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The Biophysical Society's Subgroups hold symposia that allow attendees to meet and interact within focused areas. The Saturday Subgroup programs are heavily attended and include exciting scientific symposia, awards presentations, student and postdoc talks, and business meetings, which are open to members of each Subgroup. Subgroup symposia will be held on the first day of the Annual Meeting, Saturday, February 10, 2024, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

To view a Subgroup's 2024 symposium program, click on the Subgroup's name. Subgroup programming details will be posted as they become available. 

In 2024, the Subgroup symposia will be divided into the following sessions (Convention Rooms to be determined):

Morning Sessions (8:30 AM - 12:30 PM) Afternoon Sessions (1:30 PM - 5:30 PM)
Bioengineering Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Biological Fluorescence
Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies Biopolymers in Vivo
Mechanobiology Channels, Receptors, and Transporters
Membrane Structure and Function Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic
Membrane Transport Nanoscale Approaches to Biology
Motility and Cytoskeleton Physical Cell Biology
Multiscale Genome Organization Cryo-EM
Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation and 
Visualization		 Theory and Computation

 

For more information on Subgroups and how to join, click here. 

Membrane Transport

Subgroup Chair: Wei Lu, Van Andel Research Institute, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  204AB

Business Meeting:  12:20 - 12:30 PM EST

Speakers:

8:35 AM Chia-Hsueh Lee, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Structure and Mechanism of Human Sphingolipid S1P Transporter Spns2

 

9:05 AM Student/Postdoc Talk: Krishna Reddy

 

9:20 AM Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Paracellular Ion Transport Across Tight Junctions

 

9:50 AM Student/Postdoc Talk:Jacob Hilton

 

10:05 AM Ming Zhou, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Anion Recognition and Transport in Pendrin (SLC26A4)

 

10:50 AM Emily Liman, University of Southern California, USA
OTOP Proton Channels: Discovery, Structure, and Function

 

11:20 AM Student/Postdoc Talk: Ciara Wallis

 

11:35 AM Student/Postdoc Talk:Eslam Elhanafy

 

11:50 AM Benoit Roux, University of Chicago, USA
Multiscale Kinetic Modeling of the Sodium Potassium Pump



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