The Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

As science becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting continues its long-held reputation for bringing together leading scientists from the all over the world who work at the interface of the life, physical, and computational sciences.

The dynamic five-day meeting provides attendees with opportunities to share their latest unpublished findings and learn the newest emerging techniques and applications.

Despite its nearly 5,000 attendees, the Meeting is noted for maintaining its “small meeting” feel beginning with the Saturday Subgroup symposia, which allow attendees to meet within their scientific communities. It is also known for its vitality, demonstrated by the over 800 highly interactive daily poster presentations, the more than 500 speakers selected from submitted abstracts, the many career development programs for those working in academia, industry, and agencies throughout the world, and its advocacy and education programs.

 

Abstract Categories

Proteins

• 1A Protein Structure and Conformation
  1B Protein Structure, Prediction and Design
  1C Protein Stability, Folding and Chaperones
  1D Protein-Small Molecule Interactions
  1E Protein Assemblies
  1F Protein Dynamics and Allostery
  1G Membrane Protein Structures
  1H Membrane Protein Dynamics
  1I Membrane Protein Folding
  1J Enzyme Funciton, Cofactors and Post-translational Modifications
  1K Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
  1L Protein Aggregates
  1M Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation

Nucleic Acids

• 2A DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair
  2B Transcription
  2C Ribosomes and Translation
  2D DNA Structure and Dynamics
  2E RNA Structure and Dynamics
  2F Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions
  2G Chromatin and the Nucleoid

Lipid Bilayers and Membranes

• 3A Membrane Physical Chemistry
  3B Membrane Dynamics
  3C Membrane Active Peptides
  3D Membrane Fusion and Non-Bilayer Structures
  3E Membrane Structure
  3F Protein-Lipid Interactions: Channels
  3G Protein-Lipid Interactions: Structures
  3H General Protein-Lipid Interactions

Cell Physiology and Biophysics

• 4A Membrane Receptors and Signal Transduction
  4B Mechanosensation
  4C Exocytosis and Endocytosis
  4D Calcium Signaling
  4E Intracellular Calcium Channels and Calcium Sparks and Waves
  4F Excitation-Contraction Coupling
  4G Cardiac, Smooth and Skeletal Muscle Electrophysiology
  4H Muscle Regulation
  4I Intracellular Organelle Dynamics

Channels

• 5A Voltage-gated Na Channels
  5B Voltage-gated Ca Channels
  5C Voltage-gated K Channels
  5D TRP Channels
  5E Ligand-gated Channels
  5F Ion Channel Regulatory Mechanisms
  5G Ion Channels, Pharmacology and Disease
  5H Anion Channels
  5I Other Channels

Transporters and Bioenergetics

• 6A Membrane Pumps, Transporters, and Exchangers
  6B Bioenergetics and Photosynthesis
  6C Mitochondria in Cell Life and Death

Cytoskeleton, Motility, And Motors

• 7A Skeletal Muscle Mechanics, Structure, and Regulation
  7B Cardiac Muscle Mechanics and Structure
  7C Cardiac Muscle Regulation
  7D Smooth Muscle Mechanics, Structure, and Regulation
  7E Actin Structure, Dynamics, and Associated Proteins
  7F Microtubules, Structure, Dynamics, and Associated Proteins
  7G Kinesins, Dyneins, and Other Microtubule-based Motors
  7H Myosins
  7I Cytoskeletal Assemblies and Dynamics
  7J Cell Mechanics, Mechanosensing, and Motility
  7K Cytoskeletal-based Intracellular Transport
  7L Bacterial Mechanics, Cytoskeleton, and Motility

Systems Biology

• 8A Modeling of Biological Systems
  8B Imaging Approaches in Systems and Synthetic Biology
  8C Analysis of Genetic, Metabolic, and Cellular Networks
  8D Novel Techniques for Systems and Synthetic Biology

Biophysics of Neuroscience

• 9A Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
  9B Systems Neuroscience
  9C Computational Neuroscience

New Developments in Biophysical Techniques

• 10A EPR and NMR: Spectroscopy and Imaging
  10B Electron Microscopy
  10C Diffraction and Scattering Techniques
  10D Molecular Dynamics
  10E Computational Methods and Bioinformatics
  10F Optical Microscopy and Superresolution Imaging
  10G Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
  10H Optical Spectroscopy: CD, UV-VIS, Vibrational, Fluorescence
  10I Force Spectroscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Bioengineering and Biomaterials

• 11A Bioengineering
  11B Biosensors
  11C Biosurfaces
  11D Micro- and Nanotechnology
  11E Biomaterials

Biophysics Education

• 12A Biophysics Education