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.
Protein Ancestry and Adaptation
Randy Stockbridge, University of Michigan, USA, Chair
Banu Ozkan, Arizona State University, USA
Nobuhiko Tokuriki, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Canada
George Makhatadze, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Protein Homeostasis: Players and Mechanisms
James Shorter, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Chair
Laura Itzhaki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Andreas Martin, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Speaker to be announced
Protein Ensembles
Cecilia Clementi, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Chair
Gabriel Rocklin, Northwestern University, USA
Paul Robustelli, Dartmouth College, USA
Edward Lemke, JGU & IMB Mainz, Germany
Structure, Function, and Regulation of Cardiac and Neuronal Ion Channels
Osama Harraz, University of Vermont, USA, Chair
Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, University of Arizona, USA
Angelika Lampert, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Steven Marx, Columbia University, USA
GPCRs in Focus: Dynamics, Organization, and Function
Lauren Slosky, University of Minnesota, USA, Chair
Andrew Kruse, Harvard University, USA
Jana Selent, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Qing Fan, Columbia University, USA
Membrane Proteinopathies
Lori Isom, University of Michigan, USA, Chair
Felipe Van Petegem, University of British Columbia, Canada
Tingting Yang, Columbia University, USA
Nadine Ortner, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Exotic Membranes and Lipids
Thomas M. Osborn Popp, Oregon State University, USA
Nicholas Brooks, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Christopher Radka, University of Kentucky, USA
Richard Wilson, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA
Lipid Solvation of Membrane Proteins
Peter Tieleman, University of Calgary, Canada, Chair
Heedeok Hong, Michigan State University, USA
Ana-Nicoleta Bondar, University of Bucharest, Romania
Michael Marty, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Interactions that Drive Biology at the Membrane Surface
Brian Fuglestad, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, Chair
Sharon Rozovsky, University of Delaware, USA
Nathalie Reuter, University of Bergen, Norway
Anna Sundborger-Lunna, Uppsala University, Sweden
The Thick and Thin of It: New Structure-Based Models of Sarcomere Protein and Myofilaments
Olga Mayans, University of Konstanz, Germany, Chair
Stefan Raunser, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
Samuel Walcott, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Michael Rynkiewicz, Boston University, USA
RNA Conformations
Ruben Gonzalez, Columbia University, USA, Chair
Rhiju Das, Stanford University, USA
Alisha Jones, New York University, USA
Carrie Bernecky, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
tRNA
Christine Dunham, Emory University, USA, Chair
Ya-Ming Hou, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Yale Goldman, University of California, San Diego, USA
Tsutomu Suzuki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Mitochondria Organization and Dynamics in Health and Disease
Shey-Shing Sheu, Thomas Jefferson University, USA, Chair
Luca Scorrano, University of Padova, Italy
Erika Holzbaur, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Lena Pernas, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Optical Probes and Biosensors for Neuroscience
Lin Tian, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA, Chair
Michael Lin, Stanford University, USA
Yulong Li, Peking University, China
Eric Schreiter, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, USA
Biophysical Origins of Life
Kenneth A. Dill, Stony Brook University, USA, Chair
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Petra Schwille, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Sheref Mansy, University of Trento, Italy
Frontiers in Genome Engineering
Elizabeth Kellogg, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA, Chair
Samuel Sternberg, Columbia University, USA
Charles Gersbach, Duke University, USA
Katherine Pollard, Gladstone Institute, USA
Featured Subgroup: Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies
Jungsan Sohn, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA, Chair
Nils G. Walter, University of Michigan, USA
Kylie Walters, NIH, USA
Simon Alberti, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Featured Subgroup: Theory and Computation
Pilar Cossio, Flatiron Institute, USA, Co-chair
Viviana Monje, University at Buffalo, USA, Co-chair
Christophe Chipot, Université de Lorraine, France
Anum Glasgow, Columbia University, USA
Simon Olsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Featured Subgroup: Motility and Cytoskeleton
Andrew Lombardo, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA, Chair
Kristen Verhey, University of Michigan, USA
William Hancock, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Carolyn Moores, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
Featured Subgroup: Nanoscale Approaches to Biology
Alistair Boettiger, Stanford University, USA, Chair
Ralf Jungmann, LMU Munich, Germany
Sonja Schmid, University of Basel, Switzerland
Kazuhiro Maeshima, National Institute of Genetics, Japan