Four editions in a row, and an audience that grew 67%
The Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Biophysical Society has run on the Galoá platform since its 47th edition, in 2023. Over that period, attendance went from 276 registrants in 2023 to 347 in 2024 and 461 at the 49th Annual Meeting, held October 28 to 31, 2025, at Unicamp in Campinas, according to SBBf itself.
There were 312 posters presented and 353 papers published in the proceedings, all in English, across 18 thematic tracks, from protein dynamics to biomembranes. The 50th Annual Meeting, in October 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, marks the society’s 90th anniversary.
Everything in one system
At the 49th meeting, Galoá handled registration, the call for papers, committee review, the conference app and proceedings publishing. Prof. Leandro R. S. Barbosa, of the organizing committee, sums up what changed for the organizers (translated from Portuguese):
“The advantage was that we managed to bring everything together in one system, from receiving the papers to sending them to the reviewers, the reviewers’ feedback, the reviewers’ comments, because sometimes the abstracts needed some kinds of changes, all of it automated and in the same place.”
Nine reviewers, 417 reviews
The call for papers received 353 papers between May and October 2025. At submission, the platform automatically assigned each paper to a reviewer on the committee. Nine reviewers completed 417 reviews, and the average time from submission to decision was 17 days.
The back and forth of revisions
For 69 papers, reviewers asked for changes: these are the abstracts that, in Leandro’s words, “needed some kinds of changes”. The author resubmits the corrected version, the platform sends the new version back to the same reviewers and, with their review, issues the final decision. Of those 69, 65 were resubmitted by their authors, and all 353 papers reached the proceedings approved.
From the author’s side
Maria Clara, a student at UNIFESP, submitted an abstract to the 49th meeting and used the app during the event (translated from Portuguese):
“Submitting the abstract to the event was easy, and here during the event we could very easily see the programme, the schedules, the titles and the names of the professors, the speakers and the time of each seminar.”
Maria Clara, student at UNIFESP
The app, for the first time
The 49th was SBBf’s first Annual Meeting with a conference app, on the App Store and Google Play, with the programme, abstracts and speakers on attendees’ phones. With it, Leandro says (translated from Portuguese), “we could follow the programme in a much more practical way, using our phones”.
And from the sponsor’s side
The Royal Society of Chemistry was one of the sponsors of the 49th Annual Meeting. Dr. Elizabeth Magalhães, the RSC’s representative in Brazil, recorded her testimonial at the event itself (translated from Portuguese): “Today, for example, we are here at the annual meeting of the Brazilian Biophysical Society, sponsoring the event itself.”
“I sponsor some events that they run on the system, and I really like what they do. (…) And I highly recommend that you use the Galoá system.”
Royal Society of Chemistry
Sponsor of the 49th Annual Meeting of SBBf
Dr. Elizabeth Magalhães, representative in Brazil
What remains after the meeting
The 353 papers of the 49th Annual Meeting are published in open access on proceedings.science, Galoá’s proceedings archive, under ISSN 2966-4381. No login and no paywall, searchable by title, author and keyword.
More than a thousand researchers authored these papers, and 206 authors have already added their 49th Annual Meeting paper to their own ORCID record, each with their own authorization and no manual entry.
The results
- 461 registrants at the 49th Annual Meeting, according to SBBf, up from 276 in 2023: 67% more in two editions
- 353 papers submitted, reviewed and published in open access on proceedings.science
- 417 reviews completed by nine reviewers, with an average of 17 days from submission to decision
- 69 papers received requests for changes; 65 were resubmitted by their authors
- 206 authors with their 49th Annual Meeting paper on their own ORCID record
- The Annual Meeting’s first conference app, on the App Store and Google Play