The official Twitter account of the African Physical Society, the Pan-African professional society of physicists and the African Association of Physics Students
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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/mrSKJ8c8Tmw]
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#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
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Call for Abstracts and Registrations
Biophysics in Africa #BiophysicsWeek Conference
23-27 March 2026
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#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/JVNxF7J10V0…]
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29 Oct 2025
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Physics associated with the cytoskeleton – networks, motors, and confinement
Professor Kristian K. Müller-Nedebock
Department of Physics
@StellenboschUni
youtube.com/live/dF5K8OoBjwU…
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27 Oct 2025
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/2025/10/2…
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You should make the @OraLeeorg your cancer charity of choice because we are ready to start saving lives. Please help us fund human clinical trials to aid cancer patients and donate at OraLee.org.
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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/…
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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22 Oct 2025
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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/QxAWORBQjWo…}
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14 Oct 2025
Registration and Call for Abstracts are open
2025 African Physical Society Conference
17-21 November 2025
Online Only
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13 Oct 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.jpcc.5c0…
#oxides #2dMaterials #EXAFS #XANES
@JPhysChem
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30 Jul 2025
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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/OqsRSH7XANs…]
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25 Jun 2025
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_r2q1o0]
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9 Jun 2025
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/AhmTyVFvqME…
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AfricanPhysics retweeted
27 May 2025
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.3911
#Perovskite #GIWAXS #SolarCells
@Wiley_Chemistry
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28 May 2025
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/BiophysicsInAfrica]
Immediately afterwards: Defining the African Biophysics Landscape
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20 May 2025
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Synchrotron Light Sources Advancing Sustainable Agriculture and Food Research
LIVE STREAM --> [youtube.com/live/fKKE-YD3UO0…]
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13 May 2025
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/6v3ZICKo5r4…
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11 Apr 2025
🧬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/psbsymposium…
🐦Early Bird rate until 15 April (registration deadline 25 May)
#AI
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23 Apr 2025
Tomorrow is TODAY and NOW
Live Stream --> youtube.com/live/rpMhF337XXI…
22 Apr 2025
Tomorrow we're resuming the #Biophysics in Africa Monthly Colloquia!
Wed. 23 April 2025 @ 16h GMT 2
Theresa Gewering @thgeweri
"Visualizing antibody maturation for pathogenic viruses with cryo-EM"
More info and registration: shorturl.at/qGrSH
@AfricanPhysics @IUPAB1
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