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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.

Saturday Subgroup Symposium programs will be available for viewing in October.

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)
Bioenergetics, Mitochondria & Metabolism Bioengineering
Biological Fluorescence Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Biopolymers in Vivo Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies
Channels, Receptors & Transporters Mechanobiology
Cryo-EM Membrane Structure and Function
Membrane Fusion, Fission & Traffic Membrane Transport
Nanoscale Approaches Motility and Cytoskeleton
Physical Cell Biology Multiscale Genome Organization
Theory & Computation Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation and 
Visualization

 

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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

Speakers:

1:30 PM James Spudich, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
From Fundamental Biochemistry and Biophysics to Mechanisms to Unique Medicines

 

2:00 PM Christina Huechen, University of California, San Diego, USA
Gliding and Invasion of Toxoplasma gondii

 

2:15 PM Benjamin Larson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Principles of Cellular Behavior: Integrating Cellular Structure, Dynamics, and Decision Making in a Unicellular Walker

 

2:30 PM Jan Brugues, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Robust Cytoplasmic Partitioning by Solving an Intrinsic Cytoskeletal Instability

 

3:05 PM Flash Talks: TBA

 

3:45 PM Ahmet Yildiz, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Regulation of Microtubule Motors by MAPs

 

4:00 PM Charlotte Aumeier, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The Dynamic Microtubule Lattice

 

4:15 PM Peter Bieling, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
Controlling Actin Dynamics at Filament Ends - Structural and Biochemical Insights

 

4:30 PM Kyoko Chiba, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS), Tohoku University, Japan
Biochemical and Biophysical Analysis of ALS-Associated KIF5A Mutant

 

4:45 PM Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, EMBL Australia Node for Single Molecule Science, Australia
Unravelling How Motors and Adaptor Proteins Work Together to Mediate Cargo Transport in Cells

 

5:00 PM Tarun Kapoor, The Rockefeller University, USA
Regulating When and Where a Microtubule Assembles: Put a g-tubulin Ring On It





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