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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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Theory and Computation

Subgroup Chair: Pilar Cossio, Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute, USA

MAIN PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM

TBD

SATURDAY SESSION

Symposium Time:  4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 203AB  

Business Meeting:  TBD

In 2027, the Theory & Computation Subgroup's Primary Symposium will take place during the Main Program on X (date) at Y (time). This session is an additional 90 Minute Session for the Subgroup to engage in Subgroup business and provide additional content to Subgroup members.

MAIN PROGRAM SPEAKERS

Christophe Chipot, Université de Lorraine, FRANCE 

From Rare Events to Kinetic Networks: Generative Discovery of Free-Energy Landscapes and Transition Pathways 

 

Anum Glasgow, Columbia University, USA 

Quantitative, High-Resolution Measurements of Protein Conformational Ensembles 

 

Simon Olsson, Chalmers University of Technology, SWEDEN 

Generative Molecular Dynamics 

 

Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge, UK 

Reading and Modulating Biomolecular Condensates via Multiscale Simulations: From Chromatin Organisation to Peptide Design 

 

SATURDAY SESSION PROGRAM

4:00 PM Opening Remarks

 

4:05 PM Mid-Career Awardee Talk

 

4:25 PM Student/Postdoc Talk

 

4:30 PM Early-Career Awardee Talk

 

4:50 PM Student/Postdoc Talk

 

4:55 PM Postdoc Awardee Talk

 

5:15 PM Student/Postdoc Talk

 

5:20 PM Student/Postdoc Talk

 

5:25 PM Closing Remarks



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