Programme at a Glance

	The Partners	The Places
B	British Biophysical Society	SEC Armadillo, Scottish Event Campus
P	The Physiological Society	SEC Centre, Scottish Event Campus
M	Royal Microscopical Society	University of Glasgow, West End
S	Scottish Microscopy Society	City Chambers, City Centre
I	International Society for Mechanobiology	Kelvingrove Art Gallery, West End
E	Ethics & Innovation Forum

Session Descriptions

We will be updating this section with more information shortly.

British Biophysical Society:
This is the regular meeting of the UK and Irish biophysics community which will, this year, focus on the following themes in biophysics: the single cell, Biophysics in health and disease, in silico biophysics, Engineering biology – joint with the International Symposium on Mechanobiology, Climate change and sustainability and Frontiers in biophysics.

This years programme will include: keynote speakers and speakers selected from submitted abstracts, as well as flash presentations for poster presenters to preview their work, and awards lectures. New this year will be a session devoted to Outreach in Biophysics.

Scottish Microscopy Society
The Scottish Microscopy Society (SMS), was established in 1968 by a group of electron microscopists, but has grown to incorporate the whole spectrum of microscopy with committee members from institutions across disciplines and across Scotland. We aim to bring microscopists from all disciplines together to share techniques, ideas and new technologies.

By hosting this congress in Scotland, the Scottish Microscopy Society is promoting early career microscopists in Scotland by giving them the opportunity to present their research projects. We welcome abstract submissions from anyone who uses or builds microscopes, across all disciplines, and anyone who analyses microscopy data.

The Physiological Society
PIEZOs and the Physiology of Mechanobiology - PIEZO channels attracted major attention in the past 10 years as universal eukaryotic mechanical force sensors of diverse cell types with physiological functions in all major organs. Since their identification in 2010 (Coste et al, Science - doi: 10.1126/science.1193270) and the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Ardem Patapoutian (plenary speaker, SynSci26), there has been rapid expansion of research and publications on PIEZOs, which continues to accelerate (Tian et al 2024 for bibliometric analysis doi: 10.1080/19336950.2024.2396354). There is exciting progress for PIEZO structures, properties, regulation, physiological functions and relevance in human disease and therapeutics. The meeting is expected to provide a timely update on recent, new and anticipated advances in PIEZO knowledge that are topical in possibly all aspects of physiology/ mechanobiology and relevant to all physiologists interested in the control of membrane potential and calcium, sodium and potassium ion signalling in excitable and non-excitable cells.