Biophysical Society Bulletin | May 2019

Thematic Meetings

Congratulations to all the winners of the Biophysical Journal Poster Competition, held during the BPS Thematic Meeting “MultiscaleModeling of Chromatin: Bridging Experiment with Theory.”

Students Vishal Minhas , Nanywany Technological University Persistence Length of DNA using Inverse Monte Carlo: Comparison of Different Force Fields Alan Perez Rathke , University of Illinois at Chicago Many-Body Chromatin Interations in Super-Enhancer Tads Jan Huertas , Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine Simulating the Binding of Pioneer Transcription Factors to the Nucleosome Hadeel Khamis , Israel Institute of Technology Single-Molecule DNA Unzipping Reveals Asymmetric Modulation of a Transcription Factor by its Binding Site Sequence and Context Postdoc

Sergei Rudnizky , Israel Institute of Technology The BP-Scale Thermal Diffusion of Nucleosomes Modulates Binding of Transcription

2019 Biophysical Society Thematic Meetings

Biology and Physics Confront Cell-Cell Adhesion Aussois, France | October 14–17, 2019

Cell-cell adhesion is a fundamental biological and physical determinant of tissue organization, both in health and disease. However, the biology and physics of adhesion are often treated very differently. Cell and developmental biologists commonly focus on the molecular mechanisms responsible for cell-cell adhesion, whereas soft matter physicists consider principally the rheological properties of the contact interface. This meeting aims to bring these views and communities together, along with biophysicists and computational scientists, to develop a unified perspective on cell-cell adhesion that could not be achieved by any one community alone.

Organizing Committee: Sandrine Etienne-Manneville , Institut Pasteur, France Jean-Leon Maître , Institut Curie, France Virgile Viasnoff , National University of Singapore Alpha Yap , University of Brisbane, Australia

Abstract Submission & Registration Deadline: June 14, 2019

www.biophysics.org/ 2019Aussois