Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Bucharest 2026

Biophysics of Membrane Reactions in Brian

Speaker Abstracts

16:30 – 16:55

Durba Sengupta, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, India Specificity and Promiscuity of Phosphoinositide Lipid Interactions with Neuronal GPCRs

16:55 – 17:10

Alina-Maria Halaicu, University of Bucharest, Romania * Lipid-Dependent Dynamics of FGFR3 Transmembrane Dimers

17:10 – 17:25

Nida Yaren Yilmaz, Bogaziçi University, Turkey * Network Model-Driven Molecular Simulations Reveal Allosteric Dynamics and Biased Signaling in Class C GPCRs

17:25 – 17:45

Coffee Break & Posters

Session VI

Signaling Across the Membrane Part II Chair: Valerica Raicu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

17:45 – 18:10

Ching-Ju Tsai, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland Conformational Ensembles of Rhodopsin-G Protein Complexes Reveal Light Perception and GPCR Signaling Mechanisms Jana Selent, Hospital del Mar Research Institute & Pompeu Fabra University, Spain Exploring GPCR Dynamics at Scale Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations

18:10 – 18:35

18:35

Free Time

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

8:30 – 15:00

Registration/Information

Session VII

Receptor Structural Dynamics and Structure-Function Relationships Chair: Kota Katayama, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Keiichi Inoue, The University of Tokyo, Japan Functions and the Photoreaction Dynamics of Non-Canonical Rhodopsins Przemyslaw Nogly, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland Molecular Mechanisms of Photoreceptors Used in Optogenetics by Time-Resolved Crystallography Edina Rosta, University College London, United Kingdom From Correlation to Causation in Molecular Dynamics: Probing Information Transfer in GPCR Ligand Unbinding

9:00 – 9:25

9:25 – 9:50

9:50 – 10:15

10:15 – 10:35

Coffee Break & Posters

Session VIII

Transport in Cells and Across Cell Membranes Chair: Peter Pohl, Johannes Kepler University Linz - JKU, Austria Tomohiro Shima, The University of Tokyo, Japan Writing and Reading the Microtubule Lattice: Biophysical Mechanisms of Cellular Architectural Organization

10:35 – 11:00

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