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Volume 20, 2023
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Volume 20, 2023
Issue 1
Volume 19, 2022
Volume 19, 2022

News

21 Mar., 2023 Special Issue: "Recent Advances in Retinal Protein Research" has been published.
26 Dec., 2022 The manuscript Template for LaTeX is available and is downloaded from the web site of Biophysics and Physicobiology.
21 Dec., 2022 The “Instruction for Authors” for Biophysics and Physicobiology has been updated. In particular, statements for Data Availability are requested to be added in the manuscript.
01 Sep., 2022 On 1st September 2022, we invite the following four new Editorial Board members for the Biophysics and Physicobiology (BPPB): Prof. Jie Yan (SNU, Singapore), Prof. Gautam Basu (Bose Inst., India), Prof. Raymond S. Norton (Monash Univ., Australia), and Prof. Steve Pressé (Arizona State Univ., USA). In addition, we invite Prof. Lee-Wei Yang (National Tsing-Hua Univ. Taiwan) as a new Associate Editor, and Prof. Robert E. Campbell (Univ. Alberta, Canada), Prof. Soichi Wakatsuki (Stanford Univ., USA), and Dr. Damien R. Hall (Kanazawa Univ., Japan) as new Advisory Board members.
01 Jun., 2022 On the J-STAGE web page for Advance online publication of each article, the Abstract and the Graphical Abstract are displayed.
26 Mar., 2022 A new preprint server, Jxiv, which has been developed and is operated by JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), started on 24 March 2022, and the manuscript posted on Jxiv before submission to the BPPB is not considered as publication.
This announcement is included in the updated Instruction for Authors on 26 March 2022.
05 Jan., 2022 From Volume 19, each article published in Biophysics and Physicobiology (BPPB) is identified by the Article ID not by the sequential page numbers. Thus, Formatting Templates and Instruction for Authors have been updated, and they are available from the BPPB web pages.
10 Dec., 2021 Special Issue: "The Oosawa Lectures on DIY Statistical Mechanics" has been published by Editorial team for the Special Issue on Oosawa's Lectures
20 Nov., 2021 Instruction for Authors and the formatting Template for each category have been updated. In addition, the Notes for manuscript preparation are available from the web page of Instruction for Authors.
17 Nov., 2021 An article with the title "Announcing changes to the publishing procedures of “Biophysics and Physicobiology” (BPPB) - the Biophysical Society of Japan’s English language biophysics journal" by Haruki Nakamura is published as a Commentary in Biophysical Reviews that is the IUPAB's official journal.
12 Nov., 2021 The BPPB web pages have been fully updated.
01 Oct., 2021 Style of articles in Biophysics and Physicobiology is changed with largely reducing the publication time and cost. See the updated Instruction for Authors.
22 Jun., 2021 The CSL (Citation Style language) for References list in articles of the BPPB has been registered at the GitHub site, and the details are described in the revised "Instructions for Authors” updated on 19th June 2021.
27 Nov., 2020 A preprint server, bioRxiv, starts a direct transfer service (B2J) of the manuscript, which has been submitted to bioRxiv, to the BPPB, after concluding a contract between Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSH) on 11 November 2020. The details are shown on the bioRxiv webpage.

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Recent Articles

Advance online publication
Calculations of the binding free energies of the Comprehensive in vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA) reference drugs to cardiac ion channels
Tatsuki Negami, Tohru Terada

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.0016
ReceivedJanuary 17, 2023   
AcceptedMarch 24, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 25, 2023   

Review Article (Invited)
Stable wide-field voltage imaging for observing neuronal plasticity at the neuronal network level
Takashi Tominaga, Riichi Kajiwara, Yoko Tominaga

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.0015
ReceivedFebruary 08, 2023   
AcceptedMarch 09, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 21, 2023   

Review Article (Invited)
Molecular mechanisms of the high performance of spider silks revealed through multi-omics analysis
Yasuha Watanabe, Kazuharu Arakawa

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.0014
ReceivedDecember 23, 2022   
AcceptedMarch 08, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 21, 2023   

Regular Article (Invited)
Biophysical characterization of microbial rhodopsins with DSE motif
María del Carmen Marín, Alexander L. Jaffe, Patrick T. West, Masae Konno, Jillian F. Banfield, Keiichi Inoue

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.s023
ReceivedFebruary 01, 2023   
AcceptedMarch 07, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 08, 2023   

Commentary and Perspective
Introduction of Session 2, “Advanced methods for retinal proteins”
Takayuki Uchihashi, Hideki Kandori

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.s022
ReceivedFebruary 09, 2023   
AcceptedMarch 06, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 07, 2023   

Commentary and Perspective
Introduction of Session 1, “Photochemistry of retinal proteins”
Yuki Sudo

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.s021
ReceivedMarch 01, 2023   
AcceptedMarch 02, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 04, 2023   

Commentary and Perspective
Optogenetics II, sponsored by JST: Report for the session 13
Hiroo Imai, Hideki Kandori

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.s020
ReceivedFebruary 13, 2023   
AcceptedMarch 01, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 02, 2023   

Commentary and Perspective
Functional diversity and evolution in animal rhodopsins: Report for the session 11
Hiroo Imai, Hideki Kandori

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.s019
ReceivedFebruary 10, 2023   
AcceptedMarch 01, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 02, 2023   

Commentary and Perspective
Function of animal rhodopsins and related proteins: Report for the session 9
Hiroo Imai, Akihisa Terakita

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.s018
ReceivedFebruary 10, 2023   
AcceptedMarch 01, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 02, 2023   

Regular Article (Invited)
Solid-state NMR for the characterization of retinal chromophore and Schiff base in TAT rhodopsin embedded in membranes under weakly acidic conditions
Sui Arikawa, Teppei Sugimoto, Takashi Okitsu, Akimori Wada, Kota Katayama, Hideki Kandori, Izuru Kawamura

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v20.s017
ReceivedJanuary 10, 2023   
AcceptedMarch 01, 2023   
ReleasedMarch 02, 2023   

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