Symposia cover broad topics in biophysics with presentations by leading experts in their field. All symposia speakers are invited to speak by the Program Committee. Symposia are held Sunday - Wednesday.
Sunday, February 11, 2024
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Phase Separation in Membrane and Lipids
Abdou Rachid Thiam, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), France, Chair
Trevor GrandPre, Princeton University, USA
Sarah Shelby, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Lindsay Case, MIT, USA
Dennies Discher, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Symp Select
New Approaches to Capture the Central Dogma in Eukaryotes
Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University, USA, Chair
Timothy Stasevich, Colorado State University, USA
Ning Zhao, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
Jumana AlHaj Abed, Max Planck Institute for Immunology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany
Maxim Prigozhin, Harvard University, USA - Symp Select
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Cardiac Plasticity or Maturation - the Cardiomyocyte's Perspective
Cesare Terracciano, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom, Chair
William T Pu, Harvard University, USA
Seitaro Nomura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Nina Ullrich, University of Bern, Switzerland
Nagomi Kurebayashi, Juntendo University, Japan - Symp Select
Biophysics of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Infection Processes
Alexandre Persat, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Chair
Cesar de la Fuente, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Enrique Rojas, New York University, USA
Speaker to be Announced
Walther Mothes, Yale University, USA - Symp Select
Jerelle Joseph, Princeton University, USA, Co-Chair
Aaron Streets, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Co-Chair
Christopher Barnes, Stanford University, USA
Alisha Jones, New York University, USA
Sharonda LeBlanc, North Carolina State University, USA
Henry Colecraft, Columbia University, USA
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Biophysics of Cancer
Kandice Tanner, NCI, NIH, USA, Chair
Christina Towers, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Chrystal Starbird, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Nicole LaRonde, Pfizer, USA
Michelle Digman, University of California, Irvine, USA - Symp Select
Bioenergetics and Mitochondrial Biophysics
Uri Manor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Natalie Porat-Shliom, NIH, USA
Tatjana Kleele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Angelika Rambold, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany
Jiajie Diao, University of Cincinnati, USA - Symp Select
Monday, February 12, 2024
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Structural Mechanisms of GPCR Activation, Regulation, and Signaling
Jennifer Cash, University of California, Davis, USA, Chair
Joshua Lees, Pfizer, USA
Patrick Sexton, Monash University, Australia
Matthieu Masureel, Genentech, USA
Sarah Rouse, Imperial College London, United Kingdom - Symp Select
The Fluid Versus Gel Nature of the Genome
Laura Finzi, Emory University, USA, Chair
Andrew Spakowitz, Stanford University, USA
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Stanford University, USA
Mathias Heltberg, Niels Bohr International Academy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ned Wingreen, Princeton University, USA - Symp Select
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Ibrahim Cissé, Mad-Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany Co-Chair
Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego, USA, Co-Chair
Moitrayee Bhattacharyya, Yale University, USA
Jerelle Joseph, Princeton University, USA
Bronwyn Ayla Lucas, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Longzhi Tan, Stanford University, USA
Peptides as the Future of Biological Drugs
Miguel Castanho, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Chair
Joel Schneider, NCI, NIH, USA
Robert Hancock, University of British of Columbia, Canada
Ana Salomé Veiga, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Catherine Volle, Cornell College, USA - Symp Select
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Gating Modalities of Mechanically-Activated Ion Channels
Swetha Murthy, Oregon Health & Science University, USA, Chair
Medha Pathak, University of California, Irvine, USA
Eduardo Perozo, University of Chicago, USA
Bailong Xiao, Tsinghua University, China
Asuka Hatano, University of California, Davis, USA - Symp Select
Climate Change: Adaptation to Temperature Changes
Kavita Rangan, University of California, San Diego, USA, Chair
David Savage, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Cesar Cuevas-Velazquez, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Peter Agbo, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, USA
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
New Insights into Ion Channel Regulation
Anna Bukiya, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA, Co-Chair
Avia Rosenhouse-Dantsker, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, Co-Chair
Tamara Rosenbaum, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico 
Kailash Gulshan, Cleveland State University, USA
Doreen Matthies, NICHD, NIH, USA - Symp Select
Intrinsically Disordered Regions in Transcriptional Regulation
Benjamin Sabari, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA, Chair
Manyu Du, Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany
Denes Hnisz, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
Wonki Cho, KAIST, South Korea
Edward Lemke, Institute of Molecular Biology, Germany - Symp Select
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Systems Biology from Molecules to Communities
Lacramioara Bintu, Stanford University, USA, Chair
Zaida Luthey-Schulten, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Elizabeth Jerison, University of Chicago, USA
Arjun Raj, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nils Walter, University of Michigan, USA - Symp Select
Biophysics of ER and Secretory Pathway
Sonya Neal, University of California, San Diego, USA, Chair
Christine Mayr, Sloan Kettering Institute, USA
Tae-Young Yoon, Seoul National University, South Korea
Andreas Ernst, University of California, San Diego, USA
Kandice Levental, University of Virginia, USA - Symp Select
Tamara Bidone, University of Utah, USA
Rainer A. Böckmann, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Rikki M. Garner, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Seán M. Murray, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany
Gregor Posnjak, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany
Erdinc Sezgin, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden - Paper of the Year - Early Career Investigator Award
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Ibrahim Cissé, Mad-Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany Co-Chair
Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego, USA, Co-Chair
Jürgen Plitzko, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany
Edward C. Twomey, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jacalyn Vogel, McGill University, Canada
Michelle Wang, Cornell University, USA
Dynamics Driving Allostery
Gilad Haran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Chair
Ivet Bahar, Stony Brook University, USA
Banu Ozkan, Arizona State University, USA
Denise Okafor, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Wen Ma, University of Vermount, USA - Symp Select
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Genome Organization
Ana Pombo, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany, Chair
Leonid Mirny, MIT, USA
Yamini Dalal, NCI, NIH, USA
Clodagh O'Shea, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Mustafa Mir, University of Pennsylvania, USA - Symp Select
Emerging Concepts in Microtubule Function
Sabine Petry, Princeton University, USA, Chair
Katerina Toropova, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Kassandra Ori-McKenney, University of California, Davis, USA
Justin Kollman, University of Washington, USA
Carles Asbury, University of Washington, USA - Symp Select
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Plant Biophysics
Lucia Strader, Duke University, USA, Chair
Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Martin Howard, John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
Wolfgang Busch, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Shishir Chundawat, Rutger University, USA - Symp Select
Membrane Lipidomics of Multiresistant Bacteria
Mibel Aguilar, Monash University, Australia, Chair
Megan O'Mara, The University of Queensland, Australia
Kelly Hines, University of Georgia, USA
Jessica Seeliger, Stony Brook University, USA
Vasileios Petrou, Rutgers University, USA - Symp Select