Physics of Life 2023

27-30 March 2023
Harrogate Convention Centre

Organising committee: 
​ Martin Howard (John Innes Centre, Chair)
Karis Baker (University of Durham)
James Briscoe (The Crick Institute)
Olwyn Byron (University of Glasgow)
Kevin Chalut (University of Cambridge)
Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge)
Mark Leake (University of York)
Laura Machesky (The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research & University of Glasgow)
Ewa Paluch (University of Cambridge)
Andrew Turberfield (University of Oxford)
​Mark Wallace (King’s College London)

Conference overview

This new large-scale conference “Physics of Life 2023” represents the wide diversity of the UK biological physics community. Organised jointly by PoLNet3, IOP Biological Physics, the British Biophysical Society, Physics of Living Matter and Physics meets Biology, this in-person meeting will project the excitement of science at the interface between physics and biology. In addition to keynote lectures, the conference will feature parallel sessions on a full breadth of topics, with many contributed talks, thereby ensuring a wide focus and inclusion of the most exciting science. 

Purpose

The aim is to bring together researchers working on biological physics within the UK and internationally to major UK conference to meet this demand in these growing communities.  The conference will cover a broad range of topics and should be of interest to across working across biology and physics. There will be plenty of networking opportunities. We encourage all  to join us!

Who should attend?

We invite participation by academic (from any career stage), industrial and medical scientists from the UK and beyond who are interested in research interaction at the physics/life sciences interface. 

Provisional Topics

• Biomolecular assemblies and condensates
• Cancer
• Cell architecture and forces 
• Cell metabolism and growth
• Chromatin and gene regulation
• Climate, ecology and epidemiology
• Clocks, timers and cell cycle dynamics
• Differentiation and development
• Engineering cells and organoids
• Evolution 
• Imaging and single molecule biology
• Immunity, resistance and host/pathogen dynamics
• Machine learning
• Natural and synthetic molecular machines
• New and notable techniques
• Patterns, waves, transport and flows 
• Protein structure, dynamics and interactions
• Synthetic biology
• Tissue growth, mechanics and mechanosensing

Registration and Abstract submission

More information about the registration for this event will be available shortly. 
In the meantime, register your interest by completing this expression of interest form.

Find out more

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