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Symposium

SMBio 2026 Midwest

Single molecules. Joint research.

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Michigan, US

University of Michigan

Welcome to a new Symposium

We are pleased to announce the SMBio Midwest 26, the symposium focusing on single-molecule research! Featuring keynotes, talks, posters and discussions, this 1.5-day event aims to bring together scientists interested in single-molecule approaches to biology from all over the United States to share their research, connect, and exchange ideas and experiences. Please join the registration list by filling out the form at the bottom of the page.

Organized by

Nils Walter

Professor of Chemistry

University of Michigan

Paul Pease

Sr. Business Development Scientist

LUMICKS

Edwin de Feijter

Sr. Sales Account Manager

LUMICKS

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Keynote speakers

Michelle Wang, PhD

Professor of the Physical Sciences

Cornell University

Michael Poirier, PhD

Professor, Department of Physics

The Ohio State University

Christoph Schmidt, PhD

Professor of Physics

Duke University

Preliminary agenda

Start / End times:

Tuesday November 10 2026 - From 09:00 to 18:00 plus a social event in the evening.
Wednesday November 11 2026 - From 09:00 to around 13:00.

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| Day 1 | | | | | ----- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Time** | **Speaker** | **Affiliation** | **Talk Title** | | 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration & welcome | | | | 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Kickoff day 1 & keynote #1 introduction | | | | 9:10 AM – 9:50 AM | Michelle Wang (Keynote) | Cornell University | Title TBC | | 9:50 AM – 10:15 AM | Michael Stone | University of California Santa Cruz | G-quadruplex destabilization is a unique property of human POT1 and mouse POT1b proteins | | 10:15 AM – 10:40 AM | Bret Freudenthal | University of Kansas Medical Center | Title TBC | | 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee Break (20 min) | | | | 11:00 AM – 11:25 AM | Huan-Xiang Zhou | University of Illinois Chicago | Title TBC | | 11:25 AM – 11:50 AM | Arne Gennerich | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Mechanisms of Force Adaptation in Dynein-Based Transport | | 11:50 AM – 12:15 PM | Hui-Ting Lee | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Conformational Dynamics of Telomeric G-quadruplexes | | 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch Break (1 hr) | | | | 1:15 PM – 1:20 PM | Keynote #2 introduction | | | | 1:20 PM – 2:00 PM | Christoph Schmidt (Keynote) | Duke University | Title TBC | | 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM | Matt Schaich | University of Kansas Medical Center | UV-damaged DNA binding protein stimulates oxidative demethylation by thymine DNA glycosylase by facilitating DNA search and product release | | 2:25 PM – 3:00 PM | Poster flash talks | | | | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Poster session (2 hrs) | | | | 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Yann Chemla | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Single-molecule measurements of the base-pair scale dynamics of a repair helicase on DNA damage | | 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM | Emily Xu (Ben Van Houten lab) | University of Pittsburgh | Real time visualization of how SMUG1 detects modified DNA bases | | 5:30 PM – 5:55 PM | Edwin Antony | Saint Louis University | Title TBC |

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| Day 2 | | | | | ----- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Time** | **Speaker** | **Affiliation** | **Talk Title** | | 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Welcome & coffee + pastries | | | | 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Posters during coffee | | | | 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Kickoff day 2 & keynote #3 introduction | | | | 9:10 AM – 9:50 AM | Michael Poirier (Keynote) | Ohio State University | Single molecule approaches for understanding regulatory mechanisms of genome accessibility | | 9:50 AM – 10:15 AM | Morgan DeSantis | University of Michigan | Title TBC | | 10:15 AM – 10:40 AM | Eva De Alba | University of California, Merced | Title TBC | | 10:40 AM – 10:50 AM | Group Photo | | | | 10:50 AM – 11:10 AM | Coffee Break (20 min) | | | | 11:10 AM – 11:25 AM | Yukun Wang (Shixin Liu lab) | The Rockefeller University | Title TBC | | 11:25 AM – 11:50 AM | Maria Mills | University of Missouri | Magnetic tweezers investigations of the type IA topoisomerase of Mycobacteria | | 11:50 AM – 12:15 PM | Nils Walter | University of Michigan | Title TBC | | 12:15 PM – 12:30 PM | Closing Remarks | | | | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch, posters, and social time | | |

Day 1, Monday 17 March
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Registration and coffee/snacks
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Registration and coffee/snacks
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Registration and coffee/snacks

Day 1, Monday 17 March
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Registration and coffee/snacks
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Registration and coffee/snacks
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Registration and coffee/snacks

Day 1, Monday 17 March
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Registration and coffee/snacks
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Registration and coffee/snacks
12:30 - 1:00 PM	Registration and coffee/snacks

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Pricing

This Symposium requires a registration fee to help make it a fantastic event for everyone. To accommodate a broad variety of people, the pricing model is as follows:

PhD student or Postdoc: $75
PI or Industry: $200

The fee allows us to sustainably organize a recurring, high-quality meeting for the single-molecule community and covers breakfast, lunch and costs for the social networking evening for both days. After your registration is confirmed, we will be in touch to provide you with instructions on payment options.

What’s SMBio?

The SMBio single-molecule biology symposium is a 2-day event, bringing together scientists interested in single-molecule approaches to biology from all over the world to share their research, connect, and exchange ideas and experiences.

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