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The Biophysical Society's Subgroups hold symposia that allow attendees to meet and interact within focused areas. The Subgroup Symposia are heavily attended and include exciting scientific lectures, award presentations, student and postdoc talks, and business meetings, which are open to members of each Subgroup. These will primarily be held on the first day of the Annual Meeting, Saturday, February 20, 2027, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Main Program will also feature four symposia annually throughout the conference. 

In 2027, the Subgroup Symposia will be divided into the following sessions:

 Indicates Subgroup Symposia featured in the Main Program

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Membrane Structure & Function

Subgroup Chair: Edward Lyman, University of Delaware, USA

Symposium Day and Time:  Saturday, 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 103AB 

Business Meeting:  5:15 PM - 5:30 PM EST

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

1:35 PM Jessica Swanson, University of Utah, USA
Elastic Accommodation: Unraveling the Membrane Biophysics of ER-to-LD Targeting

2:00 PM Gonen Golani, Haifa University, Israel
How Viruses and Cells Control the Membrane-Fusion Energy Landscape

2:25 PM An Ghysels, Ghent University, Belgium
Path Sampling Simulations with Infinite Trajectory Swaps Reveal the Kinetics and Mechanism of Amino Acid Permeation

2:50 PM Student/Postdoc Flash Talks 

3:20 PM Break

3:40 PM Marco Mravic, Scripps Research Institute, USA
Encoding Membrane Protein Stability Principles Enables de novo Design of Transmembrane Chemical Probes

4:05 PM Alessio Accardi, Weill Cornell Medical College, Japan
Activation and Inhibition Mechanisms of the TMEM16F Scramblase

4:30 PM Thompson Awardee Talk

5:15 PM Business Meeting



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