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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 10, 2024, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

To view a Subgroup's 2024 symposium program, click on the Subgroup's name. Subgroup programming details will be posted as they become available. 

In 2024, the Subgroup symposia will be divided into the following sessions (Convention Rooms to be determined):

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

 

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

Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Nelli Mnatsakanyan, Pensylvania State University College of Medicine, USA and Ildikò Szabò, Università di Padova, Italy

Symposium Time:  1:30-5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  103C

Business Meeting:  5:15 - 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Title: Multifaceted Role of Mitochondria in Health and Disease

Co-Chairs: Drs. Alicia Kowaltowski and Nuno Raimundo

Speakers:

1:35 PM Amalia Dolga, University of Groningen, Netherlands
The Neuroprotective Role of Mitochondrial Transfer in Ferroptosis

 

2:00 PM Victor Faundez, Emory University, USA
Regulation of the Secretome by Mitochondria

 

2:25 PM Michela Carraro, Università di Padova, Italy
Disentangling the Mitochondrial Permeability Transition

 

2:50 PM Nuno Raimundo, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Mitochondria-Lysosomes, A World Beyond Mitophagy

 

3:30 PM Polina Lishko, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Sperm Energetics in Fertility and Contraception

 

3:55 PM Dhanendra Tomar, Wake Forest University, USA
Beyond Calcium Uniporter: MICU1's Impact on Mitochondrial Cristae and Ultrastructure 

 

4:20 PM Alicia Kowaltovski, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Mitochondrial Ion Transporters as Sensors and Regulators in Energy Metabolism



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