BPS2026 Program Book

Workshop: Structural Biology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Room 204/205/206

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Chair Sumaiya Iqbal, Broad Institute, USA STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS IN THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ERA: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES. Jean-Christophe Gelly AI METHODS FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE DETERMINATION IN CRYO-EM. Ellen Zhong EXPLORING THE PROTEIN UNIVERSE VIA HIGHLY ACCURATE STRUCTURAL PREDICTIONS. M. Steinegger NEW TOOLS FOR VISUALIZING DYNAMIC MOLECULAR MODELS. Janet Iwasa – Workshop Select SCALABLE APPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY TO CONNECT GENOMICS TO PROTEINS AND MECHANISM IN THE AGE OF AI. Sumaiya Iqbal

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

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Workshop: The Dawn of Synthesis Research in Biophysics: Making use of Petabytes of Biological Data Chair Daniel Nissley, Pennsylvania State University, USA HOW NSF-NCEMS IS DRIVING COMMUNITY-SCALE SYNTHESIS RESEARCH. Daniel Nissley

Room 207/208

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

LEARNING THE RULES OF MOLECULAR BEHAVIOR FROM OPEN MASS SPECTROMETRY REPOSITORIES. Wout Bittremieux BIOCATALYST DESIGN THROUGH MACHINE-LEARNING AND MODELING. Charles L. Brooks III – Workshop Select OPPORTUNITIES TO SYNTHESIZE MULTI-MODAL DATASETS TO UNDERSTAND REGULATION OF CELLULAR FUNCTION. Elizabeth Brunk

Workshop: Mechanistic Understanding of Cell Membranes: From Biomimetic to Biological Systems Chair Raya Sorkin, Tel Aviv University, Israel HOW TO MAKE INVASIVE PROTRUSIONS WITH BRANCHED ACTIN. Elizabeth Chen LIPID DROPLET AND MEMBRANE BIOGENESIS IN SILICO . Luca Monticelli

Room 209/210/211

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

MODEL FOR TENSION PROPAGATION IN CRUMPLED COMPARTMENTALIZED CELL MEMBRANES. Michael Kozlov DEFRND: DETERGENT-FREE RECONSTITUTION INTO NATIVE NANODISCS WITH DESIGNER MEMBRANE SCAFFOLD PEP TIDES. Huan Bao – Workshop Select BIOMIMETIC MODELS REVEAL HOW MEMBRANE TENSION AND ASYMMETRY AFFECT FUSION AND INFORM VIRAL FU SION MECHANISMS. Raya Sorkin

Workshop: Practical Aspects of Collecting and Processing Information for AI

Room 212/213/214

Chair Helen Berman, University of Southern California, USA TITLE TBD. Mohammed AlQuraishi

7:30 pm-9:30 pm

GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO SEQUENCE DATA ALLOW THE EXPLORATION OF FUNCTIONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY LAND SCAPES OF PROTEIN FAMILIES. Faruck Morcos MACHINE LEARNING AS A TRANSOFRMATIVE TOOL TO ACCELRATE BIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FROM SINGLE PARTICLE BIO PHYSICS. Nikos S. Hatzakis DEMOCRATIZING 3D SINGLE MOLECULE LOCALIZATION MICROSCOPY. Yoav Shechtman – Workshop Select RCSB PROTEIN DATA BANK: DELIVERING INTEGRATIVE STRUCTURES ALONGSIDE EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURES AND COMPUTED STRUCTURE MODELS. Brinda Vallat

8:00 pm-10:00 pm SOBLA (The Society for Latinoamerican Biophysicists) Meeting

Esplanade, Room 154

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