IUPAB2024, a Joint Congress of the 62^nd Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ) and the 21^st International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) Meeting will be held in Kyoto, June 24-28, 2024, chaired by Prof. Hiroyuki Noji of University of Tokyo. The annual meeting will be held in-person and will comprise of series of symposia covering topics under the ‘biophysics’ umbrella.

Prof. Ryo Mizuuchi, Waseda University (chair) and ELSI Specially Appointed Associate Professor Tony Z. Jia (co-chair) will hold a symposium on Origins of Life at the IUPAB2024 annual meeting on June 28, 2024, from 10:00AM-12:20PM JST. The symposium will focus on a wide range of topics in origins of life research featuring speakers from around the world, all of whom are early career researchers.

Invited Speakers:

Anna Wang (UNSW-Sydney), Australia

Shunsuke Tagami (RIKEN), Japan

Moran Frenkel-Pinter (Hebrew University), Israel

Seung Soo Oh (POSTECH), South Korea

Additionally, the symposium will also include a number of contributed presentations from submitted abstracts.

Date and Time: 10:00AM-12:20PM on June 28, 2024

Venue: Kyoto International Conference Centre

• Registration and abstract submission will open on November 1^st at: https://www.c-linkage.co.jp/iupab2024-bsj-kyoto/
• Abstract submission will close on January 31^st, 2024.

Early-bird registration will close on February 29^th, 2024; Regular registration will be available until the end of the conference.
 

 
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