AfricanPhysics

The official Twitter account of the African Physical Society, the Pan-African professional society of physicists and the African Association of Physics Students

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

HAPPENING NOW Biophysics in Africa Monthly Zoominar

AI-Driven Structural Insights into 11β-HSD1 Inhibition: Exploring Steroidal Pregnanes for Metabolic Disease Therapeutics

Live stream -> [https://t.co/d3yrmZD0yR]

[American Institute of Physics @AIP_HQ]

#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

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

Call for Abstracts and Registrations
Biophysics in Africa #BiophysicsWeek Conference
23-27 March 2026
https://t.co/Y3d8PHdRbz

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

HAPPENING NOW
#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 --> [https://t.co/3L8GXykJ9q]

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

HAPPENING NOW

Physics associated with the cytoskeleton – networks, motors, and confinement
Professor Kristian K. Müller-Nedebock
Department of Physics
@StellenboschUni

https://t.co/gKiYAw10cd

[Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @BPoD_s]

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
➡️ https://t.co/C9XLQjX1OB

[Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation @OraLeeOrg]

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 https://t.co/WIigG5ESjS.

[Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @KITP_UCSB]

Welcome to all participants joining the #KITP conference on the Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications this week!

Learn more: https://t.co/7bffCKolk8 and stay tuned for recorded talks at https://t.co/UrAIESDrFk
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https://t.co/08uPRvxLVR

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

@Kolie_Yola
Would you be available to give an invited talk about your work (physical oceanology, science diplomacy, BRICS science, advocacy, etc) at our conference next month?
https://t.co/Nyy2tLjMps

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

HAPPENING NOW
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 --> [https://t.co/YWdfD9CbWP}

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

Registration and Call for Abstracts are open
2025 African Physical Society Conference
17-21 November 2025
Online Only

https://t.co/iIrwZxFHoV

[SIRIUS Beamline @SIRIUS_Beamline]

New paper: "Investigating the Local Coordination and Electronic States of Fe-Doped Graphitic ZnO Using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy" by A. Yadav et al. https://t.co/EuhfMaFVLN
#oxides #2dMaterials #EXAFS #XANES
@JPhysChem

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

HAPPENING NOW
Biophysics in Africa
Monthly Colloquium by Zoom

Quantum effect, biological context: An introduction to quantum biology

Dr. Betony Adams
Postdoctoral Fellow
@StellenboschUni

Live Stream --> [https://t.co/AZjssjrPWN]

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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 --> [https://t.co/9qHEbJiVtz]

[African Synchrotron @AfSynchrotron]

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] ---> https://t.co/eKcffAxei1

[SIRIUS Beamline @SIRIUS_Beamline]

New paper: "Transformations in Perovskite Photovoltaics: Film Formation, Processing Conditions, and Recovery Outlook" by Nath et al. @Bidisha_nath_21
https://t.co/nF90DKwYCL

#Perovskite #GIWAXS #SolarCells

@Wiley_Chemistry

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

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 --> [https://t.co/VEFqvF4to2]

Immediately afterwards: Defining the African Biophysics Landscape

[AfricanPhysics @AfricanPhysics]

HAPPENING NOW

Synchrotron Light Sources Advancing Sustainable Agriculture and Food Research

LIVE STREAM --> [https://t.co/bPSfMxl3GV]

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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 --> https://t.co/uQzPhwuYth

[Partnership for Structural Biology @PSB_Grenoble]

🧬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: https://t.co/YnWuKs7NOM

🐦Early Bird rate until 15 April (registration deadline 25 May)
#AI