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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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Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies

Subgroup Chair: Jungsan Sohn, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

MAIN PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM

TBD

SATURDAY SESSION

Session Time:  1:30 PM – 3:00 PM  EST

Symposium Room:  Room 107AB

Business Meeting:  2:57 - 3:00 PM EST

 

In 2027, the Macromolecular Machines & Assemblies Subgroup's Primary Symposium will take place during the Main Program on X (date) at Y (time). This session is an additional 90 Minute Session for the Subgroup to engage in Subgroup business and provide additional content to Subgroup members.

MAIN PROGRAM SPEAKERS

Jungsan Sohn, A Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA 

Protein•DNA Mesh Assembly Drives dsDNA-Specific and Duplex Length-Dependent Activation of cGAS 

 

Nils G. Walter, University of Michigan, USA 

Life in Flux: Dynamic RNA: Protein Complex Assembly Shapes Biomolecular Function 

 

Kylie Walters, NIH, USA 

Capturing Dynamic Interactions of Proteasomes 

 

Simon Alberti, Dresden University of Technology, GERMANY 

Kinetic Solubility: How Interaction Persistence Shapes Cellular Organization

SATURDAY SESSION PROGRAM

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

 

1:32 PM Arne Gennerich, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
The P3018S Disease Variant Reveals How Dynein’s Trailing Motor Sets Ensemble Velocity

 

1:52 PM Rebecca Voorhees, Caltech, USA
How Proteins Get into Membranes: The Function of MTCH2 in Human Mitochondria

 

2:12 PM Yorgo Modis, Cambridge University, UK
MDA5 Variants Tune Double-Stranded RNA Sensing to Offer Fitness Tradeoffs

 

2:32 PM Young Investigator Awardee Talk

 

2:47 PM Student/Postdoc Talk 

 

2:57 PM Business Meeting

 

3:00 PM Closing Remarks





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