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Active matter
Chairs: Andreas Bausch, Technische Universität München, Germany Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford, UK
Invited speakers: Anna Balazs, University of Pittsburgh, USA Martin Lenz, University of Paris-Sud, France Francesc Sagues, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Selected oral presentations: Oliver Bäumchen, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics, Germany Mauro Chinappi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Makito Miyazaki, Waseda University, Japan
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Applications in biomedical and materials science
Chairs: Tony Cass, Imperial College London, UK Viola Vogel, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Invited speakers: Hermann Gaub, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Rajib Schubert, ETH Zürich, Switzerland William Shih, Harvard University, USA
Selected oral presentations: Hiro Eto, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Germany Ana Guedes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Luciana Stanica, International Centre of Biodynamics, Romania
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Biomimetic structures and systems
Chairs: Adam Perriman, University of Bristol, UK William M Shih, Harvard University, USA
Invited speakers: Hendrik Dietz, Technische Universität München, Germany Philipp Holliger, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Jan van Hest, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Selected oral presentations: Pietro Ciancaglini, USP, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil Peter Crowley, NUI Galway, Ireland Fördös Ferenc, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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Computational biophysics
Chairs: Jeremy Craven, University of Sheffield, UK Helmut Grubmüller, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Invited speakers: Francesco Gervasio, University College London, UK Erik Lindahl, Stockholm University, Sweden Sarah Rauscher, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Selected oral presentations: Elise Duboue-Dijon, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Reinhard Klement, MPI for biophysical Chemistry, Germany Lennart Nilsson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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Correlative, multiscale and functional imaging
Chairs: Pierre-Emmanuelle Milhert, CNRS, Montpellier, France Paul Verkade, University of Bristol, UK
Invited speakers: Paolo Bianchini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy José L Carrascosa, CNB-CSIC, Spain Lucy Collinson, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Selected oral presentations: Janez Strancar, Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia Raveen Tank, University of Sheffield, UK Xiaoqing Zhou, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, China
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Drug discovery and delivery
Chairs: Rob Cooke, Heptares Therapeutics, UK Natalie Strynadka, University of British Columbia, Canada
Invited speakers: Maryam Khoshouei, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany Sally-Ann Poulsen, Griffith University, Australia Eleanor Stride, University of Oxford, UK
Selected oral presentations: Vaida Linkuviene, Vilnius University, Lithuania Beatriz Patricio, Laboratório de Fìsica Biólogica, Brazil Maria Ramalho, LEPABE - Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Portugal
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Evolution, ecology, collective and emergent behaviour
Chairs: Rosalind J Allen, University of Edinburgh, UK Stanislas Leibler, The Rockefeller University, USA
Invited speakers: Nathalie Balaban, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Liedewij Laan, TU Delft, Netherlands Olivier Rivoire, Collège de France, France
Selected oral presentations: Knut Drescher, Philipps University Marburg, Germany Linus Schumacher, Imperial College London, UK Benedikt Von Bronk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
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Experimental and computational approaches to protein design
Chairs: Beth Bromley, Durham University, UK Yechiel Shai, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Invited speakers: Ivan Korendovych, Syracuse University, USA Vikas Nanda, Rutgers University, USA Anna Peacock, University of Birmingham, UK
Selected oral presentations: Cristina Martina, University of Liège, Belgium Federica Rigoldi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Daichi Yamada, Ochanomizu University, Japan
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Forces in and between cells: filaments, membranes and walls
Chairs: Jamie Hobbs, University of Sheffield, UK Michael Sheetz, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore
Invited speakers: Olivier Hamant, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France Ksenija Radotić, University of Belgrade, Serbia Pere Roca-Cusachs Soulere, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Selected oral presentations: Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts, AMOLF, Netherlands Tanuj Sapra, University of Zurich, Switzerland Shayan Shamipour, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
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Imaging molecules of life
Chairs: Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Chikashi Toyoshima, University of Tokyo, Japan
Invited speakers: Toshio Ando, Kanazawa University, Japan John Rubinstein, University of Toronto, Canada Robert Tampe, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Selected oral presentations: Jung Heon Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Sebastian Kruss, Góttingen University, Germany Jaap Van Krugten, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
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Imaging the cell
Chairs: José L Carrascosa, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Spain Mark Leake, University of York, UK
Invited speakers: Martin Booth, University of Oxford, UK John Briggs, EMBL, Germany James McNally, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany
Selected oral presentations: Eva Arnspang Christensen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Lóránd Kelemen, Biological Research Centre, Hungary Sviatlana Shashkova, University of York, UK
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Ionic liquids meet biomolecules
Chairs: Antonio Benedetto, PSI, Switzerland and University College Dublin, Ireland Hans-Joachim Galla, University of Munster, Germany
Invited speakers: Valentine Ananikov, Russian Academy of Science, Russia Antonio Benedetto, PSI, Switzerland and University College Dublin, Ireland Damien Hall, Australian National University, Australia Pannuru Venkatesu, University of Delhi, India
Selected oral presentations: Hans-Joachim Galla, University of Muenster, Germany Sajal Kumar Ghosh, Shiv Nadar University, India Seema Singh, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
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Mechanosensing and mechanoregulation
Chairs: Kristian Franze, University of Cambridge, UK Henk Granzier, University of Arizona, USA
Invited speakers: Alexander D Bershadsky, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore Tom Irving, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain
Selected oral presentations: Amin Doostmohammadi, University of Oxford, UK Victor González-Tarragó, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain Eleonora Minelli, Physics Institute, UCSC, Italy
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Membrane-active peptides
Chairs: John Sanderson, Durham University, UK Frances Separovic, University of Melbourne, Australia
Invited speakers: Marie-Isabel Aguilar, Monash University, Australia Katsumi Matsuzaki, Kyoto University, Japan Yechiel Shai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Selected oral presentations: Elena del Favero, University of Milan, Italy Adam Wollman, University of York, UK Ming Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Membrane permeation: channels
Chairs: Mauro Dalla Serra, National Research Council, Italy Mark Wallace, University of Oxford, UK
Invited speakers: Ben Schuler, University of Zurich, Switzerland Graça Soveral, University of Lisbon, Portugal Ildiko Szabo, University of Padova, Italy
Selected oral presentations: Marc Dämgen, University of Oxford, UK Marjetka Podobnik, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia Bonnie Ann Wallace, University of London, UK
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Membrane permeation: transporters
Chairs: Simon Newstead, University of Oxford, UK Robert Tampé, Biocenter Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Invited speakers: Simon Newstead, University of Oxford, UK Chikashi Toyoshima, University of Tokyo, Japan Ning Yan, Tsinghua University, China
Selected oral presentations: Andre Bazzone, Nanion Technologies, Germany Yves Bollen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Catriona Thompson, University of Glasgow, UK
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Modelling, inference, big data
Chairs: Guy Grant, University of Bedfordshire, UK Joshua Ho, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
Invited speakers: Joshua Ho, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia Christopher Yau, University of Oxford, UK
Selected oral presentations: Florence Bansept, Laboratoire Jean Perrin, UPMC-CNRS, France Yuishi Iwasaki, Ibaraki University, Japan Rajaram Swaminathan, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India Karmen Condic-Jurkic, Australian National University, Australia Nataly Kravchenko-Balasha, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Molecular and cellular processes of energy transduction
Chairs: Edmund Kunji, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Leonid Sazanov, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria
Invited speakers: Carola Hunte, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany Thomas Meier, Imperial College London, UK
Selected oral presentations: Stephane Arbault, University of Bordeaux, France Peter Pohl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Xin Zhao, East China Normal University, China
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Molecular machinery
Chairs: Robert Cross, University of Warwick, UK Claudia Veigel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Invited speakers: Andreas Bausch, Technische Universität München, Germany Zev Bryant, Stanford University, USA Lukas Kapitein, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Selected oral presentations: Sarah Adio, MPI biophysical Chemistry, Germany Arne Gennerich, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA Ryota Iino, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan
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Morphogenesis and development
Chairs: Siobhan Braybrook, University of Cambridge, UK Pierre-François Lenne, Aix Marseille Université, France
Invited speakers: Kristian Franze, University of Cambridge, UK Jamie Hobbs, University of Sheffield, UK Ewa Paluch, University College London, UK
Selected oral presentations: Silvia Grigolon, The Francis Crick Institute, UK Timothy Saunders, National University of Singapore, Singapore Caterina Tomba, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Motility and migration
Chairs: Alexander D Bershadsky, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore Rhoda Hawkins, University of Sheffield, UK
Invited speakers: Kinneret Keren, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Robert Insall, University of Glasgow, UK Michael Sheetz, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore
Selected oral presentations: Christian Steuwe, KU Leuven, Belgium Kirsty Wan, University of Cambridge, UK John Williamson, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
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Multiscale biophysics of membranes
Chairs: John Seddon, Imperial College London, UK Claudio M Soares, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Invited speakers: Tobias Baumgart, University of Pennsylvania, USA Georg Pabst, University of Graz, Austria Pierre Sens, Institut Curie, France
Selected oral presentations: Andrew Booth, University of Leeds, UK Helena Coker, University of Oxford, UK Ilpo Vattulainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Nanobiophysics
Chairs: Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, UK Jesus Perez Gil, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
Invited speakers: Sergi Garcia-Manyes, King’s College London, UK Ulrich Keyser, University of Cambridge, UK David Rodriguez-Larrea, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Selected oral presentations: Melanie Koehler, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Itay Rousso, University of the Negev, Israel Catarina Sousa Lopes, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
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Optogenetics and neural systems
Chairs: Ernst Bamberg, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany Frank Gunn-Moore, University of St Andrews, UK
Invited speakers: Valentina Emiliani, Paris Descartes University, France Michael Hausser, University College London, UK Tobias Moser, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Selected oral presentations: Wardiya Afshar Saber, University of St Andrews, UK Renu Batra-Safferling, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Manuel Brugger, University of Augsburg, Germany
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Physics of cancer
Chairs: Robert H Austin, Princeton University, USA Tim Newman, University of Dundee, UK
Invited speakers: Robert Austin, Princeton University, USA Bob Gatenby, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA Jeff Holly, University of Bristol, UK
Selected oral presentations: Imre Derenyi, Eotvos University, Hungary Nuno Santos, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Peter Weightman, University of Liverpool, UK
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Protein folding and assembly
Chairs: Jane Clarke, University of Cambridge, UK André Matagne, University of Liège, Belgium
Invited speakers: Patricia Clark, University of Notre Dame, USA Birthe Kragelund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Susan Marqusee, University of California Berkeley, USA
Selected oral presentations: Alexandre Chenal, Institut Pasteur, CNRS, France Christian Kaiser, Johns Hopkins University, USA Daniel Otzen, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Protein misfolding
Chairs: Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge, UK Ronald Melki, The National Center for Scientific Research, France
Invited speakers: Anja Bockman, IBCP, France Gabriele Kaminski-Schierle, University of Cambridge, UK Sara Linse, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
Selected oral presentations: Claudio Canale, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy Iñaki Guijarro, Institut Pasteur, NMR of Biomolecules Unit, France Mathew Horrocks, University of Cambridge, UK
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Protein structure to function
Chairs: Jacqueline Cherfils, ENS Cachan, France Malcolm Walkinshaw, University of Edinburgh, UK
Invited speakers: Martin Blackledge, Institut de Biologie Structurale, France Tamir Gonen, Howard Hughes Medical Institute , USA André Hoelz, California Institute of Technology, USA
Selected oral presentations: Minoru Kubo, RIKEN, Japan Yu-Chih Lo, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Tea Pavkov-Keller, University of Graz, Austria
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Protein-nucleic acid interactions
Chairs: Brian Smith, University of Glasgow, UK Maria Spies, University of Iowa, USA
Invited speakers: Fernando Moreno-Herrero, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain Ralf Seidel, Leipzig University, Germany Hanna Yuan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Selected oral presentations: Christoph Gmeiner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Bruno Kieffer, IGBMC, France Margherita Marchetti, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Quantitative approaches to gene regulation
Chairs: Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge, UK Mike Tyers, University of Montreal, Canada
Invited speakers: Tim Hughes, University of Toronto, Canada Cathy Royer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Barbara Treutlein, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Selected oral presentations: Ariel Kaplan, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Agnes Noy, University of York, UK Edward Wallace, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Quantum biology
Chairs: Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey, UK
Invited speakers: Alexandra Olaya-Castro, University College London, UK Martin Plenio, Ulm University, Germany Rienk van Grondelle, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Selected oral presentations: Pierre-André Cazade, University of Limerick, Ireland Leonor Cruzeiro, University of Algarve, Portugal Michael Green, City College of New York, USA
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Receptors and signalling
Chairs: Simon Davis, University of Oxford, UK Laszlo Mátyus, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Invited speakers: Ernst Bamberg, Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Germany Omer Dushek, University of Oxford, UK David Klenerman, University of Cambridge, UK
Selected oral presentations: Isabel Alves, University of Bordeaux, France Karim Fahmy, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden, Germany Kristyna Pluhackova, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
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Synthetic biology
Chairs: Justin Gallivan, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USA Petra Oyston, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), UK
Invited speakers: Roy Bar-Ziv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Louise Horsfall, University of Edinburgh, UK Geertje Van Keulen, Swansea University, Wales
Selected oral presentations: Hiroyuki Noji, The University of Tokyo, Japan Adam Perriman, University of Bristol, UK Javier Vinals, University of Oxford, UK
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Systems biology
Chairs: Robert Endres, Imperial College London, UK Franziska Matthäus, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Invited speakers: Gaudenz Danuser, UT Southwestern, USA Edda Klipp, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Stanislas Leibler, Rockefeller University, USA
Selected oral presentations: Cheng-Hung Chang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Ekaterina Krasnopeeva, University of Edinburgh, UK Jean David Wurtz, Imperial College London, UK
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Why disorder matters
Chairs: Martin Blackledge, Institut de Biologie Structurale Grenoble, France Cait MacPhee, University of Edinburgh, UK
Invited speakers: Jane Clarke, University of Cambridge, UK Elisabeth Rhoades, University of Pennsylvania, USA Peter Tompa, VIB Structural Biology Research Center, Belgium
Selected oral presentations: Aritra Chowdhury, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany Raymond Norton, Monash University, Australia Renee Vancraenenbroeck, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
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