Biophysical Society
Encyclopedia
The Biophysical Society is an organization consisting of over 9,000 researchers in academia
, government
, and industry
. Based in the USA, its international membership has grown to about 1/3 of the total. Founded in 1957 by Ernest C. Pollard
, the society exists to encourage the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics
.
http://www.biophysj.org.
The BPS sponsors an annual meeting which brings together over 6,000 scientists for symposia, workshops, industrial and educational exhibits, subgroup meetings, and awards presentations. Since 1969 the meeting has featured a talk by that year's National Lecturer, chosen for significance in biophysical research and excellence in presentation; the lectures are published in the Biophysical Journal, and those since 2003 are available on video http://www.biophysics.org/ProfessionalDevelopment/Education/NationalLectureVideos.
Starting in 2010 with "Calcium Signaling" in Beijinghttp://www.biophysics.org/2010china, the society now also sponsors smaller thematic meetings in locations across the world.
Academia
Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...
, government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
, and industry
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
. Based in the USA, its international membership has grown to about 1/3 of the total. Founded in 1957 by Ernest C. Pollard
Ernest C. Pollard
Ernest Charles "Ernie" Pollard was a professor of physics and biophysics and an author, who worked on the development of radar systems in World War II, worked on the physics of living cells, and who wrote textbooks and approximately 200 papers on nuclear physics and radiation biophysics.-...
, the society exists to encourage the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics
Biophysics
Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that uses the methods of physical science to study biological systems. Studies included under the branches of biophysics span all levels of biological organization, from the molecular scale to whole organisms and ecosystems...
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Activities
Starting in 1960, the Biophysical Society has sponsored, edited, and published the Biophysical JournalBiophysical Journal
The Biophysical Journal is the journal of the Biophysical Society published by Cell Press. The society comprises chemists, biochemists, and physical chemists, biologists, neuroscientists, plant and animal physiologists, engineers, mathematicians, and physicists...
http://www.biophysj.org.
The BPS sponsors an annual meeting which brings together over 6,000 scientists for symposia, workshops, industrial and educational exhibits, subgroup meetings, and awards presentations. Since 1969 the meeting has featured a talk by that year's National Lecturer, chosen for significance in biophysical research and excellence in presentation; the lectures are published in the Biophysical Journal, and those since 2003 are available on video http://www.biophysics.org/ProfessionalDevelopment/Education/NationalLectureVideos.
Starting in 2010 with "Calcium Signaling" in Beijinghttp://www.biophysics.org/2010china, the society now also sponsors smaller thematic meetings in locations across the world.