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.
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
Speaker to be announced
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
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
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
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
Supramolecular Assemblies in Membrane Signaling
Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University, China, Chair
Tao Che, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Francesca Vallese, Columbia University, USA
Daniel Minor, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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
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
Speaker to be announced
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
Speaker to be announced
Membrane Asymmetry - Biogenesis, Mechanics, and Regulation
Sarah Veatch, University of Michigan, USA, Chair
Milka Doktorova, University of Virginia, USA
Mikhail Bogdanov, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Rumiana Dimova, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
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
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
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
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
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
Mitochondrial Dynamics and Regulation in Health and Disease
Yuriy Kirichok, University of California, San Francisco, USA, Chair
Konstanze Winklhofer, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Danielle Grotjahn, Scripps Research Institute, USA
Jason Mears, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Optogenetics: From Signaling to Cell Behavior
Keiichi Inoue, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Chair
Barney Bryson, University College London, United Kingdom
Susan Rempe, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Joanna Mattis, University of Michigan, USA
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
Debora Marks, Harvard University, 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
Correlated Platforms for Visual Proteomics
Misha Kudryashev, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany, Chair
Ariane Briegel , Leiden University, The Netherlands
Qiangjun Zhou, Vanderbilt University, USA
Peijun Zhang, University of Oxford, United Kingdom