From just physics to biophysics of biological systems
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EDITORIAL
From just physics to biophysics of biological systems Antonio Benedetto 1,2,3,4 Received: 1 September 2020 / Accepted: 3 September 2020 # International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
I have had the honour and the luck to have met Prof. Cristobal G. dos Remedios (Cris), and this Editorial is dedicated to celebrate and share this experience on the occasion offered by his 80th birthday, to which Biophysical Reviews—Cris was the Editor-in-Chief for several years and now is still serving the Journal as Emeritus Chief Editor—has dedicated a Special Issue entitled “Biophysics of Human Anatomy and Physiology” that has been just published. I have met Cris at the 17th International Biophysics Congress that took place in Beijing, China, from the 30th of October to the 3rd of November 2011. At that time, I had defended my PhD thesis since almost a year already, and I was looking around for opportunities and applying for postdoctoral fellowships or waiting for their outcome. Presenting my research findings and networking at relevant conferences in my field of interest, i.e. biophysics, I thought it was a good idea in the meantime. My attendance at the 17th International Biophysics Congress was supported by a IUPAB Travel Award for Young Scientists, sponsored by the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and awarded by Cris who was the IUPAB Secretary-General. Attending this Congress was an open-minding experience for me, mainly because the interand trans-disciplinarity of the talks and, in turn, of the international biophysical community itself. In this context, I have been given the opportunity to present part of the findings of my PhD in the form of a contributed talk that, if I remember correctly, was my first talk at such kind of big congresses. In the talk, titled “Protein dynamics by neutron scattering”, I
* Antonio Benedetto [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 1
Department of Sciences, University of Roma Tre, 00146 Rome, Italy
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School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
presented one of the major results achieved during my PhD that was on the protein dynamical transition and its connection to the protein biochemical function (Magazù et al. 2011) as well as on few other findings including one on the different atomic displacement of two homologous natural bioprotectants (Magazù et al. 2012). I have met Cris again few months later in San Diego, CA, at the 56th Annual Meeting of the (American) Biophysical Society (25– 29 February). At that time, I have been already communicated that my application for the 2012 Endeavour Awards program of the Australian Government was successful, and so I shared this good news with Cris informing him that from the nex
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