A special issue of the Australian society for Biophysics

Cristobal Dos Remedios; Charles Cranfield; Donna Whelan; Charles Cox; Keith Shearwin; Joshua Ho; Toby Allen; Risa Shibuya; Emi Hibino; Kumiko Hayashi; Amy Li

doi:10.1007/s12551-022-00936-8

A special issue of the Australian society for Biophysics

Biophys Rev. 2022 Feb 23;14(1):1-2. doi: 10.1007/s12551-022-00936-8. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Authors

Cristobal Dos Remedios¹, Charles Cranfield², Donna Whelan³, Charles Cox^{1

4}, Keith Shearwin⁵, Joshua Ho⁶, Toby Allen⁷, Risa Shibuya⁸, Emi Hibino⁹, Kumiko Hayashi¹⁰, Amy Li^{3

11}

Affiliations

¹ Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW Australia.
² School of Life Science, Faculty of Science, University of Technology, Sydney, Ultimo, NSW Australia.
³ Department of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC Australia.
⁴ St Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Australia.
⁵ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA Australia.
⁶ School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.
⁷ School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC Australia.
⁸ Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan.
⁹ Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi Japan.
¹⁰ Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
¹¹ Centre for Health Futures, Torrens University, Pyrmont, Australia.

Abstract

On behalf of the Australian Society for Biophysics (ASB) and the Editors of this Special Issue, I would like to express our appreciation to Editor-in-Chief, Damien Hall, for arranging the publication of this Special Issue. The ASB is about five times smaller than our sister the Biophysical Society for Japan (BSJ) and tenfold smaller than the US Biophysical Society (USBS), but our meetings are notable because of the encouragement the Society gives to emerging biophysicists. It can be a terrifying experience for a PhD student to have to face a roomful of professors and senior academics, but invariably they appreciate the experience. Another feature of the ASB meetings is the inclusion of contributions from the Asian Pacific region. We now have formal ties with our New Zealand colleagues and our meetings with the BSJ contain joint sessions (see below). In 2020, despite the impact of COVID-19 (see Adam Hill's Commentary), there is a joint session with the University of California Davis. This Special Issue comprises 2 Editorials, 3 Commentaries, and 25 reviews.

Publication types

Editorial