Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the Thematic Meeting, Genome Biophysics: Integrating Genomics and Biophysics to Understand Structural and Functional Aspects of Genomes, which will be held in Santa Cruz, California, USA, on August 19–24, 2018.

This meeting aims to bring together scientists across disciplines to explore the long-overdue application of biophysical methods in genomics, emphasizing structural and functional aspects of genome and transcriptome dynamics.  The program will cover a wide range of topics including: extremophile genomes, highly compact genomes, circular and micro RNAs, DNA viruses and viroids, just to name a few.

Genomic tools are becoming essential in molecular and personalized medicine by virtue of their capacity to analyze diversity within the human genome. Whereas genomic variability at the sequence level is manifestly involved in health and diseases of organisms, little is known about the roles that such variability play in the physical organization of genomes. We are looking forward to a highly collaborative meeting.

Please visit the website for continually updated information. Contributed talks will be selected from submitted abstracts. We especially encourage submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.  Please also share this information with colleagues who may be interested in attending. 

The deadline to submit a late abstract is June 18, 2018. Biophysical Society members are entitled to significant savings on all registration rates. Registration must be complete in order for abstracts to be considered for programming.

We look forward to seeing you in Santa Cruz!

Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Stephen Levene, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Julia Salzman, Stanford University, USA
Massa Shoura, Stanford University, USA

Meeting Co-Organizers