2025 Satellite Meeting - Fifty-Five Molar Stuff in Molecular Interactions: Honoring Adrian Parsegian’s Work

sku Product SKU:  SMEETING-M25_ADRIAN-2025

We plan to organize a full-day satellite meeting at BPS 2025 to honor Adrian Parsegian's crucial contributions to biological physics. Dr. Adrian Parsegian passed away on July 5th, 2023. Adrian was an outstanding scientist and mentor, an outstanding friend, and an outstanding human being. Soon after obtaining his PhD in Biophysics from Harvard University, he joined the NIH, where he spent 42 years. During this tenure, Adrian became a leader in membrane biophysics whose name was known to every biophysicist in the world. For many years he was Editor-in Chief of the Biophysical Journal and the Founding Editor of the Biophysical Discussions. Adrian worked for most of these years in the NICHD, consequently establishing the institute as a capital of membrane and cellular biophysics. To be invited to Adrian’s famous chocolate seminars (where he served copious amounts of chocolate both to the speaker and to the audience) was considered to be a high honor. The seminars and ensuing discussions usually lasted more than two hours, during which few of the audience left. Adrian made sure all members of his and affiliated laboratories felt that they were part of a large social family in addition to being professional colleagues.

Topics for the Satellite Meeting and BJ Special Issue

van der Waals forces
Hydration forces
Membrane electrostatics
Osmotic stress
Protein hydration
Hydration effects in ion channels
Hofmeister effects in proteins and channels
Membrane structure/mechanics
DNA-protein interactions
Water in MD simulations
Membrane fusion/fission
Water transport through membranes/channels

USD 175.0000

Drug Discovery for Ion Channels XXV Satellite Meeting

sku Product SKU:  SMEETING-M25_DRUGDISC-2025

Ion channels are an important class of therapeutic drug targets, and mutations in ion channel genes are found to be responsible for an increasing number of diseases. While conventional electrophysiological techniques permit the most detailed and direct study of ion channel function, they are limited due to the manual nature of the method and their low throughput. Because of this, ion channels remain an underrepresented target class for drug discovery.

The advent of higher throughput automated electrophysiology systems changed the face of ion channel drug discovery. Since the inaugural “Drug Discovery for Ion Channels” satellite meeting, there have been many advances in ion channel drug discovery including new instrumentation and techniques. For this year, we propose to continue the “Satellite Meeting” tradition at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting and review the advances ion channel drug discovery.

This year’s meeting will highlight presentations from drug discovery companies, companies that provide ion channel services to drug discovery companies and companies that provide products to ion channel drug discovery companies, as well as other speakers in the field of ion channel drug discovery, including several academic speakers.

Sponsored by:

USD 175.0000

2025 Annual Review of Biophysics, Vol.54 - Online Access Only

sku Product SKU:  PUB-REVIEW-2025

The Annual Review of Biophysics, in publication since 1972, covers significant developments in the field of biophysics, including macromolecular structure, function and dynamics, theoretical and computational biophysics, molecular biophysics of the cell, physical systems biology, membrane biophysics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and emerging techniques. Annual Reviews is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.

Who uses Annual Reviews

• • Researchers who want to keep abreast of their field and integrate this information with their own activities.
• • Researchers who want an introduction to new fields, with a view to developing an interface between different areas of research.
• • Students at all levels who want to gain a thorough understanding of a topic
• • Businesspeople, journalists, policy makers, practitioners, patients and patient advocates, and others who wish to be informed about developments in research.

Expert Content Curation

Annual Review articles hold a unique place in the scholarly communication ecosystem because they transfer expert knowledge synthesized from the expanding corpus of scientific literature to scholars and society.

To create this impactful content, we bring together expert Editorial Committees in each covered discipline and facilitate meetings where members can discuss trends in each field and select relevant topics for review. Authoritative authors are then invited to submit reviews, and they readily accept the challenge to help shape and define their field as a service to scholars and society.

The number of Annual Review journals continues to grow over a broad range of disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences, including Economics. The creation of a new title indicates that the amount of original research in a field has reached a critical mass.

This publication is no longer available in print. Purchasers will receive online access to the issue purchased and access back to Volume 1. This is a special offer only available to BPS members. Please allow up to 30 days to receive access information.

USD 115.0000