BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
4
MAY
2014
Announcing the2015 ThematicMeetings
Each year, theBPS sponsors small, focused-topicmeetings organizedby Societymembers. The Society
is pleased to announce the fourmeetings thatwill take place in2015.
NewBiological Frontiers IlluminatedbyMolecular
Sensors andActuators
Taipei, Taiwan
June 28–July 1, 2015
Thismeetingwill explore a variety of cutting edge
research tools that are critical toour understanding
of cell signaling aswell as cellular structures in awide
range of biological systems.Due to themultidisciplinary
nature of such studies, we encourage participations of a diverse range of researcherswith interests that
span the biological, chemical, andphysical sciences.
Biophysics of Proteins andSurfaces: Assembly,
Activation, Signaling
Madrid, Spain
October 13–15, 2015
Thismeetingwill focus ondifferent aspects related to the
biophysics of tuning protein functions through their as-
sembly intobiological or engineered surfaces. Particular
aspects coveredwill include: 1) the effect of the interac-
tionwith surfaces on themolecular structure of proteins andprotein assemblies, with special interest in
themodulationby surface-promotedorientation and two-dimensional accumulationof lipid-protein
andprotein-protein interactions; 2) the effect of two-dimensional organization and entropy loss on the
modulationof protein function; and3) the potential of introducing properly engineered surfaces to
generate newor improvedprotein-based applications.
The programwill include talks from the perspective of different systems and approaches reviewedby
recognizedbiophysicists, with the goal of promoting fruitful discussions and future collaborations in the
searchof general principles of surface biophysics defining and exploiting protein structure and function.
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