodigy.net) - The Conference on Scientific and Technical Data Exchange and Integration -- Sponsored by the US National Committee for CODATA National Research Council December 15-17, 1997 - Bethesda, MD Contact: CODATACO@NAS.EDU (email) or (202) 334-2421 (phone) - International Conference on Plasma Membrane Redox Systems and their role in Biological Stress and Disease. Antwerp, Belgium, April 7-10, 1998 Contact: redox98@ruca.ua.ac.be (email) WWW - Parallel Programming and High Performance Computing Supercomputing Resource for Molecular Biology - Practical Course June 8-14, 1997 - Heidelberg, Germany (http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/Services/srmb/pphpc_course/) - Gordon Research Conference on Macromolecular Organization and Cell Function September 13-17, 1998, Oxford, England (http://gepasi.dbs.aber.ac.uk/grc98.html) Courses: - Principles and Applications on Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy (short course) March 23-27, 1998 - Baltimore, MD Contact: cfs@cfs.umbi.umn.edu (email) (http://cfs.umbi.umn.edu) If you have suggestions for the Biophysical Society servers, please send email to cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu. **************************************************************** Carol Gross cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Biophysics Internet Coordinator 612-625-5262 (voice) University of Minnesota 612-625-5780 (fax) Department of Biochemistry ****************************************************************