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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:  Room 202AB 

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

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

Bioengineering

Subgroup Chair: Priscilla Hwang, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 201C  

Business Meeting:  3:30-3:40 PM EST

Biological Fluorescence

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

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 204AB 

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:  Room 201AB

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:  Room 113AB 

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:  Room 103AB  

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:  Room 113AB  

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

MAIN PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM

TBD

SATURDAY SESSION

Session Time:  1:30 PM – 3:00 PM  EST

Symposium Room:  Room 107AB

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: Room 204C 

Business Meeting:  3:30 - 3:40PM EST

 

Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic

Subgroup Chair: Justin Taraska, NHLBI, NIH, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 201C  

Business Meeting:  10:10- 10:25 AM EST

Membrane Structure and Function

Subgroup Chair: Edward Lyman, University of Delaware, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30 – 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 103AB 

Business Meeting:  5:15 -5:30 PM EST

Membrane Transport

Subgroup Chair: Liang Feng, Stanford University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30 – 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 204AB  

Business Meeting:  3:40 - 4:00 PM EST

Motility and Cytoskeleton

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Scott Forth, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, and Andrew Lombardo, University At Buffalo, USA

MAIN PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM

TBD

SATURDAY SESSION

Symposium Time: 1:30 – 3:00 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 203AB 

Business Meeting:  2:20- 2:30 PM EST

Muscle Biology

Subgroup Chairs: Samantha Harris, University of Arizona, USA and Shanna Hamilton, University of Arizona, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 204C  

Business Meeting:  11:40 AM- 12:00 PM EST

Nanoscale Approaches to Biology

Subgroup Chair: Melike Lakadamyali, University of Pennsylvania, USA

MAIN PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM

TBD

Physical Cell Biology

Subgroup Chair: Yun Chen, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Program Chair: Jennifer Curtis, Georgia Tech, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 202AB  

Business Meeting:  3:05 - 3:15 PM EST

Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Rajan Lamichhane, University of Tennessee, USA, and Je-Kyung Ryu, Seoul National University, KOREA

Symposium Time:  1:30– 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 201AB 

Business Meeting:  3:30- 3:40 PM EST

Theory and Computation

Subgroup Chair: Pilar Cossio, Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute, USA

MAIN PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM

TBD

SATURDAY SESSION

Symposium Time:  4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 203AB  

Business Meeting:  TBD

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