Forthcoming Meetings

• 
  The 34th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics, 2010
  will be held in conjunction with the Australian Physiological Society at the National Wine Centre, South Australia from 28 November to 1 December 2010. The call for symposia topics is open.
   
  
• 3rd International Congress on Cell Membranes and Oxidative Stress: Focus on Calcium Signaling and TRP Channels
  Isparta, Turkey, 22-27 June 2010
  See link at: www.cmos.org.tr
   
  
• New Horizons in Calcium Signaling Meeting
  Beijing, China, 20-13 October 2010

  Jointly sponsored by The Biophysical Society and the Biophysical Society of China

  See link at: http://www.biophysics.org/2010china/
   
  

• Joint Australia-Croatia Workshop on Antimicrobial Peptides
  Split, Croatia, 9-13 Aug 2010

  See link at: http://www.medils.org/index.php/archives/2009/09/17/joint-australia-croatia-workshop-on-antimicrobial-peptides/
   
  

• The 4th Mechanobiology Workshop and Biophysical Society Joint Meeting on Actin, the Cytoskeleton and the Nucleus
  Singapore, 9-12 November 2010

  See link at: http://www.biophysics.org/2010singapore
   
  

• Symposium at Pacifichem 2010 in the Topic Area of Biological Chemistry.
  Advances in Solid-State NMR of Biological Molecules (#58)
  Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15-20 December 2010
  Organized by: Akira Naito, Michele Auger, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Frances Separovic

  Invited Speakers: Michele Auger (CA), Jerry Chan (TW), Timothy Cross (US), Gary Drobny (US), Toshimichi Fujiwara (JP), John Gehman (AU), Mei Hong (US), Yoshitaka Ishii (US), Yongae Kim (KOR), Vladimir Ladizhansky (CA), Gary Lorigan (US), Ann McDermott (US), Francesca Marassi (US), Isabelle Marcotte (CA), Nobuaki Matsumori (JP), Konstantin Momot (AU), Akira Naito (JP), Kaoru Nomura (JP), Eric Oldfield (US), Stanley Opella (US), Tatyana Polenova (US), William Price (AU), Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy (US), Takeshi Sato (JP), Jacob Schaefer (US), Frances Separovic (AU), Simon Sharpe (CA), Steven Smith (US), Suzana Straus (CA), Kiyonori Takegoshi (JP), Satoru Tuzi (JP), Gianluigi Veglia (US), David Weliky (US), Katherine H. Wildman (US), Kurt Zilm (US)

  Solid-state NMR is a powerful tool for elucidating structure-function relationships at atomic resolution in a variety of biological systems. As an approach of structural biology, recoupling methods in solid-state NMR spectroscopy have greatly progressed to determine interatomic distances of site specific and uniformly labeled biomolecules. This distance information together with chemical shift interactions are used as structural constraints for determining the 3D structure of solid biological macromolecules. Solid-state NMR can also provide molecular images based on orientational information in mechanically and magnetically ordered systems of biomolecules, such as membrane proteins and peptides and including antimicrobial peptides, fusion peptides, toxins and ion channels. Unique information about dynamics can be obtained in the solid-state or in membranes since local motions can be studied without the complexity of overall tumbling over a wide range of time scales, which are relevant to biological function. The following topics will be discussed in this symposium: (i) technical developments in resolution and sensitivity enhancements of solid-state NMR; (ii) high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules by solid-state NMR; (iii) advances in structural biology of membrane proteins and peptides; (iv) dynamics and biomolecular function by solid-state NMR; and (v) characterization of supramolecular complexes and fibril-forming proteins.

  Abstract submission: January 1st - April 5th, 2010
  All abstracts are submitted through the WEB link: www.pacifichem.org
  Poster pdf
   
  

• The 33rd Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics, 2009
  was held at Ballarat, Victoria, 29th November - 2nd December 2009.
• The 32nd Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics, 2008
  was held at ANU in Canberra, 28th September - 1st October 2008.
• The 31st Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics, 2007
  was held in conjunction with the Australian Physiological Society in Newcastle from 2-5 December 2007.
• The 30th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics, 2006
  was held in Sydney from 11th - 13th December, 2006
  
• The 29th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics, 2005
  was held in conjunction with the Australian Physiological Society in Canberra from 27th - 30th September, 2005
  
• The 28th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics, 2004
  was held in Fremantle from 29th September - 2nd October, 2004
  
• The 27th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics, 2003
  was held in Adelaide from September 19th to  20th, 2003
  
• The 26th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics, 2002
  was held in Melbourne from November 29th to 30th, 2002
  
• The 25th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics
was held Wednesday 5 - Friday 7 September 2001 at the Carrington Hotel, Katoomba, Blue Mountains (near Sydney)
• The 24th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics
was held at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC on Nov 24th 2000.
• The 23rd Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics
was held at the Grand Mercure, Broadbeach QLD, from Sep 30th - Oct 3rd 1999.
• The 22nd Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics
was held at the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, from 4th to the 6th of December, 1998
• The 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Biophysics
was held at the University of Melbourne, from Friday October 3 to Saturday October 4, 1997
• Molecular Interactions of Actin, Hawaii, 1997
Joint meeting with the US Biophysical  Society and Japanese Biophysical society
• Joint British/Australian Biophysical Societies' Conference on Biomembrane Structure and Function
Satellite meeting to the IUPAB Congress in Amsterdam, August 1996
• The Australian Society for Biophysics, 1996 Meeting
July 4-6 1996, Hobart, Tasmania
• The Australian Society for Biophysics and the British Biophysical Society joint Meeting
July 21-23, 1995