BPS2026 Program Book

4:00 pm-5:00 pm Career Development Center Workshop: A Novel Approach to Writing NIH-Style Research and Training Applications: Rhetorical Patterns, Storytelling, Verbal Feedback

Esplanade, Room 151

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4:00 pm-6:00 pm Symposium: Sixty Years After the Alternating Access Model:

Room 301/302

Emerging Mechanisms of Membrane Transport Chair Da-Neng Wang, New York University, USA

SLC45A4 IS A PAIN GENE ENCODING A NEURONAL POLYAMINE TRANSPORTER. Simon Newstead ION COUPLING AND SELECTIVITY IN A NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANSPORTER. Lucy R. Forrest REGULATION OF CLC TRANSPORTERS BY DIMERIZATION. Janice L. Robertson MULTI-STEP CONFORMATIONAL CYCLE IN SMALL MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE TRANSPORTERS. Fabrizio Marinelli – Symp Select THE INS AND OUTS OF THE SLC13 DI-/TRICARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTERS. Da-Neng Wang Chair Martin Falcke, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany NEWS FROM THE CALCIUM SIGNALLING MACHINE ROOM - BUILDING DATA-DRIVEN MODELS OF THE INOSITOL-TRISPHOSPHATE RECEPTOR (IPR) FROM SINGLE CHANNEL DATA. Ivo Siekmann DECODING CALCIUM SIGNALS - SYNAPTOTAGMIN ISOFORMS AND DYNAMICS OF NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE. Shyam S. Krishnakumar REGULATION OF INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHATE RECEPTORS: CONTROLLING CA 2+ SIGNALS IN TIME AND SPACE. David I. Yule CALCIUM CHANNEL AND TRANSPORTER TARGETED MODULATORS IDENTIFIED BY HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING. Robyn T. Rebbeck – Symp Select THE INFORMATION IN IP3-INDUCED CALCIUM SPIKE SEQUENCES. Martin Falcke Room 303/304

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Symposium: Calcium Signaling: New Views on a Classic

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Condensates from Biophysics to Disease I 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Protein Dynamics and Allostery

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

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Protein-Lipid Interactions

Room 207/208

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Computational Biophysics: Molecular Dynamics, AI/ML, and Bioinformatics I

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

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Dynamic Cytoskeleton: Motors and Assembly

4:00 pm-6:00 pm PI to PI Mixer

Esplanade, Room 159 & 160

5:00 pm-7:00 pm Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUI) Network Annual Meeting Mixer

Esplanade, Room 155 Esplanade, Room 153

5:30 pm-6:00 pm Korean Biophysicists Meeting

6:00 pm-6:30 pm Dinner Meet-Ups

South Lobby/Society Booth

6:00 pm-9:00 pm Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) Poster Competition

Exhibit Halls ABC

7:00 pm-10:00 pm BPS Publications Dinner

InterContinental San Francisco

(Invitation Only)

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