Martin Meier-Schellersheim is the head of the Computational Biology Unit of the Laboratory of Systems Biology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. He obtained a PhD in Physics in 2001 from the University of Hamburg, Germany, but made biological applications a focus of his work already in his doctoral thesis.

Advances in optical imaging and molecular manipulation techniques have made it possible to observe individual enzymes and record molecular movies that provide new insight into their dynamics and reaction mechanisms. In a biological context, most of these enzymes function in concert with other enzymes in multi-protein complexes, so an important new direction is the utilization of single-molecule techniques to unravel the orchestration of large macromolecular assemblies.

The Portuguese Biophysical Society (SPBf) and the European Biophysical Societies Association are very honored to organize the 9th European Biophysics Congress and invites you to participate in Lisbon from the 13th to 17th July 2013.