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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. 

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Subgroup Chair: Hugo Sanabria, Clemson University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30 – 5:30 PM  EST

Symposium Room:  Room 113AB  

Business Meeting:  5:15 - 5:30 PM EST

2027 Program Co-Chairs:

Lucia Chemes, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, ARGENTINA

Jeetain Mittal, Texas A&M University, USA

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

 

1:40 PM Lucia Strader, Salk Institute, USA
Novel Molecular Grammars of IDRs that Span Plant Proteomes

 

2:05 PM Felipe Quiroz, Emory University, USA
Tagging with Caution: Toolbox for Faithful Live-Cell Probing of Self-Assembling IDPs 

 

2:30 PM Nicolas Fawzi, Brown University, USA
Disordered Proteins Interact with the Chemical Environment to Tune Their Protective Function During Drying 

 

2:55 PM IDP Subgroup Postdoctoral Awardee Talk 1

 

3:10 PM IDP Subgroup Postdoctoral Awardee Talk 2

 

3:25 PM Break

 

3:45 PM Maio Yu, Wuhan University, CHINA

How do Nuclear Pores Keep their FG Barrier Liquid-Like?

 

4:10 PM Student/Postdoc Flash Talks: TBD

 

4:25 PM Kingshuk Ghosh, University of Denver, USA
Statistical Physics of Disordered Proteins

 

4:50 PM Helmut Grubmueller, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, GERMANY
Hierarchical Multi-Timescale Structural Dynamics of the IDP N-Terminal of p53

 

5:15 PM Subgroup Business Meeting

 

5:30 PM Closing Remarks





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