Biophysical Society Bulletin | December 2019

Annual Meeting

Abstracts Programmed Following the regular abstract submission deadline, members of the Program Com- mittee and Council reviewed and sorted submitted abstracts, which were pro- grammed into 20 symposia, 4 workshops, 64 platforms, and 122 poster sessions. Nearly 700 posters will be presented each day of the meeting.

Late Abstracts Deadline Deadline: January 8 Missed the early abstract submission dead- line? There is still time to submit an ab- stract to present your research. All late ab- stracts will be posted online in a searchable format through the online desktop planner and the meeting app. Late abstracts will be programmed each day of the meeting and grouped by topic to correspond with the presentation of abstracts submitted by the October 1 deadline.

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Calling All Bloggers! Deadline to apply: January 15 Add Your Perspective on the Meeting Interested in sharing your experiences at the Annual Meeting? BPS is looking for a

The Society would like to thank the Pro- gram Committee, Council, and the many other Society members who participate in the planning, reviewing, sorting, and pro- gramming each year. Their work ensures that the final program reflects the breadth of research areas in biophysics with as few programming conflicts as possible, given the volume and richness of the scientif- ic program. The 2020 Annual Meeting Program Committee members are Patricia Clark , William Kobertz , Teresa Giraldez , Ruben Gonzalez , Susan Marqusee , Andrej Sali , and Joanna Swain . Society members Patricia Bassereau , Karen Fleming , and Joe Mindell also assisted with the programming this year. Left to Right: Patricia Bassereau, William Kobertz, Teresa Giraldez, Joseph Mindell, and Karen Fleming finalized the programming of symposia and platform sessions for the 2020 San Diego meeting.

diverse group of five to ten bloggers to share their personal experiences at the meeting with the Society’s 3,500-plus blog readers. Blog posts could focus on meeting tips, can’t miss events, the best local eater- ies, how you are navigating the meeting, or what you have learned. Review posts from the 2019 meeting at www.biophysics.org/ blog/category/annual-meeting-2019. To learn more and submit your application, visit www.surveymonkey.com/r/ 2020bloggers. Student Volunteers The Biophysical Society invites undergrad- uate and graduate students to volunteer time at the Annual Meeting in exchange for complimentary meeting registration. Volunteers must be Society members with

—Madhura De, German Cancer Research Center posters) and at the end of the day was quite amazed to find howmuchmore I got to know, and howmany poten- tial collaborations I could initiate or take part in! The best thing about the science pre- sented in this conference is that a fine balance is achieved between show casing varied biophysical techniques and addressing questions of biolog- ical importance. I shuttled between these two types of sessions (and

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