BPS2026 Program Book

Sunday, February 22, 2026

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

7:30 am-8:30 am Postdoctoral Breakfast

Esplanade, Room 156

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

South Lobby

8:00 am-10:00 pm Poster Viewing

Exhibit Halls ABC Room 301/302

8:15 am-10:15 am Symposium: Genome Biophysics: Linking Structure, Function and Disease

Chair Lu Gan, University of Virginia, USA ALLOSTERIC REGULATION IN P53 ISOFORMS: FROM STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS TO FUNCTIONAL RESCUE OF THE TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN. Kelly M. Thayer CRYO-ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY REVEALS DISTINCT NANOSCALE ORGANIZATION OF EU- AND HETEROCHROMATIN. Sergei A. Grigoryev FOLDING GENOMES AT NUCLEOSOME RESOLUTION: MULTISCALE MODELING AND MERGING PHYSICOCHEMICAL POTENTIALS WITH MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES. Tamar Schlick IMAGING, QUANTIFYING AND MAPPING SWI/SNF CHROMATIN REMODELER DYNAMICS IN LIVE HUMAN CELLS: FROM SINGLE-MOLECULE BINDING LANDSCAPE TO CONDENSATION-MEDIATED INTRANUCLEAR ORGANIZATION. Ziqing Winston Zhao – Symp Select RNA POLYMERASE II IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RARITY OF CANONICAL NUCLEOSOMES INSIDE YEAST CELLS. Lu Gan

8:15 am-10:15 am Symposium: Order from Chaos: The Biophysics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Room 303/304

Chair Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

DE NOVO DESIGN OF INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED DESICCATION CHAPERONES. Magnus Kjærgaard THE INTERACTION DYNAMICS OF HIGHLY CHARGED DISORDERED PROTEINS. Benjamin Schuler INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED REGULATORS OF ENDOCYTOSIS - AN INTEGRATED NMR/SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE APPROACH. Sigrid Milles – IUPAB Sponsored Speaker DISORDERED PROTEINS: FROM SINGLE CHAIN TO CONDENSATE FORMATION. Tatiana Morozova – Symp Select DISSECTION OF THE SUPPRESSIVE EFFECTS OF BIOMOLECULAR CONDENSATES ON AMYLOID FIBRIL ASSEMBLY. Tanja Mittag

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Membrane Structure and Organization I 8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Muscles: Mechanics, Structure and Regulation

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

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Electron Microscopy

Room 207/208

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Calcium Channels, Signaling, and Contraction

Room 209/210/211 Room 212/213/214

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Systems Biophysics 8:30 am-10:30 am CPOW Committee Meeting 9:00 am-10:00 am Career Development Center Workshop:

Room 312

Esplanade, Room 151

Networking for Biophysicists: How to Create Your Unicorn Career

9:30 am-11:00 am Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker

Esplanade, Room 157

AI Driven Advanced AFM Imaging and Analysis of Cellular and Tissue Samples: Innovations in Large Area Mapping and Mechanobiology

10:00 am-5:00 pm

Exhibits

Exhibit Halls ABC Exhibit Halls ABC

10:15 am-11:00 am Coffee Break

10:30 am-11:30 am Career Development Center Workshop:

Esplanade, Room 151

What Can You Do with a PhD? A Lot More Than You Might Think

10:30 am-12:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Refeyn

Esplanade, Room 158

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