British Biophysical Society Biennial Meeting 2024
Key Dates:
31 May 2024: Oral abstract submission deadline
19 June 2024: Registration now open - register here
Join the BBS to get member rates
31 July 2024: Early bird registration deadline
28 Aug 2024: Poster abstract submission deadline
Registration closes
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ABOUT
The British Biophysical Society (BBS), a vibrant community of biophysicists, biologists and chemists, celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2020.
This year, the BBS Biennial Meeting will be held in Wales for the first time, organized by Sophie Shermer at Swansea University.
The meeting will feature outstanding speakers from across the biophysical domain.
By bringing excellent biophysical research to Wales, we hope to increase the participation of Wales-based researchers in Biophysics, and to enhance international collaboration.
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Registration now open here.
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Registration Fees: up to / after July 17
Members: GBP 280 / 310
Non-members: GBP 310 / 380
Student members: GBP 220 / 250
Student non-members: GBP 250 / 300
(includes registration, BBQ dinner, conference dinner, all lunches and coffee breaks)
AWARDS
The BBS Biennial Meeting features four awards:
BURSARIES
BBS Bursaries are available to help with travel, accommodation and registration costs for UK-based early-career* BBS members to attend the Biennial Meeting in Swansea.
4 bursaries of £250 will be awarded at the discretion of the Honorary Treasurer. If awarded, bursaries will be paid after the meeting.
To apply, please check the Eligibility Requirements, complete an application form and email your application with supporting documents to the BBS secretary Tharin Blumenschein or Guy Grant.
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RSC Biophysics Group Bursaries
5 bursaries of £200 plus free registration are available to early-career* applicants and will be awarded in recognition of excellence in abstract submission, according to availability.
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To apply, click "Yes" in response to Q9 in the abstract submission form.
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*undergraduate, postgraduate, or postdoc years 1-3.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
If you would like to present a poster or talk at the meeting, please complete the abstract submission form here.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
09:00-12:00
Arrival and Registration
13:00-13:10
Welcome
13:10-15:10
Theme 1: Nanobiophysics
Chair: Mathew Horrocks (University of Edinburgh)
Co-Chair: Tharin Blumenschein
13:10:14:00
Ready for Work? Motor regulation and stepping behaviour
14:00-14:20
DNA-Paint: Single particle tracking enables extended studies of membrane protein interactions
14:20-14:40
Multispectral live-cell imaging with uncompromised spatiotemporal resolution
14:40-15:10
Afternoon Tea and Refreshments
15:10-16:40
Theme 2: Tools for the 21st Century Biophysicist
Chair: Maxim Molodtsov (University of Cambridge)
Co-Chair: Olwyn Byron (University of Glasgow)
15:10-16:00
Transport processes through membranes for biosensing applications
16:00-16:20
Fluidic Force Microscopy as a tool to dissect single cell mechanosensitivity
16:40-16:50
Break
16:50-17:30
BBS Louise Johnson Early Career Award Lecture
Davide Michieletto (University of Edinburgh)
Learning from the genome to build topologically active materials
17:30-19:00
Poster Session
Details TBA
19:00-22:00
BBQ by the Beach
Details TBA
Thursday, September 12, 2024
09:00-12:00
Theme 3: Physics of Life Roadmap
Chair: Mark Leake (University of York)
Co-Chair: Alice Pyne (University of Sheffield)
09:00-10:15
Introduction to Physics of Life Roadmap (Mark Leake)
09:00 The Physics of Life Roadmap (Mark Leake,York)
09:25 Tackling topology at the interface of Physics and Biology (Alice Pyne, Leeds)
09:40 Advancing our understanding of the biomolecular condensation of CO2-fixation:
lessons from the biology/physics interface (Luke Mackinder, York)
09:55 Mesoscale Biological Physics: challenges and opportunities for understanding
the Physics of Life (Lorna Dougan, Leeds)
10:15-10:30
Coffee Break
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10:30-11:15
Roundtable discussions in breakout groups
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11:15-12:00
Group feedback session
Collecting data for the roadmap
12:00-12:40
BBS Sosei Heptares Prize for Biophysics Lecture
Sergi Garcia-Manyes (King’s College London)
Single molecule insights into cellular mechanotransduction
12:40-14:00
Lunch and Poster Session 2
BBS AGM
14:00-16:40
Theme 4: Biophysics in Health and Education
Chair: John Sanderson (Durham University)
Co-Chair: Sophie Shermer (Swansea University)
14:00-14:50
The biophysics and cell biology of protein misfolding diseases
14:50-15:10
Quantifying the hidden interactions of our genome through atomic force microscopy and machine learning
15:10-15:30
In situ architecture of human sperm nuclear pore complexes
15:30-16:00
Afternoon tea and Refreshments
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16:00-16:20
​Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli AdhE spirosome length correlating with enzymatic directionality is perturbed by salicylidene acylhydrazides
16:20-16:40
Guy Grant (U Bedfordshire)
Biophysics Education
16:40-17:00
BBS AGM
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19:00-22:00
Conference Dinner
Social
Friday, September 13, 2024
09:30-12:40
Theme 5: Synthetic Biology
​Chair: John Seddon (Imperial College London)
Co-Chair: Ioanna Mela (University of Cambridge)
09:30-10:20
Life but not alive: biophysics of synthetic cells
10:20-10:40
Biology exploits geometry: impact of aspect ratio on protein networks
10:40-11:00
Lipid nanoparticles for the delivery of nucleic acid-based therapeutics: formulation and cargo impact
11:00-11:30
Morning Coffee Break
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11:30-12:00
Engineered bio-membranes as functional elements in synthetic cell micromachines
12:00-12:20
BBS Kendrew Doctoral Thesis Prize Lecture
Emilie Steinmark (King’s College London)
What fluorescent molecular rotors can tell us about viscosity in cellular environments
12:20-12:40
Closing Remarks