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Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases
Welcome Letter
November 2015
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to welcome you all to the Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting
on
Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases
.
This meeting is the Biophysical Society’s first venture onto the African continent, and the first
thematic meeting to address an overtly medical topic. It is an extraordinary time in biophysics, as
new technologies are being rapidly deployed that are changing the landscape of studies on
infectious diseases in a manner that was previously inaccessible.
This week’s conference brings together a diverse group of experts from many fields
including biophysics, biochemistry, microbiology, microfluidics, and community health, to name
a few. The 44 lectures and 47 posters at this week’s meeting cover a broad range of topics,
furthering our goal of providing you with a strong and varied program. Ultimately we hope that
through this meeting we can all gain deeper insights into the challenging problems of infectious
diseases. We are confident that this meeting will not only provide a venue for sharing our recent
progress, findings, and ideas for the future but will also foster new collaborations.
We trust that you will enjoy Stellenbosch – it has a great deal to offer people with a wide
variety of interests.
Thank you all for attending, we wish everyone a great meeting!
Best regards,
The Organizing Committee
Jim Sacchettini
Trevor Sewell