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HAPPENING NOW Biophysics in Africa Monthly Zoominar AI-Driven Structural Insights into 11β-HSD1 Inhibition: Exploring Steroidal Pregnanes for Metabolic Disease Therapeutics Live stream -> [youtube.com/live/mrSKJ8c8T…]

#AI & #QuantumTech can change society. Who builds them matters. 🏗️✨ #Physicists Jessica Esquivel & Charles D. Brown II argue that Black representation is essential to making frontiers just. "We must be in the room where algorithms are built." #BlackHistoryMonth

Call for Abstracts and Registrations Biophysics in Africa #BiophysicsWeek Conference 23-27 March 2026 conference.africanbiophysics.org/2026/

HAPPENING NOW #Biophysics in #Africa Zoominar The nitrilase mechanism: A proposal based on experimentally determined structures and molecular modeling Dr. Dewald van Heerden Structural Biology Research Unit @UCT_Research Live Stream --> [youtube.com/live/JVNxF7J10…]

HAPPENING NOW Physics associated with the cytoskeleton – networks, motors, and confinement Professor Kristian K. Müller-Nedebock Department of Physics @StellenboschUni youtube.com/live/dF5K8OoBj…

A computer model comparing blood cell transport in healthy & cancerous tissue - includes physiologically significant parameters hard to measure in life 📹 Abhay Mohan & Prosenjit Bagchi, @RutgersU in @BiophysJ ➡️ bod.org.uk/archive/2025/1…

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Welcome to all participants joining the #KITP conference on the Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications this week! Learn more: kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/fin… and stay tuned for recorded talks at online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/finestr… + youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@Kolie_Yola Would you be available to give an invited talk about your work (physical oceanology, science diplomacy, BRICS science, advocacy, etc) at our conference next month? conference.africanphysicalsociety.org

HAPPENING NOW Biophysics in Africa Special Monthly Colloquium From novel DCAF1 ligands to PROTACs and chemical probes: Harnessing AI-driven technologies to target undruggable proteins Dr. Serah Kimani University of Toronto Live Stream --> [youtube.com/live/QxAWORBQj…}

Registration and Call for Abstracts are open 2025 African Physical Society Conference 17-21 November 2025 Online Only conference.africanphysicalsociety.org/2025/

New paper: "Investigating the Local Coordination and Electronic States of Fe-Doped Graphitic ZnO Using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy" by A. Yadav et al. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jp… #oxides #2dMaterials #EXAFS #XANES @JPhysChem

HAPPENING NOW Biophysics in Africa Monthly Colloquium by Zoom Quantum effect, biological context: An introduction to quantum biology Dr. Betony Adams Postdoctoral Fellow @StellenboschUni Live Stream --> [youtube.com/live/OqsRSH7XA…]

HAPPENING NOW Biophysics in Africa Webinar Cryptic No More: Characterising a Novel Allosteric Site in the HIV-1 Protease Cantilever Region Professor Yasien Sayed Protein Structure-Function Research Laboratory (PSFRL) @WitsUniversity Live stream --> [youtube.com/live/h_p2_r2q1…]

HAPPENING NOW Pre-PALSA 2025 Lecture Series Advancing Sustainable Agriculture and Food Research Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy and Applications in Environmental & Agricultural Sciences Dr. Jian Wang of @CanLightSource [Live Stream] ---> youtube.com/live/AhmTyVFvq…

New paper: "Transformations in Perovskite Photovoltaics: Film Formation, Processing Conditions, and Recovery Outlook" by Nath et al. @Bidisha_nath_21 doi.org/10.1002/pip.39… #Perovskite #GIWAXS #SolarCells @Wiley_Chemistry

TODAY Biophysics in Africa Colloquium Wed, May 28 14h GMT (10a EDT) @drstarbird Structural Biology and Cancer: Using Structural Biology to Develop Immunotherapies Pre-register --> [bit.ly/BiophysicsInAf…] Immediately afterwards: Defining the African Biophysics Landscape

HAPPENING NOW Synchrotron Light Sources Advancing Sustainable Agriculture and Food Research LIVE STREAM --> [youtube.com/live/fKKE-YD3U…]

HAPPENING NOW African Physical Society Monthly Zoominar Optical Signatures of Tissue: Scattering, Absorption, and Fluorescence in Medical Diagnostics Professor Omnia Hamdi National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences @CairoUniversity Live Stream --> youtube.com/live/6v3ZICKo5…

🧬PSB Symposium on "#MachineLearning in Cellular #StructuralBiology", EPN Campus Grenoble, France, 26-27 June 2025🧬 Check out the great list of invited speakers Info & registration: psb-grenoble.eu/psbsymposium20… 🐦Early Bird rate until 15 April (registration deadline 25 May) #AI