The European South Atlantic Biophysics Congress ESAB 2024  kicks off today at the Kursaal in Donostia/San Sebastian and will continue until June 7. For the first time the congress is being held as a joint effort by the Spanish (SBE), French (SFB) and Portuguese (SPBf) biophysical societies, and aims to provide the scientific community with a space to present their most interesting research work in the field of biophysics. CIC biomaGUNE is the main local organizer of the congress with the collaboration of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), CIC bioGUNE, the Biofisika Institute and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

The opening ceremony of the congress takes place today at 14:30 hours, and will be attended by the Mayor of Donostia-San Sebastian Eneko Goia, the presidents of the three biophysical societies José María Valpuesta (SBE), Coralie Bompard (SFB), and Armindo Salvador (SPBf), and the Ikerbasque Research Professor Aitziber López Cortajarena, scientific director of CIC biomaGUNE and president of the Organizing and Scientific Committee of the Congress.