BPS2026 Program Book

128-FlashTalk 12:40 pm PROBING TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND SPLICING REGULATION IN THE UN FOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE WITH OPTICALLY ACTIVATED IRE1. Jacob W. Smith , Damien B. Wilburn, Vladislav B. Belyy Undergraduate Student Pizza “Breakfast” 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 155 Connect with other undergraduates at this “breakfast” for a valuable networking and social opportunity. You will also have a chance to meet and talk to Biophysical Society Committee members, and scientists at all career levels to discuss academic goals and questions and learn how to develop a career path in biophysics. Hear from invited speakers who will share their stories and answer questions. Space for this session is limited to the first 100 attendees. Moderators Thayaparan Paramanathan, Bridgewater State University, USA Yadilette Rivera-Colón, Baypath University, USA Speakers Ashley Carter, Amherst College, USA 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 157 Career Development Center Workshop Public Speaking Masterclass: How to Rock the Podium and Give a Fantastic Talk 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 151 In this session, you will learn from a professional speaker how to deliver a fantastic talk every single time. Whether you are giving a poster, job talk, a speech for a colloquium, journal club or virtual endeavor, and everything in between, you will emerge with knowledge about the techniques of how to construct stories, utilize verbal and body language effectively, explain and reduce jargon, and create connections with your audience. You will emerge more confident and excited to rock your next talk! Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 158 Small Actions, Big Impact: Practical Steps to a Sustainable Laboratory 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Esplanade, Room 153 Are you conscious of the environmental footprint of your laboratory? Are you interested in reducing it, without compromising scientific excel lence, but unsure where to start? This panel discussion will address these questions with a focus on practi cal and achievable actions. Experimental and computational biophysics research demands significant amounts of materials, equipment, and energy, and generates large amounts of data. Reducing the environmen tal impact of biophysics research requires informed choices grounded in real practices and measurable outcomes. We will explore concrete strategies, such as improved experimental workflows, waste, and energy management, such as shared infrastructure or computational efficiency for example. Examples and data will help identify where changes can be most effective. The discussion brings together panelists with comple mentary perspectives, with the aim to equip you with realistic pathways to make your lab more sustainable. Christopher Barnes, Stanford University, USA Ananya Chakravarti, Princeton University, USA Exhibitor Presentation Cube Biotech Inc

Moderators Emmanuel Margeat, CNRS, France Tugba Ozturk, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Panelists Keshwanth Puligulla, University of California Berkley, USA João Rodrigues, Schrödinger, USA Antara Verma, Pennsylvania State University, USA Education and Career Opportunities Fair 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Exhibit Halls ABC Come to this fair to meet with representatives from educational institutions as well as industry and government agencies. Students and postdoctoral candidates will be able to meet with representatives from colleges and universities with leading programs in biophysics. Attendees can connect with representatives from industry and agencies who will provide information about employment and funding opportunities at their institutions/companies. Learn about the variety of opportunities available and talk one-on-one with representatives from participating organizations! Career Development Center Workshop Core Principles of Effective Mentor-Mentee Relationships 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm, Esplanade, Room 151 An in-depth look at the essential principles for both mentors and men tees to cultivate supportive and impactful relationships. This session will discuss effective communication, shared goals, and mutual respect, as well as the practical implementation of these concepts to enhance professional growth and collaboration. Exhibitor Presentation Allen Institute 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 157 BioFile Finder (BFF): An Easy-to-Use, Web-Based Solution for Sharing Image Data and Increasing Transparency The rapid growth of biological imaging and simulation data has out paced our ability to efficiently organize, search, and share datasets and results in transparent and reusable ways. Scientific data are often siloed across laboratories, institutions, and storage systems, with critical context locked away in spreadsheets, file paths, or ad hoc metadata conventions. BioFile Finder is an open-source, web-based application addresses this gap by transforming simple, user-provided metadata files into interac tive, searchable, and shareable data catalogs—without duplicating large underlying data files. BFF enables researchers to organize, filter, and explore datasets using arbitrary metadata fields, generate reproducible, linkable dataset views, and launch selected files directly into compatible visualization or analysis tools. Although originally developed for large scale bioimage data, BFF is intentionally data-type agnostic and has also been applied to simulation outputs (e.g. Simularium files), modeling datasets, and even art museum repositories). BioFile Finder is freely available at bff.allencell.org. In this exhibitor presentation, we will demonstrate how BFF can be used in practice to curate datasets underlying figures, publications, and col laborative projects, highlighting real-world use cases across microscopy, modeling, and cross-institutional data sharing. Attendees will see how BFF lowers barriers for non-programmers while supporting reproduc ibility, provenance, and FAIR data principles through metadata-driven exploration rather than centralized data migration.

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