BPS2026 Program Book

2:30 pm-4:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Thermo Fisher Scientific Expanding the Boundaries of Cryo-Electron Microscopy 2:30 pm-4:00 pm Steps and Suggestions for Getting Your Scientific Paper Published

Esplanade, Room 158

Esplanade, Room 155

M O N D A Y

3:00 pm-5:00 pm JUST-B Poster Session

Exhibit Halls ABC

3:30 pm-5:00 pm Exhibitor Presentation: Nuclera

Esplanade, Room 157

Cell-Free Protein Synthesis to Unlock Difficult Soluble and Membrane Targets

3:30 pm-5:30 pm Membership Committee Meeting 4:00 pm-5:00 pm Career Development Center Workshop: The Art and Science of Resubmissions of NIH Proposals 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Symposium: Catalysis Inside the Membrane Core

Room 312

Esplanade, Room 151

Room 301/302

Chair Anirban Banerjee, NICHD, NIH, USA STRUCTURAL BASIS FOR MEMBRANE-PROXIMAL PROTEOLYSIS OF SUBSTRATES BY THE α-SECRETASE ADAM10 AND ITS MODULATION BY TETRASPANIN PROTEINS. Stephen C. Blacklow STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF COPPER MEMBRANE MONOOXYGENASES. Amy C. Rosenzweig SOLUTION STRUCTURES OF AN INTRAMEMBRANE ASPARTYL PROTEASE AND ITS LIPID BILAYER ENVIRONMENT OB TAINED VIA SANS. Raquel Lieberman A VARIANT OF THE MENB STRAIN OF SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803 DISRUPTS A STRESS RESPONSE PATHWAY, INCORPO RATING AN UNUSUAL QUINONE IN THE ELECTRON TRANSFER PATHWAY OF PHOTOSYSTEM I. K V. Lakshmi – Symp Select GETTING FAT AT THE MEMBRANE - STRUCTURE AND MECHANISM OF PROTEIN FATTY ACYLATION BY ZDHHC PROTEIN S-ACYLTRANSFERASES. Anirban Banerjee Chair Brenton Hoffman, Duke University, USA MATRIX MECHANOBIOLOGY REGULATES PRO-FIBROTIC CARDIAC FIBROBLAST ACTIVATION. Adam J. Engler 3D SPHEROID MODELS FOR CANCER CELL MECHANOBIOLOGY. Jennifer Shin STRESS ASSOCIATED WITH GENOME IMBALANCE. Rong Li MECHANOSENSITIVE NUCLEAR TENSION DETERMINES PROGRESSION OF NUCLEAR WRINKLING AND CHROMATIN REMODELING IN HUTCHINSON-GILFORD PROGERIA SYNDROME. Dong-Hwee Kim – Symp Select PROBING THE EFFECTS OF MOLECULAR TENSION ON PROTEIN FUNCTION IN CELLULO. Brenton D. Hoffman Room 303/304

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Symposium: Cell Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction

4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Protein Stability, Folding, and Chaperones 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction I 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Single-Molecule Spectroscopy 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Nanotechnology and Biomaterials 4:00 pm-6:00 pm Platform: Muscle Regulation and Electrophysiology

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

Room 207/208

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

4:30 pm-6:00 pm Speed Networking 6:00 pm-6:30 pm Dinner Meet-Ups

South Lower Lobby, Exhibition Level

South Lobby/Society Booth

8:00 pm-9:30 pm Awards and 2026 Biophysical Society Lecture

North, Lower Lobby, Room 24/25

9:30 pm-11:59 pm Reception and Dance 9:30 pm-11:59 pm Reception and Quiet Room

Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Ballroom

Marriott Marquis, Atrium/SoMa

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