We invite submissions for a special issue of the European Biophysics Journal in conjunction with the XVIII International Congress of the Spanish Biophysical Society (SBE), which will take place in Madrid from June 24 to 27, 2025. Our goal is to compile cutting-edge review articles highlighting the latest advancements in biophysics and related disciplines from an Iberian perspective.

In many countries, people are considered to enter adulthood when they turn 18. On the occasion of the 18th Annual International Congress of the Spanish Biophysical Society, the European Biophysics Journal joins in celebrating this national conference’s coming of age. To mark this milestone, a special issue of the journal will be devoted to Spanish and Portuguese biophysics.

Every other year, the Spanish and Portuguese Biophysical Societies hold a joint meeting—a tradition that has fostered multiple collaborations and synergistic efforts. This collaborative spirit will be reflected in the collection of papers featured in the special issue.

The issue will include both short and longer review articles, as well as brief commentary articles, covering a broad field of biophysics including, but not limited to, the main topics of the 2025 SBE Congress:

Topics:

- Cell and tissue biophysics

- Mechanobiology

- Disordered proteins, liquid-liquid phase separation, and aggregation

- Protein structure, integrative structural biology, dynamics, and function

- Biophysics of nucleic acids

- Applied biophysics in industry, biotechnology, health, and green transition

- Computational biophysics, including simulations, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and design

- Synthetic biophysics: self-organized and biomimetic systems

- Membranes and membrane proteins

- Advanced bioimaging

- Systems biophysics

We have warmly invited all participants of the meeting to contribute a review or commentary, and we now extend this invitation to all biophysicists with academic ties to Portugal and Spain. We expect this special issue to showcase the excellent quality and maturity of biophysical research conducted across the Iberian Peninsula.

We announce сall for papers for a special issue of Biophysical Reviews associated with the Russian Autumn School in Biophysics held in Kazan, Russia, 11-14 November 2024. The Autumn School was focused on modern biophysical methods and approaches to study living and model biological systems. It was the most important biophysical meeting within 2024 in Russia, organized for the first time with perspectives to make it regular. The Special issue accepts reviews on comprehensive analysis of experimental and computational methods currently used to study the dynamical structure of biological systems at all levels of living matter organization - from submolecular, molecular and supramolecular model systems to cells and whole organisms. Here we describe main themes and sections, types of papers and key dates for the journal issue.