• 2 days.

  • 1 day symposium + 1 day workshop.

  • October 9-10, 2025.

  • Limited to 100 attendees.

Deadlines

Oral abstract deadline: July 31, 2025.

Application deadline: August 18, 2025.

Accepted applicants poster deadline: September 4, 2025.

If you have any questions email:
nyc-isb@nysbc.org

NYC-ISB25 Program committee:
Pilar Cossio, Flatiron Institute & Ed Eng, NYSBC

NYC-ISB Founding organizers:
Ed Eng, NYSBC; Kevin Gardner, ASRC; Jeff Kieft, NYSBC

New York City Integrative Structural Biology Symposium

October 9-10, 2025

hosted by ASRC and NYSBC

Integrative structural biology is a powerful approach to understand biological macromolecular systems. By combining computational methods with structural science disciplines, spatial and temporal models of macromolecular targets in their in-situ context can be determined. The focus of this workshop is to understand the challenges and opportunities of applying integrative structural biology techniques to one’s research. The fields of light microscopy, mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography, NMR, cryo-EM, and computational methods will be highlighted. The topics will cover the best practices and current research toward building structural models across different resolution scales. This workshop will also offer hands-on demos to explore what instrumentation is available to be integrated to address conformational changes, flexibility, and dynamics in macromolecular and cellular structures.

Symposium Agenda

October 9, 2025

Start time End time Event
8:30 AM 9:15 AM Registration and coffee
9:15 AM 12:10 PM Session 1: Biological techniques and challenges in integrative structural biology
9:15 AM 9:25 AM Gathering, welcome and opening
9:25 AM 9:50 AM Elizabeth Campbell (Rockefeller University)
9:50 AM 10:15 AM Anna Lena Steckelberg (Columbia University)
10:15 AM 10:30 AM Patrick Guenther (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
10:30 AM 11:00 AM Coffee break
11:00 AM 11:25 AM Crina Nimigean (Weill Cornell Medicine)
11:25 AM 11:50 AM Ann McDermott (Columbia University)
11:50 AM 12:05 PM Abstract/Sponsor talk
12:05 PM 12:10 PM Announcements
12:10 PM 12:15 PM Group photo
12:15 PM 2:00 PM Lunch, posters, tours and vendor tables
1:00 PM 1:55 PM Main poster session
1:55 PM 5:30 PM Session 2: Computational applications and bottlenecks in integrative structural biology
1:55 PM 2:00 PM Gathering and opening the session
2:00 PM 2:25 PM Ali Punjani (Structura Biotechnology)
2:25 PM 2:50 PM Ellen Zhong (Princeton University)
2:50 PM 3:05 PM Vas Vasiliadis (University of Chicago/Globus)
3:05 PM 3:35 PM Coffee break
3:35 PM 3:40 PM Gathering and opening the session
3:40 PM 3:55 PM Matt Swalley (Vdura)
3:55 PM 4:10 PM Abstract/Sponsor talk
4:10 PM 4:35 PM Smita Krishnaswamy (Yale University)
4:35 PM 5:20 PM Keynote – Dinshaw Patel (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
5:20 PM 5:30 PM Wrap-up and poster awards
5:30 PM 7:30 PM Reception, posters and vendor tables

October 10, 2025

Sart time End time Event
9:00 AM 9:30 AM Registration and coffee at NYSBC
9:30 AM 11:30 PM
Session 3: Workshop sessions
at NYSBC and some sessions at ASRC
12:00 PM 1:00 PM Closing session at ASRC
1:00 PM 1:15 PM Farewell

Sponsored by:

This symposium is limited to 100 attendees.

Applicants will be contacted on a rolling basis. Accepted applications will be contingent on registration.

We will reach out to abstract applicants by the beginning of August. For further inquiries please email the organizers at nyc-isb@nysbc.org.

We are planning on a 100-attendee event to facilitate intimate scientific discussions, but keep the symposium large enough to reach a wide variety of fields.

Applicants will be given instructions to register for the event. Acceptance is contingent on filling in the full registration form on the registration site.

During checkout add Workshop Friday to your cart. We will send a separate sign-up to rank the offered workshops. Assignments will be released in September.

Yes. We are planning for at least half the attendees to participate in our poster session.

Poster board information –

    • Landscape: 36” x 24”
    • Portrait: 36” x 28”

Yes. This will be an in-person on-site event.

This event is planned to be in person. The symposium will not be recording the talks or poster sessions to promote open discussion.