2000 Annual Meeting Events
Dianne McGavin
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