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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: Daryl Eggers, San Jose State University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM- 5:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 307/308  

Business Meeting:  5:15 - 5:30 PM PST

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

 

1:35 PM Dieter Braun, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, GERMANY
Recreating the Rock-Based RNA World at the Origin of Life

 

2:00 PM Songi Han, Northwestern University, USA
Tuning Biocompatible Polymers Through Hydration Engineering

 

2:25 PM Susan Marqusee, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Labeling Rare and Transient States on the Landscape

 

2:50 PM Andrea Soranno, Washington University, USA
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy of Disordered Proteins in Crowded Environments

 

3:15 PM Anne Wentick, Leiden University, NETHERLANDS
Untangling Protein Aggregates in Neurodegenerative Disease

 

3:40 PM Break

 

3:50 PM Kendra Frederick, University of Texas, Southwestern, USA
Structural Determination of Neurodegenerative Disease Associated Proteins Inside Cells

 

4:10 PM Alexander Buell, Danmark's Tekniske Universitet Denmark, DENMARK
Probing IDP Assembly by Sequence-Perturbative Approaches

 

4:30 PM Joan-Emma Shea, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Self-Assembly of the Tau Protein: Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Fibrillization

 

4:50 PM BIV Young Investigator Award Talk

 

5:15 PM Closing Remarks and Business Meeting

 

 





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