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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: Sally Pias, New Mexico Tech, USA, and Dmitry Terentyev,  Ohio State University, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM-12:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  TBD 

Business Meeting:  12:10 - 12:30 PM EST

Program Co-Chairs: Drs. Karin Busch and Verónica Eisner

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: Sudipta Maiti, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad and TIFR Mumbai, India

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM EST

Symposium Room:  TBD 

Business Meeting:  5:10 - 5:30 PM EST

Biopolymers in vivo

Subgroup Chair: Caitlin Davis, Yale University, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM EST

Symposium Room:  TBD

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

Channels, Receptors, and Transporters

Subgroup Chair: Filippo Mancia, Columbia University, USA

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

Symposium Room:  TBD 

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

Cryo-EM

Subgroup Chair: Yi-Wei Chang, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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

Symposium Room:  TBD  

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

2027 Program Co-Chairs:

Tina Izard, UF Scripps, USA

Qiangjun Zhou, Vanderbilt University, USA

Kollin Schultz, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Subgroup Chair: Hugo Sanabria, Clemson University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30 – 5:30 PM  EST

Symposium Room:  TBD  

Business Meeting:  5:15 - 5:30 PM EST

2027 Program Co-Chairs:

Lucia Chemes, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, ARGENTINA

Jeetain Mittal, Texas A&M University, USA

Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies

Subgroup Chair: Jungsan Sohn, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30 PM – 3:00 PM  EST

Symposium Room:  TBD

Business Meeting:  2:57 - 3:00 PM EST

 

Mechanobiology

Subgroup Chair: Rebecca Wells, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30 AM – 5:30 PM  EST

Symposium Room: TBD 

Business Meeting:  3:30 - 3:40PM EST

 

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

Program Chair: Robin Lee, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 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:  Esplanade, Room 153 

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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