About this Event
NYC-ISB26
NYC-Integrative Structural Biology 2026 symposium explores the challenges and opportunities of using integrative structural biology in research, highlighting disciplines such as light microscopy, mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography, NMR, cryo-EM, and computational approaches. The main symposium and reception will be Thursday, October 8 and continued on Friday, October 9 at ASRC. The morning of October 8 will be workshops at NYSBC & ASRC.
Keynote Speakers:
- Anna Pyle, Yale University
- Jeffrey Kieft, New York Structural Biology Center
- Peng Yuan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Invited Speakers:
- Mohammed AlQuraishi, Columbia University
- Moitrayee Bhattacharyya, Yale University
- Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, City University of New York
- Marta Filizola, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- George Khelashvili, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Timothée Lionnet, New York University
- Max Prigozhin, Harvard University
- Rebeccah Warmack, Yale University
Additional talks chosen from abstracts.
Workshops:
- TFS: Unlocking Cellular Secrets: The Power of Cryo-Electron Tomography (Cryo-ET)
- MiTeGen: cryoEM tools
- NanoTemper: technologies to characterize thermal unfolding, particle sizing, and aggregation
- and more.
Program committee:
Alisha Jones (New York University) & Simon Scheuring (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Symposium organizers:
Ed Eng (New York Structural Biology Center) & Pilar Cossio (Flatiron Institute)
Symposium Thursday Oct 8
🕑: 08:30 AM - 07:30 PM
Symposium Thursday October 8, 2026 at ASRC
Info: Theme of the day: New frontiers and modalities
🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Workshops registration and coffee
🕑: 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Workshop sessions 1 & 2
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Symposium registration and coffee
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Opening and Opening Keynote
Host: Anna Pyle, Yale University
🕑: 12:15 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch, posters and tours
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:40 PM
Session 1
Host: Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, City University of New York
Info: Emergent Function Across Biological Scales
🕑: 03:40 PM - 04:00 PM
Coffee break
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Session 1 (continued)
Info: Emergent Function Across Biological Scales
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Session 1: Keynote
Host: Jeffrey Kieft
🕑: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Reception, posters and vendor tables
Symposium Friday Oct 9
🕑: 08:30 AM - 04:30 PM
Symposium Friday Oct 9, 2026
Info: Theme of the day: Opportunities and setting new goals
🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
Registration and coffee at NYSBC
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Session 2
Host: Mohammed AlQuraishi, Columbia University
Info: Predictive Biological Molecular Modeling
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee break
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Session 2 (cont.)
Info: Predictive Biological Molecular Modeling
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:25 PM
Session 3
Host: Moitrayee Bhattacharyya, Yale University
Info: Mechanisms of Molecular Function
🕑: 02:25 PM - 02:45 PM
Short break
🕑: 02:45 AM - 03:10 PM
Session 3 (cont.)
Info: Mechanisms of Molecular Function
🕑: 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM
Closing keynote
Host: Peng Yuan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Wrap up
Event venue & nearby stays
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, 85 Saint Nicholas Terrace, New York, United States
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