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European Molecular Biology Organization – EMBO

Biology,    Molecular Biology

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

This workshop will bring together researchers from biophysics/mechanobiology experiment, soft active matter theory and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. There will be a mixture of pedagogical overview talks and research talks. The meeting aims to bring together mathematicians and statistical physicists specializing in the fundamental properties of fluctuations and response in nonequilibrium states with theoretical researchers in soft matter working on active matter and biological physics and experimental researchers in biology and biophysics. We expect to enable new collaborations and cross-fertilization of ideas. In short, we expect that understanding the living world will provide challenges that will stimulate new fundamental thinking in statistical physics while current research in this field will help to structure our ever-expanding knowledge of living matter as a nonequilibrium dynamical system.

BPS - The Biophysical Society

An emerging generation of computational models and modeling approaches that cross multiple temporal and spatial scales is enabling new understanding of the mechanisms that regulate striated muscle contraction. These models and their technical underpinnings rely on new, higher-order information about protein and sarcomere structural dynamics, and this is supported by the current resolution-revolution in structural biology. Coupling experimental and computational approaches provides a powerful approach to describe the functional properties and interactions of sarcomere proteins both at rest and during contraction. This understanding then offers new insights into mechanisms that regulate cardiac and skeletal muscle contractile function and its dysfunction in diseases. Moreover, such approaches support the identification of small molecule targets for therapeutic interventions and can predict their mechanism of action. The thematic meeting will provide a forum for colleagues from academia and industry to connect between disciplines and discuss their own advances and prospects for applying new computational and experimental tools. The aim is for a new generation of muscle researchers to forge close collaboration amongst themselves and bridge the gap between modelers and experimentalists.

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

During animal and plant development, cells self-organize into complex organisms, through the gradual refinement of cellular identities and their arrangement in space. This is an iterative process, which progresses through successive rounds of symmetry breaking, accompanied by changes in molecular and mechanical properties that feed back across multiple scales. Many of the elementary processes underlying developmental patterning and morphogenesis are now well documented, and a growing array of tools is available to observe and manipulate their dynamics. Yet, we lack a set of general principles that explain how they are coordinated in space and time to produce a defined outcome, and comprehensive synthetic approaches that use such principles to recapitulate development in vitro. This program will bring together experimentalists and theoreticians to work towards an integrated view of self-organization. This requires that we examine how the collective dynamics of development emerge from individual cellular behaviors - how cellular decisions in high-dimensional gene expression landscapes are coordinated in patterning, and how cellular force generation and mechanical feedbacks provide a substrate for tissue-scale communication and morphogenesis. Unifying these different processes, the notion of information may provide a common currency for the molecular and mechanical cues that guide development, encouraging us to consider that information is not only conveyed and interpreted but also self-organizes.

morphogenesis, development, plant development, self-organization, theory, quantitative biology, biophysics

Systems Biology and Computational Biology,    Biology

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

The workshop will explore the use of modern mathematical techniques for the study of problems at the interface between biology and mechanics. It includes the use of machine learning, Baysean methods, and uncertainty quantification for a wide range of problems in biology, physiology, and medicine (biophysics of the cell, brain, the heart, morphogenesis,…)

Molecular Biology,    Biology

International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP)

BPS - The Biophysical Society

A vast number of biologically important enzymes, transporters, and other molecules require the participation or transport of protons. Because the proton is unique in many respects, its properties and reactions are often quite distinct from those of other ions. Our goal is to include a truly international spectrum of speakers and attendees. The invited speakers include chemists, structural biologists, and physiologists whose expertise encompasses a wide range of topics that are all related to the proton. We hope to encourage new understandings on levels from basic science to biomedical applications.

The 2023 edition is a special collaboration with the Opto-Biomechanical Eye Research Network (OBERON), offering keynote speeches, panel discussions, and scientific presentations on Optical modelling, Biometry and Biomechanical properties of the eye.

Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

The advances in imaging techniques have enabled the access to 3D shapes present in a variety of biological structures: organs, cells, organelles, and proteins. Since biological shapes are related to physiological functions, biomedical analyses are poised to incorporate more morphological data. For example, at the macroscopic scale, characterizing brain morphologies allows clinicians to quantify the progression of Alzheimer's disease. At the microscopic scale, the characterization of protein morphologies allows biologists to understand how these biomolecules react to chemical variations of their environment and helps detect promising pharmacological targets for the treatment of conditions ranging from neurological disorders to several cancers. Therefore, different biological scales ask a common statistical question: how can we build mathematical and statistical descriptions of biological morphologies and their variations? This workshop invites participants from different application fields to exchange mathematical and statistical methods for the study of biological shapes.

Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Machine Vision,    Systems Biology and Computational Biology

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI)

This workshop brings together experimental and theoretical researchers who work on cell mechanics, on three different scales. At the microscopic scale, the cytoskeletal active network shapes the cell and generates active forces. At the mesoscale, the collective motion and mechanics of cells gives rises to tissues such as epithelial cell sheets which have become a premier biophysical model system. In the full biological context of cell and developmental mechanics, such as in model tissue organoids, shapes and function arise through the interplay of this active mechanics with morphogens and signalling. Our workshop will explore these three scales of size and complexity, with a view towards bridging the gaps between communities and developing a true multiscale understanding.

Molecular Biology,    Biology

The aim of the ICoBT meetings is to bring together researchers from across the scientific, clinical and engineering spectrum, to promote communication across the different disciplines and to provide a platform for the presentation of new work in one meeting focused solely on Biotribology.

orthopaedic surgery, dentistry, biomechanics, biomaterials, soft matter, cosmetic chemistry, biophysics and biomimetics

Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

The interface between biology and quantitative disciplines including physics, mathematics and engineering is rapidly expanding. This is the result of many factors, but is largely driven by higher resolution spatial and temporal data from cutting edge imaging techniques, and increasing success in applying physical modeling techniques to biological problems. Mechanobiology is an especially rapidly developing field at the quantitative biology interface. This field describes how force is generated in biological systems, how force impacts chemistry, and how force generation is controlled by intracellular signaling pathways. Numerous feedforward and feedback interactions connect forces in cells to the dynamics of proteins and gene expression, resulting in highly nonlinear systems with complex and often non-intuitive behaviours.

Systems Biology and Computational Biology,    Computational Physics and Numerical Simulation

European Molecular Biology Organization – EMBO

This EMBO Workshop strives to connect disciplines from different fast-moving fields linked to endocytosis, which require a common forum to discuss the latest developments and future directions in an integrated fashion. The final goal is to uncover novel molecular and cellular networks involving endocytosis by providing concrete examples of how collaborations between researchers from different disciplines are currently leading to fundamental discoveries.

Molecular Biology,    Biology

IEEE Microwave Theory & Techology Society (MTT-S)

The IMBioC 2023 is scheduled for September 11-13 in Leuven, Belgium, which is a vibrant student city with long lasting history in education and science that has motivated generation of academics. IMBioC is an international forum for the exchange of ideas and information on state-of-the-art research in microwave and RF theory and techniques that bridge the science and engineering gap as applied to biological systems. During the conference, workshops and special sessions including Young Professionals (YP) and Women in Microwave (WiM) events will be organized, while an exhibition will be held simultaneously.

Electrostatics, Electromagnetic Waves,    Electronic Engineering

Biophysical Society

The field of implant materials is now moving from static concepts to dynamic biomaterials that can adapt to stimuli from the living environment. It is an exciting time for biomaterial research. The same is true for robotics, as soft actuated and responsive materials pave the way for the rapidly emerging field of “soft robotics”, from the nano- to the macroscale. The 9th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues provides a unique international forum for researchers and practicing engineers from different disciplines to interact and exchange their latest results.

BPS - The Biophysical Society

Microscopy, Histopathology and Analytics provides a forum for presenting the latest research in tissue microscopy and computational analysis, as well as laboratory-based analytics and fluidics, along with the challenges of translating such developments into the clinic. Topics central to this meeting are novel forms of microscopy, computational modeling and algorithms, novel contrast agents and clinical analytics. Example application areas are clinical diagnostics/prognostics and decision support, surgical and non-surgical therapy guidance, high-throughput drug screening and biomarker evaluation.

Microscopy ,    Healthcare Technologies

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (mpi-pks)

BPS - The Biophysical Society

Focuses on innovative research, tools and techniques to increase fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system.

Metrology and Instrumentation,    Healthcare Technologies

Focuses on the convergence in these rapidly evolving areas, spanning from basic biology to clinical diagnostics and therapeutic applications.

Addresses all aspects of development and applications of biomedical optical technologies for research and clinical applications.

Molecular Biology,    Optics and Lasers