Conferences & Meetings

For information on upcoming conferences and meetings that are relavent to physics of living systems research, see the items below.

" Atlanta Biophysics Symposium"

We would like to announce the upcoming "Atlanta Area Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Symposium", to be held on Saturday, Dec. 7 at Emory University. We have a distinguished lineup of speakers from local universities and also will have a poster session for postdocs and grad students (with prizes!). A full schedule along with the registration page can be found here: http://bit.ly/ATLBPS . We kindly ask that you bring this to the attention of your colleagues and students working in these areas.

If there are any questions, please feel free to let us know!

Sincerely,

Khalid Salaita, Emory Chemistry

Laura Finzi, Emory Physics

JC Gumbart, Georgia Tech Physics

"Quantitative Laws of Genome Evolution" Workshop (Como, Italy) -- June 27-July 5, 2013

Lake Como School of Advanced Studies in Complex Systems (Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy) will be hosting a workshop discussing "Quantitative Laws of Genome Evolution".
Registrations will open in February 2013
Scholarships will be available on a selection basis
Contact: ev.genome.workshop@gmail.com

Quantitative approaches to evolutionary genomics, systems biology, and ecology unravel several universal regularities connecting genome-scale observables, phenotypes and physiological traits. Putting aside any irrealistic ambitions of a all-inclusive theories, some of these universal empirical trends might qualify as “biological laws” in a similar sense as “law” is understood in modern physics. Consequently, a current challenge for theoreticians is understanding how different universal features emerging empirically can be accounted for by simple mathematical models exploring quantitative laws at different levels, from physiology to evolutionary genomics.
The scope of this workshop is to give an overview of the current state of the field and put a researcher in the condition of performing research at the edge of the current knowledge. The workshop will primarily target PhD students and postdocs with a physics or mathematics background, but the school is open to anyone with background in (evolutionary) genomics, (evolutionary) biology, bioinformatics, ecology, interested in quantitative work.

See the announcement flier for more details: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5KqyPAOnU9CQTF0eXdNMlRfLWs/edit?usp=sharing

2013 Physics of Living Systems Summer School -- June 15-20, 2013 (Champaign, IL)

On behalf of the Center for the Physics of Living Cells (CPLC), an NSF Physics Frontier Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, we are writing to announce the 2013 Physics of Living Cells Summer School being offered from July 15 – 20, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This one-week program is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers in the chemical and life sciences, biophysics, physics, and engineering who would like to expand their training into the areas of single-molecule and live-cell experimental and computational biophysics.
For more information and to apply by March 15, please visit: http://www.cplc.illinois.edu/summerschool2013/