This year’s International Physics of Living Systems (iPoLS) conference will be held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The event will run from July 28 to August 1, 2025. A pre-meeting event will be held on July 26 and July 27 in the city of Chicago, Illinois.
Abstracts
Abstracts submitted to date are being reviewed by the program committee; we anticipate notifications for talks and posters will be sent by the end of the month. It is not too late to submit an abstract! You may submit an abstract until the program is filled; all submissions will be reviewed and assigned as a talk or a poster.
Program
We anticipate a tentative program being posted in early May, watch for an email announcement.
Keynote Speaker: Jack W. Szostak
We are excited to announce Nobel prize-winning biochemist Jack W. Szostak as the keynote speaker. An investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, Dr. Szostak was the first to create a yeast artificial chromosome which can be used to clone DNA, an achievement that aided scientists in mapping the location of genes in mammals and developing techniques for manipulating genes. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.
Registration
Registration for the meeting is open! Last day to register is July 1.
Housing
Housing is open! View your housing options on the meeting information page.
QCB Summer School is full
The meeting co-hosts, the NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology, had invited iPoLS attendees to consider coming to Urbana the week prior to the meeting for the QCB Summer School. The school has reached its attendance capacity and is no longer accepting applications. Information on next year’s summer school will be available in January 2026. Questions?
Please email the organizing committee with any questions.
Additional details and registration information may be found here.