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The Biophysical Society's Subgroups hold symposia that allow attendees to meet and interact within focused areas. This year’s subgroup symposia will be held on the first day of the Annual Meeting, Saturday, March 2, 2019. 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. 

To view a subgroup's 2019 symposium program, click on the subgroup's name. 
Subgroup programming details will be posted as they become available. 

For those attending subgroup symposia, registration will be open on Friday and Saturday for badge pick-up prior to the subgroup sessions. Registration for the Annual Meeting is required to attend the subgroup symposia.

 

For more information on subgroups and how to join, click here

Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Harpreet Singh, Ohio State University, USA and Shanmughapriya Santhanam, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM-12:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 511ABC 

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

Symposium Title: Bioenergetics and Cellular Differentiation

Co-Chairs: Drs. George Porter and Pamela Wenzel

Bioengineering

Subgroup Chair: Seth Weinberg, Ohio State University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 502B 

Business Meeting:  3:20-3:30 PM PST

Biological Fluorescence

Subgroup Chair: Claus Seidel, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 515A

Business Meeting:  10:15 - 10:35 AM PST

Biopolymers in vivo

Subgroup Chair: Garegin Papoian, University of Maryland, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 408A 

Business Meeting:  12:10 - 12:30 PM PST

Channels, Receptors, and Transporters

Subgroup Chair: Renae Ryan, University of Sydney, Australia

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Petree Hall C

Business Meeting:  10:45AM - 11:00AM EST

Cryo-EM

Subgroup Chair: Oliver P. Clarke, Columbia University, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 515B 

Business Meeting:  10:20AM - 10:30AM PST

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Subgroup Chair: Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Petree Hall C 

Business Meeting:  5:05PM - 5:30PM PST

Program Co-Chairs: Drs. Dorothee Dormann and Lukasz Joachimiak

Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies

Subgroup Chair: Tatiana Mishanina, University of California, San Diego, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Petree Hall D

Business Meeting:  5:10PM - 5:25 PM PST

 

Mechanobiology

Subgroup Chair: Amit Pathak, Washington University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 501ABC

Business Meeting:  3:25AM - 3:35AM PST

 

Membrane Fusion, Fission, and Traffic

Subgroup Chair: Jefferson Knight, University of Colorado, Denver, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 501ABC 

Business Meeting:  10:30AM - 10:45AM PST

Membrane Structure and Function

Subgroup Chair: Adam W. Smith, Texas Tech University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 515B

Business Meeting:  5:15AM -5:30AM PST

Membrane Transport

Subgroup Chair: Yun Lyna Luo, Western University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 502A 

Business Meeting:  3:05PM - 3:30PM PST

Motility and Cytoskeleton

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Sophie Dumont, University of California, San Fransisco, USA and Radhika Subramanian, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 515A 

Business Meeting:  3:25PM-3:45PM PST

Multiscale Genome Organization

Subgroup Co-Chairs: Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, Cambridge University, UK and Michael Poirier, Ohio State University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 511ABC

Business Meeting:  5:15PM-5:30PM PST

Nanoscale Approaches to Biology

Subgroup Chair: Fang Huang, Purdue University, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30AM- 12:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 502A 

Business Meeting:  12:25PM-12:30PM PST

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