Biophysical Society Bulletin | September 2020

Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting

Biophysics at the Dawn of Exascale Computers

Hamburg, Germany | May 24–28, 2021

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Rommie Amaro , University of California, USA Christophe Chipot , CNRS, France Rosana Collepardo , Cavendish Laboratory, United Kingdom Petra Fromme , Arizona State University, USA Raimund Fromme , Arizona State University, USA Daisuke Kihara , Purdue University, USA Arwen Pearson , University of Hamburg, Germany Alberto Perez , University of Florida, USA Abhishek Singharoy , Arizona State University, USA Gregory Voth , University of Chicago, USA SPEAKERS Ivet Bahar , University of Pittsburg, USA Oliver Beckstein , Arizona State University, USA Charles L. Brooks III , University of Michigan, USA Michael Brown , University of Arizona, USA Henry Chapman , DESY, Germany Elisa Fadda , Maynooth University, Ireland Monika Fuxreiter , University of Debrecen, Hungary Helmut Grubmüller , Max Planck Institute, Germany JC Gumbart , Georgia Tech, USA Gerhard Hummer , Max Planck Institute, Germany Syma Khalid , University of Southampton, United Kingdom Zaida Luthey-Schulten , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA AdrianMulholland , University of Bristol, United Kingdom Frank Noé , Universität Berlin, Germany Ruth Nussinov , National Cancer Institute, USA José Onuchic , Rice University, USA Modesto Orozco , IRB-Barcelona, Spain Abbas Ourmarzd , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Banu Ozkan , Arizona State University, USA Sarah Rauscher , University of Toronto, Canada Nathalie Reuter , University of Bergen, Norway Karissa Sanbonmatsu , Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Tamar Schlick , NewYork University, USA Chaok Seok , Seoul National University, South Korea Holger Stark , Max Planck Institute, Germany Yuji Sugita , Riken, Japan Emad Tajkhorshid , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Florence Tama , Nagoya University, Japan RebeccaWade , Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany Daniel Zuckerman , Oregon Health and Science University, USA

Molecular biophysics over the next decade will be dominated by three technolo- gies — electron microscopy and tomography, X-ray lasers, and machine learning. Taking us a step closer towards capturing bimolecular assemblies in action, these technologies together with molecular simulations are delivering not only static structures, but movies of cellular functions. One common denominator to this remarkable progress is the advent of graphics processor unit (GPU)-intensive compute resources over the past decade. Already leveraging parallel capabilities, areas of diffraction data and single-particle image processing, hybrid modeling, molecular dynamics and free-energy simulations, and drug design and discovery are frontrunners in leveraging the prowess of exascale computing. Fortuitously overlapping with the inception of the exascale era, this meeting will prepare the biophysics community to start advancing the development and implementation of computational algorithms towards the best use of the exascale computing resources. The meeting brings together experimentalists and theoreticians working in the broad areas of protein folding and assembly, dissection of allosteric pathways, macromolecular interactions and bottom-up structure of cells wherein the large-scale computing is expected to bring forth major discoveries. Molecular and cellular biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists will find a common platform to share their innovations and future needs with experts, so as a community we move forward to best adapt ourselves with these world-class resources.

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 22, 2021

Early Registration Deadline: February 8, 2021

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