BPS2026 Program Book

10:45 am-12:45 pm Symposium: Novel Protein Machines

Room 301/302

Chair Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands PROTEIN DESIGN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ANTIVIRALS AND VACCINES. Eva-Maria Strauch LOOP EXTRUSION: FROM GENOME FOLDING TO GENE REGULATION. Leonid Mirny DNA LOOP EXTRUSION AND OBSTACLE BYPASS BY THE WADJET SMC MOTOR. Stephan Gruber SINGLE-MOLECULE DISSECTION OF THE PAR POLARITY MACHINERY. Daniel J. Dickinson – Symp Select SINGLE-MOLECULE BIOPHYSICS STUDIES OF DNA LOOP EXTRUSION BY SMC MOTOR PROTEINS. Cees Dekker Chair Yongli Zhang, Yale University, USA IMAGING LIPIDS. Andre Nadler MECHANISMS OF PHOSPHOLIPID ASYMMETRY IN THE PLASMA MEMBRANE. Katsumori Segawa SHAPING THE MEMBRANE PROTEOME WITH RHOMBOID-LIKE PROTEASES AND PSEUDOPROTEASES. Matthew Freeman MEMBRANE THINNING: A SHARED MECHANISM BY SCRAMBLASES, INSERTASES, AND TRANSLOCASES. Robert Vacha – Symp Select DRIVING FORCES UNDERLYING MEMBRANE FUSION AND BULK LIPID TRANSPORT. Yongli Zhang Chair Ming-Feng Tsai, University of Virginia, USA MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSPORTERS AND THE CONTROL OF CELLULAR METABOLISM. Nora Kory CRYO-EM OF MEMBRANE PROTEIN COMPLEXES FROM AND WITHIN MITOCHONDRIA. Werner Kuehlbrandt CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS IN THE MITOCHONDRIAL PYRUVATE CARRIER. Vanessa Leone – Symp Select MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF MITOCHONDRIAL CALCIUM TRANSPORT. Ming-Feng Tsai Room 303/304 Room 201/202/203

M O N D A Y

10:45 am-12:45 pm Symposium: Membrane Contacts and Lipid Transfer Across and Between Membranes

10:45 am-12:45 pm Symposium: The Ins-and-Outs of Mitochondrial Ions and Metabolites

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Voltage Gated Channels 10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Biophysics Education 10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins I

Room 204/205/206

Room 207/208

Room 209/210/211 Room 212/213/214 Esplanade, Room 156 Esplanade, Room 157

10:45 am-12:45 pm Platform: Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, and Motility I

11:00 am-12:30 pm Annual Meeting of the Student Chapters 11:30 am-1:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Leica Microsystems

Expanding the Boundaries of Nanoscopy with Leica TauSTED Xtend: Enhanced Detection for Deep and Gentle Imaging

11:30 am-1:30 pm

Biophysical Journal Associate Editor Meeting

Room 312

12:00 pm-1:00 pm Career Development Center Workshop: From Challenge to Choice:

Esplanade, Room 151

Reframe Uncertainty as Fuel 12:30 pm-2:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies

Esplanade, Room 158 Esplanade, Room 153 Esplanade, Room 151

1:00 pm-2:30 pm From PhD to Policy Wonk: Exploring Career Opportunities Outside Academia and Industry

1:15 pm-2:15 pm Career Development Center Workshop:

Identifying Your Career Options Using MyIDP and LinkedIn 1:30 pm-3:00 pm Biophysics 101: Novel Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Biophysics

Room 207/208

1:30 pm-3:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Avanti Research

Esplanade, Room 157

How Avanti Research Supports Discovery and Innovation

1:30 pm-3:30 pm NSF-NCEMS Beginner Hands-On Training:

Esplanade, Room 156

Four Data Science Techniques to Immediately Accelerate your Research

1:45 pm-3:00 pm Snack Break

Exhibit Halls ABC Exhibit Halls ABC

1:45 pm-3:45 pm Poster Presentations and Late Posters

2:30 pm-3:30 pm Career Development Center Workshop: The NIH K99/R00 Award:

Esplanade, Room 151

A Unique Award for Postdocs Who Have Demonstrated Readiness for Independence

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