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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

Motility and Cytoskeleton

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Ekaterina Grishchuk, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, USA, and Brett Colson, University of Arizona, USA

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

Symposium Room:  Room 303/304 

Business Meeting:  10:35 -10:45 AM PST

8:30 AM Rom Surrey, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, SPAIN
Motor Properties Required to Organize Microtubule Networks into Bipolar Spindles

 

9:00 AM Doug Swank, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Does Stretch Activation Increase Skeletal Muscle Endurance?

 

9:15 AM Luke Rice, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Teaching a TOG New Tricks

 

9:30 AM Charlie Scarff, Leeds School of Medicine, UK
Myosin in Motion: Mechanistic Insights and Molecular Modulation

 

9:45 AM Spotlight Awardee Talk: TBD

 

10:01 AM Student/Postdoc Flash Talks: TBD

 

10:20 AM Break

 

10:35 AM Business Meeting

 

10:45 AM Early Career Awarde Talk: TBD

 

11:00 AM Iva Tolić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, CROATIA
Mechanobiology and Universal Scaling of the Mitotic Spindle

 

11:15 AM Chris Yengo, The Pennsylvania State University- College of Medicine, USA
Structural and Biochemical Insights into the Autoinhibition Mechanism in Cardiac Muscle Myosin

 

11:30 AM Matt Caporizzo, The University of Vermont, USA
Measuring Diastolic Function In Myocardial Slices from HFpEF Rats

 

11:45 AM Steve Rosenfeld, Mayo Clinic, USA
Non-Muscle Myosin II is a Therapeutic Target in Cancer

 

12:00 PM Leslie Leinwand, BioFrontiers Institute, USA
KEYNOTE TALK:Translating Extreme Python Biology to Mammals





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