MENU

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

For more information on Subgroups and how to join, click here. 

Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, & Visualization

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

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

Symposium Room:  Room 201AB 

Business Meeting:  3:30 PM - 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, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (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





Previous Article Physical Cell Biology
Next Article Theory & Computation
3799