BPS2026 Program Book

From Data to Dialogue Artful Strategies Against Misinformation 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 156

The session will conclude with an introduction to the Internet of BioIm age Data (IBID)—an emerging framework for linking distributed biologi cal datasets through shared metadata rather than centralized storage. We will discuss how tools like BFF can serve as lightweight, user-facing entry points into federated data ecosystems, enabling scalable search, discovery, and reuse across repositories and platforms. This session will highlight both immediately available tools that may be useful in your lab and longer-term infrastructure directions for making complex scientific data easier to find, explore, and reuse, with substan tial time reserved for audience questions and discussion. Speakers Gideon Dunster, Scientific Program Manager, Allen Institute Graham Johnson, Senior Director of Visualization and Data Integration, Allen Institute Snack Break 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm, Exhibit Halls ABC Poster Presentations and Late Posters 1:45 pm - 3:45 pm, Exhibit Halls ABC Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are rapidly transforming how we do science and how we teach students. This year’s session of Teaching Science Like We Do Science will focus on incorporating Artificial Intelligence Tools into the teaching of biophys ics. We will work with you though an interactive, hands-on workshop to design and quickly test an exercise suitable for your own classroom environment, regardless of the type of institution at which you teach, or the level of your students - first-year freshman to advanced doctoral students. The internet changed how we accessed information. LLMs will now change how we think about what experiments to run and how to execute them in the lab. If we don’t teach our students to use these tools widely and effectively, we will be doing them a major disservice. Come share with others what you have already tried (if anything), and practice how to become even more effective at this in your own classroom. Moderators Andrew Feig, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, USA Rita Sharp, University of Houston, USA Career Development Center Workshop Understanding the Evolving Scientific Funding Landscape 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Esplanade, Room 151 In this interactive workshop Dr. Richard McGee will help unpack the latest changes in research funding. We’ll discuss recent developments, new opportunities, and evolving considerations that may impact how researchers approach funding. Participants are encouraged to share ob servations and experiences so that everyone walks away with a deeper understanding of today’s funding landscape. Teaching Science Like We Do Science 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 155

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Boost your science communication skills in this interactive workshop with Dr. Shahir Rizk and Dr. Maggie Fink. Through games, discussions, and hands-on activities, you’ll learn to explain complex ideas clearly, engage diverse audiences, and fight misinformation. We will discuss research surrounding science communication and practical strategies on how to make our research accessible, inspiring, and impactful. The workshop will also explore the role of art and storytelling as power ful tools to convey complex scientific information and to rebuild trust within our communities. Speakers Maggie Fink, Indiana University South Bend and University of Notre Dame, USA Shahir Rizk, Indiana University South Bend and Indiana University School of Medicine, USA Career Development Center Workshop A Novel Approach to Writing NIH-Style Research and Training Applications: Rhetorical Patterns, Storytell ing, Verbal Feedback 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Esplanade, Room 151 Writing research and training proposals is an essential skill to master not only for obtaining funding but also for clarifying research designs and career development goals. However, grant writing historically has not been approached as a complex skill to teach and learn. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Rick McGee has developed a novel approach to teaching grant writing by first demonstrating the rhetorical patterns that reviewers have been conditioned to expect to see. This workshop will introduce this approach to grant writing and the importance of viewing it as com munication activity in which a compelling ‘story’ is created. Symposium Sixty Years After the Alternating Access Model: Emerging Mechanisms of Membrane Transport 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Room 301/302 Chair Da-Neng Wang, New York University, USA 129-Symp 4:00 pm SLC45A4 IS A PAIN GENE ENCODING A NEURONAL POLYAMINE TRANS PORTER. Simon Newstead , Sigurbjörn Markússon, Steven J. Middleton, David L. Bennett 130-Symp 4:25 pm ION COUPLING AND SELECTIVITY IN A NEUROTRANSMITTER TRANS PORTER. Lucy R. Forrest 131-Symp 4:50 pm REGULATION OF CLC TRANSPORTERS BY DIMERIZATION. Janice L. Robertson 132-SympSelect 5:15 pm MULTI-STEP CONFORMATIONAL CYCLE IN SMALL MULTIDRUG RESIS TANCE TRANSPORTERS. Tyler Trask, Trevor J. Yeh, Randy Stockbridge, Fabrizio Marinelli

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