BPS2026 Program Book

Monday, February 23, 2026

M O N D A Y

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

7:30 am-8:30 am Graduate Student Breakfast 7:30 am-5:00 pm Registration/Exhibitor Registration

Esplanade, Room 155

South Lobby

8:00 am-10:00 pm Poster Viewing

Exhibit Halls ABC Room 301/302

8:15 am-10:15 am Symposium: Future of Biophysics Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Co-Chairs Ariane Briegel, Institut Pasteur, France Ilya Levental, University of Virginia, USA INTEGRATIVE STRUCTURAL MODELING OF HETEROGENEOUS LIPOPROTEIN ASSEMBLIES. Keith Cassidy DECODING RNA PROOFREADING MECHANISM IN LARGE RNA GENOME VIRUSES. Chang Liu DATA-DRIVEN MODELING OF INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED REGIONS IN PHASE SEPARATION. Giulio Tesei QUANTITATIVELY MODELING THE ENSEMBLE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP OF THE HIV 5’-LEADER RNA IN CELLS. Megan Ken

8:15 am-10:15 am Symposium: RNA Dynamics and Phase Transitions

Room 303/304

Chair Peixuan Guo, The Ohio State University, USA

PROGRAMMABLE ARTIFICIAL RNA CONDENSATES IN MAMMALIAN CELLS. Elisa Franco UNTANGLING THE FOLDING AND AGGREGATION OF TRIPLET REPEAT RNA. Sarah Woodson SYNTHETIC CELLS FROM PHASE-SEGREGATED NUCLEIC ACIDS. Andreas Walther INSOLUBLE PROTEINS COMPETE FOR RNA BINDING TO ASSEMBLE MULTILAYERED CONDENSATES. Wilton T. Snead – Symp Select VARIABLE 1D SEQUENCES AND CONSERVED 2D/3D STRUCTURES OF DNA-PACKAGING ATPASE-DRIVING NCRNA NANO STRUCTURES FOR TRACKING THE EVOLUTION AND ORIGIN OF ORGANISMS---DISCOVERY OF 12 NEW NCRNA-NANO STRUCTURES FOR DEVELOPING AND DELIVERING POTENT THERAPEUTICS. Peixuan Guo

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Protein Structure Prediction and Design

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

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Membrane Receptors, Signal Transduction and Mechanosensation

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Membrane Structure and Organization II

Room 207/208

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

Room 209/210/211 Room 212/213/214 Esplanade, Room 158

8:15 am-10:15 am Platform: Methodological Developments in Biophysics

8:30 am-10:00 am Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker Superresolution in Depth 8:30 am-10:30 am CID Committee Meeting

Room 312

9:00 am-10:00 am Career Development Center Workshop: Navigating an International Job Search

Esplanade, Room 151 Esplanade, Room 157

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

10:00 am-5:00 pm

Exhibits

Exhibit Halls ABC Exhibit Halls ABC Exhibit Halls ABC

10:15 am-11:00 am Coffee Break

10:15 am-11:15 am Meet the Editors: Biophysical Journal , Biophysical Reports , and The Biophysicist

10:15 am-11:15 am New Member Welcome Coffee 10:30 am-11:30 am Career Development Center Workshop:

Esplanade, Room 155 Esplanade, Room 151

Industry Resumes and Applications: How to Get to the Interview Stage

10:30 am-12:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies

Esplanade, Room 158

Electrophysiological Tools for Advancing Ion Channel and Transporter Drug Discovery

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