The meeting will be virtual, hosted on Zoom, Thursdays from March 4th to April 29th at at 5 PM CET. Each session will contain an invited talk (25 min + questions) and several submitted talks (10 min + questions) from selected speakers. We invite young researchers, graduate students and postdocs to submit abstracts for the submitted category. The deadline  for abstract submission is February 15th 2021. Abstract submitted after February 15th will not be taken into account for the first 7 sessions of Biophychrom.

 

BioPhyChrom 2021 is free and you can participate using the zoom link in the program; however, we would appreciate that you register for the conference regardless of whether you plan to present or actively participate.

BioPhyChrom takes place every two years since 2011. It took place at the Lorentz Center of university of Leiden (Netherlands) in 2011 and 2018, at the university of Birmingham (UK) in 2014 and in the Collège de France in Paris (France) in 2016.

 

The central goal of the Biology and Physics of the Bacterial Chromosome Conference is to construct an integrated model of chromosome structure and function in the context of the living bacterial cell. This goal can only be realized through a multi-disciplinary approach and close collaboration. In recent years, collaborations between biologists and physicists have generated several key discoveries in the understanding of prokaryotic chromosome structure. The Biology and Physics of the Bacterial Chromosome Conference was specifically organized to recognize the role of this inter-disciplinary work and foster new collaborations and ideas. The conference was initiated by Remus Dame, Olivier Espéli, David Grainger and Paul Wiggins.

 

We believe the conferences in Leiden, Birmingham and Paris were an important platform for fostering these collaborations as well as developing new collaborations in in this area in the past five years.  The 2020 conference was canceled. We expect this virtual BioPhyChrom will help perpetuate this multi-disciplinary work and will promote the formation of new bridges between research on bacterial chromosome structuring, genome expression and subcellular architecture.