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New Category 12 Biophysics for Sustainability.

The abstract category “Biophysics for Sustainability” will cover research showing how advances in biophysics and related disciplines contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals. This includes fundamental research and applied innovation and could cover, for example : 

  • work on photosynthetic efficiency and its optimization for sustainable agriculture 
  • structure-based design of enzymes for plastic degradation 
  • development of bio-inspired materials for renewable energy 
  • metabolic engineering for green chemistry 
  • synthetic biology and microbiology for energy production, depollution, carbon fixation

Members may sponsor up to two abstracts if one is in the Biophysics of Sustainability category.

 

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Proteins

1A Protein Structure
1B Protein Structure Prediction
1C Protein Design
1D Protein Stability, Folding, and Chaperones
1E Protein-Small Molecule Interaction
1F Protein Assemblies
1G Protein Dynamics and Allostery
1H Membrane Protein Structure
1I Membrane Protein Dynamics
1J Membrane Protein Folding
1K Enzyme Function, Cofactors and Post-Translational Modifications

Intrinsically Disordered Protein, Aggregates, and Condensates

2A Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
2B Protein Aggregates
2C Condensates: Physical Properties and Modeling
2D Condensates in Physiology and Disease

Nucleic Acids

3A Genome Maintenance
3B Gene Expression and Regulation
3C Structure and Dynamics of RNA and DNA
3D Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction
3E Genome Organization and Dynamics

Lipid and Membranes

4A Membrane Physical Chemistry
4B Membrane Reporters and Sensors
4C Membrane Active Peptides
4D Membrane Fusion and Non-Bilayer Structures
4E Membrane Structure
4F  Protein-Lipid Interactions: Structures 
4G General Protein-Lipid Interactions

Cell Physiology and Bioenergetics 

5A Membrane Receptors and Signal Transduction
5B Mechanosensation
5C Exocytosis and Endocytosis
5D Calcium Signaling
5E Intracellular Calcium Channels and Calcium Sparks and Waves
5F Excitation-Contraction Coupling
5G Cardiac, Smooth, and Skeletal Muscle Electrophysiology
5H Muscle Regulation
5I Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Organelles
5J Bioenergetics and Photosynthesis
5K Mitochondria in Cell Life and Death
   

Channels and Transporters

6A Voltage-gated Na Channels
6B Voltage-gated Ca Channels
6C Voltage-gated K Channels 
6D TRP Channels
6E Ligand-Gated Channels
6F Membrane Pumps, Transporters, and Exchangers
6G Ion Channel Regulatory Mechanisms
6H Ion Channels, Pharmacology, and Disease
6I Anion Channels
6J Mechanosensitive Ion Channels
6K Other Channels

Cytoskeleton, Motility, and Motors

7A Skeletal Muscle Mechanics, Structure, and Regulation
7B Cardiac Muscle Mechanics and Structure 
7C Cardiac Muscle Regulation               
7D Smooth Muscle Mechanics, Structure, and Regulation
7E Actin Structure, Dynamics, and Associated Proteins
7F Microtubules, Structure, Dynamics, and Associated Proteins
7G Kinesins, Dyneins, and Other Microtubule-based Motors
7H Myosins
7I Cytoskeletal Assemblies and Dynamics
7J Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, and Motility
7K Cytoskeletal-based Intracellular Transport
7L Bacterial Mechanics, Cytoskeleton, and Motility

Systems Biology

8A Systems and Whole-Cell Modeling
8B Systems-Level Imaging Approaches
8C Synthetic Biology and Networks
8D Novel Systems Techniques

Neuroscience

9A Cellular and Molecular
9B Circuits and Systems
9C Experimental Approaches and Tools in Neuroscience

New Developments in Biophysical Techniques

10A EPR and NMR: Spectroscopy and Imaging
10B Electron Microscopy
10C Diffraction and Scattering Techniques
10D Molecular Dynamics
10E Computational Methods and Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Bioinformatics                          
10F Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
10G Optical Spectroscopy: CD, UV-VIS, Vibrational Fluorescence
10H Force Spectroscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy
10I Other Novel Technical Developments

Bioengineering and Biomaterials

11A Bioengineering
11B Biosensors
11C Biosurfaces
11D Micro- and Nanotechnology
11E Biomaterials

Sustainability   

12A Biophysics for Sustainability

Biophysics Education

13A Biophysics Education