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Biophysics Week 2025 Affiliate Events will be updated weekly. Please submit your Affiliate Event above.

2025 University of Central Florida Biophysics Day

3/25/2025
CF Physical Science Building Atrium
Florida, United States

We will host a poster session highlighting research progress of undergraduate and graduate students


Africa Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Biophysics Week

3/24/2025 - 3/28/2025
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. School of Natural Sciences, SPD Building Room 314 (Kenya), and Gulu University (Uganda)
Kenya and Uganda, Africa

The Biophysics week for the year 2025 is expected to hit a notch higher by attracting many participants from across Africa. This will be boosted by the many chapters established in Kenya and Africa under BPS. Other Chapters yet to be established are expected to join this celebration under BPS Kenya. This event will focus on strengthening Biophysical Societies in Africa BPS Chapters.

Day 1: Peer sensitization of Biophysics and the Biophysical Society

Day 2: Biophysics Laboratory Activities Day

3: Reporting of Laboratory Results. Day

4: Travel to Gulu University in Uganda

Day 5: Joint Kenya/MMUST/Gulu University Chapters Outreach Meeting

(i). Strengthening Biophysical Societies Chapters in the three chapters.

(ii). Moving Biophysics Research to another level through improved Techniques and adequate funding


Biophysical Engineering of Artificial Active Transport Systems

3/28/2025
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom

Active transport processes, in which chemical processes are driven in reverse, are a defining feature of life. Cells manage to convert energy from chemical fuels to enable a range of sophisticated capabilities like storing energy by charging the membrane, pumping out harmful molecules, or controlling molecular distribution across cell compartments. Harnessing these capabilities in synthetic systems would revolutionise biotechnologies on the cellular scale, however we struggle to engineer de novo even simple cell mimics that can replicate active transport. To share ideas about how we study the design rules of active transport systems we have arranged this seminar. We will have two talks discussing both theoretical and experimental aspects of designing active transport systems.

Join this event online on March 28 from 3:00PM UTC - 4:00 PM UTC: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YWJkZWIxMTUtMGI5Mi00ODAxLWE2NmYtMmQyMGNlZDI4YWEx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%222b897507-ee8c-4575-830b-4f8267c3d307%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2228452685-837a-4960-9117-592439eb4fea%22%7d


Biophysical Gastronomy: Understanding the Role of Gluten in Baking and Disease

3/29/2025
Virtual Event
Canada

In this virtual workshop, we will learn about the structure of gluten and how it is useful in bread making and its role in disease. While taking about the science of gluten, we will also bake a loaf of bread.

Connect with us:

https://www.instagram.com/bsctrainees1/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/biophysical-society-of-canada/

https://discord.gg/Q8fG8E8fpS


Biophysics of Light

3/28/2025
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Department of Chemistry and Physics
Tennessee, United States

Learn how to build a microscope and how to use it to build a optical tweezers.

Follow us on Instragram @dr.sanchezdiaz


Biophysics Seminar: Flow-Induced Transport of Lipid-Anchored Proteins on COS-7 Cells

3/25/2025
Augsburg University, Hagfors Center, Room 109
Minnesota, United States

The Augsburg Society of Physics Students will host a seminar by Dr. Sreeja Sasidharan.

TITLE: Flow-Induced Transport of Lipid-Anchored Proteins on COS-7 Cells

ABSTRACT: The cells lining blood vessels, known as endothelial cells, can detect changes in blood flow and respond with inflammation, especially when the flow is disrupted due to conditions like atherosclerosis. While it is well understood that these cells react to flow changes, the physical process behind this response is less explored. Since the outer membrane of these cells interacts directly with blood flow, it may play a key role in sensing these changes. In particular, certain proteins outside the cell that can move freely may shift their distribution in response to flowing blood.

Using live cell imaging with confocal microscopy, we studied how two specific proteins—Glypican-1 and GPI-anchored GFP—move along the cell membrane under fluid flow. Our results show that these proteins travel quickly enough to create concentration differences when exposed to shear stress similar to what blood vessels typically experience. Additionally, we observed that as shear stress increases, the movement of these proteins also increases in a linear fashion.


Biophysics the Present Scenario and Future Asset

3/28/2025
Rao Bahadur Y Mahabaleshwarappa Engineering College
Karnataka, India

Biophysics the present scenario and future asset! Great event for graduate students, research scholars and faculty members.

Please email us at [email protected] if you have any questions. 


Biophysics Week in Lithuania

3/24/2025 to 3/28/2025
Vilnius University
Vilnius, Lithuania

Lithuanian Biophysical Society celebrates Biophysics Week! We kindly invite everyone to meet Lithuanian scientists from various fields of Biophysics, explore their research, and discover the questions they seek to answer.

We hope you will attend lectures, interact with the researchers, tour laboratories, and take part in hands-on experiments in the Life Sciences Centre and the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University, the National Cancer Institute, National Center for Physical Sciences and Technology in Vilnius and the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. We are excited about the cooperation with Vilnius University Methodical STEAM Education Centre which will allow us to offer biophysical laboratory activities for high school students in all Lithuania.

The event calendar can be accessed at https://lbfd.lt/event/paskaita/


Biophysics Week in Ukraine: Experience Across the Borders

3/24/2025 - 3/27/2025
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Kharkiv, Ukraine

This event will focus on changing experiences, expertise and forecasts between Ukrainian biophysical graduates working at home and abroad, and serve multiple purposes:

i) provide a platform for graduates to share their professional journeys, research insights, and challenges within biophysics;

ii) gather ideas and recommendations from BPS and attendees on re-launching a Ukrainian Biophysical Society;

iii) explore strategies to make this new society visible, active, and impactful, fostering connections both nationally and globally.


Biophyzza Connection - DIY Neuroscience in Tenerife

3/25/2025 - 3/26/25
Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Seminar room
Tenerife, Spain

We have prepared an event of "DIY Biophysics" with the collaboration of Backyard Brains and Domino's pizza. It is well known that our muscles, heart, and neurons use electrical impulses to function properly. What many people don't know is that plants also use electrical impulses to coordinate rapid movements, such as in the Venus flytrap, or alarm signals in plants that do not move quickly, like tomatoes. In this talk, through live demonstrations with audience participation, Tim Marzullo from Backyard Brains will show the electrical signals of the human body and also discuss the groundbreaking electrophysiological research in plants. At the end of the presentation, we will share our excitement about biophysics around pizzas kindly provided to us from our local Domino's Pizza. This is an event under the umbrella of the Biophyzza Connection, an initiative from the Society of Biophysics of Spain.

 

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Biophyzza Connection at the University of Granada

3/25/2025
Grade Room, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada
Granada, Spain

An informal scientific meet-up will take place at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada on march 25th, at 12:00. Professor Raúl Pérez-Jiménez will give a talk entitled “Designing new biocatalysts for new applications: Biotechnology and Society”. After this, a discussion will be run with undergrad and master students on related topics while sharing some pizzas and drinks. The event is part of the Biophyzza Connection organized by the Spanish Biophysical Society (SBE, https://sbe.es/biophyzza) and sponsored by the Faculty of Sciences Dean Office and Domino´s Pizza.


Biophyzza Connection: AstroBiophysics

3/28/2025
Faculty of Biology, Complutense University
Madrid, Spain

The astrobiologist Carlos Briones (@Briones i in X) will give a talk on different aspects of Biophysics related with research in astrobiology, origin of life, extremophiles, etc, directed to undergraduate students and general public. Then, we will have a debate. The event will end with a get-together around some pizzas and drinks.

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Biophyzza Connection: Donostia

4/2/2025
Café ALBOKA Bar
Gipuzkoa, Spain

The BioPhyzza Party is coming to Donosti! What happens when you mix science, pizza, and a great atmosphere? That’s right, a BioPhyzza Party!

To celebrate Biophysics Week, the Spanish Biophysical Society is organizing “BioPhyzza Connection”, an event where big ideas are served with a slice of pizza.

Date: Wednesday, April 2nd Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Café ALBOKA Bar (Easo Kalea 39, Donostia)

There will be two fascinating talks to spark your appetite for science:

Armando Maestro (CFM) "A Neutronic Journey Through Biological Membranes: Unveiling the Architecture of Cellular Walls"

Eduardo Martínez (POLYMAT) "Wireless, Battery-Free Implants for Brain Electrical Stimulation"

And since every great experiment needs a good catalyst, we’ll have free pizza courtesy of Domino’s Pizza!


Biopizza at Biofisika

3/28/2025
Instituto Biofisika
Basque Country, Spain

On March 28, 4th-year ESO students from Jesús María Ikastextea and Jesuitinas Bilbao schools will visit the Institute of Biophysics of Bizkaia, a research center conducting cutting-edge studies in the field of biophysics. The students will participate in an activity designed by the center’s researchers, demonstrating the differences between biology, physics, and chemistry while explaining the interdisciplinary nature of biophysics. They will also have the opportunity to tour the facilities and see state-of-the-art equipment firsthand, such as the high-resolution Titan Krios G4 cryo-electron microscope, which enables the study of life at the molecular level.


BPS Mechanobiology Subgroup Mixer and Career Panel

3/25/2025
Virtual Event
California, United States

A virtual mixer/career panel event will be hosted by Biophysical Society Mechanobiology Subgroup. We will start with a short mixer session, where participants can meet one another, and then host a career panel by the faculty that are involved including Mechanobiology Subgroup Chair Ovijit Chaudhuri (Stanford University) and Chair-Elect Rebecca Wells (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97295618776?pwd=CdseJG2G0CUoXnuCVm2ebNG3bbosQX.1

Password: 150558

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