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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. 

Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Rajan Lamichhane, University of Tennessee, USA, and Je-Kyung Ryu, Seoul National University, KOREA

Symposium Time:  1:30– 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 201AB 

Business Meeting:  3:30- 3:40 PM EST

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

 

1:40 PM Simon Scheuring, Weill Cornell, USA
High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy: Single-Molecule Dynamics and Structures of Membrane Proteins

 

2:05 PM Reza Vafabakhsh, Northwestern University, USA
Conformational Dynamics and Designed Control of Adhesion GPCRs

 

2:25 PM Shannon Yan, Stanford University, USA
Exploring Cell Mechanics Through Membrane Tension Dynamics – How do Cells Physically Divide?

 

2:45 PM Early Career Award in Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation and Visualization Awardee Talk 

 

3:05 PM Student/Postdoc Talk

 

3:20 PM Break

 

3:30 PM Subgroup Business Meeting

 

3:40 PM Dagmar Klostermeier, University of Muenster, GERMANY
5’-UTR Length, Sequence and Structure Regulate the Activities of the Translation Initiation Factor eIF4A and Determine Translation Efficiencies

 

4:05 PM Yekaterina (Kate) Miroshnikova, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, GERMANY
Mechano-Osmotic Principles of Transcriptional Regulation

 

4:25 PM Jejoong Yoo, KAIST, KOREA
Reconciling Molecular Dynamics with Single-Molecule Protein–DNA Dynamics and Condensation

 

4:45 PM Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, GERMANY
Molecule-Scale Resolution and Dynamics in Fluorescence Microscopy

 

5:25 PM Closing Remarks

 





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