Affiliate Events

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

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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Descubriendo la biofísica-Discovering Biophysics

3/26/2025 - 3/27/2025
Auditorio y Laboratorio de biofísica del Departamento de Física, Universidad de Sonora
Sonora, México

There will be talks on various biophysics topics aimed at high school students. The goal is to bring young people closer to knowing what biophysics is and its importance.

In addition, there will be open house sessions at the biophysics laboratories of the Physics Department of the University of Sonora. The goal is for the interested public to learn about the research projects that are being carried out on biophysics topics.

DNA STORY: A Play about Discovering the Structure of DNA

3/24/2025 - 3/28/2025
Streaming on YouTube

DNA STORY is a video recording of a play about the discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson&Crick and Franklin and Wilkins. Unlike many of the other performative versions of these events, DNA STORY is packed with science elements – including discussionsof how crystallography works, chemistry of the nucleic acid bases, the work of Hershey&Chase, how A and B form DNA interconvert, which data for the model came from Franklin, Wilkins, Jerry Donahue, and Erwin Chargaff – among much more. We’ve also done some assessment of whether audiences learn any science from the video (via a 20 question multiple choice quiz) and found that indeed they do.

Flow-a-thon by MIC

3/24/2025 to 3/28/2025
Microfluidics Innovation Center
Paris, France

Fun with fluidic measurements for ages 4-104! Try these simple experiments to measure how fast water flows using ordinary objects at home. Share your observations with us.

Membrane and Single-Molecule Biophysics Online Symposium

3/24/2025 - 3/26/2025
Virtual Event
Connecticut, United States

BPS Subgroup Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic/Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization Joint Symposium

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Physics of Life 2025

3/24/2025 -3/27/2025
Harrogate Conference Centre
North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Physics of Life 2025 is a large-scale conference representing the wide diversity of the UK biological physics community, continuing the biennial series started with Physics of Life 2023. Organised jointly by PoLNet3, IOP Biological Physics, the British Biophysical Society, Physics of Living Matter and Physics meets Biology, this in-person meeting will project the excitement of science at the interface between physics and biology. In addition to exciting keynote lectures, the conference will featureparallel sessions on a full breadth of topics, with many contributed talks, ensuring a wide focus and inclusion of the most cutting edge science.

For more information, visit https://iop.eventsair.com/pol2025/ 

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Um Olhar Raro

3/28/2025
Virtual Seminar and Roundtable Discussion (Porto University)
Porto, Portugal

This year, in collaboration with ICBAS (Porto University), we sponsor the exhibition "Um Olhar Raro," which sheds light on the profound impact of genetic diseases on patients' lives. The exhibit also highlights how biophysical studies are unraveling disease mechanisms at a molecular level, providing insights for future disease-modifying therapies.

We will close the celebrations with an online seminar and round table discussion on March 28th (14:00) with the following program:

14h | Seminar: "From molecules to mice, from Zika virus to Disease X – developing a broad spectrum antiviral able to reach the brain and placenta", Prof. Miguel Castanho (GIMM)

14h40 | Roundtable: Challenges in Biophysics, with Sandra Ribeiro (i3S), Luís Gales (ICBAS, i3S), Claúdio Soares (ITQB-NOVA), Manuel Prieto (IST) and o Núcleo de Jovens Biofísicos. 

Link for seminar and roundtable discussion: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92921916216

Celebrate Biophysics next week by visiting the exhibition, following the seminar, and participating in the roundtable discussion!