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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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Membrane Structure and Function

Subgroup Chair: Markus Deserno, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 204/205/206 

Business Meeting:  12:15 -12:30 PM PST

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Zheng Shi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Cell Membrane Rupture Mediated by NINJ1

 

9:00 AM Grace Brannigan, Rutgers University, USA
Forensic Techniques for Catching Guilty Lipids

 

9:25 AM Fangwei Si, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
How do Bacterial Cells Manage the Membrane Space?

 

9:50 AM Student/Postdoc Flash Talks 

 

10:20 AM Break

 

10:40 AM Thais Enoki, University of São Paulo, BRAZIL
Hidden Interactions, Visible Phases: Asymmetric Bilayers Under Interleaflet Influence

 

11:05 AM Hiroshi Noguchi, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Membranes Induced by Molecular Binding/Unbinding

 

11:30 AM Thompson Award Talk

 

12:15 PM Business Meeting





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