50th Annual Meeting of the Argentine Society of Biophysics

Each year, the Argentine Society of Biophysics (SAB) organizes a meeting where the biophysical community of Argentina discusses the recent advances in all fields of biophysics. In the present meeting we will have a panel of international experts that are leaders in their respective fields, who will provide an update on the latest discoveries and discuss state-of-the-art approaches in biophysics to address experimentally challenging questions related to biological systems (in solution, in membranes, in cellulo and in vivo).

Attendance is not restricted to Argentinian citizens. SAB meetings always welcome students and researchers from other Latin American countries. SAB grants fee waivers and travel grants to local members of the Society, from the graduate student to the early career researcher levels, to enable their participation regardless of their access to funding. For the current meeting we plan to fund the participation of graduate students and postdocs from other South American countries as well.

The topics to be presented/discussed in this edition include protein interactions, computational and theoretical biophysics, membrane biophysics, structural biology, in situ biophysical methods, systems biology, synthetic biology, spectroscopy, epigenetics and control of gene expression, photophysics and photophysiology, protein aggregation and disease, and molecular interactions. The meeting will be an extraordinary opportunity for local scientists and PhD candidates to engage in scientific discussion with world renowned experts. We are confident that, given the communication skills of the speakers, the plenary lectures and symposiums will lead to fruitful discussions that will extend to the poster sessions. These discussions might allow younger researchers to apply new methodologies in their research projects and we hope they can lead to new collaborations.

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The IUCr will award travel and accommodation fellowships to attend the meeting. Undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows up to 35 years of age from Argentina or other countries may apply. To apply you must send an email to [email protected] with the subject "IUCr fellowship application" indicating the following:

• Applicant name
• Identification (DNI/passport)
• Poster/communication title (if applicable)
• Where you will be traveling from
• Travel fareÂ