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Symposia cover broad topics in biophysics with presentations by leading experts in their field.  All symposia speakers are invited to speak by the Program Committee.  Symposia are held Sunday - Wednesday.

Order from Chaos: The Biophysics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA, Chair
Magnus Kjærgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark
Benjamin Schuler, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Sigrid Milles, Leibniz - FMP, Germany 

Molecular Chaperones: Basic Mechanisms and Pathological Consequences

Silvia Cavagnero, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Chair
Bernd Bukau, Heidelberg University, Germany
Edward O'Brien, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Karen Fleming, Johns Hopkins University, USA

The Biophysics of Active Matter

Guy Genin, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, Chair
Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Alison Patteson, Syracuse University, USA
Pere Roca-Cusachs, IBEC Barcelona, Spain

Novel Protein Machines

Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Chair
Leonid Mirny, MIT, USA
Stephan Gruber, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Eva-Maria Strauch, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Membrane Contacts and Lipid Transfer Across and Between Membranes

Yongli Zhang, Yale University, USA, Chair
Andre Nadler, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
Katsumori Segawa, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Matthew Freeman, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, United Kingdom

Sixty Years After the Alternating Access Model: Emerging Mechanisms of Membrane Transport

Da-Neng Wang, New York University, USA, Chair
Lucy Forrest, NINDS, NIH, USA
Janice Robertson, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Simon Newstead, Oxford University, United Kingdom

Biophysics of Neural Signaling

Stephanie Gantz, University of Iowa, USA, Chair
Janesh Kumar, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology - CSIR, India
Marta Filizola, Mount Sinai Hospital, USA
Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo, Yale University, USA

Evolution of Lipidomes and Membrane Phenotypes

James Saenz, Dresden University of Technology, Germany, Chair
Jochen Brocks, Australian National University, Australia
Jacob Winnikoff, Harvard, University, USA
Maria Makarova, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Emergent Properties of Coupled Membranes and Condensates

Benjamin Machta, Yale University, USA, Chair
Dragomir Milovanovic, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany
Jonathon Nixon-Abell, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christine Keating, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Nonlamellar Lipid Phases in Biology

Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, Chair
Christopher Lee, University of California, San Diego, USA
Alexander Sodt, NICHD, NIH, USA
Joachim Raedler, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany

Catalysis Inside the Membrane Core

Anirban Banerjee, NICHD, NIH, USA, Chair
Stephen Blacklow, Harvard University, USA
Amy Rosenzweig, Northwestern University, USA
Raquel Lieberman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Structural Evolution of Cellular Motility Machinery

Edward Egelman, University of Virginia, USA, Chair
Susan Lea, NCI, NIH, USA
Makoto Miyata, Osaka City University, Japan
Kent Hill, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Cell Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction

Brenton Hoffman, Duke University, USA, Chair
Adam Engler, University of California, San Diego, USA
Jennifer Shin, KAIST, Korea
Rong Li, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

RNA Dynamics and Phase Transitions

Peixuan Guo, The Ohio State University, USA, Chair
Elisa Franco, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Andreas Walther, University of Mainz, Germany

Genome Biophysics: Linking Structure, Function and Disease

Lu Gan, University of Virginia, USA, Chair
Kelly Thayer, Wesleyan University, USA
Sergei Grigoryev, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Tamar Schlick, New York University, USA

The Ins-and-Outs of Mitochondrial Ions and Metabolites

Ming-Feng Tsai, University of Virginia, USA, Chair
Hongying Shen, Yale University, USA
Fabiana Perocchi, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Werner Kuehlbrandt, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany

Calcium Signaling: New Views on a Classic

Martin Falcke, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany, Chair
Ivo Siekmann, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Shyam Krishnakumar, Yale University, USA
David Yule, University of Rochester, USA

Memory in Molecular and Cellular Systems

Jennifer L. Ross, Syracuse University, USA, Chair
Michael Rust, University of Chicago, USA
Heidi Hehnly, Syracuse University, USA
Michael Murrell, Yale University, USA

Biophysics of Immunity and Cancer Immunology

Meghan Morrissey, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Chair
Daniel Fletcher, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Mohit Kumar Jolly, Indian Institute of Science, India
Thierry Mora, École Normale Supérieure - ENS, France

Neural Mechanisms of Soft Tissue Manipulation and Mechanotherapy

Valeria Vasquez, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA, Chair
Victoria Abraira, Rutgers University, USA
Gregory Gerling, University of Virginia, USA
Karl Lewis, Cornell University, USA