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The Biophysical Society's Subgroups hold symposia that allow attendees to meet and interact within focused areas. This year’s subgroup symposia will be held on the first day of the Annual Meeting, Saturday, March 2, 2019. The Saturday Subgroup programs are heavily attended and include exciting scientific symposia, awards presentations, student and postdoc talks, and business meetings, which are open to members of each subgroup. 

To view a subgroup's 2019 symposium program, click on the subgroup's name. 
Subgroup programming details will be posted as they become available. 

For those attending subgroup symposia, registration will be open on Friday and Saturday for badge pick-up prior to the subgroup sessions. Registration for the Annual Meeting is required to attend the subgroup symposia.

 

For more information on subgroups and how to join, click here

Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism

Subgroup Co-Chairs:  Evgeny Pavlov, New York University, USA and Uwe Schlattner, University of Grenoble-Alpes, France

Symposium Time:  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM PST   Subgroup Business Meeting:  5:00 PM

Symposium Room:  Moscone South 215/216

Symposium Co-Chairs:  Karin Busch, University of Muenster, Germany and Carmen Mannella, University of Maryland

Symposium Title:  New Insights into Mitochondrial Function

Bioengineering

Subgroup Chair: Michael Sacks, University of Texas, Austin

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM - 12:15 PM PST     Subgroup Business Meeting:  12:05 PM

Symposium Room:  Moscone South 301/302

Biological Fluorescence

Subgroup Chair: Gilad Haran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Symposium Time: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST     Subgroup Business Meeting: 10:15 AM

Symposium Room: Moscone South 204/205/206

Biopolymers in vivo

Subgroup Chair: Edward P. O'Brien, Penn State University, USA

Program Co-Chairs: Benedetta Bolognesi, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain and Alex S. Holehouse, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Symposium Time: 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM PST     Subgroup Business Meeting: 1:30 PM

Symposium Room: Moscone South 204/205/206

Channels, Receptors, and Transporters

Subgroup Chair: Vera Moiseenkova-Bell, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Symposium Time: 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM PST      Subgroup Business Meeting: 3:15 PM

Symposium Room: Moscone South 303/304

Cryo-EM

Subgroup Chair: Gira Bhabha, NYU Langone Health, USA    

Program Co-Chairs: Danielle Grotjahn, Scripps Research Institute, USA and Gaia Pagino, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Symposium Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PST   Symposium Room: Moscone South 303/304

Subgroup Business Meeting: 9:45 PM    Subgroup Happy Hour: 10:30 PM - midnight

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Subgroup Chair: Edward Lemke, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz - Institute of Molecular Biology, Germany

Program Co-Chairs: Priya Banerjee, University at Buffalo, USA, Galia Debelouchina, University of California - San Diego, USA, and Jeetain Mittal, Lehigh University, USA

Symposium Time: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST      Subgroup Business Meeting: 12:20 PM 

Symposium Room: Moscone South 212/213/214

 

Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies

Subgroup Chair: Edwin Antony, St. Louis University School of Medicine, USA

Symposium Time: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST     Subgroup Business Meeting: 12:00 Noon

Symposium Room: Moscone South 207/208

 

Mechanobiology

Subgroup Chair: Deborah E. Leckband, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA       

Symposium Time: 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM PST    Subgroup Business Meeting: 3:05 PM

Symposium Room: Moscone South 307/308

 

Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic

Subgroup Chair:  Arun Anantharam, University of Toledo, USA

Symposium Time: 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM PST

Subgroup Business Meeting: TBD

Membrane Structure and Function

Subgroup Chair: Francisco N. Barrera, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA 

Symposium Time: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Subgroup Business Meeting: TBD

Membrane Transport

Subgroup Chair:  Lucie Delemotte, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Symposium Time: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Subgroup Business Meeting: TBD

Motility and Cytoskeleton

Subgroup Co-Chairs:  Anthony Cammarato, Johns Hopkins University, USA, and Melissa K. Gardner, University of Minnesota, USA

Symposium Time: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Subgroup Business Meeting: TBD

Multiscale Genome Organization

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Tom C. Bishop, Louisiana Tech University, USA, and Tamar Schlick, New York University, USA

Symposium Chair: Jeff Wereszczynski, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Symposium Time: 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM PST

Subgroup Business Meeting: TBD

Nanoscale Approaches to Biology

Subgroup Chair: Aleksandr Noy, University of California Merced, USA

Symposium Time: 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM PST

Subgroup Business Meeting: TBD

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