Biophysical Society Bulletin | February 2018

Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting

Genomic tools are becoming essential in molecular and personalized medi- cine by virtue of their capacity to analyze diversity within the human genome. Whereas genomic variability at the sequence level is manifestly involved in health and diseases of organisms, little is known about the roles that such vari- ability plays in the physical organization of genomes. The theme of this meet- ing is an exploration of the long-overdue application of biophysical methods in genomics, emphasizing structural and functional aspects of genome and transcriptome dynamics. Proposed topic areas include extremophile genomes, highly compact genomes, extrachromosomal circular DNAs, circular and micro RNAs, DNA viruses and viroids, and other nucleic-acid and chromatin structures having potential roles in genome regulation. Genome Biophysics: Integrating Genomics and Biophysics to Understand Structural and Functional Aspects of Genomes August 19–24, 2018 | Santa Cruz, California

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sarah Harris , University of Leeds, United Kingdom Stephen Levene , University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Julia Salzman , Stanford University, USA Massa Shoura , Stanford University, USA

SPEAKERS Nadav Ahituv , University of California, San Francisco, USA Javier Arsuaga , University of California, Davis, USA Ami Bhatt , Stanford University, USA Xiavier Darzacq , University of California, Berkeley, USA Martin Depken , Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Charles Dorman , Trinity College, Ireland Andrew Fire , Stanford University, USA

Laura Iandweber , Columbia University, USA Joanna Kelly , Washington State University, USA Alan Lambowitz , University of Texas at Austin, USA Christian Micheletti , SISSATrieste, Italy Sergei Mirkin , Tufts University, USA Shinichi Morishita , University of Tokyo, Japan Mario Nicodemi , University of Naples, Italy Wilma Olson , Rutgers University, USA Karsten Rippe , Heidelberg University, Germany Marc Salit , NIST, USA

Tamar Schlick , NewYork University, USA David Schwartz , University of Wisconsin, USA Andrzej Stasiak , University of Lausanne, Switzerland Tim J. Stevens , MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom Bo Wang , Stanford University, USA Sarah Woodson , John Hopkins University, USA Zeba Wunderlich , University of California, Irvine, USA Alexandra Zidovska , NewYork University, USA

Abstract Submission & Registration Deadline: April 2, 2018

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