The British Biophysical Society (BBS) is 60 years old this year. We are celebrating with the BBS 60th Anniversary Meeting, the inauguration of a new prize (the BBS Kendrew Doctoral Thesis Prize) and this - a brief history of our roots and progress as a learned society.
'Biophysics through time and space: The BBS@60' is our biennial meeting, 14th-17th September 2020.
The 2020 BBS Kendrew Doctoral Thesis Prize is awarded to Daniel Hurdiss (Utrecht University) for his structural studies of non-enveloped viruses associated with human diseases.
The BBS Louise Johnson Early Career Award is awarded to Séamus Holden (University of Newcastle) for his work applying ground-breaking concepts in optical microscopy to study bacterial cell biophysics.
The BBS 2020 Sosei Heptares Prize for Biophysics is awarded to John Christodoulou (University College London, Birkbeck College London, and The Francis Crick Institute); for his original and influential contributions to the advancement of biomolecular NMR and the biophysical analysis of protein folding on the ribosome.
Due to the current pandemic the closing date for the BBS Sosei Heptares Prize for Biophysics has been extended to the 14th August.
Nominations are invited for the 3 prizes awarded by the British Biophysical Society every 2 years:
The meeting will cover all aspects of how peptides as macromolecules interact with membranes; from basic theoretical considerations embodied in computational models, wet experimental studies of model systems through to living membranes and synthetic biology applications.
Cait MacPhee, Chris Tate, and Malcolm Weir are announced as the 2019 BBS Honorary Members.
