Biophysical Society Bulletin | February 2020

Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting

Physical and Quantitative Approaches to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance Stockholm, Sweden | August 30 – September 2, 2020 Antibiotic resistance is a pressing global challenge to human health, and biophysics and bioengineering have much to offer to the global response to this challenge. This meeting will help bring together scientists working to diagnose, understand, and overcome antibiotic resistance. Engineering approaches and the biophysical methodologies of spectroscopy, single- molecule and single-cell microscopy, computational modeling, and development of functional assays are uniquely suited to help answer these questions. This meeting seeks to explore the interface between biophysical research and the microbiology of drug resistance, highlighting the breadth of work that spans these two fields and encouraging new synergies to tackle this global health problem.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Peter Kasson , University of Virginia, USA Joanna Slusky , University of Kansas, USA Georgios Sotiriou , Karolinska Institute, Sweden SPEAKERS Michael Baym , HarvardMedical School, USA Anushree Chatterjee , University of Colorado Boulder, USA Christine Dunham , Emory University, USA Ian Gilmore , National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom Cindy Gunawan , University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Maximiliano Gutierrez , Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom Birgitta Henriques-Normark , Karolinska Institute, Sweden Paul Hergenrother , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Alfonos Jaramillo , University of Warwick, United Kingdom Syma Khalid , University of Southampton, United Kingdom Roy Kishony , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Colin Kleanthous , University of Oxford, United Kingdom Natalia Komarova , University of California, Irvine, USA Mary Dunlop , Boston University, USA Johan Elf , Uppsala University, Sweden

Abstract Submission Deadline: May 1, 2020

Jintao Liu , Tsinghua University, China Kaspar Locher , ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Ben Luisi , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Megan O’Mara , Australian National University, Australia Laura Piddock , University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Early Registration Deadline: May 20, 2020

K. Martin Pos , Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Natalie Strynadka , University of British Columbia, Canada Alejandro Vila , CONICET-Instituto de BiologíaMolecular y Celular de Rosario, Argentina Mathias Winterhalter , Jacobs University, Germany KevinWood , University of Michigan, USA Yi Yan Yang , A*STAR, Singapore Pamela Yeh , University of California Los Angeles, USA Helen Zgurskaya , University Of Oklahoma, USA

For more information, visit www.biophysics.org/2020Stockholm