MENU

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

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Lea Dietrich, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, GERMANY
Charting the Complex Architecture and Molecular Landscape of Mitochondria Using in situ Structural Biology 

 

9:00 AM Arun Kondadi, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Cristae in Motion: Exploring the Metabolic Architecture of the Inner Mitochondrial Universe

 

9:30 AM Verónica Eisner, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, CHILE
Mitochondrial Cristae Adaptations and Functional Significance in the Aging Heart

 

10:00 AM Elizabeth Jonas, Yale University, USA
Cristae Dynamics and Bioenergetics During Memory Formation

 

10:30 AM Break

 

10:45 AM Subgroup Business Meeting

 

11:15 AM Young Bioenergeticist Award Talk: Awardee TBA

 

11:30 AM Student Bioenergeticist Award Talk: Awardee TBA

 

11:45 AM György Csordàs, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Adaptation of the Mitochondrial Architecture to Contacts with the SR in Adult Cardiac Muscle

 

12:15 PM Gregorio Weber Awards for Excellence in Fluorescence Theory and Applications Award Talk: Awardee TBA

 

12:30 PM Closing Remarks

 





Next Article Bioengineering
5422