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The European Biophysical Societies' Association (EBSA) was formed in 1984 as a non-profit making organisation, with the objectives "to advance and disseminate knowledge of the principles, recent developments and applications of biophysics, and to foster the exchange of scientific information among European biophysicists and biophysicists in general".
It is composed of the Biophysical Societies in the European area, and is managed by an Executive Committee. Click here for a full list of member Societies and their presidents/chairs and secretaries.
EBSA is associated with the international organizations International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE). EBSA maintains close links with Springer Verlag, the publishers of the European Biophysics Journal. The European Biophysics Journal, owned by EBSA, offers a special membership price for EBSA members.
The purpose of EBSA is to promote Biophysics in Europe. EBSA offers sponsorships to organisers of meetings and schools that promote biophysics in Europe. Support can come in the form of grants to the organisers or bursaries to participants. EBSA also offers bursaries to individual young scientists to participate in the Biophysics Congress. Furthermore, new initiatives are being generated, such as bursaries for working visits or to attend scientific meetings.
General Assemblies
A General Assembly of EBSA is held every two or three years. The voting representative of each Member Society and a non-voting representative are invited to attend the General Assembly. Voting Representatives and Members of the Executive Committee are asked to vote on a number of issues (such as the membership of the Executive Committee) and to discuss the direction of EBSA. The guidelines can be seen in the EBSA constitution.
Past General Assemblies of EBSA:
| 6th European Biophysics Congress, London | 17 July 2007 |
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5th European Biophysics Congress, Montpellier |
29 August 2005 |
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4th European Biophysics Congress, Alicante |
8 July 2003 |
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3rd European Biophysics Congress, Munich |
12 September 2000 |
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2nd EBSA Congress, Orléans |
14 July 1997 |
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XIIth International Biophysics Congress, Amsterdam |
13 August 1996 |
The last General Assembly took place in July 2007 at the 6th European Biophysics Congress in London.
Corrections and updates of Society Officers, information on Society meetings for inclusion in the EBSA Calendar of Events, and material for a special EBSA news item, should be sent to
Prof. J. Antoinette Killian
Chemical Biology and Organic Chemistry
Utrecht University
Padualaan 8
3584 CH Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 30 253 3442
Fax: +31 30 253 3969
E-mail: j.a.killian@uu.nl
