The 2nd Biology for Physics conference entitled ¨Biological Evolution and Nonequilibrium Physics: Close Encounters¨ (https://www.biologyforphysics.org/) to be held inBarcelona on the 3rd-7th July 2022 is now open for submissions. 

https://www.biologyforphysics.org/submit-a-paper/

Registrations for participants will open on the 2nd of May 2022. Please, check here https://www.biologyforphysics.org/deadlines/ for deadlines.

The conference is organized under the patronage of theDivision of Physics for Life Sciencesfrom the European Physical Society and will be held at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) on the beautiful Barcelona seashore (https://photos.app.goo.gl/SNFby45kYVRKH3RC8)

The conference brings prominent scientists (https://www.biologyforphysics.org/speakers)(see also names list at the bottom of this email) who have been working over the past years on biological evolution and to whom physics is an everyday source of inspiration to understand biology better.The conference will debate questions such as:  How can physics contribute to understanding evolution in biology? Are there hidden principles in biological evolution, or is evolution consequential by the physical and chemical forces we know? Instead, does natural evolution have the flavor of physical law, or is it just conditional for life to exist? The conference is a forum where recent scientific results are presented by our invitees but dressed in a way to convey to the audience a personal view on the aforementioned questions and to trigger discussion and reflection on them. The conference contents are organized under the umbrella of a few selected themes that all share the underlying playground of nonequilibrium physics at the core of biological evolution. Topics include physics, life, and information; statistical physics of biological landscapes and networks; molecular evolution, from nucleic acids to proteins; microbial and viral evolution to evolutionary ecology; multicellularity, growth, and development; proteomics, genetics, and cancer among others.

In addition to the invited talks, the conference will select a number of oral contributions on the basis ofscientific originality and interest, plusample time devoted to poster exhibitionsby participants and researchers to promote exchanges and interaction between them and our invited speakers. Three prizes will be awarded to the best posters.The conference is agreat opportunity for young researcherswho want to have abroad overview of the current most relevant topics in evolution that are reshaping our way to understand the physical and biological world.   

All sessions will be plenary and on-site.

We can only accept up to 150 participantsto this event and thereforewe encourage you to register as soon as the registration is open (https://www.biologyforphysics.org/registration) and submit an oral or a poster contribution by May 15th, 2022 at the latest (https://www.biologyforphysics.org/submit-a-paper).

Contributions and participation will be accepted according to the order of registrationuntil the maximum number of participants (150) is reached.We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event in Barcelona, with lots of science and stimulating discussions.With kindest regards,

 

 

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Aviv Bergman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Jordi Bascompte, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Johannes Berg, University of Köln, Germany
Antonio Celani, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow, UK
Michael Desai, Harvard University, USA
Daniel Fisher, Stanford University, USA
Nigel Goldenfeld, Urbana-Champaign San Diego, USA
Raymond Goldstein, University of Cambridge, UK
Oskar Hallatschek, UC Berkeley, USA
Iain Johnston, University of Bergen, Norway
Kunihiko Kaneko, Tokyo University, Japan
Fyodor Kondrashov, IST, Austria
Michael Lassig, University of Köln, Germany
Susanna Manrubia, CNB, Madrid, Spain
Michel Milinkovitch, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Jose Onuchic, Rice University, USA
Roberto Orosei, ESA,Bologna, Italy
Tzachi Pilpel, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Chris Sander, Harvard Medical School, USA
Ricard Sole, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Peter Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany
Aleksandra Walczak, ENS, Paris
Sara Walker, Arizona State University, USA
Peter Yunker, Georgia Tech, USA