Calling all Society members! This is a unique opportunity for you to organize a meeting on a topic you care about, while receiving administrative support from the Society.

Three to four thematic meetings will be selected on focused topics that have not been recently presented. The Society underwrites each meeting up to $10,000 and provides complete meeting management, including all web and onsite components. What makes these meetings unique from other small meetings is that they bring together researchers from disparate disciplines to work on a common problem, which is what biophysicists do. Thematic meetings have taken place throughout the world, reaching communities that often cannot attend the Society’s Annual Meeting.

Criteria for BPS Thematic Meetings are:

• Organizers must be Society members;

• Topics must be timely, not recently addressed, and should foster interdisciplinary and international research;

• Each must be a standalone meeting, not a satellite to another meeting or an established small meeting that already meets periodically;

• Speakers must present new and exciting research;

• The proposed list of speakers must represent the geographic, gender, and ethnic diversity of Society membership; and

• Domestic and international sites are appropriate.

Complete submissions must include names and emails of the organizers, who must be current members, a proposed meeting title, a description of meeting’s topic and theme, an explanation of topic’s timeliness and importance, the proposed meeting location and rationale, the proposed meeting dates and projected number of attendees, any potential funding sources, and all potential conflicting meetings. Previous and upcoming thematic meetings can be viewed on http://www.biophysics.org/thematic-meetings/

Only complete proposals submitted through the online submission site  will be considered by the Thematic Meetings Committee. Submission deadline for proposals is July 20, 2018.