Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2025

Annual Meeting

Motility & Cytoskeleton Subgroup Co-Chairs: Brett Colson , University of Arizona, USA, and Ekaterina Grishchuk , University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, USA Speakers Matt Caporizzo , The University of Vermont, USA Measuring Diastolic Function in Myocardial Slices from HFpEF Rats Leslie Leinwand , University of Colorado Boulder, USA KEYNOTE TALK: Translating Extreme Python Biology to Mammals Luke Rice , The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA Teaching a TOG New Tricks Steve Rosenfeld , Mayo Clinic, USA Non-Muscle Myosin II Is a Therapeutic Target in Cancer Charlie Scarff , Leeds School of Medicine, United Kingdom Myosin in Motion: Mechanistic Insights and Molecular Modulation Tom Surrey , Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain Motor Properties Required to Organize Microtubule Networks into Bipolar Spindles Doug Swank , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Does Stretch Activation Increase Skeletal Muscle Endurance? Iva Tolić , Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia Mechanobiology and Universal Scaling of the Mitotic Spindle Chris Yengo , The Pennsylvania State University, USA Structural and Biochemical Insights into the Autoinhibition Mecha nism in Cardiac Muscle Myosin Nanoscale Approaches to Biology Subgroup Chair: Allison Squires , University of Chicago, USA Speakers Yang Liu , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Advancing Super-Resolution Microscopy for Cancer Research Steve Presse , Arizona State University, USA Tracking without Localization Gabriela Schlau-Cohen , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Single-Molecule Pump-Probe Measurements of Photosynthetic Proteins Quan Wang , NIH-NIDDK, USA Ultraprecision smFRET and Real-Time Phosphorylation Sensing in an ABEL Trap

Haw Yang , Princeton University, USA Sub-millisecond Nanoscale Dynamics via Active Tracking Sin gle-Particle Spectroscopy Physical Cell Biology Subgroup Chair: Qiong Yang , University of Michigan, USA 2026 Program Chair: Robin Lee , University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA Speakers Elena Koslover , University of California, San Diego, USA From Mazes to Mingling: Transport and Mixing in Active Mitochon drial Networks Jian Liu , Johns Hopkins University, USA Mechanochemical Feedback Defines the Central Theme of Cellular Processes Jonathan Rodenfels , Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany Energetics of Biological Systems Allyson Sgro , Janelia Farms, USA Lineage-Associated Molecular Similarity Arises from Stochastic Biochemical Reactions Gurol Suel , University of California, San Diego, USA Ionic Interactions as a Biological Force Generator from Cells to Populations Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation & Visualization Subgroup Co-Chairs: Jinqing Huang , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China, and Keith Mickolajczyk , Rutgers Medical School, USA Speakers Scott Blanchard , St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA Parallel Stopped-Flow Interrogation of Diverse Biological Systems at the Single-Molecule Scale Matthew Comstock , Michigan State University, USA High-Resolution Fluorescence Plus Force Spectroscopy of RNA from Riboswitches to Telomerase Taekjip Ha , Harvard Medical School, USA Multimodal Single Molecule Analysis of CTCF Dynamics and Regu lation of Cohesin Barrier Function Eugene Kim , Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany Molecular Mechanism of Condensin II Activation

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