[Biofizika] [Ebsa] Biophysics meetings

Pet Srp 1 16:08:18 CEST 2016

News associated with biophysics - supported by the European Biophysical Societies' Association (EBSA) - www.ebsa.org/

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Biophysics meetings being organized in the new future: 

- Bonnie Wallace Celebratory Symposium, London, Aug 10 
- Annual Meeting of the German Biophysical Society, Erlangen Sept 25-28 
- EBSA course - Membrane Biophysics and Lipid-Protein Interactions, Montpellier Sept 11-16 
- Boden Research Conference 2016: Animal, Vegetal, Mineral?, Australia, Sept 19-23

Details below. 

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Bonnie Wallace Celebratory Symposium
In celebration of her 65th Birthday

Honouring her Contribution to Science (NOTE: This is NOT a retirement celebration!!)

Shining Light on Membrane Proteins

Wednesday 10th August 2016

Held at: Lecture Room B33, Malet Street, Birkbeck College, University of London

For more information, visit:
http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/rwjanes/Symposium.htm

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Annual Meeting of the German Biophysical Society 

25-28 September 2016, Erlangen, Germany

The meeting is traditionally an interdisciplinary meeting point for scientists and students from various research fields with a special focus on biophysics, molecular biophysics, membranes, cells, networks, and medical biophysics. This year’s cooperation partners are the Natural Sciences Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Max Planck Insitute for the Science of Light in Erlangen. For further information please refer to the conference homepage:

https://www.biophysics2016.org

or contact us via e-mail to rainer.boeckmann at fau.de or via phone +49 9131 85 25409.

We highly encourage both renowned and junior researchers to contribute to the programme of the meeting and submit abstracts. Both early registration and abstract submission deadline are June 30, 2016. Early registration is strongly encouraged! (+40 Euro for late registration until July 15, 2016).

This year the conference will host a Young Investigators Award competition. To apply for this award, please submit a curriculum vitae, a two-page summary of your research and the names of three persons who could support your application with a letter of reference. After the first round of review, four runner-ups will have the opportunity to hold short plenary talks, and two of the presenters will be the winners of a ‘Young Investigator Award’. The award consists of 500 Euros plus funding for a 3-month research stay at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.

The application deadline is the 30th of June, 2016. Please send your application (one combined pdf file) to rainer.boeckmann at fau.de (Subject: Young Investigator Award Competition).

Also, this year the conference will be followed by a 1,5 day Satellite Meeting on Dynamic Interactions at Biomembranes (confirmed speakers Michael Kozlov, Joshua Zimmerberg, Luca Monticelli, Philipp Kukura). The website www.biophysics2016.org offers details for the registration both to the Annual Meeting of the German Biophysical Society and the satellite meeting on biomembranes.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Erlangen in September 2016!

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EBSA course - Membrane Biophysics and Lipid-Protein Interactions 

Montpellier-La Grande Motte (France), 11-16 September, 2016 

The aim of this advanced course is to provide young researchers (PhDs, postdocs) with a solid background in membrane biophysics and in the major methodological approaches. In addition, the course is also an excellent networking opportunity.

The course will contain several plenary and didactic lectures on membrane biophysics and lipid-protein interactions given by Professors specialist in their field. Major structural techniques (NMR, X-rays, Fluorescence, Electron Microscopy, CD, AFM, MD simulations) and concepts (thermodynamics, self organization, dynamics) will be developed in the context of different biological topics. Students will also actively participate in presenting shortly their ongoing work during case studies that will initiate students with research strategy, data acquisition and analysis.

For more information or to register online, please visit the website:

http://biophysics.wix.com/montpellier

Confirmed lecturers: Antoinette Killian (Utrecht, NL), Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet (Montpellier, FR), Manuel Prieto (Lisboa, PT), Jonas Ries (Heidelberg, DE), Sandrine Sagan (Paris, FR), Michael Rappolt (Leeds, UK), Bonnie Wallace (London, UK), Ilpo Vattulainen (Helsinki, FI), Anthony Watts (Oxford, UK).

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Boden Research Conference 2016: Animal, Vegetal, Mineral? 

Yallingup, Western Australia, 19-23 September 2016

Complex nanostructures abound in biological tissue and related synthetic soft materials. These convoluted forms remain largely unexplored, both in terms of how and why they emerge, and undoubtedly involve interplay of biology in vivo with physicochemical factors at work in vitro. ‘Animal Vegetal Mineral’ will be an interdisciplinary forum to discuss and attempt to demarcate the similarities and differences between structure formation mechanisms in biological materials and synthetic soft self-assembled materials. We invite and welcome interested scientific researchers from biology, chemistry, materials science, physics and mathematics to join us for an open-minded exploration of the relations between shape, structure formation and function in biological tissue and nano- and mesostructured materials.

A special issue of the journal Interface Focus LINK will be dedicated to the themes of the conference. Participants are encouraged to propose contributions to this issue.

Register by 15th July 2016.

For more information, visit:
http://animal-vegetal-mineral.org

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