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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. 

Cryo-EM

Subgroup Chair: Yi-Wei Chang, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 103AB  

Business Meeting:  10:25 - 10:35 PM PST

2027 Program Co-Chairs:

Tina Izard, UF Scripps, USA

Qiangjun Zhou, Vanderbilt University, USA

Kollin Schultz, University of Pennsylvania, USA

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Naoko Mizuno, NIH, USA
Integrative Structural Cell Biology Navigated by in situ Cryo-ET

 

9:00 AM Hong Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Molecular Sociology and ATP Cycling Visualized by AI-Powered Cellular CryoET

 

9:25 AM Adriana Prajica, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, GERMANY
Everything in its Right Place: Insights into Sarcomere Organization in Mammalian Muscle Tissue via Cryo-Electron Tomography

 

9:50 AM Christian Lamberz, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA
Investigating Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Intracellular Enterovirus Replication by Automated High-Throughput FIB-Milling and Cryo-ET

 

10:10 AM Break

 

10:25 AM Business Meeting

 

10:35 AM 3 Flash Talks

 

11:05 AM René Frank, University of Leeds, UK
High-Resolution Cryo-Electron Tomography Within Tissues - Seeing Inside Human Alzheimer’s Disease Brain

 

11:30 AM  Jan Kosinski, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, GERMANY
Modeling of Macromolecular-Membrane Systems from Cryo-ET Data

 

11:55 AM Almeida Award Placque

 

12:00 PM June Almeida Award for Mid/Senior-Career Women in Cryo-EM Awardee Talk

 

12:25 PM Closing Remarks

 





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