From owner-bphyssoc@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Fri Dec 17 15:14:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1AFDF17AF4; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:13:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 1) id 361E417ADC; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:13:41 +0000 (GMT) To: nobody@net.bio.net X-Really-To: bphyssoc@net.bio.net Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.biophysics From: "Dianne McGavin" Subject: 2000 Annual Meeting Events Message-Id: <19991217151341.361E417ADC@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:13:41 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-bphyssoc@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk The CPOW will be sponsoring a mentoring lunch for all career levels on Sunday afternoon. Postdoctoral Breakfast The CPOW and MAC are co-sponsoring a postdoctoral breakfast on Tuesday morning. All postdocs are invited. Please come! Ancillary Meetings Each year, the Society's Annual Meeting provides an opportunity for smaller groups to come together. Below are descriptions of two international organizations that will meet this year. Introducing the Korean Biophysical Society The Korean Biophysical Society is only six years old. In 1992, the Biophysical Society of Japan, which had held bilateral biophysics symposia with the Biophysical Society of China, sent a letter to Professor Kim of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology urging that Korean biophysicists organize a Society and participate in the regional biophysics symposia. At about the same time, Professor J. Tigyi of Hungary, then the Secretary General of the IUPAB, suggested to Professor Kim that the soon-to-be established Korean Biophysical Society apply to become an adhering body of the IUPAB. Thus, the Korean Biophysical Society was launched on June 12, 1993, with the inaugural general meeting and a symposium. Professor Hyoungman Kim was elected first President of the Society. The initial membership of the Society was about 100, mostly in the area of structural biophysics. Soon, biophysicists in other areas, such as eletrophysiology and physics, joined and the membership increased to the current level of 300. The Society holds an annual General Meeting and Symposium in early summer. Although the Society does not publish a scientific journal yet, it promotes communications among members through the semiannual Newsletters. The most important activity of the Society is the East Asian Biophysics Symposium, which is a triennial scientific meeting sponsored by IUPAB as a regional activity. The current President of the Society is Professor Dae-Yong Uhm at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. - Myeong-Hee Yu, Secretary General Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology The Society of Latin American Biophysicists (SOBLA) The Society of Latin American Biophysicists (SOBLA) was created in 1985 during a meeting of the Biophysical Society. The rationale for its creation was several fold: -- To provide a forum for communication between Latin American and Spanish biophysicists; -- To facilitate the education of young Latin American biophysicists; -- To foster the development of Biophysics in Latin America; and -- To recognize the work of outstanding young Latin American Biophysicists. To date the SOBLA is constituted by 645 members working in fifteen countries in the Americas and in five European countries. The main activities of SOBLA includes: -- An annual meeting during the Biophysical Society meeting; -- Publication of two annual Bulletins; -- Organization of an International Scientific meeting every three years; and -- Publication of a Biophysics text in Spanish. - Hector Rasgado-Flores, President .