BPS2025 Full Program

Career Development Center Workshop: The Industry Interview: What You Need to Do Before, During, and After to Get the Job

Room 409B

2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Exhibitor Presentation: Depixus SAS

Room 406AB

M O N D A Y

2:30 PM-4:00 PM

MAGNA One TM Single-Molecule Magnetic Force Spectroscopy Provides New Views into the Dynamics of Biomolecular Interactions at Scale

2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Managing It All: Making Time for Success

Room 403B

Justice for Underrepresented Scholars Training in Biophysics

West Lobby Foyer at Entrance

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

(JUST-B) Poster Session

Exhibitor Presentation: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Room 404AB

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Pushing the Boundaries of What’s Possible with Cryo-Electron Microscopy

3:30 PM-5:30 PM 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Membership Committee Meeting

Room 405 Room 409B Petree Hall C

Career Development Center Workshop: Navigating an International Job Search

Symposium: AI-ML in Drug Discovery and Development

Chair Jens Meiler, Vanderbilt University, USA PHYSICS-BASED AND DATA-BASED APPROACHES: YIN AND YANG OF DRUG DISCOVERY. Vsevolod Katritch GENERATIVE PEPTIDE DRUG DESIGN. Jianing Li FROM AFFINITY TO ACTIVITY: LIGAND EFFICACY PREDICTION THROUGH BINDING THERMODYNAMICS. Martin Vögele AI-DRIVEN AND RATIONAL DESIGN OF MODULATORS OF CARGO RECRUITMENT BY THE REGULATORY LIGHT CHAINS OF THE UBIQUITOUS KINESIN 1 MOTOR PROTEIN. Giulia Morra – Symp Select HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS RESHAPING PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION AND THERAPEUTIC DESIGN - FROM SMALL MOLECULES TO NEW MODALITIES. Jens Meiler

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Symposium: Label-free Approaches to Characterizing Membranes and Membrane Assemblies

Petree Hall D

Chair Carlos Baiz, University of Texas at Austin, USA

VISUALIZING LIPID MEMBRANE STRUCTURE WITH CRYO-EM: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Frederick A. Heberle A RECIPROCAL SPACE ODYSSEY: EXPLORING BIOMEMBRANE PROPERTIES WITH NEUTRON SCATTERING. Elizabeth G. Kelley COPPER MEDIATED LIPID BINDING TUNES TRAAK FUNCTION. Arthur Laganowsky LABEL-FREE SUBCELLULAR TRACKING IN PLANT CELLS ENHANCED BY AI-BASED ARTIFICIAL LABELING. Guillermo S. Moreno Pescador – Symp Select PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS IN BIOMOLECULAR CONDENSATES. Carlos Baiz

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM 4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Platform: Condensates: From Properties to Physiology and Disease II

Room 515A Room 515B Room 502A Room 502B

Platform: Ion Channel Regulatory Mechanisms Platform: Protein Structure and Conformation II Platform: From Transcription to the Three R’s

Platform: Modelling, Mapping and Measuring in Systems Biology Platform: Muscle: From Contraction to Regulation Exhibitor Presentation: Molecular Devices New Minis Analysis in Axon™ pCLAMP™ Software: Minis Search

Room 501ABC Room 511ABC Room 406AB

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

4:30 PM-6:00 PM 5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Speed Networking

Concourse Foyer

JUST-B Networking Hour

West Lobby Foyer at Entrance

Exhibitor Presentation: Impetux Optics SL

Room 404AB

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Force Spectroscopy and Micro-Rheology Assays in Cells, Organisms, and Biomolecular Condensates with SENSOCELL Optical Tweezers: An Applications Review

6:00 PM-6:30 PM 8:00 PM-9:30 PM 9:30 PM-11:59 PM 9:30 PM-11:59 PM

Dinner Meet-Ups

West Lobby/Society Booth

Awards and 2025 Biophysical Society Lecture

Concourse Hall

Reception and Dance

Marriott, Diamond Ballroom Marriott, Gold Ballroom

Reception and Quiet Room

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