INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR
PURE AND APPLIED BIOPHYSICS

IUPAB Newsletter #55 – December 2009

The RBC is a series of biennial symposia intended to bring together biophysics researchers from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Serbia,
Slovenia and Slovakia (a new member from 2010), and also includes
internationally renowned guest speakers.
The first RBC meeting took place in March 2005 in Terme Zrece (Slovenia), the second one was held in August 2007 in Balatonfüred (Hungary), and the third one in February 2009 in Linz (Austria).
The principal aims of the conference are: 1) to strengthen the collaborative ties between biophysics groups in the region, 2) to present the cutting-edge achievements from a broad range of biophysics disciplines to students, and 3) to promote the field of biophysics.
For more information, you can visit the website:
http://www.univie.ac.at/mfplproj/regional-biophysics/

ICSU has asked us to publicise the vacancy for a Science Officer (permanent position), applications to close on August 16, 2010. The announcement can be viewed in detail on the ICSU website:http://www.icsu.org/9_latestnews/latest_47.html

The Australian Society for Biophysics and the Australian Physiological Society will hold a joint meeting from November 28 – December 1, 2010 at the National Wine Centre, Adelaide, S.A., Australia http://www.apps.org.au/Meetings/201011/

This workshop will serve to introduce students from Brazil and surrounding countries to modern biophysical techniques such as NMR, fluorescence, ESR, circular dichroism, IR, X-ray scattering, microscopies and molecular simulations. Furthermore, during this year´s workshop Prof. Shirley Schreier´s 70th birthday will be celebrated.  Prof. Schreier is one of the Biophysics pioneers in Brazil, who has always been committed with good science and education of the students.

This Congress, with a Focus on Calcium Signalling and TRP Channels, will be held at Isparta, Turkey  on June 22-27, 2010.  Further details on the program and social activities are one the website www.cmos.org.tr kongre poster-ing

Vale Greta Pifat-Mrzljak
At the time of her death after an illness in December, 2009 Greta was director of the Ruder Boskovic Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. She was also the current awardee, and the first non-U.S. recipient, of the prestigious Emily M. Gray Award for exceptional contribution to education in biophysics. She will be remembered by many, but especially by the many students who benefited from her skilfully organised workshops and summer schools, the most recent in Rovinj, Croatia last year.

For details and Poster please click here.