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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. 

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

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

 

1:32 PM Award for Exceptional Contributions to Biophysics & Bioengineering Awardee Talk

 

2:10 PM Lance Kam, Columbia University, USA
Engineering T Cells Through 3D Mechanosensing and Deep Learning 

 

2:35 PM Sanjeevi Sivasankar, University of California, Davis, USA
Desmosomes Under Tension: From Protein Conformational Change to Junctional Crosstalk 

 

3:00 PM Michelle Digman, University of California, Irvine, USA
An Integrated Bioluminescent Phasor Microscopy Platform for Multiplexed BRET Imaging 

 

3:25 PM Break

 

3:30 PM Business Meeting

 

3:40 PM Student/Postdoc Talk 1

 

3:55 PM Student/Postdoc Talk 2

 

4:10 PM Chris Highley, University of Virginia, USA
Engineering Dynamic Fiber-Based Biomaterials to Better Mimic Physiological Environments for Tissue Growth and Regeneration 

 

4:35 PM Anotnoio D'amore, Ri.MED Foundation, ITALY
Biomimicry in Tissue Engineering

 

5:00 PM John Slater, University of Delaware, USA
Investigating the Influence of Physical and Chemical Premetastatic Niche Properties on Metastatic Breast Cancer Progression Using Engineered Hydrogels

 

5:25 PM Closing Remarks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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