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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: Elizabeth Kellogg, Cornell University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 204/205/206  

Business Meeting:  3:25 - 3:35 PM PST

2026 Program Co-Chairs: Amedee des Georges, New York University, USA, Bronwyn Lucas, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Gabriele Cerutti, Columbia University, USA

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

 

1:35 PM Rui Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Cracking the 9+2 Architecture of Motile Cilia

 

2:00 PM Juliette Fedry, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB- MRC), UK
CryoET Insights into Translation Regulation in Mammalian Cells

 

2:25 PM Phillip Erdmann, Princeton University, USA
Bridging Scales with SOLIST: A Biopsy at the Nanoscale

 

2:50 PM Oliver Raschdorf, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA
Record-Breaking Results and New Structural Insights Enabled by Latest cryo-EM Technology

 

3:10 PM Break

 

3:25 PM Business Meeting

 

3:35 PM 3 Flash Talks

 

4:05 PM Anthony Fitzpatrick, Columbia University, USA
Pulsed-Laser Lensing for Phase Modulation in Electron Microscopy

 

4:30 PM  Ulrich Lorenz, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Advances in Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-EM

 

4:55 PM Almeida Award Placque

 

5:00 PM June Almeida Award for Mid/Senior-Career Women in Cryo-EM Awardee Talk

 

5:25 PM Closing Remarks





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