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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: Erin Seifert, Thomas Jefferson University, USA, and Pablo Peixoto, Baruch College, CUNY, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30 PM-5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 215/216  

Business Meeting:  5:10 - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Title: Mitochondria-Cell Crosstalk: Multi-modal Signaling in Cellular Homeostasis

Program Co-Chairs: Drs. Ian Collinson and Natalie Niemi

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

 

1:32 PM Pinchas Cohen, University of Southern California, USA
Mitochondrial Peptides Orchestrate Cellular Function

 

1:58 PM Sarah Nowinski, Van Andel Institute, USA
Oxidative Mitochondrial Metabolism in the Control of Myogenic Differentiation

 

2:26 PM Student/Postdoc Talk

 

2:41 PM Ian Collinson, University of Bristol, UK
Mitochondrial Import and Import Failure: Tales of the Unexpected

 

3:09 PM Break

 

3:29 PM Natalie Niemi, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Mitochondrial Regulation from the Inside Out

 

3:57 PM Student/Postdoc Talk

 

4:12 PM Shey-Shing Sheu, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Mitochondrial Signaling Through Magnetic Fields

 

4:38 PM Young Biophysicist Awardee Talk

 

4:53 PM Student Biophysicist Awardee Talk

 

5:08 PM Closing Remarks

 

5:10 PM Business Meeting





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