ABC of Biophysics - How it Works
3/22/2021 - 3/26/2021
University of Tabuk
Saudi Arabia
Understanding biophysics for application in medicine and industry, How Biophysics can help understand diseases better and finding cure for them. Biophysics is with us in our lives, we can learn it and apply the concepts to our individual lives and also for sustainable development
Advanced Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy for Measuring Molecular Conformation and Dynamics
3/22/2021
University Göttingen
Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Jörg Enderlein
III. Institute of Physics - Biophysics, Georg-August-University Göttingen
This webinar is co-organized by Dr. Gilad Haran, Chair of the Biophysical Society’s Biological Fluorescence Subgroup.
The development of single molecule spectroscopy (SMS) had an enormous impact on many biophysical studies by allowing to measure full distributions of molecular parameters, instead of only average values as usually determined by ensemble measurements. One specific technique of SMS is fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) which evaluates the fluorescence intensity fluctuations observed out of a femotliter-sized confocal detection volume. Thus allows to measure molecular size and concentration of fluorescently tagged molecule at pico- to nanomolar concentrations, but also to resolve conformational dynamics and conformational transitions with a temporal resolution down to a few nanoseconds. I will present a general introduction into FCS and will then focus on several of its advanced variants. In particular, I will introduce dual-focus or 2fFCS, which allows for precise calibration-free molecular sizing. Next, fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy (FLCS) will be presented which is a powerful tool for resolving intramolecular conformational fluctuations. Then, I will discuss photoelectron transfer or PET-FCS, which is a simple but powerful complement to single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) when studying conformational fluctuations in intrinsically disordered proteins. Finally, I will discuss FCS on a pico- to nanosecond timescale, where it provide valuable information about molecular rotational diffusion and molecular stoichiometry (fluorescence antibunching).
Annual Probst Lecture Series
3/25/2021
1 Hairpin Dr, Edwardsville, IL 62026
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Featuring Dr. Karen Fleming
"Bacterial Hot Potato"
The Department of Chemistry of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) initiated the Probst Lecture series in 1975 as a memorial to one of its founding faculty members, Professor William J. Probst. Each year a noted chemist is invited for a visit that features several lectures. An evening lecture usually consists of a topic that is broad in scope to attract the interest of alumni, faculty, and students throughout the arts and sciences, while a second afternoon lecture focuses on the guest's contributions to chemical research.
Dr. Karen Fleming is a Professor in the T.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University. She is a leader in the field of membrane protein biophysics, which aims to describe biochemical and biological processes using physical principles. Her work has enabled the fundamental understanding of processes underlying protein folding. Her work focuses on understanding this phenomenon in membrane proteins, which are notoriously challenging to work with. Her achievements in this field have helped scientists understand how membrane proteins partition across cell membranes by establishing a novel hydrophobicity scale that helps predict their behavior. Aside from the many advisory positions she has held, Karen also received numerous awards and honors having been recognized with the Department of Defense Career award and the Thomas E. Thompson award in 2016 from the Biophysical Society. In addition to her scientific accomplishments she is also a strong proponent of diversity and the ongoing issues affecting the STEM fields. She was recently awarded the Provost’s Faculty Diversity Prize in 2019 for her efforts advocating for underrepresented groups.
BDBDB5: The Fifth Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm Meeting (Day 1)
3/24/2021
Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien
69118 Heidelberg, Germany
Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 5 (BDBDB5) will provide a forum for presentations and informal discussions about the current state of experimental and theoretical studies of biological diffusion, with a focus on the Brownian Dynamics method for simulating biological macromolecules.
BDBDB5: The Fifth Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm Meeting (Day 2)
3/25/2021
Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien
69118 Heidelberg, Germany
Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 5 (BDBDB5) will provide a forum for presentations and informal discussions about the current state of experimental and theoretical studies of biological diffusion, with a focus on the Brownian Dynamics method for simulating biological macromolecules.
Biomolecular NMR at Oregon State: A Walkthrough Tour
3/26/2021
Oregon State University
Carvallis, OR
Members of our newly instated OSU BPS Student Chapter have put together a walkthrough tour of our NMR facility. Tune in to watch the video and learn more about NMR, our facility at Oregon State, and current research projects. The video will be published for convenient viewing, but in the spirit of celebrating Biophysics Week we invite you to view the video with us and then stick around for discussion and a general meet-up!
Biophysical Legacy of Selma Supek
3/26/2021
Elementary school Donja Stubica, Croatia
Krapinsko-Zagorska županija, the Republic of Croatia
Students of Dr. Selma Supek who attended her Biophysics course at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, are organizing an online event to mark her retirement. Invited speakers are her collaborators - Dr. Cheryl Aine (University of Mexico, retired) and Prof. Risto J. Ilmoniemi (Aalto University) while Prof. Sanja Tomić (Ruđer Bošković Institute) will present on the history of biophysics in Croatia. Event will be recorded.
Dr. Selma Supek obtained her degrees in physics. She entered the field of functional brain imaging using MEG during her doctoral research in the Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory – LANL. After returning to Zagreb, Croatia, she continued collaborations with MEG/EEG laboratories at LANL and Mind Research Network and established new ones at ITAB in Chieti, HUCH BioMag Laboratory, Aalto University, University of Heidelberg, TU Ilmenau, and University of Jena. Research interests of Selma Supek include retinotopic organization of the visual cortex, spatiotemporal resolution of MEG, face processing, cognitive neurodynamics, auditory processing, and translational and educational neuroscience. She taught a general biophysics course between 1996 and 2020 and introduced functional brain imaging methods, in particular MEG, in Croatia both in research and education programs at diploma and doctoral levels. Selma Supek founded a series of intensive international graduate courses MIND AND BRAIN (www.brain.com.hr) within the academic program of the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, and co-founded and co-directed the first interdisciplinary international postgraduate program “Language Communication and Cognitive Neuroscience” of the University of Zagreb. She organized and chaired Biomag 2010 (www.biomag2010.org) and serves as a permanent member of the International Advisory Board for Biomag conferences which she chaired in 2010–2012.
THE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL. REGISTRATION NOT REQUIRED.
ZOOM link: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/87200475368?pwd=b3c3L0Eva0ZBOHRXWmplZTRuVjRwZz09
TIME: Part I: Presentations (English): 19:00-19:50 CET (UTC+1)
Part II: Students reminisce (Croatian/English): 19.50-20:30 CET (UTC+1)
Biophysical Society of Canada (BSC) Faculty Sessions for 6th Annual Biophysics Week
3/22/2021 - 3/26/2021
Biophysical Society of Canada
Canada
The Biophysical Society of Canada is pleased to be organizing Virtual Meet Faculty Sessions within the framework of the sixth annual Biophysics Week from March 22 - 26, 2021. Biophysics Week is a global effort aimed at encouraging connections within the biophysics community while raising awareness of the field and its impact among the general public, policy makers, students, and scientists.
The goal of these sessions is to provide undergraduate and graduate students with a chance to virtually meet and interact with faculty members of he Biophysical Society of Canada, inquire about their research, and learn more about potential training opportunities in the field of biophysics.
Organizers of Biophysics Week at BSC
Anna Panchenko, [email protected]
Mazdak Khajehpour, [email protected]
Zoya Leonenko, [email protected]
Biophysical Society of Japan - Proteins in Motion! Poster Share
3/22/2021 - 3/26/2021
Biophysical Society of Japan
Miyagi, Japan
Our body consists of many different organs, such as the muscle, heart, eye, and brain. Each organ is made up of many cells. Looking inside a magnified cell, you can see it is full of tiny proteins with sizes of only one hundred-thousandth of a millimeter.
Proteins within our body are dynamic and constantly moving as they carry out specific functions. For example, some proteins rotate to create energy, others walk along filaments to deliver cargo, or dock to transfer materials from the extracellular world. Motion of the proteins is essential to carry out cellular processes needed for life!
Share this poster with your colleagues, students, and friends.
Biophysics in and for Africa Online Conference
3/22/2021 - 3/26/2021
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
The conference will consist of daily blocks of:
Presentations: 10h-12h and 15h – 18h (GMT+2)
Discussions : 12h30 -13h30 (GMT+2)
Topics include: Biophotonics, Biophysics and Maternal Health, Cellular Biophysics, Computational Biology, Development of the Future of Biophysics in Africa, Mathematical Biology, Molecular Biophysics, Quantum Biology, Small/Wide-Angle X-ray scattering in Biophysics, Structural biology
Biophysics Week on Practical Work
3/22/2021 - 3/26/2021
Universitylef of Chlef, Algeria
Ouled Fares, Algeria
This week provides the student with a profile of rich training in a new discipline among the life sciences in both laboratories and ground. It aims to open up prospects for training and job profiles in which the knowledge of biological and physical problems or biophysics is important. This discipline of biophysics aims at a temporal formation having a broad spectrum of knowledge and bioscience and science skills physical allowing an opening towards sectors very varied: biomedical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, etc. This practical work plays an effective role in discovery of the experimental aspect of biophysics fundamental.
Biophysics, Past, Present and Future Perspectives - And Some Recent Insights Into Water in Receptor
3/23/2021
Vilnius University
Lithuania
Lithuanian Biophysical Society for the first time celebrarates International Biophysics Week. We are very proud to invite you to a lecture “Biophysics, past, present and future perspectives - and some recent insights into water in receptor action“ by the past president of EBSA (European Biophysical Societies' Association) Prof. Anthony Watts (University of Oxford). Biophysics is called the “bridging science”; bridging physics, theory and modelling to biology. It could be argued that as far back as the early civilizations, any physical phenomenon that has been applied to investigate or exploit biology, is biophysics. Hooke’s development of microscopes or Newton’s primitive spectroscopy, and much more, cannot be ignored, any more than 20th century contemporary molecular biophysics. A brief history of biophysics and some crystal ball gazing for the development of the field, will be followed by a description of water involvement in receptor activation/desensitization from recent high resolution structural studies.
The event will be moderated by the Chair of Lithuanian Biophysical Society Prof. Saulius Šatkauskas. The lecture will be held in English on March 23rd 12:00 EET on Microsoft Teams.
All are welcome!
Biophysics, Viruses, and Vaccines
3/24/2021
University of Vic - Torre dels Frares
Vic, Spain
Mini congress. The purpose of this event is to have students presenting examples of the role of biophysics in understanding the underlying mechanisms a viral infections, from their diffusion until the development of vaccines and therapies.
Centrality and Community Detection in Dynamic Residue Networks
3/26/2021
Sabanci University
Istanbul, Turkey
Being a widely used centrality measure for residue networks (RNs), betweenness centrality (BC) is informative about evolutionary and functional features of a protein structure. Communities as close-knit amino-acid groups are detected with Girvan- Newman algorithm, which is an edge BC based method. Hence, in the lens of centrality and community, dynamic conformations of a protein are scrutinized to understand the effect of mutation and/or binding. In this single day "Dialogues in the MIDST" event which is now a Biophysics Week regular, the morning session will be devoted to the theoretical aspects of centrality/community concepts in RNs and their meaning in terms of biophysical applications. In the afternoon, there will be a hands-on session with coding and applying the ideas to the favorite protein of each attendee using Python programming language along with Q&A and discussions.
Correlating Analytical Microscopy (AFM, EM & EDS) for Biological Research
3/24/2021
Oxford Instruments Demo Facility
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Correlative microscopy enables biologists to investigate features of their sample using the strengths of different types of microscope. Usually, correlative microscopy in biology features light microscopy, electron microscopy and sometimes x-ray microscopy. It is now also possible to correlate materials properties, using atomic force microscopy, and chemical analysis, using energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDS/EDX) with more traditional forms of microscopy, extending out understanding of the chemical and physical properties of our specimens. Our webinar will introduce AFM and EDS applications within biological research and demonstrate the acquisition of correlative data, including the challenges surrounding sample preparation and finding the same region on the samples. We will then explore how to analyse quantitative measurements and images acquired from correlative microscopy. The webinar will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the presenters.