Many thanks to Nipuna Weerasinghe for these Sinhalese translations! Nipuna is originally from Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and is currently a research associate Prof. Michael F. Brown’s lab in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arizona. Using a combination of biophysical techniques (UV, IR, NMR, native MS, X-ray, and neutron scattering, he aims to understand how soft matter (lipid membrane and cellular water) allosterically regulate membrane protein function, using the visual protein rhodopsin, found in the retina as a model system