Michael Blinov and Margaret Johnson from John Hopkins University were hosting the Special Interest Subgroup session on Biophysical Modeling of the Cell at Cell Bio 2023 – an ASCB/EMBO (https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2023/) meeting in Boston, MA, December 2-6. The speakers include Elizabeth Read (UCI), Margaret Johnson (JHU), Jason Haugh (NCSU), Graham Johnson (Allen Institute), and Ben O’Shaughnessy (Columbia U).