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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. 

Membrane Transport

Subgroup Chair: Seok-Yong Lee, Duke University, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 207/208  

Business Meeting:  10:40 AM - 11:00 AM PST

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Maria Kurnikova, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Molecular Modeling Reveals Functional Mechanisms and Regulation of Glutamate Receptor Complexes with Auxiliary Subunits

 

9:05 AM Student/Postdoc Talk:TBA

 

9:20 AM Robert Edwards, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Allosteric Regulation of Synaptic Vesicle Glutamate Transport

 

9:50 AM Student/Postdoc Talk:TBA

 

10:10 AM Joel Butterwick, Yale University, USA
How Insects Taste Sweet: A Molecular Mechanism for Sugar Selectivity

 

10:40 AM Student/Postdoc Talk:TBA

 

11:00 AM Jiansen Jiang, NIH, USA
Molecular Basis of Transport and Activity Regulation of Renal Drug Transporter OAT1

 

11:30 AM Student/Postdoc Talk: TBA

 

11:45 PM Chris Miller Awardee Lecture
TBD

 



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