Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2026

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Introducing the Next Class of BPS Subgroup Chairs Serving February 2026 to February 2027

Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism

Biological Fluorescence

Biopolymers in Vivo

Channels, Receptors & Transporters

Bioengineering

Sally Pias New Mexico Tech, USA

Dmitry Terentyev Ohio State University, USA

Priscilla Hwang Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies

Sudipta Maiti BITS-Pilani Hyderabad, India

Caitlin M. Davis Yale University, USA

Filippo Mancia Columbia University, USA

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic

Membrane Structure and Function

Mechanobiology

Cryo-EM

Yi-Wei Chang University of Pennsylvania, USA

Hugo Sannabria Clemson University, USA

Jungsan Sohn Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA

Rebecca Wells University of Pennsylvania, USA

Justin Taraska National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, USA

Edward Lyman University of Delaware, USA

Membrane Transport

Nanoscale Approaches to Biology

Motility & Cytoskeleton

Muscle Biology

Liang Feng Stanford University, USA

Scott Forth Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Andrew T. Lombardo University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, USA

Shanna Hamilton University of Arizona, USA

Samantha Harris University of Arizona, USA

Melike Lakadamyali University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, USA

Physical Cell Biology

Single Molecule Forces, Manipulation, and Visualization

Theory and Computation

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Yun Chen Johns Hopkins University, USA

Rajan Lamichhane University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA

Je-Kyung Ryu Seoul National University, USA

Pilar Cossio Flatiron Institute, USA

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