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The Biophysical Society's Subgroups hold symposia that allow attendees to meet and interact within focused areas. 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. Subgroup symposia will be held on the first day of the Annual Meeting, Saturday, February 21, 2026, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

Saturday Subgroup Symposium programs will be available for viewing in October.

In 2026, the Subgroup symposia will be divided into the following sessions:

Morning Sessions (8:30 AM - 12:30 PM) Afternoon Sessions (1:30 PM - 5:30 PM)
Bioengineering Bioenergetics, Mitochondria & Metabolism
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Biological Fluorescence
Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies Biopolymers in Vivo
Mechanobiology Channels, Receptors & Transporters
Membrane Structure and Function Cryo-EM
Membrane Transport Membrane Fusion, Fission & Traffic
Motility and Cytoskeleton Nanoscale Approaches
Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation
 and Visualization
Physical Cell Biology
  Theory & Computation

 

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

Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Erin Seifert, Thomas Jefferson University, USA, and Pablo Peixoto, Baruch College, CUNY, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30 PM-5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 215/216  

Business Meeting:  5:10 - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Title: Mitochondria-Cell Crosstalk: Multi-modal Signaling in Cellular Homeostasis

Program Co-Chairs: Drs. Ian Collinson and Natalie Niemi

Bioengineering

Subgroup Chair: Kit Parker, Harvard University, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 212/213/214  

Business Meeting:  10:40-10:50 AM PST

Biological Fluorescence

Subgroup Chair: Elizabeth Hinde, University of Melbourne, Australia

Symposium Time:  1:30PM- 5:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 303/304 

Business Meeting:  3:15 - 3:35 PM PST

Biopolymers in vivo

Subgroup Chair: Daryl Eggers, San Jose State University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM- 5:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 307/308  

Business Meeting:  5:15 - 5:30 PM PST

Channels, Receptors, and Transporters

Subgroup Chair: Juan Du, Northwestern University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM- 5:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 201/202/203 

Business Meeting:  3:35PM - 3:40PM EST

Cryo-EM

Subgroup Chair: Elizabeth Kellogg, Cornell University, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 204/205/206  

Business Meeting:  3:25 - 3:35 PM PST

2026 Program Co-Chairs: Amedee des Georges, New York University, USA, Bronwyn Lucas, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Gabriele Cerutti, Columbia University, USA

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Subgroup Chair: Lucia Chemes, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, ARGENTINA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 201/202/203  

Business Meeting:  12:20 - 12:30 PM PST

2026 Program Co-Chairs: Keren Lasker, The Scripps Research Institute, USA, and Jackie Pelham, Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, USA

Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies

Subgroup Chair: Seychelle Vos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 209/210/211 

Business Meeting:  12:15PM - 12:25 PM PST

 

Mechanobiology

Subgroup Chair: Ovijit Chaudhuri, Stanford University, USA

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

Symposium Room: Room 301/302 

Business Meeting:  10:30AM - 10:40AM PST

 

Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic

Subgroup Chair: Yongli Zhang, Yale University, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 301/302  

Business Meeting:  3:40 - 3:45 PM PST

Membrane Structure and Function

Subgroup Chair: Markus Deserno, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 204/205/206 

Business Meeting:  12:15 -12:30 PM PST

Membrane Transport

Subgroup Chair: Seok-Yong Lee, Duke University, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 207/208  

Business Meeting:  10:40 AM - 11:00 AM PST

Motility and Cytoskeleton

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Ekaterina Grishchuk, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, USA, and Brett Colson, University of Arizona, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 303/304 

Business Meeting:  10:35 -10:45 AM PST

Nanoscale Approaches to Biology

Subgroup Chair: Allison Squires, University of Chicago, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 207/208  

Business Meeting:  5:25-5:30 PM PST

Physical Cell Biology

Subgroup Chair: Qiong Yang, University of Michigan, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 212/213/214  

Business Meeting:  3:15 - 3:25 PM PST

Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Jinqing Huang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CHINA, and Keith Mickolajczyk, Rutgers Medical School, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 215/216 

Business Meeting:  10:25 - 10:35 AM PST

Theory and Computation

Subgroup Chair: Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, UK

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

Symposium Room:  Room 209/210/211  

Business Meeting:  5:00-5:30 PM PST

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