Please fill in the form and don't forget to click "Submit" at the end. Once you have all the available information, the form will only take a few minutes to submit. You cannot save a partially completed form, but you may use the following .doc document to assist you in assembling all the necessary information before starting to enter it http://bit.ly/1Ff2TCS .

Please email dbio.program.chair@gmail.com if you have questions.

Invited sessions are designed to share and review results in a subfield within Biological Physics using long, in-depth presentations. Invited Sessions typically include 5 talks of 36 minutes each (30 minute talk and 6 minutes for questions). DBIO only gets to organize about 8 Invited Sessions at each March Meeting. Therefore, competition for organizing these sessions is rather high, and we strive for well-attended, impactful sessions. A successful submission typically includes a detailed discussion of why the topic of the session is interesting to the DBIO community, and why it is timely. A diverse mix of junior and senior speakers, representing the diversity of the DBIO membership is encouraged. Further, a proposal should estimate the session expected attendance, and explain how this number was arrived at. Attendance numbers for the prior years' Focus/Invited Sessions with similar topics often are good predictors of the future success. Sessions with confirmed speakers will have higher probability of being chosen. Successful Invited Sessions can be paired with Focus Sessions on a similar topic, which increases attendance for both sessions.

To submit your proposal, you will need the following information:
   1. proposer(s) contact information (names, email, phone, address);
   2. session title/topic/advertising plans/expected attendance, and other related information;
   3. rationale for having the session;
   4. details of prior year similar sessions, if any;
   5. details of any related Focus or Invited session proposals for this year;
   6. contact information for 5 invited speakers;
   7. session chair(s) contact information.

Notice that speakers that gave an invited talk at the previous March Meeting are not eligible as invited speakers. The only exception to this rule is made for award or prize winners, or for non-technical invited talks, such as education and policy talks. The list of previous invitees can be seen on: http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR15/APS_Invited .

Your submission will be reviewed by the DBIO Program Committee:
   Ilya Nemenman, Emory University (Program Committee Chair), dbio.program.chair@gmail.com
   Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts
   Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University
   Sara Solla, Northwestern University
   Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland