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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 15, 2025, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

To view a Subgroup's 2025 symposium program, click on the Subgroup's name. Subgroup programming details will be posted as they become available. 

In 2025, the Subgroup symposia will be divided into the following sessions:

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. 

Bioengineering

Subgroup Chair: Mark Uline, University of South Carolina, USA

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

Symposium Room:  204C

Business Meeting:  10:30 - 10:40 AM EST

Speakers:

8:32 AM Shuibing Chen, Cornel University, USA
Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Organoids, and Disease Modeling

 

9:00 AM Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania, USA
AI-Enabled Physics Driven Digital Twin Automaton in Cancer and Nanomedicine 

 

9:30 AM Juan Vanegas, Oregon State University, USA
Tension Mediated Activation of Transmembrane Protein Receptors and Ion Channels

 

10:00 AM William Torres, Exponent Consulting, USA
The Role of Computational Modeling and Simulation in the Product Development Life Cycle for Medical Devices 

 

10:40 AM Gabriele Kockelkoren, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nanodomains of GPCRs at the Plasma Membrane: Direct Observation, Formation and Function

 

11:00 AM Michael Schick, University of Washington, USA
The Plasma Membrane as an Emulsion: A Rational Basis for "Rafts" and a Different Picture of Them

 

11:30 AM Vadim Backman, Northwestern University, USA
Physical Genomics and The Reprogramming of the Cell’s Operating System

 

12:00 PM Igal Szleifer, Northwestern University, USA
How is Chromatin Structured and Organized?



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