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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. 

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

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Xavier Salvatella, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), SPAIN
Nuclear Translocation of Proteins with Intrinsically Disordered Regions: Rates and Mechanisms

 

9:00 AM Kirstin Meyer, Yale University, USA
Emergent Gene Regulation Through RNA-Condensate Feedback

 

9:25 AM Michael Krieg, UThe Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), SPAIN
Biomolecular Condensates as Viscoelastic Frequency Filters Shape Neuronal Mechanotransduction

 

9:50 AM Roseanna Zia, University of Missouri, USA
Ribogenesis in Minimal Cells: Using AI to Accelerate Near-Atomistic Modeling to Enable Design of Autonomous Synthetic Cells

 

10:15 AM Coffee Break

 

10:30 AM Marina Feric, Penn State University, USA
Spatiotemporal Organization of Mitochondrial Condensates in Live Cells

 

10:55 AM Giulia Palermo, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Interpretable Artificial Intelligence and Causal Inference to Decipher RNA-Guided DNA Transposition

 

11:20 AM Birgit Strodel, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Deconstructing Aβ Aggregation: Sequence Determinants, Energy Landscapes, and Membrane-Associated Assembly

 

11:45 AM BIV Young Investigator Award Talk

 

12:15 PM Subgroup Business Meeting

 

12:30 PM Closing Remarks

 

 





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