| place | conference | comments | |
| 14 - 19 Jan | Evora, Portugal | Chains@Interfaces 2001 | - |
| 15 - 26 Jan | Canberra, Australia | Biophysics: from proteins to cells | - |
| 24 - 27 Feb | Orlando, FL, USA | Nanoparticles 2001 | - |
| 5 - 9 March | Wuppertal | 2nd Wuppertal Conference on Spatial Statistics and Statistical Physics | registration 450 DM |
| 4 - 6 March | Lenox, MA, USA | First International Symposium on Computational Cell Biology | very computer-oriented, deadline 15 Jan, registration $550 |
| 12 - 16 March | Seattle, Washington, USA | APS March Meeting | deadline 2 Feb, 5000 papers !, registration $400 |
| 26 - 30 March | Hamburg | DPG-Fruehjahrstagung Festkoerperphysik (incl. symposium on biomaterials) | spring meeting German Physical Society on condensed matter |
| 20 - 23 April | Physik-Zentrum Bad Honnef | Biomolecules at Soft Surfaces | deadline 28 Feb |
| 11 - 13 May | Minneapolis, USA | Electrostatic Interactions in Polymers, Colloids, and Biophysics | - |
| 21 - 25 May | Santa Fe, NM, USA | Principles of Soft Matter | deadline 23 March |
| 5 - 8 June | Dresden | Dynamic Days Europe 2001 | Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems |
| 25 - 30 June | Dresden | 1st International MTBio-Workshop on Function and Regulation of Cellular Systems: Experiments and Models | deadline 28 Feb |
| 27 - 30 June | Schloss Ringberg, Bavaria | International Workshop on Cells on Solid Substrates | - |
| 27 June - 1 Jluy | Snowbird, Utah | 2001 Summer Bioengineering Conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers | Tissue engineering, artifical organs, etc |
| 15 - 20 July | Bansko, Bulgaria | Geometry, Integrability and Nonlinearity in condensed matter & soft condensed matter physics | registration USD 200 |
| 2 - 27 July | Les Houches, France | Physics of biomolecules and cells | summer school, deadline 1 March, registration FF 4500 |
| 15 - 20 July | Eindhoven, NL | Europolymer Congress | very applied |
| 15 - 21 July | Cancun, Mexico | STATPHYS 21 | deadline 15 Feb |
| 21 - 25 July | Weingarten (old monastery near Lake Constance) | 2nd International Conference on Scanning Probe Microscopy of Polymers | deadline 15 March, registration DM 890 |
| 22 - 25 July | Potsdam | International Workshop on the Science and Application of Nanotubes | deadline 1 March |
| 20 - 25 Aug | Il Ciocco | Assembly and Self-Assembly at the Interface of Biology, Chemistry and Physics | deadline 30 April |
| 30 Jul - 3 Aug | Kyoto, Japan | 4th International Conference on Biological Physics | deadline 16 April |
| 17 - 19 Aug | Helsinki, Finland | Physics meets biology: From biomembranes to cationic liposomes | deadline 15 April, registration 180 Euros |
| 20 Aug - 2 Sep | Haus (monastery) Altenberg near Cologne | International Summer School Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics X | deadline April 20, DM 1500 |
| 27 - 31 Aug | Lviv, Ukraine | Modern problems of Soft Matter Theory | - |
| 27 - 31 Aug | Trieste, Italy | Interaction and Assembly of Biomolecules | ICTP workshop, deadline 1 March |
| 5 - 9 Sep | Los Angeles, USA | Electronic Interactions and Electron Dynamics in DNA | - |
| 5 - 8 Sep | Aachen | Europhysics Conference on Computational Physics | - |
| 16 - 20 Sep | Kerkrade, NL | Dynamical Properties of Solids XXVIII | glasses, polymers, surfaces, confinment, etc; Forschungszentrum Juelich, a.deussen@fz-juelich.de |
| 23 - 26 Sept | Muenster | Jahrestagung der Dt. Gesellschaft fuer Biophysik | annual meeting German Society for Biophysics, deadline 1 July, registration 200 DM |
| 25 - 27 October | Atlanta | Nanobiology 2001 | |
| 28 October - 2 November | San Francisco | Conference of the American Vaccum Society | Surface science, including biomaterials, tribology, nanoscience |
| 13 - 16 Nov | Kerkrade, NL | Juelich Soft Matter Days | deadline June 15, fee E 250 (students E 125) |
| 25 - 28 Nov | Autrans, France | Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks | deadline 15 Aug, registration 200 Euros |
| 28 Nov - 1 Dec | Max Delbrueck Center, Berlin-Buch | Cell migration in development and disease | deadline Aug 31, registration fee DM 400 (students DM 150) |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| 9 - 12 Feb | Tel Aviv University, Israel | Physical and biophysical aspects of complex fluids | 3rd binational franco-israeli conference, organized at Tel Aviv by Michael Kozlov and David Andelman |
| 23 - 27 Feb | San Francisco, CA, USA | Annual Meeting of the American Biophysical Society | deadline Oct 7 2001 |
| 4 - 15 March | Forschungszentrum Juelich | 33. Ferienkurs: Weiche Materie: Komplexe Materialien auf mesoskopischer Ebene | in 2002, the annual summer school at the research center Juelich is on soft matter; note that only some talks are in English; deadline December 20 |
| 4 - 8 Mar | MPI Kolloid- und Grenzflaechenforschung, Golm | Pattern Formation by Molecular Self-Organization at Interfaces | organized by Hans Riegler, Interface Division |
| 7 - 9 Mar | Sopron, Hungary | MECO-27 | statistical physics, including quantum phase transitions, systems far from equilibrium and disordered systems |
| 11 - 15 Mar | Regensburg | Fruehjahrstagung DPG Festkoerperphysik | |
| 25 - 28 Mar | Physik-Zentrum Bad Honnef | 273. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Micro to Macromechanics of Hierarchical Living Materials and Technical Structures | Organized by E. Arzt, P. Fratzl, E. Frey and E. Sackmann |
| 10 May - 31 July | MPI Complex Systems, Dresden | Topology in Condensed Matter Physics | workshop |
| 31 May - 6 June | Helsinki, Finland | SoftSimu 2002 - novel methods in soft matter simulation | - |
| 16 - 20 June | Princeton University, USA | NEC Lectures on Biophysics: Biological Networks | - |
| 18 - 21 June | Strasbourg, France | European materials research society spring meeting | abstract deadline Jan 14, fee E 412 |
| 19 - 21 June | Paris, France | Seventh Claude ITZYKSON Meeting: Genes and physics | - |
| 1 - 16 July | Boulder, Colorado, USA | Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2002: Physics of Soft Condensed Matter (Colloids, Liquid Crystals, Emulsions, Granular Matter and Foams) | Organizers: Randall D. Kamien, Fred MacKintosh, Leo Radzihovsky, David A. Weitz, deadline March 4 |
| 12 - 24 Aug | Cargese, Corse, France | DNA and chromosomes | deadline March 30 |
| 26 Aug - 27 Sept | MPI Complex Systems, Dresden | Chemical and biological activity in flows | workshop |
| 8 - 11 Sept | MPI Molecular Cell Biology, Dresden | Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Biophysik | Annual meeting of the German society for biophysics; registration EUR 100, students EUR 40, deadline July 2002 |
| 14 - 18 Sept | Konstanz | 5th Liquid Matter Conference | organized by Profs. Dietrich, Klein and Maret for the European Physical Society, deadline April 15 2002 |
| 16 - 27 Sept | Magdeburg | WE-Heraeus-Ferienkurs Strukturbildung und Selbstorganisation | summer school on structure formation, organizers Mueller, Kassner and Engel, registration until end of July, no fees, in German |
| 9 - 20 Sept | Varna, Bulgaria | Computer simulations of surfaces and interfaces | summer school, deadline June 1 2001 |
| 22 - 26 Sept | Marburg | 293th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: NanoBionics II - from Molecules to Applications | deadline June 30 |
| 27 & 28 Sept | Laboratory for the Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, USA | Bilateral symposium by the LRSM and the MPI of Colloids and Interfaces on Soft Matters | Organizers Reinhard Lipowsky and Arjun Yodh |
| 2 Oct | Forschungszentrum Juelich | Symposium on cooperativity in biophysical systems | 1 day meeting without fee, organizers Erwin Frey, Peter Grassberger and Gunther Schuetz |
| 13 - 16 Oct | EMBL Heidelberg | Functional Genomics: The Future of Biology | - |
| 6 - 11 Oct | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | DPG-Schule fuer Physik 2002: Physics of Cells | organizers Sackmann and Zimmermann, application until July 1 |
| 23 - 26 Oct | Houston, Texas, USA | Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society | - |
| 19 - 22 Nov | Kerkrade, Netherlands | Juelich Soft Matter Days 2002 | Organizers Dhont, Gompper and Richter |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| 15 - 20 Feb | Kloster Banz near Bamberg | Molecular organization for nanosystems | Organized by universities Bayreuth and Ulm, deadline Oct 31 2002 |
| 1 - 5 Mar | San Antonio, Texas | Annual Meeting of the American Biophysical Society | abstract deadline Oct 10 2002 |
| 3 - 7 Mar | Austin, Texas, USA | APS March Meeting | - |
| 22 - 25 Mar | Lenox, Mass, USA | 2nd International Symposium on Computational Cell Biology | - |
| 24 Mar - 3 April | Bardøla Høyfjellshotel, Geilo, Norway | Forces, Growth and Form in Soft Condensed Matter : At the Interface between Physics and Biology | NATO summer school, deadline Dec 15 2002 |
| 19 - 21 Mar | Dresden | Fruehjahrstagung DPG Festkoerperphysik | - |
| 29 Mar - 4 April | San Feliu de Guixols, Spain | EuroConference on Complex Fluid Interfaces | co-chaired by Hartmut Loewen |
| 3 - 4 April | University of Heidelberg | 7. Nachwuchstage Kolloid- und Grenzflaechenforschung | annual meeting organized by the Kolloidgesellschaft, deadline 1 Feb 2003 |
| 9 - 12 April | Naurod, near Wiesbaden | 5th Supramolecular Science Students Symposium | Minerva conference, 12 lectures by senior scientists from Germany and Israel, 24 student lectures, deadline for application Feb 14 2003 |
| 14-16 May | University of Rostock | Interface biology of implants | registration deadline Feb 15, abstract deadline March 10 |
| 21 - 23 May | Forschungszentrum Juelich | Workshop biology and physics at interfaces: from single molecules to cells | organizers Rudolf Merkel, Andreas Offenhaeusser and Rene Gail |
| 21 - 26 June | Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy | EuroConference on Biological Surfaces and Interfaces | deadline 31 March, physical chemistry focus |
| 25 - 29 June | Key Biscayne, Florida, USA | ASME Bioengineering Conference | - |
| 5 - 9 July | Alicante, Spain | Fourth European Biophysics Congress | The third European Biophysics Congress was held in Munich (Germany) 9-13 September 2000; deadline Feb 28 |
| 7 July | LMU Muenchen | Festkolloquium fuer Herbert Wagner | Festredner Kroll, Seifert, Peisl, Laessig, Mecke |
| 1 - 5 Sept | Lausanne, Switzerland | European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2003) | session on Biofunctional Materials Surfaces organized by Bengt Kasemo, deadline Jan 31 |
| 14-18 Oct | Badajoz, Spain | First International Meeting on Applied Physics (APHYS 2003) | lots of bio and nano subjects, but rather applied |
| 20 - 31 Oct | MPI Complex Systems, Dresden | Motion, sensation and self-organization in living cells | - |
| 26 - 30 Oct | Weingarten Monastery at Lake Constance | 313. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on fiber systems in materials science and biology/medicine | organizers Profs. Arzt (Stuttgart) and Spatz (Heidelberg) |
| 5 - 9 Nov | Saint Louis, USA | 4th International Conference on Systems Biology | - |
| 18 - 21 Nov | Kerkrade, NL | Juelich Soft Matter Days 2003 | - |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| 19 Jan - 9 Jul | Cambridge, England | Statistical Mechanics of Molecular and Cellular Biological Systems | organziers Tom Duke and others |
| 14 - 18 Feb | Baltimore, MD, USA | 48th Annual Meeting Biophysical Society | abstract deadline Oct 5 |
| 8 - 12 Mar | Regensburg | 1. Meeting DPG section Biological Physics | registration on DPG website starting Oct 1 2003 |
| 14 - 17 Mar | Dead Sea, Israel | Physics of biomaterials and soft matter - Gentner Symposium in honor of Prof. Erich Sackmann | - |
| 21 - 25 Mar | Kloster Banz near Bayreuth | Minerva-Gentner Symposium on Optical Spectroscopy of Biomolecular Dynamics | organizers Haran and Voehringer |
| 22 - 24 Mar | Feriendorf Gomadingen | DGfB workshop on biophysics of cellular communication | organizers Thomas Heimburg and Joachim Wegener |
| 22 - 24 Mar | Bad Honnef | WE-Heraeus-Seminar Nano-Physics of DNA | organizer Joachim Raedler |
| 22 Mar - 2 Apr | Juelich | 35th Spring School of the IFF: Physics meets biology - from soft matter to cell biology | deadline Jan 16 |
| 22 - 26 Mar | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | APS March Meeting | abstract submission deadline 12/05/03 |
| 7 - 9 Apr | Les Houches, France | Soft Matter, biology and statistical physics - Michael Schick 65th birthday meeting | organizers Andelman, Netz, Orland; link might not work under Netscape |
| 19 - 22 Apr | Bad Honnef | WE-Heraeus-Seminar Molecular Motors | organizers Erwin Frey and Frank Juelicher |
| 10 - 12 May | Bad Honnef | WE-Heraeus-Seminar Exploring the Nanostructures of Soft Materials with X-rays | organizers Fink, Salditt and Grunze |
| 17 - 21 May | Santa Fe, NM, USA | 24th Annual Conference on Statistical Physics of Macromolecules | organized by the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 17 - 28 May | McGill University Montreal | Systems Biology Dynamics: from Genes to Organisms | summer school |
| 17 - 21 May | MPI PKS Dresden | Hair cells | deadline Feb 29 |
| 12 - 16 June | Helsinki, Finland | Cytoskeletal dynamics | - |
| 4 - 9 July | Bangalore, India | Statphys 22 | deadline Feb 1 |
| 11 - 15 July | Prague | Polymer biomaterials: biomimetic and bioanalogous systems | - |
| 2 - 14 Aug | Cargese, Corse | DNA and chromosomes: physical and biological approaches | deadline April 1 |
| 23 - 27 Aug | Gothenburg, Sweden | The 5th International Conference on Biological Physics (ICBP2004) | deadline May 31 |
| 10 - 15 Sep | Giens, France | Structure and dynamics of polymers and colloidal systems | deadline May 28 |
| 13 - 24 Sep | Magdeburg | WE-Heraeus-Ferienkurs Dynamik in d�nnen Schichten und Grenzfl�chen | in German, organizers Stannarius, Kassner, Mueller |
| 23 Aug - 17 Sep | MPG campus Golm | Fourth Helmholtz Summer School Computational Fluid Mechanics | organizers Kurths and Ruediger, deadline May 31 |
| 5 - 8 Oct | Ev. Akademie Tutzing | WE-Heraeus-Seminar Biofunctional Interfaces | organizers Bausch, Stutzmann and Eickhoff |
| 9 - 13 Oct | Heidelberg | 5th International Conference on Systems Biology | - |
| 10 - 13 Oct | Karlsruhe | 2nd International DFG Symposium on Cell Migration in Development and Disease | - |
| 16 - 19 Nov | Congresscentrum Rolduc, Kerkrade, NL | Juelich Soft Matter Days 2004 | organizers K.G. Dhont, G. Gompper, D. Richter |
| 22 - 23 Nov | Harnack-Haus Berlin | 14th Wolfgang-Ostwald-Kolloquium on Fluids at Interfaces and in Pores | organized by Regine von Klitzing |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| 27 Dec - 7 Jan | Jerusalem, Israel | 22nd Winter School in Theoretical Physics: Biological Networks and Evolution | Organizers Boris Shraiman, Uri Alon, Naama Barkai, Nathalie Questembert-Balaban |
| 12 - 16 Feb | Long Beach, CA, USA | Annual meeting of the Biophysical Society | - |
| 4 - 9 Mar | Berlin | DPG Fruehjahrstagung: Physik seit Einstein | thanks to Einstein, this year all sections convene at one place |
| 12 - 15 Mar | near Amsterdam, NL | Workshop on Brownian motion: 100 years after Einstein | - |
| 12 - 18 Mar | Gosau, Austria | Systems Biology: From Molecules and Modeling to Cells | Organizers Hans Westerhoff, Roland Eils and Karl Kuchler, registration deadline Dec 10 2004 |
| 16 - 19 Mar | Heidelberg | Jahrestagung Dt. Gesellschaft fuer Zellbiologie | - |
| 19 - 23 Mar | Lenox, USA | 3rd International Symposium on Computational Cell Biology | - |
| 21 - 25 Mar | Los Angeles, CA, USA | APS March Meeting | - |
| 28 Mar - 1 Apr | San Francisco, USA | Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Symposium L: Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Biological Material | organizers R. Wang, B. Landis, F. Silver and P. Fratzl |
| 31 Mar - 2 Apr | Mosbach | 56th Mosbacher Kolloquium on Molecular Machines | organizers Baumeister, Brunner and Neupert |
| 4 - 6 Apr | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | 344th WEH-seminar on understanding the self-organization of charged polymers | organizers Christian Holm and Matthias Ballauff |
| 4 - 8 Apr | Marburg | NanoBionics III - from Molecules to Applications | - |
| 10 - 14 Apr | Warwick, UK | IoP2005: Physics, a century after Einstein | organizer Michael Berry |
| 22 - 24 Apr | Kloster Huenfeld bei Fulda | Workshop Computer Simulation and Theory of Macromolecules 2005 | organizers Helms and Grubmueller, deadline Mar 11 |
| 28 - 30 Apr | Muenchen | Adhesion meeting 2005 | Abstract deadline Jan 16 |
| 22 - 26 May | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | 347th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar: Dynamics of cell and tissue structure | organizers Peter Fratzl, Benny Geiger, Ulrich Schwarz |
| 30 May - 1 June | MPI PKS, Dresden | Towards the Future of Complex Dynamics: From Laser to Brain | organizers Markus Baer, Holger Kantz and Alessandro Torcini |
| 10 - 17 June | Kazimierz, Poland | The 1st Warsaw school of statistical physics | organizers Cichocki, Napiorkowski and Piasecki |
| 24 - 26 June | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO YIP Symposium on Quantitative Biology | organizers Blanche Schwappach, Philippe Bastiaens, Gerlind Wallon |
| 2 - 6 July | Utrecht | 6th Liquid Matter Conference | Previous conferences were held in Lyon (1990), Firenze (1993), Norwich (1996), Granada (1999) and Konstanz (2002). |
| 11 - 22 July | ENS Paris | Bio-Image Summer School Paris 2005 | organizers Amblard, Lavery, Triller |
| 18 - 22 July | Dresden | European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB05) | - |
| 26 July - 1 Aug | Sicily, Italy | 100 years of Brownian Motion - a ESF-STOCHDYN Conference | organizers include Peter Haenggi and Lutz Schimansky-Geier |
| 21 - 28 Aug | Krogerup H�jskole, Denmark | Physics of Life - From Single Molecules to Networks | deadline July 1 |
| 22 - 25 Aug | Berlin | 5th International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology | organizers DeLisi (Boston), Kanehisa (Kyoto) and Heinrich (HUB), deadline April 15 |
| 28 Aug - 1 Sept | Washington DC | 230th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Symposium on Surface Chemistry, Self-assembly and Cell Biology | organizers R. Nagarajan and S. Safran |
| 3 - 7 Sept | Dresden | ELSO meeting on frontiers of cellular, developmental and molecular biology | ELSO = European life scientist organization |
| 5 - 8 Sept | Bad Herrenalb | CFN summer school on nanobiology | DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures Karlsruhe |
| 20 - 21 Sept | Leipzig | Workshop: Soft Matters in Biological Physics | preceeding the conference Diffusion Fundamentals |
| 25 - 28 Sept | Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Munich | Brownian Motion: A Paradigm of Soft Matter and Biological Physics | organizer Erwin Frey |
| 5 - 7 Oct | Institute of Physics, London | Multiscale Modelling in Biological Systems | conference chairs include Massimo Noro from Unilever |
| 20 - 24 Oct | Boston | 6th ICSB 2005 | organizers James Collins, Marc Kirschner, Eric Lander, Andrew Murray and Peter Sorger, registration begins April 2005 |
| 22 - 28 Oct | Firenze, Italy | Toscana Workshop on Cells@Interfaces | deadline Aug 28 |
| 28 - 29 Oct | Heidelberg | Challenges in Modeling and Applied Analysis | on the occasion of Willi Jäger's 65 birthday |
| 28 - 30 Oct | University of Notre Dame, USA | Biocomplexity Workshop VIII: Applications of Methods of Stochastic Systems and Statistical Physics in Biology | - |
| 1 - 4 Nov | Gustav-Stresemann Institut Bonn | Juelich Soft Matter Days 2005 | organizers Dhont, Gompper and Richter |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| 9-20 Jan | Les Houches, France | Fluid foam physics: a model for complex systems | early registration until Oct 2005 |
| 18-22 Feb | Salt Lake City, Utah, USA | Biophysical Society Annual Meeting | Abstract submission deadline October 2 |
| 6 Feb - 3 Mar | MPIPKS Dresden, Germany | Dynamics on Complex Networks and Applications | organizers include J. Kurths |
| 13-17 Mar | Baltimore, MD, USA | APS March meeting | registration deadline January 20 |
| 19-23 Mar | Eilat, Israel | Optical Spectroscopy of biomolecular dynamics II | organizers include Gilad Haran and Helmut Grubmüller |
| 27-31 Mar | Dresden | DPG spring meeting | together with EPS; deadline for contributions Nov 15 |
| 27-31 Mar | Berlin | 77th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik e.V. | minisymposium on cell mechanics |
| 5 - 7 Apr | FZ Jülich | Workshop on mesoscale simulation techniques for soft matter systems | Organizers R. G. Winkler and G. Gompper |
| 3 Apr - 30 Jun | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, USA | New Physical Approaches to Molecular and Cellular Machines | organizers D. Bensimon, R. Bruinsma, P. Nelson, A. Parsegian |
| 23 - 26 Apr | Primosten, Croatia | 31st Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO 31) | - |
| 18 - 28 Apr | Trieste | Workshop on driven states in soft and biological matter | organizers G. Menon, J. Prost, S. Ramaswamy, M. Rao |
| 17 - 19 May | Rostock Germany | 2nd International Symposium Interface Biology of Implants | organizers include James Kirkpatrick |
| 18 - 20 May | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO Workshop on Signals and Mechanics in Directed Cell Migration | organizers include Pernille Rorth |
| May 23 - June 2 | McGill University, Montreal, Canada | Systems Biology Dynamics | Summer School organized by Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine |
| June 2 - 5 | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO Workshop on Principles of Self-Organization in Living Matter | organizers Philippe Bastiaens and Eric Karsenti |
| June 5 - 9 | Sitges, Barcelona, SPAIN | XX SITGES CONFERENCE on STATISTICAL MECHANICS: Physical Biology: from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior | organizers Giancarlo Franzese, Manel Naspreda Marti and J. Miguel Rubi |
| June 6 - 9 | Forschungszentrum Jülich | NIC workshop: From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology | registration until April 30 |
| Jun 19 - 23 | MPIPKS Dresden, Germany | Physics of Biological Systems | organizers F. Jülicher, J. Howard, A. Hyman |
| Jun 24 - July 1 | Dubrovnik, Croatia | From Solid State To BioPhysics III | - |
| June 25-30 | Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA | GRC Signaling By Adhesion Receptors | - |
| June 26 - 29 | Harnack Haus, Berlin | Bio-Systems Berlin 2006 | organizers Reinhard Lipowsky, Peter Fratzl, Juergen Rabe and Angelo Valleriani |
| July 1 - 8 | Belgrade, Serbia | Summer School and Workshop Cell and Tissue Engineering | speakers include Ilka Bischofs-Pfeifer, Donald Ingber, Dimitrije Stamenovic and Joyce Wong |
| 26 Jun - 21 Jul | MPIPKS Dresden, Germany | Constructive Role of Noise in Complex Systems | organizers Alexander Neiman and Arkady Pikovsky |
| 26 Jun - 21 Jul | Boulder school, Colorado, USA | Physics of Soft Matter: Complex Fluids and Biological Materials | - | June 19 - July 1 | Cargese, Corsica, FRANCE | DNA and Chromosomes 2006: Physical and Biological Approaches | deadline Feb 28 | July 5 - 8 | Prato, Italy | International workshop on mesoscale and multiscale description of complex fluids | deadline Feb 15 |
| 29 Jul - 4 Aug | Munich, Bavaria, Germany | 5th World Congress of Biomechanics | abstract deadline Jan 30 |
| Sept 9 - 12 | Stuttgart | 2nd Conference Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering | chaired by Prof. Matthias Reuss |
| Sept 18 - 22 | Freiburg | Multiscale Modeling Materials (MMM) | organized by Fraunhofer Institutes Freiburg |
| Sept 20 - 22 | Heidelberg University | BIOMS-Workshop Methods of Molecular Simulation 2006 | organized by Frank Noe and others |
| Sept 24 + 25 | Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe | Workshop on new strategies in regenerative biology: the marriage of biology and materials science | organizer Ulrich Knapp |
| Sept 24 - 29 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | DPG Physics School 2006 on Active Biomimetic Materials | organizers Josef Käs and Reinhard Lipowsky |
| Sept 25 - 29 | Crete, Greece | Dynamics Days Europe 2006 | organized by George Tsironis and Theo Geisel |
| Sept 25 - Oct 6 | Beijing, China | Bio-Systems Summer School, Beijing 2006 | organized by Reinhard Lipowsky, Xiaosong Chen and Angelo Valleriani |
| Oct 4 - 6 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | DFG Kolloquium im SPP 1164: Nano- und Mikrofluidik | organized by Karin Jakobs |
| October 8-13 | Yokohama, Japan | The Seventh International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2006) | - |
| Oct 9-11 | Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich | NONEQUILIBRIUM PHENOMENA in CLASSICAL and QUANTUM SYSTEMS | organizers Jan von Delft, Erwin Frey and Stefan Kehrein |
| Oct 14 - 17 | EMBL, Heidelberg | The 3rd EMBL Biennial Symposium: From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology | - |
| Oct 19 - 23 | EMBL, Heidelberg | Molecular Microbiology: Dynamics, Evolution and Expression of Procaryotic Genomes | - |
| Nov 14 - 17 | Gustav Stresemann Institut, Bonn | Juelich Soft Matter Days 2006 | organizers Dhont, Gompper and Richter |
| Dec 3-6 | Schloss Ringberg, Bavaria | Self-organization and morphogenesis in biological systems | - |
| December 3 - 6 | Cold Spring Harbor | Engineering Principles in Biological Systems | - |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| March 3-7 | Baltimore, MD, USA | 51st Annual Meeting Biophysical Society | - |
| March 5-9 | Denver, Colorado, USA | APS March Meeting | deadline Nov 20 |
| March 6 - 9 | Cold Spring Harbor | Computational Cell Biology | abstract deadline Jan 5, organizers Tyson, Loew and Pollard |
| March 14-16 | Heidelberg, Germany | Workshop on computer simulations of soft matter and biosystems | organized by the Schwarz group together with the VW-Foundation |
| March 14-17 | Frankfurt/Main, Germany | 30. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Zellbiologie (DGZ) | - |
| March 26-30 | Regensburg | DPG spring meeting | deadline abstracts Dec 15; deadline registration Feb 19 |
| April 9 - 13 | San Francisco, CA, USA | MRS Spring Meeting | - |
| April 16-18 | Ladek Zdroj, Poland | 32nd Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO32) | - |
| April 30 - May 11 | Evry, France (near Paris) | Two-week seasonal school on biological complexity and modeling | organized by the Epigenomics Project |
| May 2-4 | FZ Juelich | NIC Workshop From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB07) | organized by the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) |
| May 21 - 23 | Amherst, USA | University of Massachusetts Amherst / University of Heidelberg Workshop Modeling and Computation in Physics, Mathematics and Biology | HD organizer Dieter Heermann |
| May 29 - June 2 | Harnack-Haus Berlin | Minerva School on Biological and Bio-inspired Materials | organized by Paul Zaslansky and Peter Fratzl |
| July 1-6 | Singapore | ICMAT 2007 - International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies | - |
| July 1-6 | Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain | ESF-EMBO Symposium on biological Surfaces and Interfaces | organizer Marcus Textor |
| July 2 -July 27 | Boulder, Colorado, USA | Boulder School 2007: Biophysics | - |
| July 7 - 12 | Vienna, Austria | 32th FEBS Congress: Molecular Machines and their Dynamics in Fundamental Cellular Functions | - |
| July 9 - 18 | San Diego | Workshop on Biological Dynamics of Cellular Processes | organizers Herbert Levine and Wouter-Jan Rappel |
| July 9-13 | Loughborough University, UK | Dynamics days Europe 2007 | - |
| July 14 - 19 | Imperial Collage London | 6th European Biophysics Congress | - |
| Aug 13 - Oct 6 | St Etienne de Tinee near Nice, France | EU Training course on Systemic approaches to biological physics | organizers Ray Goldstein, Frank J�licher and Albrecht Ott |
| Aug 20 - 22 | Bad Herrenalb, Black Forest, Germany | CFN Summer School 2007 on Nano-Biology | - |
| Sep 24-26 | Heidelberg University, IWR | Methods of Molecular Simulation 2007 | organizers include Petra Imhof |
| 1-5 October | Eurogress Aachen, Germany | International Soft Matter Conference 2007 | Supported by SoftComp |
| 1-6 October | Long Beach, CA, USA | The 8th International Conference on Systems Biology | - |
| Oct 7-10 | Biarriz, France | Franco-Israeli Trends in soft matter, biophysics and microfluidics | - |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Jan 6-12 | Aspen Center for Physics | Winter conference on decision making in single cells | organizers Sharad Ramanathan and Peter Swain |
| Feb 2 - 6 | Long Beach, CA, USA | spring meeting Biophysical Society | abstract deadline Oct 1 |
| Feb 18-22 | Cargese, Corse, France | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes winter school Cargese 2008: Biophysical topics in cell adhesion, motility, and neuroscience | deadline for applications Dec 15 |
| Feb 25 - 28 | Berlin | spring meeting German Physical Society | includes Biological Physics, deadline Nov 15 |
| March 1 to April 15 | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (KITPC), Beijing | Collective Dynamics in Information Systems | chairs include Silvio Franz and Haijun Zhou |
| Mar 3-14 | Forschungszentrum Jülich | 39th IFF spring school: Soft matter: from synthetic to biological materials | deadline Dec 21 |
| Mar 10 - 14 | New Orleans, Louisiana | March meeting American Physical Society | abstract deadline Nov 27 |
| April 6 - 11 | Les Houches (French Alps) | Workshop on Collective Effects in Cell Biophysics | organizers Patricia Bassereau and Jean Francois Joanny |
| April 12-17 | Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain | ESF-UB Conference Systems Biology | organized by Luis Serrano, Roel van Driel and Rudolf Aebersold |
| April 14-16 | PUCHBERG/WELS, AUSTRIA | MECO 33 | - |
| May 12-14 | Warwick Systems Biology Centre | Workshop Cytoskeletal Patterns and Architectures | organized by Nigel Burroughs and Till Bretschneider |
| May 15-17 | College de France, Paris | DeGennesDays | organized by the Fondation Pierre Gilles de Gennes |
| May 19-21 | FZ Jülich | From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB08) | deadline April 15 |
| May 22-24 | Dresden | Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells | organized by HepatoSys |
| May 28 - Jun 1 | Amsterdam, NL | 8th World Biomaterials Congress | includes session on Cell and Matrix Elasticity |
| June 2-6 | Barcelona, Spain | XXI SITGES CONFERENCE on STATISTICAL MECHANICS | - |
| June 8-13 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | DPG - Physics School 2008: Biophysics at Interfaces | organized by Joachim Spatz and Tamas Haraszti |
| June 18-21 | Woods Hole, MA, USA | Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics | organizers Krishna Garikipati and Ellen Arruda |
| June 27 - July 17 | Cold Spring Harbor, USA | Computational Cell Biology Course | deadline April 30 |
| June 28 - July 3 | Athens, Greece | 33rd FEBS Congress & 11th IUBMB Conference - Biochemistry of Cell Regulation | deadline April 15 |
| June 29 - July 4 | Mount Holyoke College, MA, USA | GRC on SIGNALING BY ADHESION RECEPTORS | organizers James Nelson and Clare Waterman |
| July 7-10 | Nottingham, UK | Summer workshop in mathematical medicine and biology | - |
| July 28 - Aug 9 | Cargese, Corsica, France | Dynasoft 08: Dynamics of soft matter | organizers Dominique Langevin and Liliane Leger |
| Aug 6-9 | Santa Fe, NM, USA | The Second q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing | organized by Los Alamos biophysics |
| Aug 20-21 | Bad Herrenalb, Black Forest | KSOP Summer School 2008 | annual meeting by the Graduate School at Karlsruhe |
| Aug 25-30 | The International Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg | European Science and Society Summer School (E4S) Deconstructing and Reconstructing Life | organized by PhD students and faculty of the three institutes: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Institute of Oncology, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
| Aug 31 - Sept 5 | Hall in Tirol, Austria | Summer School Simulation of Macromolecules on Different Scales | organized by Thomas Gruhn |
| Sept 10-17 | Jerusalem, Israel | PhD School and Conference on Complexity | - |
| Sept 14-16 | Heidelberg | Quantitative Analysis of Dynamic Processes in Membrane Transport and Translocation | - |
| Sept 18-20 | Heidelberg | Hengstberger Symposium on Imaging Host-Pathogen Interactions | organizers Maik Lehmann and Freddy Frischknecht |
| Sept 15-19 | Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany | Ion Specific Phenomena in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology | organizers Roland Netz and Dominik Horinek |
| Sept 28 - Oct 1 | FU Berlin | German Biophysical Society Meeting 2008 | - |
| Oct 6-8 | MPI Complex Systems Dresden | Blebs and Cell Cortex Mechanics in Cell Movement | organizers Frank Juelicher, Ewa Paluch and Erez Raz |
| Oct 6-8 | Barcelona | Barcelona BioMed Conference on Morphogenesis and cell behaviour | - |
| Oct 9-11 | Stuttgart | BioStar 2008 - 3rd congress on regenerative biology and medicine | - |
| Oct 12-15 | Rostock, Germany | COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY | - |
| Oct 13-17 | DKFZ Heidelberg | Monitoring biochemical interactions in living cells | organizers Rainer Pepperkok and Matthias Weiss |
| Nov 7-8 | EMBL Heidelberg | Systems and Synthetic Biology: Scientific and Social Implications | - |
| Nov 11-14 | Gustav-Stresemann-Institut Bonn | Jülich Soft Matter Days 2008 | organized by Jan Dhont, Gerhard Gompper and Dieter Richter |
| Dec 13-17 | San Francisco | 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology | - |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Jan 5 - Feb 6 | Institut Henri Poincare, Paris | Statistical physics of active matter | organizers H Chate, JF Joanny, J Prost, R Voituriez |
| Feb 22-26 | Cargese, Corsica | Pierre-Gilles De Gennes Winter School on Cytoskeleton, Contractility and Motility | deadline Jan 1 |
| Feb 28 - Mar 4 | Boston, MA | Biophysical Society's 53rd Annual Meeting | - |
| Mar 7-13 | Alpbach, Austria | 3rd FEBS advanced lecture course on systems biology | - |
| Mar 16-20 | Pittsburgh, PA | APS spring meeting | - |
| Mar 18-19 | FZ Juelich | MESOSOFT - Mesoscale simulations of soft matter out of equilibrium | organizers Roland Winkler and Gerhard Gompper |
| March 22-27 | TU Dresden | Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (Condensed Matter Section) | - |
| Mar 30 - Apr 1 | Leipzig | MECO 34 | organized by Wolfhard Janke |
| May 12-15 | Heidelberg | German symposium on systems biology 2009 | - |
| May 18-29 | Shanghai, China | HGS Spring School on Multiscale Methods and Modelling in Biophysics and Systems Biology | organized by Dieter Heermann (Heidelberg) and Li Yixue and Liu Lei (Shanghai) |
| June 4-6 | MPI Muenster | Symposium Molecular Cell Dynamics | organized by SFB 629, no fees or registration required |
| June 10-12 | Bioquant Heidelberg | Summer school mathematical modeling in cell biology | organized by Thomas Hoefer, Jan Eufinger and Angela Oberthuer |
| June 21 - 25 | Physics Center in Bad Honnef | Physics of Biological Function | organizers Michael Laessig and Ulrich Gerland |
| June 29 - July 7 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | Workshop: Learning from Single Molecules | - |
| July 6-31 | Les Houches | The physics and mechanics of biological systems | organizers Martine Ben Amar, Alain Goriely and Martin Mueller |
| Jul 20 - Aug 1 | Cargese, Corsica, France | DNA and Chromosomes 2009: Physical and Biological Approaches | organizers A Braslau, J van Noort and P B Arimondo |
| Aug 5-9 | St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico | 3rd annual q-bio conference on cellular information processing | The q-bio Summer School will precede the conference. |
| Sept 8-11 | Bad Herrenalb, Black Forest | CFN summer school nanobiology | - |
| Sept 6-13 | Primosten, Croatia | Physics of cells: from the edge to the heart | conference in honour of Erich Sackmann on the occasion of this 75th birthday |
| Sept 7-12 | Munich | World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering | - |
| Sept 28 - Oct 1 | MPI PKS Dresden | Workshop on Energy Dissipation in Nanocontacts and Molecular Bonds | - |
| Oct 2-6 | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO Conference Series on Morphogenesis and Dynamics of Multicellular Systems | organizers Damian Brunner, Darren Gilmour and Eric Wieschaus; abstract deadline July 31 |
| Oct 5-7 | Bayreuth | 14th Fall seminar on Nonlinear Dynamics 2009 | organized by H. R. Brand, T. Fischer, I. Rehberg, and W. Zimmermann |
| Oct 15-16 | Berlin | Joint Meeting on the Application of SPM & Optical Tweezers for Life Sciences | organized by JPK |
| Oct 19-21 | Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef | 3rd European Meeting on Cell Mechanics | organizers Rudolf Merkel, Ben Fabry, Francois Gallet, Daniel Isabey, Daniel Navajas |
| Oct 26-30 | MPI PKS Dresden | Physical Principles of Protein Behavior in the Cell | organizers Markus Porto, H. Eduardo Roman and Michele Vendruscolo |
| Nov 10-13 | Bonn, Germany | Juelich Soft Matter Days 2009 | abstract deadline June 15; organized by Profs. Dhont, Gompper and Richter |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Jan 31 - Feb 3 | Weizmann Institute and Dead Sea, Israel | De Gennes Days: Physics of Cellular Mechanosensing | - |
| Feb 20-24 | San Francisco | Biophysical Society 54th Annual Meeting | - |
| Feb 22-26 | Cargese, Corsica | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Winter School 2010: Cytoskeleton, Contractility and Motility | organizers Cecile Sykes, Laurent Blanchoin and Pekka Lappalainen |
| March 7-12 | Weizmann Institute, Israel | International Student Workshop on Lipid Domains | - |
| Mar 15-19 | Abbaye des Prémontrés, Pont-à-Mousson, France | MECO 35 - 35th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics | - |
| Mar 15-19 | Portland, OR | APS March Meeting | - |
| Mar 21-26 | Regensburg | DPG March meeting | - |
| May 23-27 | Weizmann Institute Israel | Physics 2 Life: A workshop and school on biological physics | organizers M. Elbaum (chair), R. Bar Ziv, G. Haran, J. Klein, N. Gov, E. Moses, I. Rousso, S. Safran, T. Tlusty |
| Jun 3-5 | Freiburg | Systems biology of mammalian cells | - |
| June 6-8 | Traverse City (Michigan, USA) | From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB10) | Michael Feig and Ulrich H.E. Hansmann |
| June 13-31 | Woods Hole, MA, USA | Physiology Course | Directors Clare Waterman and Dyche Mullins |
| June 14-18 | Udine, Italy | CISM course on Nano- and Micro-Mechanics of Living Cell Adhesion | - |
| June 28-30 | London | The physical cell | deadline Feb 1 |
| July 5-9 | Graz, Austria | Modeling in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology at Different Length Scales | organizer Gerhard A. Holzapfel |
| July 5-8 | Granada, Spain | International Soft Matter Conference 2010 | - |
| July 19-23 | Cairns, Australia | STATPHYS 24 | - |
| Aug 1-6 | Singapore | 6th World Congress on Biomechanics 2010 | deadline March 1 |
| Aug 29 - Sept 3 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | 464th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar on Self Organization in Cell Assemblies and Tissues | organizers Claus Fütterer and Josef Käs |
| Aug 30 - Sept 10 | Warsaw, Poland | The 23rd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society | - |
| Sept 1-3 | Oxford | Physics meets Biology | - |
| Sept 20 - Oct 2 | EMBL Heidelberg | Microscopy, Modeling and Biophysical Methods | organizers Lars Hufnagel and Francois Nedelec |
| Sept 23-26 | Bioquant Heidelberg | CNC 2010 - First CellNetworks Conference in Heidelberg | organized by Michael Brunner and Thomas W. Holstein |
| Oct 3-6 | Bochum | Annual meeting DGfB | - |
| Oct 3-4 | Bayreuth | 15th Fall Seminar on Nonlinear Dynamics | organizers H. R. Brand, T. Fischer, I. Rehberg, and W. Zimmermann |
| Oct 4-8 | Freiburg | 5th international conference on multiscale materials modeling | - |
| Oct 6-7 | MPI PKS Dresden | The Dynamics of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems | International Focus Workshop dedicated to the 60th birthday of Lutz Schimansky-Geier |
| Oct 11-13 | HITS, Heidelberg | Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 2 | organized by Paolo Mereghetti and Rebecca C. Wade |
| Oct 11-14 | Edinburgh, GB | 11th International Conference on Systems Biology | - |
| Nov 9-12 | Singapore | The 4th Mechanobiology Workshop and Biophysical Society Joint Meeting: Actin, the Cytoskeleton and the Nucleus | - |
| Nov 14-19 | Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain | Molecular Perspectives on Protein-Protein Interactions | organizers Jacob Piehler, University of Osnabrück, DE, Gideon Schreiber, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL, Colin Kleanthous, University of York, UK |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Mar 5-9 | Baltimore | Biophysical Society 55th Annual Meeting | - |
| Mar 13-18 | University of Dresden | Annual meeting German Physical Society - Biological Physics Section | 75. Jahrestagung der DPG und DPG Frühjahrstagung der Sektion AMOP (SAMOP) und der Sektion Kondensierte Materie (SKM) |
| March 21 - 25 | Dallas, Texas | APS March Meeting | - |
| Mar 21-25 | MPI PKS Dresden | Mechanics and Growth of Tissues: From Development to Cancer | Scientific Coordinators: Suzanne Eaton, Jean-François Joanny, Frank Jülicher, Jacques Prost |
| April 5 - 7 | Lviv, Ukraine | 36th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO 36) | - |
| April 12-15 | ETH Zurich | CECAM-workshop on Computational multiscale biomechanics | organizers Emanuele Paci and Frauke Graeter |
| May 15 - 19 | Engelberg Switzerland | SPATIAL 2011 - Systems Dynamics of Intracellular Communication | organized by Philippe Bastiaens, Joerg Stelling and Jeff Twiss |
| May 24-26 | NIH Bethesda MD USA | Frontiers in Cell Migration & Mechanotransduction | organized by Rick Horwitz, Tom Parsons and Martin Schwartz |
| June 28-July 2 | Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland | 8th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology | - |
| July 3-6 | Heidelberg | Research conference Cellular Nano-Sciences | organized by Joachim Spatz |
| Aug 23-27 | Budapest | 8th European Biophysics Congress | |
| August 24-30 | Heidelberg | International Summer School Cellular Systems | organized by Joachim Spatz |
| August 29 - September 02 | Stanford, CA, USA | IUTAM Symposium on Computer Models in Biomechanics: from Nano to Macro | organizers Ellen Kuhl and Gerhard Holzapfel |
| Aug 28 - Sept 1 | Mannheim and Heidelberg | The 12th International Conference on Systems Biology | - |
| Sept 6-8 | Vienna | 8th Liquid Matter Conference | - |
| Sept 7-10 | Bad Herrenalb, Black Forest | CFN Summer School Nanobiology | - |
| Sept 10-13 | Vienna | The EMBO meeting 2011 | - |
| Sept 18 - 23 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | DPG School on Single Molecule Spectroscopy | organizers Jürgen Köhler and Matthias Weiss (Bayreuth) |
| Oct 3 - 7 | Primosten (Croatia) | Geometry of Interfaces | organizers Gerd Schroeder-Turk (Erlangen) and Stephen Hyde (Canberra) | Oct 9-12 | Bayreuth | 16th Fall Seminar on Nonlinear Dynamics | annual meeting |
| October 13-15 | Leipzig | 2nd symposium Physics of Cancer | organized by Josef Kaes, Sarah Koester and Harald Herrmann |
| 17-19 October | Amsterdam, NL | 4th European Cell Mechanics Meeting | organized by AMOLF |
| Oct 30 - Nov 3 | Beijing | 17th International Biophysics Congress (17th IBC) (IUPAB) | - |
| Oct 29 - Nov 2 | Lake Maggiore, Italy | Meeting on actin-based motility | deadline June 30 |
| Nov 7-8 | ISIS Strasbourg | Cell Physics Days | organized by Daniel Riveline and others |
| Nov 15-18 | Bonn | Juelich Soft Matter Days | - |
| Dec 12 - 15 | Bad Honnef | 484th Heraeus Seminar: Physics of Biological Function – Multicellular Systems | organized by Ulrich Gerland and Erwin Frey |
| Dec 12-15 | Paris | International Curie school “Cell Shape Changes: Cell Motility and Morphogenesis” | organized by Julie Plastino and Cécile Sykes |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Jan 2-7 | Aspen, USA | 2012 Winter Conference in Biological Physics: Growth and Form: Pattern Formation in Biology | organized by Susan Coppersmith, M. Cristina Marchetti and Clare Yu |
| Jan 5-20 | Monte Verità, Switzerland | WINTER DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN BIOPHYSICS - 3cycle de la Physique en Suisse Romande: CELLULAR BIOPHYSICS : MOLECULES, MEMBRANES, AND MECHANICS | organizers Prof. Suliana Manley, EPFL, Prof. Aurelien Roux, UniGe, Dr. Stephan Grill, MPI, Prof. Giovanni Dietler, EPFL |
| Feb 25-29 | San Diego | Biophysical Society Annual Meeting 2012 | - |
| February 27-March 2 | Boston | APS March meeting | - |
| March 25-30 | TU Berlin | DPG spring meeting | - |
| May 2-4 | DKFZ Heidelberg | International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease 2012 | - |
| May 21 - July 13 | KITP Santa Barbara | KITP worshop on the "Physics and Mathematics of cancer" | organized by R. Bruinsma, J.-F. Joanny, F. Tamanoi and A. Levine |
| June 3-5 | University of Tennessee Conference Center in downtown Knoxville, TN | From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology 2012 (CBSB12) | organizer Ulrich H.E. Hansmann, Jerry M. Parks, Loukas Petridis, Jeremy C. Smith |
| June 18-21 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | Heraeus-Seminar Physics of the Extracellular Matrix | organizers Barbara Aichmayer, Richard Weinkamer, Peter Fratzl |
| June 25 - July 7 | Cargese, Corsica | Biological complex fluids | organizers Dominique Barthès-Biesel, Chaouqi Misbah, Petia Vlahovska, Christian Wagner |
| July 1-5 | Marburg, Germany | Conference on Mathematical Modelling of Microbiological Systems (M3S) | related to LOEWE-Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) |
| July 9-11 | Leipzig, Germany | 4th Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells (SBMC) 2012 | - |
| July 9 - 21 | Cargese, Corsica | Summer School "From nonlinear Physics to Biology and Medicine" | organizer Martine Ben Amar, Pasquale Ciarletta, Martin M. Müller, Luigi Preziosi |
| July 23 - Aug 3 | Cargese, Corsica | Summer school Emergent order in Biology | organizers Pierre Sens, Matthew Turner and Massimo Vergassola |
| July 22-27 | Banff, CA | BIRS Workshop 12w5048, Tissue Growth and Morphogenesis: from Genetics to Mechanics and Back | organizers Christian Dahmann (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics), James J. Feng (University of British Columbia), Leonid Pismen (Technion, Israel) |
| July 23 - Aug 3 | Cargese, Corsica | Emergent order in Biology 2011 | organizers Pierre Sens, Matthew Turner and Massimo Vergassola |
| July 23 - Aug 4 | St Bees, UK | Theory of Condensed Matter Summer School: Physics by the Sea 2012 | organizers Marzena Szymanska and Dr Andrea Jimenez Dalmaroni |
| July 25-27 | LMU Munich | Workshop on Complex transport in strongly interacting systems | organized by Thomas Franosch and Erwin Frey |
| July 30 - Aug 4 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2012 Physics of Living Cells Summer School | organizer Jaya Yodh |
| Sept 2-9 | South of France | PhysCell2012 | follow-up to PhysCell2009 |
| Sept 3-5 | Oxford, England | Physics meets biology 2012 | - |
| Sept 7-9 | EMBL Heidelberg | Morphogenesis and Dynamics of Multicellular Systems | - |
| Sept 12-15 | Regensburg | Actin Dynamics Meeting 2012 | organized by DGZ |
| Sept 19-21 | MPI Golm, Potsdam, Germany | Biomembrane Days Potsdam 2012 | in honor of Wolfgang Helfrich; organizers Thomas Weikl and Reinhard Lipowksy |
| Sept 23-28 2012 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | DPG Physics School on Forces and Flow in Biological Systems | organizers Ulrich Schwarz (Heidelberg) and Gerhard Gompper (Jülich) |
| Sept 23-26 | Goettingen, Germany | Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biophysik (DGfB) e.V. 2012 | organizers Helmut Grubmueller and Andreas Janshoff |
| Sep 24–28 | Sperlonga, Italy | Second Sperlonga Summer School on Mechanics and Engineering Sciences: Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Soft Active Matter | organizers Antonio Di Carlo (Università Roma Tre, Italy) and Ignacio Pagonabarraga (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain). The School will take place inside the fascinating monument of Santa Maria, the most ancient church of Sperlonga (early 12th century). |
| Sept 24-28 | Trieste, Italy | ICTP workshop on Physical Virology | deadline June 1, local organizer Matteo Marsili |
| Sept 30 - Oct 5 | Les Houches | Active Soft and Biological Matter: A Conference in honour of Jacques Prost | - |
| Oct 7 - 10 | Bayreuth | Annual Bayreuth workshop on non-linear dynamics 2012 | - |
| Oct 8 - 13 | Engelberg, Switzerland | SystemsX.ch autumn workshop 2012 | - |
| Oct 15-19 | Singapore | MMM 2012 - Multiscale Materials Modeling Conference | - |
| Nov 7-9 | Forschungszentrum Juelich | Juelich BioScience 2012 | organizers Gerhard Gompper, Gunnar Schroeder, Birgit Strodel, Dieter Willbold |
| Nov 26-30 | Monash University Prato Centre in Italy | CECAM school cum workshop "Fluid-Structure Interactions in Soft-Matter Systems: From the Mesoscale to the Macroscale" | organizers Burkhard Duenweg, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, and Ravi Jagadeeshan, Monash University |
| Nov 28 - Dec 7 | Trieste, Italy | ICTP school on Quantitative Systems Biology | deadline July 31, local organizer Matteo Marsili |
| Dec 10-11 | Institut H. Poincare (IHP) at Paris | Statistical Physics and Information Processing in Biology | - |
| Dec 15-19 | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2012 ACSC Annual Meeting | chairs Ron Vale and Tony Hyman |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Feb 2-6 | Philadelphia, USA | Annual meeting of the BPS | - |
| Feb 10-14 | Dead Sea, Israel | Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on Soft Matter and Biophysics | organized by Rony Granek, Yoav Tsori, Anne Bernheim and Oleg Krichevsky |
| Feb 18-21 | Hawai | THE FIRST ANNUAL WINTER Q-BIO MEETING Quantitative Biology on the Hawaiian Islands - Synthetic Biology | - |
| Feb 25-27 | Erlangen | 2nd International Workshop on Nonlinear Response in Complex Matter | - |
| March 10 - 15 | Regensburg | Annual spring meeting of the German Physical Society (section condensed matter and division biological physics) | - |
| March 18 - 22 | Baltimore, Maryland, USA | APS March meeting | - |
| April 24-28 | Dead Sea, Israel | Spatial 2013: From Spatial Signaling to Sensing Spatiality | - |
| May 13-15 | Grenoble, France | Euromech Colloquium on dense flow of soft objects | organized by G. Coupier, P. Parmottant and R. Seemann |
| May 22-25 | Ferry Stockholm-Mariehamn and Hotel Arkipelag, Mariehamn, Åland, Finland | Statistical Mechanics of Biological Cooperativity | - |
| May 27-31 | Strasbourgh | EMRS spring meeting 2013 | - |
| June 3-7 | Madrid, Spain | XXXIII Dynamics Days Europe | - |
| June 16-29 | Leuven (Belgium) | Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XIII | - |
| June 20-21 | Heidelberg, Germany | COS symposium Building Beauty - From Genes to Shape | - |
| June 24-26 | Brighton, England | Physics of emergent behaviour – from single cells to group of individuals | organized by Robert Endres and Giovanni Sena |
| 27 June - 5 July | Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy | Lake Como School of Advanced Studies (LCSAS): Workshop on Quantitative Laws of Genome Evolution | chair Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino |
| June 24-28 | Jeju Island, South Korea | Collaborative conference on Materials Research (CCMR) 2013 | - |
| June 30 - July 2 | Courant Institute of NYU, New York City, USA | Programmable self-assembly of matter | organizers Paul Chaikin (NYU), Oleg Gang (BNL), Alexei Tkachenko (BNL) |
| Jun 30 - Jul 3 | Bad Honnef | 539th WEH-seminar on micro- and nanostructured interfaces for biological and medical research | organizers Joachim Spatz, Christof Woell and Cornelia Lee-Thediecke |
| Jul 21 - Aug 6 | Santa Fee and San Diego, USA | Seventh Annual q-bio Summer School | in parallel: The Seventh q-bio Conference |
| Jul 22 - Aug 30 | KITP, Santa Barbara | Program on New Quantitative Approaches to Morphogenesis | organizers Thomas Lecuit, Ewa Paluch, Joel Rothman, Boris Shraiman |
| Jul 22-26 | Seoul, South Korea | STATPHYS 25 | - |
| Aug 18-23 | Colby-Sawyer College, New England | Gordon Research Conference on Bio-Soft Matter: Dynamical and Structural Complexity | chairs Andreas R. Bausch and Robijn F. Bruinsma |
| Sept 9-12 | Bayreuth, Germany | Bayreuth Summer School on Biophysics 2013: Forces and Dynamics in Cells | - |
| Sept 9-13 | Freudenstadt, Black Forest | International Conference on Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems | organized by the corresponding DFG Research Group |
| Sept 15-19 | Rome | International Soft Matter Conference 2013 | - |
| Sept 18-20 | Stuttgart | Particles 2013 | chaired by Prof. Manfred Bischoff and Prof. Ekkehard Ramm |
| Sept 18-21 | Amsterdam | 8th European Conference on Intermediate filaments in Health and Disease | Organizers: Elly Hol, Gijsje Koenderink, Peter van Tintelen and Arnoud Sonnenberg |
| Sept 19+20 | Cambridge, UK | Physics of living matter | organizers Kristian Franze, Alexandre Kabla, Alfonso Martinez-Arias, Jana Voigt |
| Sept 24 - 27 | Leipzig, Germany | Symposium Physics of Cancer 2013 | - |
| Sept 29 - Oct 1 | Goettingen | Workshop Physics of the Embryo | organizers Joerg Grosshans, Christoph Schmidt and Christian Dahmann |
| Sept 28 - Oct 2 | Obergurgl, Austria | CellMech 2013 | - |
| Oct 3-6 | EMBL | Seeing is Believing - Imaging the Processes of Life | organizers Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Jan Ellenberg |
| Oct 7-9 | HITS Heidelberg | Third Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm: BDBDB3 | local organizer Rebecca Wade |
| Oct 21-26 | Cargese, Corsica | Quantitative Biology of Signaling | - |
| Nov 2+3 | Chicago | Imagery for Insight into Material Structure: A Symposium in Honor of Thomas A. Witten | - |
| Nov 5-8 | Trieste | Conference on Friction and Energy Dissipation in Man-made and Biological Systems | - |
| Dec 9-11 | Bad Honnef | 547th WEH-seminar on physics and biology of directed movements of cells and organisms | organizers Benjamin Kaupp, Victor Sourjik and Timo Struenker |
| Dec 14-18 | New Orleans | 2013 ASCB Annual Meeting | - |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Jan 13-16 | Paris | Workshop on mechanics and growth of tissues | coordinated by Yohanns Bellaïche, Suzanne Eaton, Jean-Francois Joanny and Frank Juelicher |
| Feb 10-14 | KITP, Santa Barbara | Active Matter: Cytoskeleton, Cells, Tissues and Flocks | Coordinators: Iain Couzin, M. Cristina Marchetti, Sriram Ramaswamy, Christoph Schmidt |
| Feb 15-19 | San Francisco, California | Biophysical Society annual meeting | - |
| Feb 17-20 | Hawaii’s Big Island | THE SECOND ANNUAL WINTER Q-BIO MEETING Quantitative Biology on the Hawaiian Islands | - |
| March 3-7 | Denver, CO, USA | APS March meeting | - |
| March 17-21 | MPI PKS Dresden | International Workshop on Brownian Motion in Confined Geometries | - |
| March 24-26 | Institut Curie, Paris | Paris Interdisciplinary Workshop on Membrane dynamics | organizer Timo Betz and Sandrine Daubeuf |
| Mar 30 - Apr 4 | Dresden | Annual meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) condensed matter section | biological physics division organized by Stefan Diez, Claudia Veigel and Helmuth Grubmueller |
| April 8-10 | COVENTRY, ENGLAND | Middle European Cooperation on Statistical Physics (MECO) | - |
| May 5-7 | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO conference on VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA | - |
| May 5-7 | IST Austria Vienna | Stochastic Biology: from Cells to Populations | organizer Tobias Bollenbach |
| May 12-14 | Berlin | 5th conference on systems biology of mammalian cells | - |
| May 19-23 | Universite Paris 7 Diderot | Informal workshop on Forces in tissues | registration deadline Feb 28, organizers Kaoru Sugimura, Pierre-Francois Lenne and Francois Graner |
| May 20-23 | Okayama, Japan | Second International Symposium on Mechanobiology (ISMB 2014) | - |
| June 15-19 | Sicily, Italy | International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School | - |
| June 17-19 | Harvard Medical School | International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease 2014 (SBHD) | - |
| June 16-20 | CISM Udine, Italy | Mechanobiology of Cells and Tissues: Motility and Morphogenesis | organizers Antonio De Simone and Marino Arroyo |
| June 24-27 | Gif-sur-Yvette, in the south of Paris | Second International Conference on Physics and Biological Systems | - |
| July 6-11 | Boston | 7th World Congress of Biomechanics | several interesting symposia in the cell-level biomechanics track, co-chairs CT Lim and SA Safran |
| July 15-18 | Compiegne, France | Symposium on Dynamics of Capsules, Vesicles and Cells in Flow (DynaCaps2014) | - |
| July 20-25 | Barcelona, Spain | 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics | includes a minisymposium on Mechanobiology of cellular systems |
| July 29 - Aug 8 | Cargese, Corse, France | SOFT Matter – from fundamental aspects to industrial perspectives | - |
| Aug 3-7 | Brisbane, Australia | 18th IUPAB Biophysics Congress | - |
| Aug 24-29 | Paris | Condensed Matter in Paris 2014 | including symposium on morphogenesis |
| Sept 1-3 | MPI Potsdam, Germany | Biomembrane Days 2014 | organizers Rumiana Dimova, Thomas Weikl, and Reinhard Lipowsky |
| Aug 18-20 | York, UK | Mathematical Virology Workshop | - |
| Sept 3-10 | Oxford, England | Physics meets biology | Organised by IOP Biological Physics Group |
| Sept 8-12 | Bayreuth | 34th Dynamics Days Europe | - |
| Sept 8-20 | Heidelberg | Microscopy, Modelling and Biophysical Methods | organizers Francois Nedelec and Lars Hufnagel; application deadline: Monday 16 June 2014 |
| Sept 14-17 | Luebeck Germany | Annual Meeting of the German Biophysical Society (DGfB) | - |
| Sept 18+19 | Cambridge, England | Physics of living matter | - |
| Sept 22-28 | Rhodos, Greece, | symposium at the ICNAAM 2014 conference with the title "Modelling of Biological Cells, Fluid Flow and Microfluidics" | organizer I. Cimrak |
| Sept 23-26 | Saarbruecken, Germany | Cell Physics 2014 | organized by SFB 1027 and GRK 1276 |
| Sept 24-26 | DKFZ Heidelberg | Labeling & Nanoscopy | organized by Hell group |
| Sept 28 – Oct 2 | Bayreuth, Germany | Bayreuth Summer School on Biophysics: Physics on the Scale of the Cell | organizers Holger Kress and Matthias Weiss |
| Sept 29 - Oct 3 | Carry le Rouet (Provence), France | labEx INFORM lecture course on "Quantitative Biology of Signaling" | - |
| Oct 1-2 | Bioquant, Heidelberg | BIOMS-workshop Modelling cellular systems | - |
| Oct 5-11 | Porquerolles, France | EMBL workshop on Modeling Cellular Processes in Space and Time | organized by Francois Nedelec |
| Oct 19-22 | FZ Juelich | SoftComp Topical Workshop: Proteins & Nanoparticles @ Membranes | organizers Patricia Bassereau and Gerhard Gompper |
| Nov 11-14 | Bad Honnef, Germany | Juelich Soft Matter Days 2014 | organizers Jan Dhont, Gerhard Gompper, Dieter Richter; abstract submission deadline June 13 |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Feb 7-11 | Baltimore | BPS Annual Meeting 2015 | abstract deadline Oct 1 |
| March 2-6 | San Antonio, Texas, USA | APS march meeting | - |
| March 3-6 | Cold Spring Harbor | Fifth Cold Spring Harbor meeting on computational approaches to cell biology: Cellular dynamics and models | - |
| March 15-20 | Berlin | DPG annual meeting condensed matter section | - |
| Mar 23-25 | Institut Curie, Paris | Paris Interdisciplinary Workshop on Cell Motility | organizer Timo Betz |
| April 15-18 | EMBL Heidelberg | Cellular Heterogeneity: Role of Variability and Noise in Biological Decision-Making | organizers L. Pelkmans, S. Altschuler |
| April 20-24 | Lorentz Center Leiden NL | Micro-flow and Survival - The Role of Slow Flows in Biological Physics | deadline 31 January 2015 |
| May 13-15 | Barcelona, Spain | 6th European CellMech Meeting | deadline Jan 15 |
| May 18-22 | MPI PKS Dresden | Random walks and nonlinear dynamics in the life of cells | - |
| May 26-30 | Roscoff, France | Actin and Microtubule Cytoskeleton in Cell Motility and Morphogenesis: An Integrated View | organized by Marie-France Carlier (CNRS, France) and Thomas Surrey (LRI, Cancer Rersearch UK) |
| June 22-24 | Biarritz, France | Fluid and Elasticity 2015 | - |
| June 30 - July 8 | Atlanta, GA, USA | 2015 Annual Meeting for The Society for Mathematical Biology | - |
| July 6-8 | German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) at Heidelberg | SBHD 2015 - International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease | organized by Roland Eils & Peter Sorger |
| July 6-12 | Jacobs University Bremen | WE Heraeus Physics School on The Physics Behind Systems Biology | organized by Nicole Radde and Marc-Thorsten Huett |
| July 9+10 | Science Museum, London, UK | Physics of Emergent Behaviour II - From molecules to planets | organized by Drs. Robert Endres, Chiu Fan Lee, Giovanni Sena |
| July 14-16 | IWH Heidelberg, Germany | IWH-Symposium on Collective Cell Migration | organized by Freddy Frischknecht, Heike Boehm and Ulrich Schwarz; registration deadline May 1 |
| July 14-24 | Newton Institute, Cambridge, England | Program on Coupling Geometric PDEs with Physics for Cell Morphology, Motility and Pattern Formation: workshop on Modelling, Numerical Analysis and Applications | Organisers: Bernd Hoffmann (Juelich), Dagmar Iber (ETHZ), Hans Othmer (Minnesota) and Reinhard Windoffer (Aachen) |
| July 18-23 | Dresden, Germany | 10th European Biophysics Congress | - |
| July 19 - July 25 | Lipari Island, Italy | Computational Dynamic Analysis of Biological Processes | organized by Alfredo Ferro (University of Catania) |
| Aug 2-8 | Dresden | Second Dresden Summer School in Systems Biology | organized by Ivo Sbalzarini & Birgit Knepper |
| Aug 3 - Sept 5 | KITP Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara Advanced School on cellular evolution | organized by Rob Phillips (Caltech) and Hernan Garcia (UC Berkeley) |
| Aug 5-8 | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA | Ninth q-bio Conference | - |
| Aug 9-14 | Colby-Sawyer College NH | GRC Soft Matter | chairs Seth Fraden and Jean-Francois Joanny |
| Aug 30 - Sept 4 | Bad Staffelstein, Germany | Physics of cells: From molecules to systems (PhysCell 2015) | - |
| Sept 7-11 | Bad Herrenalb Black Forest Germany | Geometry and physics of spatial random systems | - |
| Sept 14-18 | Newton Institute, Cambridge, England | Program on Coupling Geometric PDEs with Physics for Cell Morphology, Motility and Pattern Formation: workshop on Cell Mechanics, Morphogenetics and Pattern Formation | Organisers: Till Bretschneider (Warwick), Damir Khismatullin (Tulane), Sharon Lubkin (North Carolina State) and Christian Schmeiser (Vienna) |
| Sept 14-25 | Goettingen, Germany | Tissue as active matter | organized by Joerg Grosshans, Christoph Schmidt and Fred Wolf |
| Sept 14-18 | Berlin | Shape Up 2015: Exercises in Materials Geometry and Topology | - |
| Sept 21-25 | FZ Juelich | Summer School of the DFG Priority Programme 1726: Microswimmers - From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behavior | organized by Gerhard Gompper |
| Sept 21-25 | Lorentz center Leiden | Active Liquids | organized by Olivier Dauchot, Marjolein Dijktra, Sriram Ramaswamy, Julien Tailleur, John Toner |
| Sept 21-24 | Erlangen, Germany | Conference Particle Simulations 2015 | organizers Thorsten Poeschel, Patric Mueller and Christian Scholz |
| Sept 24/25 | Cambridge UK | Physics Of Living Matter Symposium 10th Edition | organized by Buzz Baum, Kristian Franze, Alexandre Kabla, Alfonso Martinez-Arias, Ewa Paluch |
| Sept 28-30 | Barcelona, Spain | IV International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2015) | includes session Discrete Modeling in Cell and Tissue Mechanobiology organized by Jose Manuel Garcia-Aznar, Herman Ramon, Paul van Liederkeke and Roger Kamm |
| Sept 30 - Oct 2 | EMBL Heidelberg | BIOMS-EMBL conference: Physics of cells and tissues 2015 | organized by Francois Nedelec, Ulrich Schwarz and Matthias Weiss for BIOMS |
| Sept 28 - Oct 2 | Cargese, Corsica | Quantitative Biology of Signaling | - |
| Sept 29 - Oct 1 | Dresden | Symposium ENGINEERING LIFE 2015: Synthetic Biology meets Bioinspired Materials | - |
| Oct 5-8 | Potsdam, Germany | Nonequilibrium Collective Dynamics: Bridging the Gap between Hard and Soft Materials | organized by research training group GRK1558, Holger Stark and Sabine Klapp |
| Oct 6 - 15 | EMBL Heidelberg | Seeing is Believing - Imaging the Processes of Life | organizers Jan Ellenberg and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz |
| Oct 10-17 | Porquerolles, France | Practical course on modelling cellular processes in space and time | application deadline Aug 20, organizers Francois Nedelec and Herve Turlier |
| Nov 10-13 | Bad Honnef, Germany | Juelich Soft Matter Days 2015 | registration deadline Sept 7 |
| Nov 16-20 | Stellenbosch, South Africa | Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases meeting | - |
| Dec 7-9 | Harnack-Haus Berlin | Conference on multiscale motility of biomolecular machines | organizers Stefan Klumpp, Reinhard Lipowsky and Christian Spahn |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Jan 3-8 | Aspen | Aspen workshop on Populations, Evolution, and Physics | organized by Jeff Gore, Oskar Hallatscheck, Edo Kursell |
| Jan 7-10 | North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 35th edition of Dynamics Days US | - |
| Feb 16-19 | Les Houches | Les Houches School on NEW CHALLENGES IN THE PHYSICS OF THE BRAIN: FROM CELLS TO ORGANS | organized by Alain Goriely (University of Oxford), Antoine Jérusalem (University of Oxford), Ellen Kuhl (Stanford University) and Julian A. Garcia Grajales (Oxford) |
| Feb 14-17 | Vienna | 41st Conference of the Middle European Cooperation on Statistical Physics | - |
| Feb 26 - Mar 5 | Innsbruck | SysBio 2016 - Advanced Lecture Course on Systems Biology | - |
| Feb 27 - Mar 02 | Los Angeles | BPS Annual Meeting 2016 | abstract deadline Oct 1 |
| Feb 28-Mar 4 | Les Houches | Les Houches school on Dynamics and Information Processing : from Cells to Tissues | organized by A. Walczak and V. Hakim |
| March 6 - 11 | Regensburg, Germany | Spring meeting Biological Physics in the German Physical Society | abstract deadline Dec 1 |
| March 8 - 10 | Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom | Single cell biology | - |
| Mar 14 - 18 | Baltimore | APS spring meeting | - |
| March 22 - 24 | Amsterdam, NL | Conference on Mechanobiology: mechanisms of force sensation and transduction that controls cell behavior in health and disease | organizers Thomas Schmidt und Erik Danen |
| March 27 - April 2 | Aspen Center of Physics | Workshop on Physics of Development and Disease | organizers Josef Kaes, Wolfgang Losert and Lisa Manning |
| April 4-8 | Erlangen | Imaging particles | organizers Matthias Schroeter and Thorsten Poeschel |
| Apr 6-8 | Munich | Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells (SBMC2016) | - |
| May 9-13 | Universite Paris 7 Diderot | Tissue mechanics in morphogenesis: Focus on theoretical modeling | organized by Francois Graner, Pierre-Francois Lenne, Guillaume Salbreux |
| May 18-20 | IST Austria in Klosterneuburg, Austria | Information, Probability and Inference in Systems Biology Conference (IPISB2016) | organizers Peter Swain and Gasper Tkacik |
| May 29 - June 1 | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO EMBL Symposium on Microtubules: From Atoms to Complex Systems | - |
| June 13-25 | Lago di Como | Lake Como Workshop on Quantitative Laws II: From physiology to ecology, from interaction structures to collective behavior | organizers include Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino |
| June 19-24 | Bates College, Maine | GRC conference on Signaling by Adhesion Receptors | organized by Alpha Yap and Chris Chen |
| Jun 20-23 | Syracuse, USA | Active and Smart Matter: A New Frontier for Science and Engineering | organized by James Henderson, M. Cristina Marchetti, Joseph Paulsen, Ashok Sangani, Jennifer Schwarz |
| Jun 22-24 | Saarbruecken | Cell Physics 2016 | organized by the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1027 Physical modeling of non-equilibrium processes in biological systems |
| Jun 26 - Jul 4 | Quy Nhon, Vietnam | Mechanobiology Conference (The XII rencontres du Vietnam Meeting) | organized by Ada Cavalcanti, Benoit Ladoux, RM Mege, Pierre Nassoy, GV. Shivashankar, Yusuke Toyama, Jie Yan |
| July 4-8 | Strasbourg, France | European Summer School 2016 on Physics of Living Matter | application until May 15th; physics students can earn three ECTS credit points; organizers Daniel Riveline and Ulrich Goerlach |
| Jul 4-10 | Graz, Austria | 7th Summer School on Biomechanics: Biomechanics of Soft Tissues: Multiscale Modeling, Simulation and Applications | organized by Gerhard Holzapfel and Ray Ogden |
| Jul 18-22 | Lyon | Statphys 2016 | Abstract submission (Oral): March 31, 2016 |
| Jul 25 - Sep 16 | KITP Santa Barbara | KITP program From Genes to Growth and Form and summer course Mechanics and Mechanisms of Morphogenesis | organized by Suzanne Eaton, Madhav Mani, Andrew Oates, and Boris Shraiman |
| Aug 17-19 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | 622. Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Seminar on Neuronal Mechanics | organized by Kristian Franze |
| Sept 4-9 | Bad Honnef | 623. Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Seminar on Cellular Dynamics | - |
| Sept 5-7 | Berlin | Biomembrane Days 2016 | organized by Rumiana Dimova, Thomas Weikl, Reinhard Lipowsky, Stephan Sigrist |
| Sept 7-10 | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO EMBL Symposium: Actin in Action: From Molecules to Cellular Functions | - |
| Sept 10-13 | Mannheim | EMBO Meeting 2016 | - |
| Sept 12-16 | Grenoble | 4th International Soft Matter Conference (ISMC2016) | - |
| Sept 16-20 | Barcelona | International Conference on Systems Biology 2016 | - |
| Sept 18-21 | Rehovot and Tel Aviv, Israel | BioSoft Frontiers: Physics of Soft and Biological Matter | in honor of Sam Safran and David Andelman; organizers Nir Gov and Haim Diamant |
| Sept 19-23 | Yallingup, Western Australia | Boden research conference on complex shapes | - |
| Sept 22-23 | Cambridge | Physics of living matters 11 | - |
| Sept 24-30 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | Bad Honnef physics school on self-assembly in soft matter and biosystems | organized by Regine von Klitzing and Ulrich Schwarz |
| Sept 25 - 28 | Erlangen, Germany | Annual Meeting of the German Biophysical Society | - |
| Sept 27-30 | Singapore | Biophysical Society Congress on the Mechanobiology of Diseases | - |
| Oct 3 - 6 | Venice, Italy | Venice meeting on fluctuations in small complex systems III | - |
| Oct 4-7 | Forschungszentrum caesar Bonn | Microswimmers – From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behavior | organized by Gerhard Gompper, Clemens Bechinger, Stephan Herminghaus, U. Benjamin Kaupp, Hartmut Löwen, Holger Stark, Roland G. Winkler for DFG Priority Programme 1726 |
| Oct 9-14 | Dijon, France | 8th international conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM 2016) | - |
| Oct 15 - 22 | Porquerolles, France | EMBO Practical Course on Modelling Cellular Processes in Space and Time | organized by Francois Nedelec, Herve Turlier and KC Huang |
| Oct 17-21 | MPI PKS Dresden | Physical Biology of Tissue Morphogenesis - Mechanics, Metabolism and Signaling | organized by Yohanns Bellaiche, Suzanne Eaton, Jean-François Joanny, Frank Juelicher |
| Nov 4+5 | Madrid | CNIC conference on mechanical forces in physiology and disease | - |
| Nov 7+8 | FZ Juelich | Symposium in honor of Gerhard Gompper: From Membranes to Cells 2016 | - |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Jan 8-13 | Ventura, CA | GRC Stochastic Physics in Biology | chair Jin Wang |
| Jan 8-13 | Aspen Center of Physics | Single Molecule Biophysics (SMB) | organized by Steven Block and Thomas Perkins |
| Jan 15-18 | Barcelona | Biology for Physics: is there new physics in living matter? | organized by Felix Ritort |
| Jan 22-27 | Galveston, TX | GRC Directed cell migration | chair Denise Montell |
| Feb 11-15 | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society | - |
| Mar 13-17 | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | APS March Meeting | deadline Nov 11 |
| Mar 19-24 | Dresden | Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society, condensed matter section, including Biological Physics (BP) | - |
| April 3-7 | Roscoff (Brittany), France | Conference Jacques Monod on Molecular basis for membrane remodelling and organization | Deadline for application: January 6, 2017 |
| May 8-12 | Roscoff (Brittany), France | Conference Jacques Monod on Actin and microtubule cytoskeleton: bridging scales from single molecules to tissues | Deadline for application: February 1st, 2017 |
| May 14-19 | Les Houches | NEW FORMS OF ORGANIZATION IN SOFT MATTER PHYSICS | - |
| June 17-20 | Taipei | BPS meeting on Single-Cell Biophysics: Measurement, Modulation, and Modeling | - |
| June 19-22 | Nizhny Novgorod | 25th Wilhelm Bernhard Workshop on the Cell Nucleus | - |
| June 21-23 | Windermere, Lake District, England | CellMech 2017 | organized by Kevin Chalut, Kristian Franze and Cecile Perrault |
| July 5-7 | Heidelberg University | International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease (SBHD) | organized by Roland Eils and Peter Sorger |
| July 12-15 | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO EMBL Symposium 2017 Mechanical Forces in Biology | organizers D. Discher, M. Gardel, A. Kocer, F. Nedelec, B. Thompson |
| July 16-20 | Edinburgh | 19th International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and 11th European Biophysical Societies' Association (EBSA) Congress | abstract deadline 24 March 2017 |
| Jul 30 - Aug 4 | Colby-Sawyer College, NH | GRC Motile and Contractile Systems | chair Bill Bemenent |
| Jul 30 - Aug 4 | Hongkong, China | GRC Nano-Mechanical Interfaces | chairs Julia R. Greer and Yuan Lin |
| Aug 13-18 | Colby-Sawyer College, NH | GRC Soft Condensed Matter Physics | chairs Zvonimir Dogic and Michael Brenner |
| Aug 22 - Dec 20 | Isaac Newton Institute Cambridge | Growth Form and Self-Organisation | organizers Arezki Boudaoud, Robert Dudley, Andrzej Herczynski, Darryl Holm, Eric Lauga, Jean-Luc Thiffeault |
| Aug 20 - Sept 17 | Aspen Center of Physics | Workshop on Active Living Matter | organized by Chase Broedersz, Nikta Fakhri, Fred MacKintosh and Joshua Shaevitz |
| September 18-22 | Wuerzburg, Germany | International CCTB Summer School 2017 - Image Analysis and Modeling of Complex Biological Dynamics | organizers Philip Kollmannsberger and Franziska Matthaeus |
| September 18-22 | Cargese, France | Microswimmers – From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behaviour | organizers Gerhard Gompper et al. |
| September 25-29 | Cargese, France | EMBO workshop on dynamics of living systems | organizers Tom Lecuit et al. |
| Sept 26-28 | Hannover, Germany | Particles 2017 | - |
| Oct 3-7 | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO EMBL Symposium Seeing is Believing - Imaging the Processes of Life | organizers J. Ellenberg, J. Lippincott-Schwartz, A. Miyawaki |
| Oct 7+8 | Heidelberg, Germany | Viruses and Cells - Computational Challenges and Approaches 2017 | organizers Wolfgang Fischer und Dieter Heermann |
| Oct 9-11 | Paris, France | Blood Flow: Current State and Future Prospects | organizers Dmitry Fedosov, Alexander Farutin, Chaouqi Misbah and Christian Wagner |
| Oct 11-13 | Saarbruecken, Germany | Cell Physics 2017 | organizer Heiko Rieger |
| Oct 16 + 17 | Harnackhaus Berlin | Workshop on mechanosensitive materials | organizers Kerstin Blank and Matthew Harrington |
| Dec 11-14 | Singapore | 3rd International Symposium on Mechanobiology | organized by MBI |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Jan 7-13 | Aspen | Data-driven Discovery and Design in Soft and Biological Materials | organizers Andrew Ferguson, UIUC, Erik Luijten, Northwestern University, Gerard Wong, UCLA |
| Jan 8-10 | Nice University, France | MP1305 COST Action Flowing Matter workshop: From active matter to complex fluids | - |
| Jan 22-24 | Singapore | EMBO workshop on Modelling infectious diseases in the cell and host | - |
| Jan 28 - 31 | Research Center Juelich, Germany | SoftComp Topical Workshop on Filaments, Membranes, Cells and their Interactions | organizers Thorsten Auth, Bendikt Sabass, Patricia Bassereau, and Gerhard Gompper |
| Jan 28 - Feb 3 | Aspen | Fundamental Problems in Active Matter | organizers Aparna Baskaran, Brandeis University, Ayusman Sen, Pennsylvania State University, Julien Tailleur, Universite Paris Diderot |
| Feb 7-9 | Barcelona, Spain | Viruses 2018: Breakthroughs in Viral Replication | organizer Eric Freed |
| Feb 12-16 | KITP Santa Barbara | Memory Formation: From Condensed Matter to Biological Matter and Beyond | - |
| Feb 17-21 | San Francisco | Biophysical Society Meeting 2018 | abstract deadline Oct 2 |
| Feb 22-25 | Hawai, USA | WINTER Q-BIO 2018: Quantitative Biology on the Hawaiian Islands | - |
| Feb 22-23 | Vienna | International Symposium Measuring and Modelling Cell Migration | - |
| Feb 2 - Mar 9 | Research Center Juelich | 49th IFF Spring School Physics of Life | registration deadline Dec 20 |
| Mar 5-9 | Los Angeles | APS March meeting 2018 | abstract deadline Nov 3 |
| Mar 11-16 | Berlin | German Physical Society spring meeting | abstract deadline Dec 1 |
| March 21-24 | Berlin | Spring meeting German Society for Parasitology | focus session "Physics of Parasitism" on March 22 organized by Markus Engstler |
| Apr 3-6 | Lorentz Center Leiden | Workshop on Evolution of Biomolecular Networks: Rules of the Game | Deadline for registration 28th of January 2018. |
| Apr 5-11 | Erice, Italy | 3rd course of the International School of Nanomedicine | organized by Giuseppe Chirico and Francesco Mantegazza |
| April 8-13 | Les Houches, France | Les Houches summer school on mechanobiology of polarized cells | organizers Kai Erdmann and Agnieszka Skowronek |
| April 11-14 | Cambridge England | Living Light 2018 | a biennial interdisciplinary conference focusing on light-matter interaction in living organisms |
| April 16-18 | Heidelberg | Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 4 Meeting (BDBDB4) | registration deadline March 1 |
| April 23-24 | Research Center Juelich | IHRS Biosoft symposium Biomolecular Machines: Simulations meet Experiments | - |
| May 15-18 | Montpellier, France | First International School on Hemophysics | - |
| May 23-25 | University Paris 7 Denis Diderot | Workshop on Tissue Morphogenesis: interplay between genetics and mechanics | organizers Francois Graner, Stephan Grill, Pierre-Francois Lenne, Kaoru Sugimura |
| June 3-6 | IFOM, Milan, Italy | CellMech 2019 | organizers Nils Gauthier and Virgile Viasnoff |
| June 24-29 | Biddeford, ME, US | GRC Signaling by Adhesion Receptors | chairs Christopher S. Chen and Ann L. Miller |
| June 24-27 | Origins Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada | Science of Early Life | - |
| July 8-12 | Dublin | 8th World Congress of Biomechanics | - |
| Jul 23-25 | Munich | Synthetic Biology III 2018 | organized by GRK 2062, the Research Training Group on Molecular Principles of Synthetic Biology |
| Aug 20-24 | Arolla, Switzerland | EMBO workshop on Cell and developmental systems | - |
| Aug 28 + 29 | Delft | 1st International Symposium on Building a Synthetic Cell (BaSyC) | organized by Gijsje Koenderink, Wilhelm Huck, Pascale Daran-Lapujade and Marileen Dogterom |
| Sept 3-7 | The Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, UK | EMBO conference Physics of Cells: From Biochemical to Mechanical (PhysCell 2018) | organized by Rhoda Hawkins, Guillaume Charras, Ewa Paluch and Teuta Pilizota |
| Sept 4-7 | Berlin | The Heart by Numbers: Integrating Theory, Computation and Experiment to Advance Cardiology | Abstract Submission Deadline: May 7, 2018 |
| Sept 11-12 | Marseille, France | Physics Of Living Matter 13th edition | this year organized by the Turing Centre for Living Systems |
| Sept 16-19 | Duesseldorf, Germany | Biennial Meeting of the German Biophysical Society | - |
| Sept 24-28 | Udine, Italy | CISM-AIMETA Advanced School on Cell Mechanobiology: Theory and Experiments on the Mechanics of Life | organized by Antonio De Simone and Vikram Deshpande |
| Sept 26 - 28 | Paris | Building the cell 2018 | organizers include Manuel Thery |
| Sept 27+28 | Aachen, Germany | International Symposium on Mechanobiology: Measuring and Modelling Cell Migration | organizer Rudolf Leube |
| Sept 26-28 | Institut Pasteur Paris | Building the Cell 2018 | - |
| Oct 1-2 | Heidelberg, DKFZ Communication Center | BIOMS conference 2018 | - |
| Oct 1-4 | Erice, Italy (Sicily) | Erice Workshop: Self-Organization in Active Matter: from Colloids to Cells | - |
| Oct 5-11 | Seignosse, France | MiFoBio-school 2018 (School of Functional Microscopy in Biology) | - |
| Oct 8-11 | Potsdam, Germany | NECD18: Nonequilibrium Collective Dynamics - Bridging the Gap between Hard and Soft Materials | organizers Holger Stark and Sabine Klapp |
| Oct 10-12 | Madrid, Spain | Society of Engineering Science (SES) Technical Meeting | track 5.1 Biomechanics and mechanobiology of cells and tissues organized by Marino Arroyo and Sulin Zhang |
| Oct 14-18 | Venice, Palazzo Franchetti | Venice meeting on fluctuations in small complex systems | organized by Ralf Metzler |
| Nov 7-10 | Singapore | Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) 10th Anniversary Conference | - |
| Nov 20-23 | Research Center Juelich, Germany | Juelich Soft Matter Days 2018 | abstract deadline 30 June 2018 |
| date | place | conference | comments |
| Jan 4-6 | Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US | Dynamic Days 2019 | abstract deadline November 10, 2018 |
| Jan 6-11 | Ventura, CA, US | GRC on Fluctuations, Landscapes and Statistical Mechanics of Biological Heterogeneity | chairs Wallace F. Marshall and Yuhai Tu |
| Jan 6-11 | Aspen, US | Aspen winter conference on Single Molecule Biophysics | organizers Steven Block and Tom Perkins |
| Jan 7-11 | KITP Santa Barbara, CA, US | KITP conference Rough Landscapes: From Physics to Algorithms | - |
| Jan 13-18 | Aspen, US | Aspen winter conference on Theoretical Physics for Machine Learning | application deadline October 31, 2018 |
| Jan 27-30 | Bad Honnef, Germany | 688. WE-Heraeus-Seminar Physics and Physiology of Motile Cilia | organizers Benjamin Friedrich, Veikko Geyer, Timo Struenker |
| Feb 11-13 | KITP Santa Barbara, CA, US | KITP conference At the Crossroad of Physics and Machine Learning | - |
| Feb 15+16 | Dresden, Germany | MPI PKS Focus Workshop Phase Transitions in Polymeric and Protein Systems | organizers Anthony Hyman, Frank Juelicher, Jens-Uwe Sommer |
| Feb 19-22 | Hawai, US | 7th ANNUAL WINTER Q-BIO MEETING Quantitative Biology on the Hawaiian Islands | deadline Dec 14 |
| Feb 25 - Mar 1 | Juelich, Germany | Winter school on Motile Active Matter: Nanomachines, Microswimmers, and Swarms | - |
| March 2-6 | Baltimore, US | 63th Annual meeting of the Biophysical Society | late abstract deadline Jan 28 2019 |
| March 4-8 | Boston, US | March meeting of the American Physical Society | |
| Mar 3-15 | Dresden, Germany | MPI PKS International Focus Workshop Image-based Modeling and Simulation of Morphogenesis | organizers Kyle Harrington, Ivo Sbalzarini |
| Mar 4-9 | Center for Interdisciplionary Research, Bielefeld, Germany | ZiF-workshop on Stochastic Processes and their Applications for the Simulations of Complex Systems | organizers Frithjof Karsch and Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu |
| March 24-27 | Split, Croatia | Mitotic spindle: From living and synthetic systems to theory | organizers Nenad Pavin and Iva Tolic, abstract submission deadline 15 January 2019 |
| Mar 31 - April 5 | Regensburg, Germany | Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Condensed matter section | abstract deadline Dec 1 2018 |
| May 1-3 | Kloster Seeon, close to Munich, Bavaria | MECO Conference Key Challenges in Statistical Physics (MECO 44) | organizer Erwin Frey |
| May 17-21 | Heidelberg, Germany | EMBO Symposium on Synthetic Morphogenesis: From Gene Circuits to Tissue Architecture | - |
| May 19-22 | Pestana Palace Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal | Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2019 Cell dynamics: organelle-cytoskeleton interface | Organisers Edgar Gomes, Heidi McBride, Sharon Tooze and Michael Way |
| May 27 - Jun 7 | Les Houches, France | Les Houches spring school on Biology at different scales | - |
| June 2-7 | Les Diablerets, CH | GRC Cell Contact and Adhesion | application deadline May 5, 2019 |
| June 3-6 | IFOM, Milan, Italy | Cellmech 2019 Conference | organizers Nils Gauthier and Virgile Viasnoff |
| June 3-7 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 5th International Soft Matter Conference (ISMC2019) | organizer Wilson Poon |
| June 5-7 | Mainz, Germany | Mainz Materials Simulation Days 2019 | - |
| June 9-11 | Turku, Finland | 11th European Intermediate Filament Meeting (EUROIF 2019) and COST Action EuroCellNet Intermediate filament meeting | - |
| June 24-26 | Malaga, Spain | Fluid and Elasticity 2019 | Abstract submission deadline Feb. 1st, 2019 |
| July 3-6 | Heidelberg, Germany | EMBO Symposium Mechanical Forces in Development | - |
| July 7-27 | Aspen, CO, US | Aspen summer conference on Information Processing in Single Cells | organizers Edo Kussell, Hanna Salman, Lydia Robert, Marco Cosentino-Lagomarsino |
| July 7-13 | Quy Nhon, Vietnam | 2nd Mechanobiology meeting: when Physics meets Biology | - |
| July 8 - 12 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | StatPhys 27 - 27th International Conference on Statistical Physics | - |
| July 20-24 | Madrid, Spain | 10th IUPAP International Conference of Biological Physics ICBP2019 | - |
| July 22 - Aug 23 | KITP Santa Barbara, CA, US | Morphogenesis in Animals and Plants: Search for Principles | organizers Thomas Lecuit, Ottoline Leyser, Stanislav Shvartsman, and Sebastian Streichan |
| July 29-31 | McGill University in Montreal, Canada | 2nd Conference on Multiscale Mechanochemistry and Mechanobiology | organizers Matt Harrington and Kerstin Blank |
| Aug 4-9 | Physikzentrum Bad Honnef | Bad Honnef Physics School Physics of Bacteria | organizer Ulrich Gerland |
| Aug 11-16 | Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, US | GRC Soft Condensed Matter Physics | application deadline July 14, 2019 |
| Sept 2-6 | Station Biologique de Roscoff, Brittany, France | French-German WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Novel Physics in Living Systems? | organizers Theo Geissel and Hugues Chate |
| Sept 2-3 | DAMPT, Cambridge, England | Physics Of Living Matter 14 | organizers Andre Brown, Kevin Chalut, Kristian Franze, Ewa Paluch |
| Sept 3-6 | Torino, Italy | Workshop on the mechanics of cell aggregates: experiments and models | organizers Pierre Recho and Davide Ambrosi |
| Sept 9-12 | EPFL Lausanne | Molecular and Materials simulation at the turn of the decade: Celebrating 50 years of CECAM | organized by CECAM Director Ignacio Pagonabarraga |
| Sept 11-13 | Dresden, Germany | Engineering Life | organizers James Saenz and Barbara Lindemann |
| Sept 17-20 | Eco Resort in La Cerdanya, Spain | Mechanobiology of Cancer Summer School 2019 | organized by the MECHANO-CONTROL consortium |
| Sept 25-28 | Leipzig | 10th Annual Physics of Cancer Symposium | organizer Josef Kaes |
| Sept 29 - Oct 1 | Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Boston, USA | Disease Models & Mechanisms Meeting 2019 Blood disorders: models, mechanisms and therapies | Organisers Monica Justice, Nancy Speck, Paresh Vyas and Leonard Zon |
| Sept 30 - Oct 2 | Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia | Workshop on Mechanical Forces in Biology: Theory and Simulation | organizer Camilo Aponte-Santamaría |
| Sept 30 - Oct 4 | Cargese, Corsica, France | Self-organization in multicellular systems | organizers Marc Bajenoff, Jerome Epsztein, Thomas Lecuit, Pierre-Francois Lenne |
| Oct 7-11 | LMU Munich | 2019 Arnold Sommerfeld School on the Physics of Life | organizers Erwin Frey and Chase Broedersz |
| Oct 9-11 | Saarbruecken, Germany | Cell Physics 2019 | Abstract submission 31. July 2019 |
| Oct 14-17 | Paul-Langevin Center, Aussois, France | Biology and Physics Confront Cell-Cell Adhesion BPS thematic meeting | organizers Sandrine Etienne-Manneville (Institut Pasteur, Jean-Leon Maitre, Alpha Yap, Virgile Viasnoff |
| Oct 21-25 | Dresden, Germany | MPI PKS Workshop Fluid Physics of Life | organizers Karen Alim, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Gerhard Gompper |
| Oct 28-30 | Barcelona, Spain | VI International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2019) | - |
| Nov 24-30 | Bad Honnef, Germany | 706. WE-Heraeus-Seminar Wetting and Capillarity in Complex Systems | organizers Siegfried Dietrich, Alberto Giacomello, Mykola Tasinkevych, Gleb Oshanin |
| Dec 2 - 20 | KITP Santa Barbara, CA, US | Cellular energetics | organizers Amy Caudy, Dan Needleman, and Yuhai Tu |
| Dec 11-13 | Berlin, Germany | Biomembrane Days 2020 | organized by Rumiana Dimova, Thomas Weikl, and Reinhard Lipowsky |
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| Jan 5-10 | Aspen, Colorado | Aspen winter conference new physical models for cell growth | organizers Ariel Amir and Meriem El Karoui |
| Jan 15-17 | Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, NJ, USA | PCTS workshop on The Physics of Collective Cell Migration | organizers Ricard Alert, Daniel Cohen, Celeste Nelson, Ned Wingreen |
| Jan 31 - Feb 3 | Linz, Austria | Linz Winter Workshop on Advances in Single-Molecule Research for Biology & Nanoscience | - |
| Feb 3-5 | NCBS Bangalore, India | Discussion Meeting on Conflict and Cooperation in Cellular Populations (CCCP 2020) | - |
| Feb 10-12 | Barcelona, Spain | EMBL IBEC Winter Conference on engineering multicellular systems | organizers James Sharpe and Xavier Trepat |
| Feb 10-12 | Lausanne, Switzerland | CECAM workshop on Frontiers in Computational Methods for Active Matter | organizers Heiko Rieger, M Reza Shaebani and Adam M Wysocki |
| Feb 15-19 | San Diego, Ca, USA | BPS Annual Meeting 2020 | - |
| Feb 18-21 | Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawai, USA | 8th Annual Winter q-bio conference | - |
| Feb 20-21 | Freiburg, Germany | First symposium on Actin Assembly for Intracellular Functions | organized by Robert Grosse |
| Mar 2-6 | Denver, Co, USA | APS March Meeting 2020 | - |
| Mar 15-20 | Dresden, Germany | DPG spring meeting Dresden 2020 | abstract deadline Dec 1, meeting includes divisons of BP (biological physics), CPP (chemical and polymer physics) and DY (dynamics) |
| Mar 22-25 | Camogli, Genova, Italy | 5th edition Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology (N4M) | organizers Aldo Ferrari, Silvia Caponi, Massimo Vassalli |
| Mar 29 - Apr 2 | Schoental Monastery, close to Heilbronn, Germany | Future 3D Additive Manufacturing - the 3DMM2O Conference 2020: 3D Hybrid Organotypic Systems | organizers Martin Bastmeyer and Joachim Wittbrodt |
| Mar 30 - Apr 2 | Ein Gedi, Israel | The Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on Physics and Biology of Plant Growth | - |
| Mar 30 - Apr 2 | Forschungszentrum caesar, Bonn, Germany | International Conference in Motile Active Matter | Organized by the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1726: Microswimmers - From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behaviour |
| Apr 6-9 | KITP, Santa Barbara, Ca, USA | KITP-conference Active Matter at the Frontier | organizers Mark Bowick, Mike Cates, Nikta Fakhri, and Sriram Ramaswamy |
| Apr 17 | Paris, Institut Curie | Mechanics in Developmental Biology 2020 | - |
| Apr 27 - May 1 | Cargese, France | MicroPhysio conference on Micro-physiological models: From organoids to organs-on-chip | - |
| May 6-8 | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 45th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (MECO) | - |
| May 11-14 | EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | EMBO EMBL Symposium on Cellular Mechanisms Driven by Liquid Phase Separation | Abstract submission deadline: February 13, 2020. |
| May 11-12 | Dresden | Max Bergmann Symposium 2020 on Assembling matter at all scales – from simple molecules to mighty materials | - |
| May 11-14 | Santa Fee, NM, USA | International Conference on Engineering Synthetic Cells and Organelles | - |
| May 12-15 | Hamburg, Germany | BPS Thematic meeting Biophysics at the Dawn of Exascale Computers | - |
| May 13-15 | Dresden, Germany | Physical Biology Circle Meeting | - |
| May 17-20 | Wotton House, Surrey, UK | Journal of Cell Science Meeting 2020 on Cell Dynamics: Host-Pathogen Interface | Organisers: Michaela Gack, Maximiliano Gutierrez, Dominique Soldati-Favre and Michael Way |
| May 18-21 | Monastery Raitenhaslach, Burghausen, Bavaria, Germany | 2nd European Congress on Cell-Free Sythetic Biology | organized by Fritz Simmel |
| May 25-27 | Heidelberg, Germany | 8th Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells | - |
| May 25-29 | Trieste, Italy | ICTP Signatures of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Life | - |
| Jun 3-6 | EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | EMBO EMBL Symposium on Microtubules: From Atoms to Complex Systems | - |
| Jun 7 - 12 | Mount Snow in West Dover, VT, USA | GRC on Intermediate Filaments: Linking Cells, the Cytoskeleton and the Nucleus in Mechanobiology, Aging and Disease | - |
| Jun 8-12 | Dresden, Germany | EMBO workshop on Physics of living systems: From molecules to tissues | organizer Stephan Grill |
| Jun 17-20 | Vail, Colorado, USA | 2020 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C2020) on Mechanobiology: Linking Physics, Form, and Function | - |
| Jun 22-25 | KITP, Santa Barbara, Ca, USA | KITP-conference Chromosomes: Organization, Function and Dynamics | organizers Ralf Everaers and Alexandra Zidovska |
| Jun 21 - Jul 12 | Aspen, Co, USA | Aspen summer conference on Data Driven Discovery in High-Throughput Biology | organizers Michael Brenner, Lucy Colwell, Viren Jain, David Weitz |
| Jun 28 - Jul 4 | Southern New Hampshire University, NH, USA | GRC Signaling by Adhesion Receptors | - |
| Jun 28 - Jul 3 | School of Physics, Les Houches, France | EMBO workshop ImmunoBioPhysics | - |
| July 6-10 | Udine, Italy | CISM Advanced Course on life in flows | organized by Christophe Eloy and Eric Lauga |
| July 9-10 | Literaturhaus Munich | Biannual Conference on the Molecular Origins of Life | organized by Dieter Braun for the Collaborative Research Center 235 Emergence of Life |
| Jul 12-17 | Mount Snow in West Dover, VT, USA | GRC on Cytoskeletal Motors | - |
| Jul 19-24 | Southern New Hampshire University, NH, USA | GRC on Signal Transduction by Engineered Extracellular Matrices | - |
| Jul 20-24 | Prague, Czech Republic | 11th Liquid Matter Conference | - |
| July 26-31 | Banff, Canada | BIRS workshop on Mathematical Models in Biology: from Information Theory to Thermodynamics | organizers Peter Thomas, Peter Swain and Gasper Tkacik |
| Aug 17 – 20 | Bangalore, India | BPS thematic meeting on Spatial Organization of Biological Functions | - |
| Aug 23-28 | Milan, Italy | 25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2020) | Thematic Session SM01 on Biomechanics and Biomaterials organized by Ellen Arruda and Paolo Bisegna |
| Aug 25-28 | Bled, Slovenia | EMBO workshop on designing functional biomolecular assemblies: beyond biology | - |
| Aug 25-27 | Zurich, Switzerland | Biointerfaces International 2020: A conference on science, technology and translation | - |
| Aug 31 - Sep 4 | Heidelberg, Germany | 12th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB 2020) | - |
| Aug 31 - Sept 4 | Madrid, Spain | Europhysics Condensed Matter Conference at Madrid (CMD2020GEFES) | - |
| Sep 1-11 | Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, Corsica, France | WE-Heraeus Summer School on Active Matter and Complex Media | organizers C. Misbah and W. Zimmermann |
| Sep 8 - 11 | KITP, Santa Barbara, Ca, USA | KITP-conference Emergence of Life at the Crossroads of Physics and Chemistry | organizers Irene Chen, Erwin Frey, Ulrich Gerland, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Jack Szostak |
| Sep 13-18 | Hangzhou, China | BIRS workshop Cell and Tissue Mechanics: Modeling Meets Experiments | organizers Xinpeng Xu, Alexander Bershadsky, Baohua Ji and Len Pismen |
| Sept 14 - Dec | Henri Poincare Institute, Paris | Three-month program Systems out of equilibrium: interplay between statistical, quantum and disordered dynamics | - |
| Sep 23-25 | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France | Cell la vie Paris | first joint meeting of the French Society for Cell Biology (SBCF) and the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) |
| Oct 1-2 | Marseille, France | Symposium Physics of Living Matter (PLM) 15 | website for last year, new one coming soon |
| Oct 19-23 | Baltimore, MD, USA | 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM 10) | - |
| Oct 21-24 | EMBL Heidelberg, Germany | EMBO EMBL Symposium on Organoids | - |
| Nov 8-11 | EMBL Heidelberg | EMBO EMBL Symposium on Biological Oscillators: Design, Mechanism, Function | - |