Dear Colleagues,

It is with pleasure that we invite you to attend the Quantitative Aspects of Membrane Fusion and Fission thematic meeting, which will be held in Padova, Italy on May 6-10, 2019.

The idea of the meeting is to bring together experimentalists and modelers/theorists in the field of membrane fusion and fission.  Quantitative understanding of biophysical mechanisms increasingly requires analysis of dynamical and physiologically relevant cellular changes.  This is especially relevant for biological membrane processes that occur at distinct points in time and space, such as membrane fusion or fission, and that are driven by localized and quantifiable interaction of proteins, lipids, and messenger molecules.

This interdisciplinary meeting will address the growing need for collaboration between experimentalists and theorists to fully take advantage of the quantitative nature of the experimental observations in this field and to improve the quantitative descriptions of membrane events.  We hope to attract applied statisticians, mathematical modelers, and experimentalists investigating membrane fusion and fission, such as regulated exocytosis, endocytosis, and mitochondrial fusion and fission, among others.

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

The deadline to submit an abstract is January 14, 2019, and the deadline to register at the lower early registration rate is February 1, 2019.  Biophysical Society members are entitled to significant savings in all registration rates. 

We look forward to seeing you in Padova!

The Organizing Committee,

Sebastian Barg, Uppsala University, Sweden
Jenny Hinshaw, NIH, USA
Dinah Loerke, University of Denver, USA
Morten Gram Pedersen, University of Padova, Italy
Jakob B. Sorensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark