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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

Theory and Computation

Subgroup Chair: Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, UK

Symposium Time:  1:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 209/210/211  

Business Meeting:  5:00-5:30 PM PST

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

 

1:35 PM Alexander Pak, Institute of Science  and Technology Austria (ISTA), AUSTRIA
Strategies to Perturb Protein Assemblies from a Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Perspective

 

2:05 PM Sirish Kaushik Lakkaraju, Bristol Myers Squibb, USA
MDFit: Using Machine-Learning to Predict Ligand Potency from Molecular Simulations

 

2:35 PM Karissa Sanbonmatu, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
TBA

 

3:05 PM Break

 

3:20 PM Student/Postdoc Flash Talks: TBA

 

3:35 PM Sergio Cruz-Leon, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, GERMANY
Postdoc Award Talk: Bridging in situ CryoET and Multi-Scale Simulations for Biological Discovery

 

4:00 PM Rafael Bernardi, Auburn University, USA

Early Career Award Talk: Where Biology Meets Chemistry: Harnessing Computation to Reveal Life’s Strongest Bonds

 

4:25 PM Margaret Johnson, John Hopkins University, USA
Mid-Career Award Talk: Timing and Decision Making Through Macromolecular Self-Assembly

 

4:55 PM Closing Remarks

 

5:00 PM Business Meeting

 





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