BPS2026 Program Book

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

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Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Los Angeles Convention Center unless noted otherwise.

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7:30 am-5:00 pm Registration/Information

South Lobby

8:00 am-9:00 am Biophysical Society Business Meeting

Esplanade, Room 156

8:00 am-4:00 pm Poster Viewing

Exhibit Halls ABC Room 301/302

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Symposium: Black in Biophysics

Co-Chairs Breann Brown, Vanderbilt University, USA Wade Zeno, University of Southern California, USA DYNAMICS OF LIPID-ANCHORED MEMBRANE PROTEINS. Alemayehu A. Gorfe MOLECULAR TURNSTILES: FOLLOWING ABC TRANSPORTERS IN MOTION. Heather Pinkett NEUTROPHIL BIOPHYSICS THROUGH THE LENS OF NETOSIS. Hawa Racine Thiam MUTUAL ALLOSTERY: A HIDDEN MECHANISM SHAPING RNA BIOLOGY. Blanton S. Tolbert

8:15 am-10:15 am

Symposium: The Biophysics of Active Matter

Room 303/304

Chair Guy Genin, Washington University in St. Louis, USA ROLE OF NUCLEAR MOTOR PROTEINS IN NUCLEAR MECHANICS AND CELL MIGRATION THROUGH CONFINED SPACES. Paul A. Janmey VIMENTIN PROMOTES COLLECTIVE CELL MIGRATION THROUGH COLLAGEN NETWORKS VIA INCREASED MATRIX RE MODELING AND SPHEROID FLUIDITY. Alison Patteson MECHANICAL REGULATION OF NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT. Pere Roca-Cusachs MICROTUBULES UNDER FORCE: DYNAMIC STRESS REDUCTION WITHOUT SOFTENING. Jing Xu – Symp Select DEVIATORIC AND SPHERICAL COMPONENTS OF STRESS DRIVE DISTINCT MODES OF CELL COMMUNICATION AND MEMORY IN 3D TISSUES. Guy Genin

8:15 am-10:15 am

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Protein Assemblies

Room 201/202/203 Room 204/205/206

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Mechanosensitive, Anion, and Other Channels 8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction II

Room 207/208

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Computational Biophysics: Molecular Dynamics, AI/ML, and Bioinformatics III

Room 209/210/211 Room 212/213/214 Esplanade, Room 151

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Membrane Physical Chemistry

Career Development Center Workshop:

9:00 am-10:00 am

Launching Your Academic Job Search and Preparing Your Application Materials

9:00 am-11:00 am Subgroup Chairs Meeting

Room 313/314 Exhibit Halls ABC Exhibit Halls ABC

10:00 am-4:00 pm

Exhibits

10:15 am-11:00 am Coffee Break

10:30 am-11:30 am Career Development Center Workshop: Exploring Unconventional Funding Opportunities

Esplanade, Room 151

Symposium: Memory in Molecular and Cellular Systems

Room 301/302

Chair Jennifer L. Ross, Syracuse University, USA CLOCKS THAT GROW. Michael Rust

10:45 am-12:45 pm

MECHANOCHEMICAL COLLECTIVE CELLULAR INTELLIGENCE IN SPHEROIDS. Jennifer Schwarz THE ENERGETICS OF SLIP AND CATCH BONDS IN THE ACTOMYOSIN CYTOSKELETON. Michael Murrell THE CELL AS A LOW-PASS FILTER: FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF SINGLE-CELL LEARNING IN STENTOR COERULEUS. Wallace Marshall – Symp Select REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING IN CYTOSKELETAL NETWORKS. Jennifer L. Ross

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