BPS2026 Call for Abstracts

SUBGROUP SYMPOSIA • Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism • Bioengineering • Biological Fluorescence

Delve deep into a subject area with symposia organized by these dynamic, focused communities.

• Intrinsically Disordered Proteins • Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies • Mechanobiology • Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic • Membrane Structure and Function • Membrane Transport

• Motility and Cytoskeleton • Nanoscale Approaches to Biology • Physical Cell Biology • Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization • Theory and Computation

• Biopolymers in vivo • Channels, Receptors, and Transporters • Cryo-EM

SHARE YOUR RESEARCH ON A GLOBAL STAGE Submit Your Abstract - Deadline October 1, 2025

SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA Order from Chaos: The Biophysics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA, Chair Magnus Kjærgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark Benjamin Schuler, University of Zurich, Switzerland Sigrid Milles, Leibniz - FMP, Germany

Step into the future of biophysics with the latest discoveries and innovations.

Sixty Years After the Alternating Access Model: Emerging Mechanisms of Membrane Transport Da-Neng Wang, New York University, USA, Chair Lucy Forrest, NINDS, NIH, USA Janice Robertson, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Speaker to be announced Biophysics of Neural Signaling Stephanie Gantz, University of Iowa, USA, Chair Janesh Kumar, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology - CSIR, India Marta Filizola, Mount Sinai Hospital, USA Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo, Yale University, USA Evolution of Lipidomes and Membrane Phenotypes James Saenz, Dresden University of Technology, Germany, Chair Jochen Brocks, Australian National University, Australia Jacob Winnikoff, Harvard, University, USA Maria Makarova, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Benjamin Machta, Yale University, USA, Chair Dragomir Milovanovic, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany Jonathon Nixon-Abell, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Christine Keating, Pennsylvania State University, USA Nonlamellar Lipid Phases in Biology Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, USA, Chair Christopher Lee, University of California, San Diego, USA Alexander Sodt, NICHD, NIH, USA Joachim Raedler, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany Emergent Properties of Coupled Membranes and Condensates

Catalysis Inside the Membrane Core Anirban Banerjee, NICHD, NIH, USA, Chair Stephen Blacklow, Harvard University, USA Amy Rosenzweig, Northwestern University, USA Raquel Lieberman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Structural Evolution of Cellular Motility Machinery Edward Egelman, University of Virginia, USA, Chair Susan Lea, NCI, NIH, USA Makoto Miyata, Osaka City University, Japan Kent Hill, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Cell Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction Brenton Hoffman, Duke University, USA, Chair Adam Engler, University of California, San Diego, USA Jennifer Shin, KAIST, Korea Rong Li, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore RNA Dynamics and Phase Transitions Peixuan Guo, The Ohio State University, USA, Chair Elisa Franco, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA Andreas Walther, University of Mainz, Germany Genome Biophysics: Linking Structure, Function and Disease Lu Gan, University of Virginia, USA, Chair Kelly Thayer, Wesleyan University, USA Sergei Grigoryev, Pennsylvania State University, USA Tamar Schlick, New York University, USA

Molecular Chaperones: Basic Mechanisms and Pathological Consequences

Silvia Cavagnero, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA, Chair Bernd Bukau, Heidelberg University, Germany Edward O’Brien, Pennsylvania State University, USA Karen Fleming, Johns Hopkins University, USA The Biophysics of Active Matter Guy Genin, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, Chair Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania, USA Alison Patteson, Syracuse University, USA Pere Roca-Cusachs, IBEC Barcelona, Spain Novel Protein Machines Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Chair Leonid Mirny, MIT, USA Stephan Gruber, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Speaker to be announced Membrane Contacts and Lipid Transfer Across and Between Membranes Yongli Zhang, Yale University, USA, Chair Andre Nadler, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Katsumori Segawa, Osaka University, Japan Matthew Freeman, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, United Kingdom

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