BPS2026 Program Book

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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Daily Program Summary All rooms are located in the Moscone Center unless noted otherwise.

8:00 am-11:30 am New Council Meeting 8:00 am-3:00 pm Poster Viewing

Room 313/314 Exhibit Halls ABC Room 301/302

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Symposium: New and Notable

Co-Chairs Ariane Briegel, Institut Pasteur, France Ilya Levental, University of Virginia, USA RETHINKING RNA STRUCTURE: VISUALIZING MOLECULES IN MOTION BEYOND INFERRED FLEXIBILITY. Maximilia Frazao de Souza Degenhardt REWRITING ACTIN TREADMILLING: LEIOMODIN IS A POINTED-END POLYMERASE. Shashank Shekhar STRUCTURE-GUIDED CORRECTION OF CONGENITAL MYASTHENIA. Huanhuan Li HARD TO BEAT - LESSONS FROM HUMMINGBIRD TRANSTHYRETIN ABOUT PROTEIN STABILITY AGAINST SHEAR STRESS. Irina Ritsch Chair Stephanie Gantz, University of Iowa, USA THE UNEXPECTEDLY COMPLEX NATURE OF ENDOGENOUS NEURONAL GPCR ASSEMBLIES. Bryan Roth ILLUMINATING GPCR SIGNALING WITH INTEGRATIVE MODELING, STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, AND AI-DRIVEN DISCOVERY. Marta Filizola FROM CANNABIS TO CONDUCTANCE: CANNABINOID-INSPIRED STRATEGIES FOR STATE-SELECTIVE NAV INHIBITION. Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo STRUCTURES AND GATING OF PARTIALLY OCCUPIED KAINATE RECEPTOR HETEROMERS. Andreas Reiner – Symp Select PROTON INHIBITION OF DELTA-1 GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR CURRENT. Stephanie C. Gantz Symposium: Biophysics of Neural Signaling

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8:15 am-10:15 am

Room 303/304

8:15 am-10:15 am

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Protein Dynamics and Allostery: Post-translational Modifications 8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Ion Channel Regulation, Pharmacology, and Disease II

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

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Membrane Active Peptides

Room 207/208

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

Room 209/210/211 Room 212/213/214 Exhibit Halls ABC

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, and Motility II

10:30 am-12:30 pm Poster Presentations and Late Posters

Symposium: Neural Mechanisms of Soft Tissue Manipulation and Mechanotherapy

Room 301/302

Chair Valeria Vasquez, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA SMALL ADJUSTMENTS IN MECHANOTRANSDUCTION CURRENTS DRIVE RECEPTIVE FIELD SIZES OF SINGLE AFFERENTS AND DISCRIMINATION OF MONOFILAMENTS BY POPULATIONS. Gregory J. Gerling NEURAL PATHWAYS IN BONE: RETHINKING OSTEOCYTE MECHANOTRANSDUCTION. Karl Lewis CONTEXT IS KEY: HOW SPINAL CORD NEUROMODULATION SHAPES OUR SOMATOSENSORY EXPERIENCES. Victoria E. Abraira MEMBRANE MECHANICS OF THE MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL MSCS. Michael Grabe – Symp Select MANIPULATION OF MECHANOSENSITIVE ION CHANNELS USING DIETARY FATTY ACIDS. Valeria Vasquez

1:00 pm-3:00 pm

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