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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. 

Channels, Receptors, and Transporters

Subgroup Chair: Filippo Mancia, Columbia University, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM- 12:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 113AB 

Business Meeting:  10:30 AM - 10:40 AM EST

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Robert Tampé, Goethe University Frankfurt, GERMANY
Transporters Meet Receptors: Cellular Machineries of Antigen Presentation and Recognition

 

9:00 AM Anna Moroni, University of Milan, ITALY
A Synthetic Potassium Channel Converts Oxidative Stress into Neuronal Inhibition

 

9:25 AM Melinda Diver, Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute, USA
Gatekeepers of Phosphate Homeostasis: Illuminating the Unconventional Mechanisms of its Membrane Transport Proteins

 

9:50 AM Edward Twomey, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Decoding the Ophan Delta-Type Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors

 

10:15 AM Break

 

10:30 PM Subgroup Business Meeting

 

10:40 AM Student/Postdoc Talk 1

 

10:55 AM Student/Postdoc Talk 2

 

11:10 AM Tomoya Kubota, The University of Osaka, JAPAN
Gating the Muscle: From Biophysical Insights into Nav1.4 Channelopathies to Novel Therapeutics

 

11:35 AM Nancy Carrasco, Vanderbilt University, USA
The Sodium/Iodide Symporter (NIS): From Cloning to Structure to Engineering

 

12:00 PM Kenneth S. Cole Awardee Talk

 

12:25 PM Closing Remarks

 



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