The very first Biophysics Week is coming up March 7-11, 2016. Mark your calendars and join your peers in celebrating this special week. Biophysics Week is a global effort to encourage connections within the biophysics community and raise awareness of the field and its impact among the general public, policy makers, students, and scientists in […]

The Oxford Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership is offering 10 undergraduate vacation bursaries to provide outstanding students with the opportunity to work in one of the BBSRC’s top training environments.   The scheme is designed to provide promising undergraduate students in the middle years of their degree with “hands-on” experience of research to encourage them to […]

The Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal dedicated to the advancement of data science and its application in policies, practices and management of Open Data. The Data Science Journal is seeking papers for a special issue devoted to “Advances in Data Modeling and Knowledge Representation for Research Data”. Deadline for submissions: […]

This is the announcement of the special issue on “Protein-Ligand Interactions” in Biophysics and Physicobiology. On behalf of the editorial board members of Biophysics and Physicobiology, which is the official on-line journal (e-journal) of the Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ), I would like to invite you to contribute to this special issue. As a campaign […]

CODATA President, Geoffrey Boulton, has published his message to the CODATA community in which he sets out CODATA’s strategic vision and priorities over the next four years: http://www.codata.org/message-from-president-geoffrey-boulton

The following message has been received from Dr. Sarah Callaghan, Editor -in- Chief of this journal: Dear Colleagues, CODATA International Scientific Union Members, The Data Science Journal http://datascience.codata.org is currently accepting nominations and applications for membership of its Editorial Board. The main role of a board member is to act as an advocate  of the […]

Applications for IUPAB funding for 2016 Schools will be accepted from June 1 – July 31, 2015. All allocations will be in Euros, with the maximum 10,000 Euros. We plan to advise applicants of the funding results by end November, 2015. The following documents can be downloaded from the IUPAB website:  Funding Application;    Sponsorship Agreement. […]

In Paris on February 13, 2015 ICSU announced, on behalf of the Science & Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, the appointment of Paul Shrivastava as Executive Director of Future Earth. Currently he is the David O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and the Director of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, at the John […]

Applications closed at the end of September 2014 for assistance in funding biophysics , the IUPAB provided funding for six advanced schools in biophysics to be held during 2015: Grenoble, France, February 2-5, 2015: Advanced isotopic labelling methods for integrated structural biology Dresden Germany, July 15-17, 2015: Spectroscopies in biology – Recent advances Singapore, July […]

Report on Activity to 2014 Much has gone on in the spirit of the education taskforce – workshops and support of conferences (See Reviews on Website and in IUPAB Updates). These events are coordinated and successfully run locally with IUPAB contributing financial support and the time of its members. Successful Schools and Workshops have been […]