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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

 

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Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Subgroup Chair: Lucia Chemes, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, ARGENTINA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 201/202/203  

Business Meeting:  12:20 - 12:30 PM PST

2026 Program Co-Chairs: Keren Lasker, The Scripps Research Institute, USA, and Jackie Pelham, Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, USA

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Elizabeth Rhoades, University of Pennsylvania, USA
OPENING KEYNOTE: Functional Studies of Dysfunctional Proteins

 

9:10 AM Emma Morrison, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Regulating Dynamic Disorder in Nucleosomes 

 

9:35 AM Thomas Boothby, University of Wyoming, USA
Disordered Proteins Interact with the Chemical Environment to Tune Their Protective Function During Drying 

 

10:00 AM IDP Subgroup Postdoctoral Awardee Talk 1

 

10:12 AM IDP Subgroup Postdoctoral Awardee Talk 2

 

10:25 AM Break

 

10:35 AM Sarah Rauscher, University of Toronto, Canada

Studying the Effects of Perturbations on Disordered Protein Ensembles Using Simulations

 

11:00 AM Student/Postdoc Flash Talks: TBD

 

11:15 AM Pilong Li, Tsingua University, CHINA
Dominant-negative Effects due to Off-DNA Aberrant Condensates (ODACs) of Mutant Transcription Factors in Genetic Diseases

 

11:40 AM Intrinsically Disordered Protein Subgroup Postdoctoral Award: A Retrospective and Tribute to Keith Dunker’s Contributions

 

11:45 AM Richard Kriwacki, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
CLOSING KEYNOTE: Roles of Biomolecular Condensates in Cancer

 

12:20 PM Closing Remarks and Business Meeting



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