Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2025

Annual Meeting

Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, & Metabolism Subgroup Co-Chairs: Erin Seifert , Thomas Jefferson University, USA, and Pablo Peixoto , Baruch College, CUNY, USA 2026 Program Co-Chairs: Pablo Peixoto , Baruch College, CUNY, USA, and Natalie Niemi , Washington University School of Medicine, USA Symposium Title: Mitochondria-Cell Crosstalk: Multi-modal Signaling in Cellular Homeostasis Speakers Pinchas Cohen , University of Southern California, USA Mitochondrial Peptides Orchestrate Cellular Function Ian Collinson , University of Bristol, United Kingdom Mitochondrial Import and Import Failure: Tales of the Unexpected Natalie Niemi , Washington University School of Medicine, USA Mitochondrial Regulation from the Inside Out Sarah Nowinski , Van Andel Institute, USA Oxidative Mitochondrial Metabolism in the Control of Myogenic Differentiation Shey-Shing Sheu , Thomas Jefferson University, USA Lights, Magnetism, Action: Use Quantum Mechanics to Explore Oxidative Phosphorylation Activity of Heart Mitochondria Bioengineering Subgroup Chair: Kit Parker , Harvard University, USA Speakers Ellen Kuhl , Stanford University, USA Discovering the Physics of Food Francesco Pasqualini , University of Pavia, Italy Vertically Integrated Tools to Engineer Tissue Growth and Probe the Biophysics of Morphogenesis Crystal Ripplinger , University of California, Davis, USA Illuminating Autonomic Control of Cardiac Electrophysiology Mark Skylar-Scott , Stanford University, USA Liter-Scale Cell Production and Rapid 3D Bioprinting towards Whole Organ Engineering John Wikswo , Vanderbilt University, USA Instrument, Measure, Model, and Control: A Directed Walk Through Things Biological

Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Chair: Elizabeth Hinde , University of Melbourne, Australia Speakers Anna-Karin Gustavsson , Rice University, USA Multiplexed Whole-Cell Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Micros copy in 3D Suliana Manley , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Smart Microscopy for Adaptive Imaging Erwin Peterman , Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Combining Fluorescence Microscopy with Optical Tweezers to Shine Light on DNA and Chromosomes Sobhan Sen , Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Probing Ligand Binding to DNA G-Quadruplexes with Fluorescence and MD Simulation Jerome Wenger , CNRS Institut Fresnel, France Pushing the Boundaries of Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy towards Extended Concentration Range and Enhanced Sensitivity Biopolymers in vivo Subgroup Chair: Daryl Eggers , San Jose State University, USA 2026 Program Co-Chairs: Simon Ebbinghaus , Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Alexander Buell , Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Speakers Dieter Braun , Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Recreating the Rock-based RNA World at the Origin of Life Alexander Buell , Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark Probing IDP Assembly by Sequence-Perturbative Approaches Kendra Frederick , University of Texas Southwestern, USA Structural Determination of Neurodegenerative Disease Associat ed Proteins inside Cells Songi Han , Northwestern University, USA Tuning Biocompatible Polymers through Hydration Engineering Susan Marqusee , University of California, Berkeley, USA Labeling Rare and Transient States on the Landscape Joan-Emma Shea , University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Self-Assembly of the Tau Protein: Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Fibrillization Andrea Soranno , Washington University, USA Single-Molecule Spectroscopy of Disordered Proteins in Crowded Environments

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