Biophysical Society BPS

Biophysical Society BPS takes place on 20–24 February 2027 at Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia. It is organised by Biophysical Society, and B2DB lists 168 speakers and 68 sessions announced so far.

The Biophysical Society Annual Meeting brings together scientists from around the world who work at the interface of the life, physical and computational sciences. The five-day meeting, held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on February 20-24, 2027, offers attendees the chance to share unpublished findings and learn emerging techniques and applications. Its program includes Subgroup symposia, poster presentations, speakers selected from submitted abstracts, and career development programs.

Key facts

Keynote speakers

• Alessio Accardi Weill Cornell Medicine
• Susan Marqusee University of California, Berkeley

Speakers (168)

Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

• Heather Pinkett Associate Professor, Northwestern University
• James Shorter University of Pennsylvania
• Andrew Lombardo University at Buffalo (SUNY)
• Jungsan Sohn Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Pilar Cossio Flatiron Institute
• Jonathan Schlebach Purdue University
• Alistair Boettiger Stanford University
• Brian Fuglestad The Wistar Institute
• Caitlin Davis Yale University
• Cecilia Clementi Freie Universität Berlin
• Christine Dunham Emory University
• Constance J. Jeffery University of Illinois Chicago
• Dmitry Terentyev Ohio State University
• Edward Lyman University of Delaware
• Elizabeth Duran University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Elizabeth Kellogg St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Filippo Mancia Columbia University
• Hawa Racine Thiam Stanford University
• Hugo Sanabria Clemson University
• Je-Kyung Ryu Seoul National University
• Jeetain Mittal Texas A&M University
• Jie Xiao Johns Hopkins University
• Justin Taraska NHLBI, NIH
• Karin Busch
• Kenneth A. Dill Stony Brook University
• Kollin Schultz University of Pennsylvania
• Lauren Slosky University of Minnesota
• Liang Feng Stanford University
• Lin Tian Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
• Lori Isom University of Michigan
• Lucia Chemes Universidad Nacional de San Martin
• Noelia Ferruz Centre for Genomic Regulation
• Olga Mayans University of Konstanz
• Osama Harraz University of Vermont
• Peter Tieleman University of Calgary
• Priscilla Hwang Virginia Commonwealth University
• Qiangjun Zhou Vanderbilt University
• Rajan Lamichhane University of Tennessee
• Randy Stockbridge University of Michigan
• Rebecca Wells University of Pennsylvania
• Ruobo Zhou Pennsylvania State University
• Sally Pias New Mexico Tech
• Samantha Harris University of Arizona
• Scott Forth Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Shanna Hamilton University of Arizona
• Shey-Shing Sheu Thomas Jefferson University
• Sudipta Maiti BITS-Pilani Hyderabad and TIFR Mumbai
• Surabhi K. Sreenivas Harvard University
• Tina Izard UF Scripps
• Verónica Eisner
• Viviana Monje University at Buffalo
• Yi-Wei Chang University of Pennsylvania
• Yun Chen Johns Hopkins University
• Yun Lyna Luo Western University of Health Sciences
• Laura Itzhaki University Teaching Officer, Cambridge University
• Petra Schwille Director, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
• Ilya Levental University of Virginia
• Lena Pernas University of California, Los Angeles
• Alessio Accardi Weill Cornell Medicine
• Ana-Nicoleta Bondar University of Bucharest
• Susan Marqusee University of California, Berkeley
• Ai Yamamoto Columbia University
• Alan Rubin University of Melbourne
• Alexey Ladokhin Kansas University Medical Center
• Alisha Jones New York University
• Amélie Stein University of Copenhagen
• Andreas Martin University of California, Berkeley
• Andrew Kruse Harvard University
• Angelika Lampert RWTH Aachen University
• Ann Marie Stanley AstraZeneca
• Anna Sundborger-Lunna Uppsala University
• Anne Kenworthy University of Virginia School of Medicine
• Anum Glasgow Columbia University
• Banu Ozkan Arizona State University
• Bin Wu Johns Hopkins University
• Brett Kroncke Vanderbilt University
• Carolyn Moores Birkbeck, University of London
• Carrie Bernecky Institute of Science and Technology Austria
• Charles Gersbach Duke University
• Charles Sanders Vanderbilt University
• Christophe Chipot Université de Lorraine
• Christopher Radka University of Kentucky
• Denise Okafor The Pennsylvania State University
• Dennis Discher University of Pennsylvania
• Donald Hamelbert Georgia State University
• Douglas Fowler University of Washington
• Edward Lemke JGU & IMB Mainz
• Eric Schreiter HHMI Janelia Research Campus
• Erika Holzbaur University of Pennsylvania
• Erin Dueber Genentech
• Filip Van Petegem University of British Columbia
• Gabriel Rocklin Northwestern University
• George Makhatadze Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Gero Wedemann Hochschule Stralsund
• Heedeok Hong Michigan State University
• Hong Li Florida State University
• Hung Do NIH
• Jana Selent Pompeu Fabra University
• Janice Robertson University of Toronto
• Jennifer Kavran Johns Hopkins University
• Jorine Eeftens Radboud University
• Julia Kamenz University of Groningen
• Justin Lemkul Virginia Tech
• Kalina Hristova Johns Hopkins University
• Kalli Kappel University of California, Los Angeles
• Katherine Pollard Gladstone Institute
• Kazuhiro Maeshima National Institute of Genetics
• Kristen Verhey University of Michigan
• Kyle Kihn United States Naval Academy
• Kylie Walters NIH
• Lauren D. Hagler Texas A&M University
• Leonardo Medrano Sandonás Dresden University of Technology
• Lexy von Diezmann University of Minnesota
• Linda Columbus University of Virginia
• Liqun Zhang Hampton University
• Luca Scorrano University of Padova
• Maowei Dong Pennsylvania State University (NCEMS)
• Matia Utichi Danish Cancer Institute
• Michael Marty The University of Texas at Austin
• Michael Rynkiewicz Boston University
• Michael Wiener Texas Tech University
• Michele Cosi Pennsylvania State University (NCEMS)
• Nadine Ortner University of Innsbruck
• Natalie Krahn University of Georgia
• Nathalie Reuter University of Bergen
• Nelli Mnatsakanyan Pennsylvania State University
• Nils G. Walter University of Michigan
• Nipavan Chiamvimonvat University of Arizona
• Nir Ben-Tal Tel Aviv University
• Nobuhiko Tokuriki Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia
• Paul Robustelli Dartmouth College
• Paul Selvin University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Peter Kasson Georgia Institute of Technology
• Qing Fan Columbia University
• Rajnish Ranjan EPFL
• Reginald McNulty University of California, Irvine
• Rhiju Das Stanford University
• Robert Stroud UCSF
• Robert Trachman New England Biolabs
• Rosana Collepardo-Guevara University of Cambridge
• Sam Walcott Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Samuel Sternberg Columbia University
• Sandra Gabelli Merck and Co.
• Sara Capponi IBM
• Sharon Rozovsky University of Delaware
• Shasha Chong California Institute of Technology
• Sheref Mansy University of Trento
• Simon Alberti Dresden University of Technology
• Simon Olsson Chalmers University of Technology
• Sonja Schmid University of Basel
• Stefan Raunser Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
• Stephen Fried Johns Hopkins University
• Steven Mansoor Oregon Health & Science University
• Steven Marx Columbia University
• Swetha Murthy Oregon Health & Science University
• Syma Khalid University of Oxford
• Thomas M. Osborn Popp Oregon State University
• Thomas Voets KU Leuven
• Tim Knowles University of Birmingham
• Tingting Yang Columbia University
• Tsutomu Suzuki The University of Tokyo
• Vitold Galkin Old Dominion University
• William C. Wimley Tulane University
• William Hancock The Pennsylvania State University
• Ya-Ming Hou Thomas Jefferson University
• Yale Goldman University of California, San Diego
• Yann Chemla University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Yulong Li Peking University

Most represented companies

• Columbia University — 7 speakers
• Johns Hopkins University — 6 speakers
• University of Pennsylvania — 6 speakers
• Stanford University — 4 speakers
• University of Michigan — 4 speakers
• University of Arizona — 3 speakers
• Vanderbilt University — 3 speakers
• Dresden University of Technology — 2 speakers
• Harvard University — 2 speakers
• NIH — 2 speakers

Agenda (68 sessions)

Day 1 — Friday 19 February 2027

• Drug Discovery for Ion Channels XXVII 08:00–17:15 · Satellite Meetings — Alessio Accardi, Rajnish Ranjan, Thomas Voets
• Stephen H. White Memorial Symposium 08:00–17:00 · Satellite Meetings — Jonathan Schlebach, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar, Alexey Ladokhin, Anne Kenworthy +9 more

Day 2 — Saturday 20 February 2027

• Muscle Biology Subgroup Symposium 08:30–12:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Samantha Harris, Shanna Hamilton
• Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, and Metabolism Subgroup Symposium 08:30–12:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Dmitry Terentyev, Karin Busch, Sally Pias, Verónica Eisner
• Biopolymers in vivo Subgroup Symposium 08:30–12:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Caitlin Davis
• Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Symposium 08:30–12:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Sudipta Maiti
• Cryo-EM Subgroup Symposium 08:30–12:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Kollin Schultz, Qiangjun Zhou, Tina Izard, Yi-Wei Chang
• Membrane Fusion, Fission, & Traffic Subgroup Symposium 08:30–12:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Justin Taraska
• Channels, Receptors, & Transporters Subgroup Symposium 08:30–12:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Filippo Mancia
• Membrane Transport Subgroup Symposium 13:30–17:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Liang Feng
• Bioengineering Subgroup Symposium 13:30–17:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Priscilla Hwang
• Single-Molecule Forces, Manipulation, & Visualization Subgroup Symposium 13:30–17:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Je-Kyung Ryu, Rajan Lamichhane
• Physical Cell Biology Subgroup Symposium 13:30–17:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Yun Chen
• Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup Symposium 13:30–17:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Hugo Sanabria, Jeetain Mittal, Lucia Chemes
• Macromolecular Machines & Assemblies Subgroup Symposium 13:30–15:00 · Subgroup Symposia — Jungsan Sohn
• Mechanobiology Subgroup Symposium 13:30–17:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Rebecca Wells
• Motility & Cytoskeleton Subgroup Symposium 13:30–15:00 · Subgroup Symposia — Andrew Lombardo, Scott Forth
• Membrane Structure & Function Subgroup Symposium 13:30–17:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Edward Lyman
• Theory & Computation Subgroup Symposium 16:00–17:30 · Subgroup Symposia — Pilar Cossio

Day 3 — Sunday 21 February 2027

• Postdoctoral Breakfast 07:30–08:30 · Professional Development & Networking
• Lipid Solvation of Membrane Proteins 08:15–10:15 · Symposia — Peter Tieleman, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar, Heedeok Hong, Michael Marty
• Featured Subgroup: Nanoscale Approaches to Biology 08:15–10:15 · Featured Subgroup Symposium — Alistair Boettiger, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Lexy von Diezmann, Sonja Schmid
• Committee on Sustainability Session 08:45–10:15 · Professional Development & Networking
• Exhibitor Presentation: Bruker 09:30–11:00 · Exhibitor Presentations
• President's Symposium: Biophysics in Biotech and Pharma 10:45–12:45 · President's Symposium — Ann Marie Stanley, Erin Dueber, Robert Trachman, Sandra Gabelli
• Featured Subgroup: Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies 10:45–12:45 · Featured Subgroup Symposium — Jungsan Sohn, Kylie Walters, Nils G. Walter, Simon Alberti
• GPCRs in Focus: Dynamics, Organization, and Function 10:45–12:45 · Symposia — Lauren Slosky, Andrew Kruse, Hung Do, Jana Selent +1 more
• Undergraduate Student Pizza "Breakfast" 11:30–13:00 · Professional Development & Networking
• Exhibitor Presentation: Sophion Bioscience 11:30–13:00 · Exhibitor Presentations
• Public Affairs Session 14:30–16:00 · Professional Development & Networking
• Mitochondria Organization and Dynamics in Health and Disease 16:00–18:00 · Symposia — Shey-Shing Sheu, Lena Pernas, Erika Holzbaur, Luca Scorrano +1 more
• Optical Probes and Biosensors for Neuroscience 16:00–18:00 · Symposia — Lin Tian, Eric Schreiter, Swetha Murthy, Yulong Li

Day 4 — Monday 22 February 2027

• Graduate Student Breakfast 07:30–08:30 · Professional Development & Networking
• Biophysical Origins of Life 08:15–10:15 · Symposia — Kenneth A. Dill, Petra Schwille, Julia Kamenz, Nir Ben-Tal +1 more
• Exhibitor Presentation: Malvern Panalytical 09:30–11:00 · Exhibitor Presentations
• Meet the Editors - Biophysical Journal, Biophysical Reports, and The Biophysicist 10:15–11:15 · Professional Development & Networking
• Exhibitor Presentation: Avanti Research 10:30–12:00 · Exhibitor Presentations
• Black in Biophysics 10:45–12:45 · Black in Biophysics — Heather Pinkett, Hawa Racine Thiam, Denise Okafor, Donald Hamelbert +2 more
• Protein Ancestry and Adaptation 10:45–12:45 · Symposia — Randy Stockbridge, Banu Ozkan, George Makhatadze, Jennifer Kavran +1 more
• Featured Subgroup: Theory and Computation 10:45–12:45 · Featured Subgroup Symposium — Pilar Cossio, Viviana Monje, Anum Glasgow, Christophe Chipot +3 more
• Annual Meeting of the Student Chapters 11:00–12:30 · Professional Development & Networking
• Exhibitor Presentation: Leica Microsystems 11:30–13:00 · Exhibitor Presentations
• Exhibitor Presentation: Nanion Technologies 12:30–14:00 · Exhibitor Presentations
• Public Affairs Committee Policy Session 13:00–14:30 · Professional Development & Networking
• Biophysics 101 13:30–15:00 · Professional Development & Networking
• Exhibitor Presentation: BPS Bioscience Inc 13:30–15:00 · Exhibitor Presentations
• NSF-NCEMS Hands-On Workshop: You Have Omics-Scale Data. Now What? 13:30–15:30 · Professional Development & Networking — Maowei Dong, Michele Cosi
• Own Your Career: Self-Advocacy Skills That Get Results 14:30–16:00 · Professional Development & Networking — Constance J. Jeffery, Elizabeth Duran, Jie Xiao, Surabhi K. Sreenivas
• The Thick and Thin of It: New Structure-Based Models of Sarcomere Protein and Myofilaments 16:00–18:00 · Symposia — Olga Mayans, Michael Rynkiewicz, Sam Walcott, Stefan Raunser +1 more
• Protein Ensembles 16:00–18:00 · Symposia — Cecilia Clementi, Edward Lemke, Gabriel Rocklin, Paul Robustelli +1 more
• The 2027 Biophysical Society Lecture: Touring the Energy Landscape 20:00 · Biophysical Society Lecture — Susan Marqusee

Day 5 — Tuesday 23 February 2027

• Structure, Function, and Regulation of Cardiac and Neuronal Ion Channels 08:15–10:15 · Symposia — Osama Harraz, Angelika Lampert, Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, Steven Mansoor +1 more
• Frontiers in Genome Engineering 08:15–10:15 · Symposia — Elizabeth Kellogg, Charles Gersbach, Hong Li, Katherine Pollard +1 more
• tRNA 10:45–12:45 · Symposia — Christine Dunham, Natalie Krahn, Tsutomu Suzuki, Ya-Ming Hou +1 more
• Featured Subgroup: Motility and Cytoskeleton 10:45–12:45 · Featured Subgroup Symposium — Andrew Lombardo, Carolyn Moores, Dennis Discher, Kristen Verhey +1 more
• Founding and Establishing a Research Laboratory at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution 12:00–13:30 · Professional Development & Networking
• Careers in Industry Panel: A Q&A Panel 13:00–14:30 · Professional Development & Networking
• Inside NIH: Explore Biophysics Grant Opportunities in Key Institutes 13:30–15:30 · Professional Development & Networking
• Inside Perspectives and Opportunities: NSF Grants 15:30–17:00 · Professional Development & Networking
• Exotic Membranes and Lipids 16:00–18:00 · Symposia — Christopher Radka, Thomas M. Osborn Popp, Tim Knowles
• Deep Mutational Scanning 19:30–21:30 · Workshops — Jonathan Schlebach, Alan Rubin, Amélie Stein, Douglas Fowler
• Best Practices in Molecular Dynamics Simulations 19:30–21:30 · Workshops — Yun Lyna Luo, Leonardo Medrano Sandonás, Liqun Zhang, Matia Utichi +1 more
• AI in Biophysics 19:30–21:30 · Workshops — Noelia Ferruz, Brett Kroncke, Gero Wedemann, Kalli Kappel +1 more
• Optical Traps in Cellular Context 19:30–21:30 · Workshops — Ruobo Zhou, Jorine Eeftens, Paul Selvin, Yann Chemla

Day 6 — Wednesday 24 February 2027

• Interactions that Drive Biology at the Membrane Surface 08:15–10:15 · Symposia — Brian Fuglestad, Ilya Levental, Anna Sundborger-Lunna, Nathalie Reuter +1 more
• Protein Homeostasis: Players and Mechanisms 08:15–10:15 · Symposia — James Shorter, Laura Itzhaki, Ai Yamamoto, Andreas Martin +1 more
• RNA Conformations 10:45–12:45 · Symposia — Alisha Jones, Bin Wu, Carrie Bernecky, Rhiju Das
• Membrane Proteinopathies 10:45–12:45 · Symposia — Lori Isom, Filip Van Petegem, Nadine Ortner, Tingting Yang

Organisers, sponsors and partners

Organiser (1)

Biophysical Society

Exhibitors (11)

Thermo Fisher · Springer Nature · ASI/Applied Scientific Instrumentation · LUMICKS · HORIBA · Hamamatsu Corporation · Zaber Technologies Inc. · Ibidi USA, Inc. · Nicoya · St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · Worthington Biochemical Corporation

Source: the published agenda. See how B2DB compiles its records.