Each year, during summer through fall, the Biophysical Society sponsors small focused-topic meetings that are organized by Society members.  The Society provides partial financial support in the range of $10,000-$20,000, in addition to complete meeting management, including all web and onsite components.

In 2010, the Society sponsored two highly successful meetings: one on Calcium Signaling in Beijing, China, in October, and another on Actin, the Cytoskeleton, and the Nucleus in Singapore in November.  In July 2011, an exciting meeting on Chromatin was held in Asilomar, California.  In 2012, two meetings will be held: one in Beijing, China and another in Hyderabad, India. 

Proposals from Society members are solicited in the summer through fall of each year. All complete submissions are considered by the Thematic Meetings Committee, and the Committee's recommendations are submitted to the Society's Executive Board for approval.

Criteria for Thematic meetings sponsored by the Biophysical Society:

• Organizers must be Society members
• Topics must be timely, not recently addressed, and should foster interdisciplinary and international research
• Speakers must present new and exciting research
• Proposed list of speakers must represent geographic, gender, and ethnic diversity
• Domestic and international sites are appropriate.
• Joint meetings with other societies or institutions are appropriate when justified.

Complete submission must include:

• Names of the organizers
• Meeting title
• Reason for holding the meeting
• Description of the topics to be presented
• List of proposed speakers
• Proposed location and rationale for that site
• Preliminary budget (including federal agencies and commercial firms the organizers plan to solicit for additional financial support)