Arjan van der Vaart has received a CAREER award from the NSF The 5 year, $600,000 award will be used to study the binding mechanism of sequence specific DNA-binding proteins. Read on ... Biological Physicist interview with Timothy Newman The December 2008 issue of the Biological Physicist published by the American Physical Society presents a special visit to the Center for Biological Physics, and an interview with Center Director Timothy Newman. Read on ... Mike Thorpe Awarded Prestigious Leverhulme Visiting Professorship Mike Thorpe has been awarded Great Britain's prestigious Leverhulme Visiting Professorship for extended visits during 2009 and 2010 to collaborate on research on proteins and viruses. Read on ... Zapping HIV with lasers Exciting new work is reported in Discover by Professor Kong-Thon Tsen who has shown that lasers set to the right frequency may effectively knock out the virus. For people with AIDS, Tsen's antiviral attack could be more effective and safer than the current drug cocktails, which have a slew of side effects. Read on ... Radiation Research Professor Peter Rez has been selected by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for a three year study to determine how radiation interacts with biomolecules, with the aim of seeing how the absorption of electromagnetic radiation can be used to rapidly detect and identify molecules characteristic of bio-threats. Read on ... New Antitumor Response Arjan van der Vaart is a visiting professor in France this summer (2008), where his simulations will direct the design of new glycolipids that activate natural killer T cells. Read on ... HFSP Funds Gastrulation Modeling. Timothy Newman and Cornelis Weijer (U Dundee) have been awarded a research grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) to fund their investigation of mechanisms underlying gastrulation ( in the chick embryo). Read on ... Electron Transfer in Metalloproteins A recent cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry featured the work of Dmitry Matyushov. Read on ... Developmental Biology Recent advances in Multiscale Modeling of Developmental Systems are in a new book co-edited by Timothy Newman, with a computer simulation by his group on the cover. Read on ...