INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR
PURE AND APPLIED BIOPHYSICS

President Nagayama has authorized the 2009 awards for Schools in Biophysics.  A total of US$40,000 has been allocated for this purpose. The awards were decided on the basis of the votes received from members of the IUPAB Council.

Funding for the following Schools has been approved:

(1)    Croatia 10th International Summer School, 19 – October 1, 2009. This school will cover structure and dynamics, major techniques in biophysics, bioinformatics, and  biocomplexity and evolution.
(2)    Sofia Bulgaria, School of Protein Science, 21 - 26 September 2009. This 6-day school is entitled “From Basic Research to Drug Design”.
(3)    Latin America Postgraduate Program, October 5-9, 2009: Macromolecular Visualization  and Protein crystallography; Fluorescence approach in Biophysics; Atomic Force microscopy, EPR and Differential Scanning Calorimetry; and Nuclear magnetic resonance.
(4)    Mumbai, India, November 2009 (final dates to be announced): This program is designed to cater to postgraduate (e.g. PhD) students interested in NMR and its biological applications.

All queries regarding the IUPAB should be sent to:

mail@iupab.org

The Union is in the process of forming a web-based network to facilitate communication between graduate students and early career computational scientists. The network is primarily intended to assist scientists from developing countries. We hope to be able to offer advice and possibly other assistance such as network and PC assistance.

For example, the following is a note and a link to a group performing Computational Mutation. They have recently published a set of lecture notes as a book - publisher’s information.

If you have an interest and experience in the field of computational biophysics, please contact one of the following:

Wilma Olsen (wilma.olson@rutgers.edu)

Willy Wriggers (wriggers@biomachina.org)

or the Secretary General, Cris dos Remedios (dosremedios@iupab.org)

Application for funding to assist Schools in Biophysics have closed. The applications are currently being reviewed.

We expect to make a decision by mid-September (or earlier) and the results will be posted on this website.

Cris dos Remedios
Secretary General