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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

Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies

Subgroup Chair: Seychelle Vos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 209/210/211 

Business Meeting:  12:15PM - 12:25 PM PST

 

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Bostjan Kobe, The University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Using a Combination of Structural Biology Approaches to Characterize the TIR-Domain Signalosom

 

8:55 AM Doreen Matthies, NIH, USA
Structure and Function of Magnesium Translocation Systems

 

9:15 AM Student/Postdoc Talk 1

 

9:45 AM Trinity Cookis, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Structural Diversity of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Subtypes

 

10:05 AM Break

 

10:20 AM Michelle Wang, Cornell, USA
DNA Topology during Transcription through Chromatin

 

10:40 AM Kliment Verba, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Structures of the PI3K/KRas Complex on Lipid Bilayers Reveal the Molecular Mechanism of PI3K Activation

 

11:00 AM Student/Postdoc Talk 2

 

11:20 AM Carina de Oliveira Mann, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Immune Recognition of Nucleic Acids: Mechanistic Insights from Cryo-EM

 

11:40 AM  Michael Lawson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Defining the Dynamics of Ribosomal Disassembly

 

12:15 PM Business Meeting

 

12:25 PM Closing Remarks





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