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 16, 2025
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Massive Quantitative Proteome-Wide Biophysics
Sina Ghaemmaghami, University of Rochester, USA, Chair
Klará Hlouchová, Charles University, Czech Republic
John van Noort, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Chin Fen Teo, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Sebastian Deindl, Uppsala University, Sweden - Symp Select
Mitochondrial Dynamics and Regulation in Health and Disease
Yuriy Kirichok, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, Chair
Konstanze Winklhofer, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Danielle Grotjahn, Scripps Research Institute, USA
Jason Mears, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Shu-ou Shan, California Institute of Technology, USA - Symp Select
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Mechanisms of Cell Wall Biopolymer Assembly
Syma Khalid, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Chair
Lynette Cegelski, Stanford University, USA
Jochen Zimmer, University of Virginia, USA
Isabelle Marcotte, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
Andra Schromm, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Leibniz Lungenzentrum, Germany - Symp Select
Innovations in RNA Therapeutics
Blanton Tolbert, HHMI, USA, Chair
Gene Yeo, University of California, San Diego, USA
Hirohide Saito, Kyoto University, Japan
Andrea Kasinski, Purdue University, USA
David B. Heisler, Duquesne University, USA - Symp Select
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Regulatory Mechanisms in Ion Channel Gating
Merritt Maduke, Stanford University, Chair
Stephan Pless, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Julio Cordero-Morales, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Irina Vetter, University of Queensland, Australia
Tibor Rohacs, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, USA - Symp Select
Integrins and Matrix Proteins
Klaus Hahn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Chair
Timothy Springer, Harvard University, USA
Valerie Weaver, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Jeremy Hollis, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA
Nancy R. Forde, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Symp Select
Monday, February 17, 2025
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Supramolecular Assemblies in Membrane Signaling
Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University, China, Chair
Tao Che, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Francesca Vallese, The Advanced Science Research Center, USA
Daniel Minor, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Ziao Fu, Washington University in St. Louis, USA - Symp Select
Engineering Biological Macromolecules for Cellular Biophysics
Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago, USA, Chair
Galia Debelouchina, University of California, San Diego, USA
Matthew Paszek, Cornell University, USA
Gonzalo Cosa, McGill University, Canada
Nikolay Dokholyan, Penn State College of Medicine, USA - Symp Select
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Mechanobiology: The Role of Forces in Development
Julie Theriot, University of Washington, USA, Chair
Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, University of Toronto, Canada
Padmini Rangamani, University of California, San Diego, USA
Kate Poole, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Samhita Banavar, Princeton University, USA - Symp Select
Optogenetics: From Signaling to Cell Behavior
Keiichi Inoue, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Chair
Barney Bryson, University College London, United Kingdom - canceled
Susan Rempe, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Joanna Mattis, University of Michigan, USA
Kai Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA - Symp Select
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
AI-ML in Drug Discovery and Development
Jens Meiler, Vanderbilt University, USA, Chair
Jianing Li, Purdue University, USA
Vsevolod Katritch, University of Southern California, USA
Martin Vögele, Schrödinger Inc., USA
Giulia Morra, Institute of Chemistry of Molecular Recognition (ICRM), CNR, Italy - Symp Select
Label-free Approaches to Characterizing Membranes and Membrane Assemblies
Carlos Baiz, University of Texas at Austin, USA, Chair
Frederick Heberle, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Elizabeth Kelley, NIST, USA
Arthur Laganowsky, Texas A&M University, USA
Guillermo Moreno Pescador, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Symp Select
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Membrane Asymmetry - Biogenesis, Mechanics, and Regulation
Sarah Veatch, University of Michigan, USA, Chair
Milka Doktorova, Stockholm University, Sweden
Mikhail Bogdanov, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Rumiana Dimova, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Huanghe Yang, Duke University, USA - Symp Select
Viral Assembly and Pathways for Host Cell Interaction
Roya Zandi, University of California, Riverside, USA, Chair
Owen Pornillos, University of Utah, USA
Lars-Anders Carlson, Umea University, Sweden
Robert Dick, Cornell University, USA
Peter Hinterdorfer, Johannes Kepler University Linz - JKU, Austria - Symp Select
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: A Peek Away from the Lamppost
Rohit Pappu, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, Chair
Julie Forman-Kay, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Jeanne Stachowiak, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Birthe Kragelund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gabriella Heller, University College London, United Kingdom - Symp Select
Novel Mechanisms in Membrane Transport
Aravind Penmatsa, Indian Institute of Science, India, Chair 
John Rubinstein, University of Toronto, Canada
David Drew, Stockholm University, Sweden
Inga Hänelt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Damian C. Ekiert, Johns Hopkins University, USA - Symp Select
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Alaji Bah, Suny Upstate Medical University, USA
Breann Brown, Vanderbilt University, USA
Oleta Johnson, MIT, USA
Wade Zeno, University of South Carolina, USA
New Biophysical Approaches Across Length Scales
Madhavi Krishnan, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Chair
Eva Nogales, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Je-Kyung Ryu, Seoul National University, South Korea
Ron Dror, Stanford University, USA
James Glazier, Indiana University, USA - Symp Select
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Novel Techniques in Membrane Biology
William Prinz, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA, Chair
Gia Voeltz, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Edward Lyman, University of Delaware, USA
Sarah Rouse, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Poul Bendix, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark - Symp Select
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Condensates: From Characterization to Function and Application
Xuebiao Yao, University of Science and Technology, China, Chair
Keren Lasker, Scripps Research Institute, USA
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke University, USA
Tsing-Young Dora Tang, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
Jinqing Huang, Hong Kong University of Science and Tech - Symp Select
Correlated Platforms for Visual Proteomics
Shiwei Zhu, Case Wester Reserve University, USA
Ariane Briegel , Leiden University, The Netherlands
Qiangjun Zhou, Vanderbilt University, USA
Peijun Zhang, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Wei Dai, Rutgers University, USA - Symp Select