The Physical Biology and Biological Physics (PBBP) Division of the Taiwanese Physical Society was established in April 2022 and has been working hard to build the biological physics community in Taiwan to bring together people who work at the interface between biology and physics and organize this annual symposium. This year the symposium title is "Physical Models of Living Matters". The topics include the self-organization principles of cells, soft matter approach to biology, liquid-liquid phase separation, and chromatin dynamics.

This is a small to medium-sized international meeting, including invited talks, contributed talks, poster presentations, and networking activities. We bring together speakers from biology, physics, and engineering to talk about their respective work in biological physics and physical biology. Students and postdoctoral fellows are encouraged to present posters or contributed talks. There will be poster awards for students.

Important Dates

(Extended) Contributed Talk Abstract Submission Deadline:  July 19, 2024

Poster Abstract Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024
Contributed talks will be selected around mid-July.
Registration Deadline:  July 31, 2024
Meeting time:  Aug. 30~Sep. 1 2024

Location

The Aspire Resort, Taoyuan

Transportation Information. A shuttle bus will be provided between Taoyuan High Speed Railroad station and the resort before the meeting and also at the end of the meeting.

Registration

Please click the "前往報名" icon on the right column for the registration.

Fees (in NTD)

Paylink will be sent in the confirmation email of the registration.

Cancellation terms and conditions
* Cancellation of conference registration must be made by 8/15/2024.
* Cancellations requested before to 8/15/2024 will be eligible for a return of the sum paid, less a 30% management fee.
* Cancellations requested after 8/15/2024 will not be refunded.

The accomodation will be at the Aspire Resort. The hotel will be reserved through the website but the payment will be made on the spot,

For students/research assistants/postdocs, the default is to share a 4-person room.  Please leave the name of roommates if you have any preference.  To encourage the attendance of students/research assistants/postdocs, 4-person room is available for free. Postdocs who want to upgrade to 2-person room must pay the difference of NT$4,000 dollars. The 2-person room depend on the availability.

For Faculty, the default is to share a 2-person room. Please leave the name of roommates If you want to book a single room by yourself. Single occupancy requires a price difference of NT$4,000.  The number of single-occupancy room is limited. It will be first-come, first-serve.

Tour

Due to agenda modifications and time constraints, the tour arrangements will be changed to the local cultural and creative park in Taoyuan

馬祖新村眷村文創園區  Matsu New Village Cultural and Creative Park

Invited Speaker

Lindsay Case (Dept. of Biology, Massachuesetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Hsuan-yi Chen (Dept. of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan)

Bianxiao Cui (Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA)

Lin I (Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan)

Jae-Hyung Jeon (Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)

Cheng-fu Kao (Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology Institute, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Chia-Lung Hsieh (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Keng-hui Lin (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Kazuhiro Maeshima (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)

Jun Nakanishi (National Institute of Materials Science, Japan)

Tatsuo Shibata (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)

Anderson Shum (Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, China)

Arpita Upadhyaya (Dept. of Physics, U. of Maryland, USA)

Yu-Chiun Wang (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)

Fu-Lai Wen (Department of Science Education, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan)

Wenting Zhao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Tentative program

The program is here ( Agenda Link ).  The program may be modified based on the number of contributed talks we receive but the starting and end time of the program won't be changed.

Sponsorship

Division of Biological Physics, The American Physical Society