The second Costa Rican Biophysics Symposium is coming virtually in March 11th-12th, 2021

The second Costa Rican Biophysics Symposium will be organized virtually on March 11th-12th of 2021. This year will count with Dr. Francisco Bezanilla from the University of Chicago as the keynote speaker. The talks will include research on electrophysiology, machine learning applied to cellular microscopy, and prediction of protein-protein interaction sites.

 

This event aims to build an international network of scientists whose work is representative of the field of biophysics. Biophysics is a very multidisciplinary field and this meeting sets a precedent in Costa Rica about the importance of collaborating across disciplines to answer challenging scientific questions.

 

The first Costa Rican Biophysics Symposium was organized in January of 2019 at the National Academy of Sciences of Costa Rica. It attracted nearly 80 attendees with scientists from Costa Rica and worldwide universities including Virginia Tech and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Information about the 2021 symposium and registration can be found at the official web page https://crbiophysics.wordpress.com. Registration will open on the first week of February.

COSTA RICAN BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM 

Thursday 2021/03/11 Speaker Affiliation Title
10:00 am – 10:20 am Christopher S, Jose R, Fran A, Gustavo C Organizers Opening remarks
10:20 am – 10:40 am Enrique Lin Shiao University of California, Berkeley The versatility of DNA – from building nanostructures to rewriting the code of life
10:40 am – 11:00 am Pablo Gainza EPFL Deciphering interaction fingerprints in protein surfaces to de novo design new biologics
11:00 am – 11:20 am Coffe Break — —
11:20 am – 11:40 am Marcela Garita Institut de Neurosciences de Montpellier TBD
11:40 pm – 12:00 pm Orlando Argüello-Miranda UT Southwestern Medical Center Advancing single-cell fluorescent microscopy through machine learning
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 pm – 1:20 pm Giovanni-Saenz-Arce,PhD Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica Atomic force microscopy applied to biological problems
1:20 pm – 1:40 pm Rodrigo Mora Universidad de Costa Rica Biocomputational identification of complex networks mediating gene dosage compensation in cancer
1:40 pm – 2:00 pm Óscar Andrey Herrera Universidad de Costa Rica Quantum phenomena in biological systems: from monarch butterflies to leaf-cutting ants
2:00 pm – 2:20 pm Coffe Break — —
2:20 pm – 2:40 pm Isaac Céspedes Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica TBD
2:40 pm – 3:00 pm Leonardo Lesser Rojas Universidad de Costa Rica Applications of nanogaps on-a-chip for the development of new generation biomacromolecular detection and analysis methods
Friday 2021/03/12 Speaker/Panelist Affiliation Title
10:00 am – 10:20 am Adarli Romero, PhD Universidad de Costa Rica TBD
10:20 am – 10:40 am Oscar Brenes Universidad de Costa Rica Functional characterization of ionic channels associated with muscle channelopathies
10:40 am – 11:00 am Coffee break — —
11:00 am – 11:20 am Gustavo Chaves Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg Electrophysiology of the voltage-gated proton channel, HV1
11:20 am – 11:40 am Bernardo Pinto Universtiy of Chicago A thermometer based on membrane capacitance
11:40 pm – 12:00 pm Sara T Granados Universtiy of Illinois at Chicago Inward-rectifier potassium channel and cholesterol interactions
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Break — —
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Francisco Bezanilla Universtiy of Chicago Keynote presentation – TBD
2:00 pm – 2:20 pm Christopher S, Jose R, Fran A, Gustavo C Organizers Closing remarks

The schedule is in Costa Rican local time (CST). https://crbiophysics.wordpress.com

British Biophysical Society 60th Anniversary Meeting

British Biophysical Society

60th Anniversary Meeting

 

The British Biophysical Society Biennial meeting is the largest national meeting of the UK biophysics community and this edition is particularly special as it celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the creation of the society. ‘Biophysics through time and space: The BBS@60’ will be on ZOOM 14-17 September 2020 2pm-6pm (UK time).

 

The Meeting is FREE and the meeting registration link is: https://ukri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jpHqh1vgSBKMg5ZrHKLQPQ

 

Main Meeting Speakers

Venki Ramakrishnan (LMB, Cambridge), Richard Henderson (LMB, Cambridge), Dave Stuart (U.Oxford/Diamond Light Source), Banafshe Larijani (U.Bath), Perdita Barran (U.Manchester), Allen Orville (Diamond Light Source), Amanda Wright (U.Nottingham), Tom Clarke (UEA), David Brockwell (U.Leeds), Mike Fried (U.Kentucky), Tony Watts (Oxford), Ben Luisi (U.Cambridge), Peter Crowley (NUI, Galway), Corinne Smith (U.Warwick), Alison Rodger (Macquarie University, Sydney), Marcello Nollmann (CNRS, Montpellier), Phil Biggin (University of Oxford), Peijun Zhang (eBIC/Oxford) and John Briggs (LMB, Cambridge).

 

INCLUDING SESSION ON COVID19 STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY ON THURSDAY SEPT 17th

PLEASE SEE FULL MEETING SCHEDULE AT:

https://britishbiophysics.org/posts/2020/2020-06-01-bbs2020online/

 

Satellite Meetings

We have three satellite meetings associated with the meeting:

1)      Bacterial cell envelopes: structure, dynamics, function. Running Monday 14th and Thursday 17th September, 9am -12 pm (UK time). Speakers: Wonpil Im (Lehigh, USA), Anna Duncan (U.Oxford, UK), Bert van den Berg (U. Newcastle, UK), Morgan Beeby (Imperial College London, UK), Tanmay Bharat (U. Oxford, UK), Shu-Sin Chng (National University Singapore). Keynote: Sheena Radford (U.Leeds, UK)

Register here: https://symakhalidresearchgroup.wordpress.com/meetings/

 

2)      Collaborative Computer Project on Small Angle Scattering (CCP-SAS) software training workshop and seminars. Running Friday 18th September (UK time).

Program and registration here: http://www.ccpsas.org/Meetings/BBS2020/Program.html

 

3)      Refeyn Webinar. Refeyn will host two talks on 15th Sept 10-12 am. A brief 25 minute introduction to mass photometry including its applications, followed by a Refeyn customer presentation.

        James Wilkinson – Mass photometry, a new method to study biomolecular interactions.

Luca Schulz from the lab of Georg Hochberg – Evolution of RubisCO’s interaction with and dependence on the small subunit

Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqcuqtpz8iEtT8oeHbF9GUmfQhBncnXGcb

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