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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

Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies

Subgroup Chair: Eric Galburt, Washington University, St Louis, USA

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

Symposium Room:  113AB

Business Meeting:  12:15 - 12:25 AM EST

 

Speakers:

8:35 AM Robin Stanely, National Institutes of Health, USA
Mechanisms of RNA Recognition and Cleavage by Ribonucleases

 

9:00 AM Jungsan Sohn, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Signaling by Assembly: How Inflammasome Filaments Recognize and Distinguish One Another

 

9:25 AM Katrin Karbstein, UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, USA
Quality Control During Ribosome Assembly and Function

 

9:50 AM Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe, McGill University, Canada

Coordination of DNA Unwinding and DNA Synthesis at the Bacterial Replisome

 

10:30 AM Anna-Lena Steckelberg, Columbia University, USA

Dynamic viral RNA structrues as master manipulators of the cellular RNA degredation machinery

 

10:55 AM Miguel Rosas Salvans, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Probing How the Astrin/SKAP Complex Reduces Friction at the Kinetochore-Microtubule Interface

 

11:20 AM Ying Chen, Shandong University, China

Conserved Regulatory Mechanism by RNA Pol II Elongation Factors

 

11:45 AM Student/Postdoc Talk: Maximilian Carl Zinke

 

12:15 AM Student/Postdoc Talk: Effibe O. Ahoulou





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