This might be of interest to someone: *********** Dear All, We would like to remained you that *the early registration deadline (April 15, 2018)* for the 3rd International Workshop on Biological Membranes (19-22 August 2018, Helsinki) is approaching. Registration link: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/international-workshop-on-biological-membranes/registration In the conference, *experiments and theory/simulation are given equal weight*, which is also reflected in the expertise of the *26 Plenary and Invited Speakers*, who are truly outstanding, including Patricia Bassereau, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar, Frank Brown, Britta Brugger, Yifan Cheng, Unal Coskun, Ron Dror, Christian Eggeling, Aljaz Godec, Peter Horvath, Chia-Lung Hsieh, Elina Ikonen, Gerald Kneller, Pekka Lappalainen, Ilya Levental, Siewert-Jan Marrink, Hector Martinez-Seara, Ralf Metzler, Walter Nickel, Richard Pastor, Madan Rao, Andela Saric, Tetiana Serdiuk, Kai Simons, Ana-Suncana Smith, and Thomas Walz. The Conference is supported by several organizations such as CECAM ( www.cecam.org) and EBSA (www.ebsa.org <https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=2e7c170e1d5cf914.2e7c3013-12ad66079c61bee0&u=http://www.ebsa.org>), thus we are able to keep the registration fee pretty low, especially for PhD students, and there are *grants awarded by EBSA for young scientists. **The deadline (March 31, 2018) for grant applications is this week! *(more information in the GRANTS tab on the conference website). Deadline for grant applications: March 31. Deadline for early registration: April 15. More information on the website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/international-workshop-on-biological-membranes Please forward this announcement to your colleagues who would be interested in attending the conference. Humble apologies for cross posting and looking forward to see you in Helsinki! On behalf of Organizing Committee, Waldemar Kulig
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