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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. 

Physical Cell Biology

Subgroup Chair: Stefanie Redemann, Northeastern University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30-5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  202AB

Business Meeting:  2:25 - 2:50 PM EST

Speakers:

1:35 PM Timothy Elston, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Spatiotemporal Models of Cell Signaling: From Single Molecules to Macrostructures

 

2:00 PM Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland, USA
Transcription Factor Dynamics in Gene Expression: The Long and Short of It

 

2:25 PM Ming Guo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Collective Curvature Sensing in Three-Dimensional Multicellular Systems

 

3:30 PM Fabrisia Ambrosio, Harvard University, USA
Quantum Mechanics Meets Stem Cell Biology: Photon Emission, Magnetic Fields, and Radical Pairs

 

3:55 PM Ao Ma, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Mechano-Chemical Model for Microtubule Assembly: Integrating Conformational Dynamics of Tubulins

 

4:20 PM Early Career Award in Physical Cell Biology Award Talk: Milka Doktorova

 

4:40 PM Student Award in Physical Cell Biology Award Talk: Rikki Garner

 

5:00 PM Student/Postdoc Talk: Alexandra Bermudez

 

5:15 PM Student/Postdoc Talk: Tanya Nesterova



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