Biophysics meetings

This is an aggregated list of some of the upcoming Biophysics Meetings we are aware of. Please get in touch if you would like to add your meeting. We are happy to receive enquires from BBS members about potential sponsorship of future Biophysics meetings. Please contact the BBS Meetings Secretary

2026 BBS Biennial Meeting

The British Biophysical Society Biennial Meeting will be in Glasgow in July 2026 as part of Synergy for Science, an umbrella for 7 learned societies to co-locate their meetings, sharing networking and joint sessions. The BBS meeting comprises a plenary programme of talks, flash presentations and networking over dinner and drinks, focussed on areas of biophysics that are of interest to BBS members and those outwith this community, for instance:

  • New tools for new biophysics
  • The single cell
  • Biophysics in health and disease
  • In silico biophysics
  • Engineering biology
  • Climate change and sustainability
  • Frontiers in biophysics

We will hear from keynote speakers, speakers selected from submitted abstracts and awards recipients. New this year will be a session devoted to Outreach in Biophysics. We very much look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow and to joining with the other organisations in delivering Synergy for Science.

Please contact the organisers, Olwyn Byron and Mads Gabrielsen (University of Glasgow), with any questions.

The meeting will also coincide with the joint BBS - DGfB (German Biophysical Society) Single Molecule Meeting. This is a one-day meeting after the closure of the BBS biennial meeting. Registration fees cover attendance at both meetings.

Astbury Conversations: Designing Biology, Leeds 20-21st April 2026

The Astbury Conversation 2026 is where science meets innovation, bringing together those with a passion for structural and chemical biology, biophysics, and biotechnology.

Faraday Discussions: Structural and Functional Asymmetry of Plasma Membranes, RSC, Burlington House, London, 23-25 April 2025

The Faraday Discussions are unique international discussion meetings that address current and emerging topics at the forefront of the physical sciences.This meeting will focus on recent developments in experimental and computational chemistry, physics and life sciences that have enabled a greater quantitative understanding of lipid asymmetry and its coupling to protein function. This Discussion will explore the various facets of membrane asymmetry, bringing together experts in membrane physical chemistry, membrane biophysics, and membrane physiology.

Biophysical Immunoengineering: From Insight to Clinical Applications

This year's Royal Society Hooke Discussion meeting will take place on the 11-12 May, at The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London. For more information Click here.

One-day meeting in Leeds Thursday 24th September.

Seeing Dynamics Proteins in Action; From Disorder to Disease.

The meeting is designed to bring researchers at all career stages together to discuss the current challenges in understanding proteins as exciting, dynamic interacting species, with a focus on how integrated structural and biophysical methods are enabling new discoveries to be made from in-solution to in-cell measurements. The meeting will include keynote talks from academia and industry, a poster session, short talks and flash talks both invited and selected from registrants. There will be plenty of opportunity for networking and discussion. A hands-on workshop with Fidabio experts is open to selected registrants the following day.