The BBS has organised a range of events across the UK to support this initiative and help raise awareness of our discipline.

Biochemistry Department Lecture with speaker Achillefs Kapanidis, University of Oxford, UK.

Hosted by the Graduate Student Society (Oxford University Biochemical Society) and supported and sponsored by the British Biophysical Society. When: March 7, 13:00-14:00 Where: Biochemistry Building, Main Seminar Room, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/aspsite/index.asp?sectionid=seminars

Special edition seminar for the "Molecular Microbiology" seminar series.

When: March 7, 13:00 Where: University of East Anglia, UK: Prof Steve Meech, School of Chemistry, UAE, will give a lecture entitled: "Mechanism of Operation of Blue Light Sensing Flavoproteins â€" From 100 Femtoseconds to 10 microseconds

Oxford Chemical Biology Meeting on and for “Biophysics Week”

Sergi Garcia-Manyes (King's College, Physics, London) with a talk entitled: "Linking mechanochemistry to protein folding at the single bond level" and Ramin Golestanian (Oxford Physics) with a talk entitled: "Self-organization due to catalytic activity” hosted by Hagen Bayley. Where: University of Oxford, Chemistry Department When: Monday 7th, 18:00 - 19:00

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University

Dr David Klenerman, FRS, will give a lecture on "New insights into neurodegenerative disease from single molecule studies of protein aggregates". Hosts: Alan Fersht, FRS & Richard Henderson, FRS. When: Tuesday 8th March 16:15 Where: Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Cambridge.

University of York: The Biological Physical Sciences Institute (BPSI)

will host a talk entitled: "Discrimination of human mesenchymal stromal cell lines using Raman spectroscopy” by: Raquel De Almeida Rocha Ponzoni, Dept of Physics University of York and Physics Lecturer and Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Campus Dois Vizinhos - Brazil, When: March 9, 16:00 Where: Wentworth College

Research Complex, Harwell: A mini-symposium to celebrate “Biophysics Week”, will be held at RC@H

Details and registration at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-mini-symposia-on-biophysics-tickets-21522744107

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), and related molecular porous materials have entered a stage where not just the porosity, but other physical attributes are now playing a major role in their properties. Catalytic properties rivalling those of classic heterogeneous catalysts are being unearthed by carefully engineering isolated active sites in the pores. Photophysical properties enabled by both the rigidity and the controlled dynamics of the porous environment are making strides from both fundamental and applied perspectives. Applications in energy storage are emerging as well, enabled by important advances in increasing the electrical and ionic conductivity in these materials to values that rival and even surpass those of organic semiconductors. Exciting magnetic properties are being reported in such materials with increasing frequency as well, suggesting that perhaps porous magnets and possibly superconductors are also within reach.

This Discussion will thus focus on several important new directions in the chemistry of porous crystalline materials and will attempt to distil converging themes.

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• New Directions in Gas Sorption and Separation with MOFs
  Mainstay of many of the MOF researchers, this subfield is maturing into a much more applied field, with important applications especially in gas separation and methane storage. Both fundamental gas binding aspects and new structural aspects influencing gas sorption will be discussed and targeted as part of the discussion.
• Electronic, Magnetic, and Photophysical Properties of MOFs and COFs
  Electrical conductivity and charge transport have only recently become possible with MOFs. This is one of the newest potential applications of these materials.
• Catalysis in MOFs
  New trends here focus on electrochemical catalysis, strut-based metalloligand catalysis and organocatalysis, as well as node-based catalysis. All aspects have seen huge leaps in the last few years and these will be discussed in this session.
• MOFs Modelling and Theory
  This final session will focus on theoretical modelling of gas sorption processes in MOFs. A material genome is emerging, which is promised to allow ab-initio predictions of MOFs properties.

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The South West Structural Biology Consortium (SWSBC) was initiated by Prof. Jenny Littlechild and Prof. Leo Brady as a forum where Structural Biology groups in the South West of England could come together to present their research and network with each other.

Since that initial meeting in Exeter, the Consortium has expanded to include researchers interested in Structural Biology â€" including the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Reading, Portsmouth, Southampton and Sussex â€" with an annual meeting moving between each of the cities.

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• Read a report by Chris Howard for the Newsletter of the Society of Crystallographers of Australia and New Zealand

The 2nd MLF School is targeted at postgraduate students and early-career researchers from anywhere in the world who are interested in using neutron or muon beams in their research but who have limited or no experience with these techniques. The program will include introductory-level lectures and hands-on practical sessions on the neutron and muon instruments at the MLF.

Meeting of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan

A. POLYMER CHEMISTRY: SYNTHESIS AND REACTIONS

B. POLYMER PHYSICS: STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES

C. FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS AND POLYMER FUNCTIONS

D. BIOPOLYMERS AND BIORELATED POLYMERS

E. POLYMERS AND ENVIRONMENT

F. POLYMER INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY: PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS