We are glad to announce that the following experts have already confirmed to give a lecture during the 10th European Biophysics Congress:
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Marileen Dogterom
Technical University Delft, NL
Department of Bionanoscience
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Christian Eggeling
University of Oxford, UK
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Investigative Medicine Division, Nano-Immunology Group
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Martin Fussenegger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE)
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Raymond Goldstein
University of Cambridge, UK
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
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Angela M. Gronenborn
University of Pittsburgh, US
Department of Structural Biology
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Gunnar von Heijne
Stockholm University, SE
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
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J. Antoinette Killian - Avanti Polar Lipids / EBSA Award
Utrecht University, NL
Department of Chemistry, Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics Group
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Matthias Rief
Technical University Munich, DE
Department of Physics
E22 Chair – Protein Folding and Molecular Motors
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Iva Tolić - EBSA Young Investigators’ Medal and Prize
Ruđer Bošković Institute, HR
Division of Molecular Biology
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List of Symposia
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S01 Protein Structure and Function
Chairs: Stefan Raunser, DE & Angela M. Gronenborn, US
- Kutti R. Vinothkumar, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Structural Studies Division, UK
- Sebastian Hiller, University of Basel, Center for Molecular Life Sciences, CH
- Ilme Schlichting, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, DE
- Sophie Zinn-Justin, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), FR
- Daniel Boehringer, ETH Zurich, Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, CH
- Pascal Damian Odermatt, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Laboratory for Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation, CH
S02 Synthetic Biology and Nanobiophysics
Chairs: Petra Schwille, DE & Hagan Bayley, UK
- Roy Bar-Ziv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Materials and Interfaces, IL
- Damien Baigl, École Normale Supérieure, Department of Chemistry, FR
- Tobias J. Erb, Max-Planck-Institute for terrestrial Microbiology, Research Group Biochemistry & Synthetic Biology of Microbial Metabolism, DE
- Andrew J. Turberfield, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, UK
- Moritz Kreysing, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, DE
- Mark Howarth, University of Oxford, Department of Biochemistry, UK
S03 Live Imaging and Optical Microscopy
Chairs: Jörg Langowski, DE & Elina M. Ikonen, FI
- Melike Lakadamyali, The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Advanced fluorescence imaging and biophysics group, ES
- Silvio Rizzoli, University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, DE
- Georg E. Fantner, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Interfaculty Institute for Bioengineering, CH
- Maximilian H. Ulbrich, University of Freiburg, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies and Institute of Physiology, DE
- Jorge Bernardino de la Serna, University of Oxford, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, MRC-Human Immunology Unit, UK
S04 Photobiophysics and Biological Electron and Proton Transfer
Chairs: Klaus Gerwert, DE & Pavol Miškovský, SK
- Hideki Kandori, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Frontier Materials, JP
- Ulrich Nienhaus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Applied Physics and Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN), DE
- Marián Fabian, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences, SK
- Juan A. Bueren-Calabuig, University of Dundee, UK
- Petra Hellwig, Université de Strasbourg, Chimie de la matičre complexe, Laboratoire de bioelectrochimie et spectroscopie, FR
- Jens Kuhne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Biophysics, DE
S05 Molecular Motors
Chairs: Stefan Diez, DE & Iva Tolić, HR
- E. Michael Ostap, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, US
- Nenad Pavin, University of Zagreb, Department of Physics, HR
- Vincent Croquette, École normale supérieure, Physics Department, ABCD biophysics Lab, FR
- Arne Gennerich, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, US
- Andrej Vilfan, J. Stefan Institute, SI
- Borja Ibarra, Instituto Madrileńo de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia, IMDEA Nanociencia, ES
S06 Supramolecular Assemblies and Aggregation
Chairs: Daniel Huster, DE & José Carrascosa, ES
- Tuomas P. J. Knowles, University of Cambridge, Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, UK
- Jaime Martín-Benito Romero, National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Macromolecular Structures, ES
- Torleif Härd, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, SE
- Bernhard Schuster, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute for Synthetic Bioarchitectures, AT
- Aurélien L. Furlan, Université Picardie Jules Verne, Génie Enzymatique et Cellulaire, FR
- Alex I. M. van der Wateren, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, UK
S07 Membrane Structure and Domains
Chairs: Claudia Steinem, DE & John M. Seddon, UK
- Kai Simons, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, DE
- Maikel C. Rheinstädter, McMaster University, Laboratory for Membrane and Protein Dynamics, CA
- Rumiana Dimova, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, DE
- Michael Dent, Imperial College London, Department of Chemistry, UK
- Jannik Larsen, University of Copenhagen, Department of Chemistry, Nano-Science Center, Bio-Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Laboratory, DK
- Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet, Center of Structural Biochemistry Montpellier (CNRS/INSERM), FR
S08 Single Molecule Biophysics
Chairs: Daniel Müller, DE & Thomas Schmidt, NL
- David Alsteens, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Department Biosystems Science and Engineering, CH
- Lene Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Optical Tweezers Group, DK
- Carsten Grashoff, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Research Group Molecular Mechanotransduction, DE
- Mathilde A. Bercy, ESPCI ParisTech, Nanobiophysics Laboratory, FR
- Katia Cosentino, University of Tübingen, Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, DE
- Michael A. Nash, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Chair for Applied Physics, DE
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S09 Material Science in Biophysics
Chairs: Anne K. Meyer, DE & Erik Reimhult, AT
- Robert Horvath, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, NanoBioSensorics “Lendület” Group, HU
- Michael Elbaum, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Materials and Interfaces, IL
- Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, UK
- Gustav Emilsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics, SE
- Leon J. Juarez-Hernandez, CNR-IBF, IT
- Rok Podlipec, “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Condensed Matter Physics Department, Laboratory of Biophysics, SI
S10 Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions
Chairs: Ulrich Nienhaus, DE & Anthony J. Wilkinson, UK
- Marina Rodnina, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Physical Biochemistry, DE
- Fernando Moreno Herrero, National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Molecular Biophysics of DNA repair nanomachines lab, ES
- Marcelo Nollmann, Center of Structural Biochemistry Montpellier (CNRS/INSERM), Department of Single-Molecule Biophysics, FR
- Beat Fierz, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of chemical sciences and engineering, Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry of Macromolecules, CH
- Dagmar Klostermeier, University of Muenster, Institute for Physical Chemistry, DE
- Anton A. Polyansky, Max F. Perutz Laboratories & University of Vienna, Department of Structural and Computational Biology, AT
S11 New Methods for Computational Biophysics
Chairs: Gerhard Hummer, DE & Ilpo Vattulainen, FI
- Christine Peter, University of Konstanz, Department of Chemistry, DE
- Frank Noé, Free University Berlin, Computational Molecular Biology Group, DE
- Francesco Gervasio, University College London, Department of Chemistry, UK
- Viveca Lindahl, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE
- R. Thomas Ullmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, DE
- Samuel Genheden, University of Southampton, School of Chemistry, UK
S12 Biospectroscopy, EPR and NMR
Chairs: Christian Griesinger, DE & Martin Blackledge, FR
- Daniella Goldfarb, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Chemical Physics, IL
- Adam Lange, Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), Department of Molecular Biophysics, DE
- Remco Sprangers, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, NMR Spectroscopy of Large Complexes, DE
- Daniel Klose, ETH Zurich, CH
- Denise Schütz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, DE
- Anna Weyrauch, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, DE
S13 Biomolecular Simulation and Computational Biophysics
Chairs: Helmut Grubmüller, DE & Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez, CL
- Stefano Piana, D. E. Shaw Research, US
- Gerhard Hummer, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Department of Theoretical Biophysics, DE
- Johan Ĺqvist, Uppsala University, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, SE
- Katarzyna B. Koziara, The University of Queensland, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, AU
- Till Rudack, University of Illinois, Department of Biophysics and Computational Biology, US
- Andela Šarić, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, UK
S14 Systems Biology and Multi-Cellular Systems
Chairs: Frank Jülicher, DE & Jacques Prost, FR
- Kinneret Keren, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Physics Department, IL
- Pierre- François Lenne, Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille (IBDM), Physical approaches to cell dynamics and tissue morphogenesis, FR
- Primož Ziherl, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, SI
- Jaume Casademunt, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Física, ES
- Imre Derenyi, Eotvos University, Department of Biological Physics, MTA-ELTE “Lendulet” Biophysics Research Group, HU
- Keith R. Willison, Imperial College London, Institute of Chemical Biology, Proxomics, UK
S15 Biologically Active Peptides
Chairs: Thomas Gutsmann, DE & Michel Lafleur, CA
- Cait MacPhee, University of Edinburgh, School of Physics and Life Sciences, UK
- José Luis Nieva, University of the Basque Country, Biophysics Unit (CSIC-UPV/EHU), ES
- Roland Brock, Radboud University Nijmegen, Medical Centre, Department of Biochemistry, NL
- Alejandra de Miguel, Technische Universität Berlin, DE
- Sonia T. Henriques, The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, AU
- Ilaria Serra, University of Cagliari, Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, IT
S16 Membranes and Vesicles
Chairs: Kai Simons, DE & Manuel Prieto, PT
- Reinhard Lipowsky, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, DE
- Patricia Bassereau, Institut Curie, Membranes and Cellular Functions Group, FR
- John M. Seddon, Imperial College London, Chemistry Department, UK
- Patricia A. T. Martins, FCTUC, PT
- Birgit Plochberger, Vienna University of Technology, AT
- Sarah Lee, University of Birmingham, School of Biosciences, UK
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S17 COST Symposium - Understanding Movement and Mechanism in Molecular Machines/CMST (COST Action CM1306) & Biophysics of GPCRs (GLISTEN - COST Action CM1207)
Chairs: Fraser MacMillan, UK & Anthony Watts, UK
- Andrew Doré, Heptares Therapeutics, UK
- Elspeth Garman, University of Oxford, Department of Biochemistry, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, UK
- Matteo Levantino, University of Palermo, Department of Physics and Chemistry, IT
- Patricia Dijkman, University of Oxford, Department of Biochemistry, Biomembrane Structure Unit, UK
- Hugo Gutierrez de Teran, Uppsala University, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Computational and Systems Biology, SE
- Dagmar Klostermeier, University of Muenster, Physical Chemistry, DE
S18 Protein Folding, Assembly and Stability
Chairs: Thomas Kiefhaber, DE & André Matagne, BE
- Jochen Balbach, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Physics, Biophysics Group, DE
- Rudolf Glockshuber, ETH Zürich, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, CH
- Simon Ebbinghaus, Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Physical Chemistry II, DE
- Didier Law-Hine, Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, FR
- Toshifumi Mori, Institute for Molecular Science, JP
- Andrea Schulze, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, DE
S19 Channels and Transporters
Chairs: Reinhard Seifert, DE & Manuela M. Pereira, PT
- Anna Moroni, University of Milan, Department of Biosciences, IT
- Thomas Voets, KU Leuven, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, BE
- Peter Hegemann, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Biology, Experimental Biophysics Group, DE
- Shreyas S. Kaptan, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, DE
- Doris Höglinger, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, DE
- Florian Hilbers, Aarhus University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, DK
S20 Cell Biophysics and Signalling
Chairs: Jochen Guck, DE & László Mátyus, HU
- Sarah Köster, University of Göttingen, Institute of X-Ray Physics, DE
- Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, University of Geneva, Department of Biochemistry, CH
- Kevin Chalut, Universtiy of Cambridge, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, UK
- Jorge De-Carvalho, Instituto Gulbenkian de Cięncia, PT
- Oliver Otto, Technische Universität Dresden, Biotechnologisches Zentrum, DE
- Astrid Wahl, Aix-Marseille Université, CINaM CNRS, FR
S21 Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Chairs: Jörg Enderlein, DE & Hagen Hofmann, IL
- Sonia Longhi, Architecture and Function of Biological Macromolecules Lab (CNRS/AFMB), Structural Disorder and Molecular Recognition Group, FR
- Pau Bernado, Center of Structural Biochemistry Montpellier (CNRS/INSERM), Department of Structural Biology, FR
- Felix Ritort, University of Barcelona, Small System and Biomolecule Physics Group, ES
- Garegin A. Papoian, University of Maryland, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, US
- François-Xavier Theillet, Leibniz Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie - FMP Berlin, DE
- Sara M. Vaiana, Arizona State University, Department of Physics & Center for Biological Physics, US
S22 Protein-Lipid Interactions
Chairs: Anne-Claude Gavin, DE & Pavel Jungwirth, CZ
- Reinhard Jahn, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Neurobiology, DE
- Emad Tajkhorshid, Beckmann Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois, Computational Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, US
- Stephen White, University of California at Irvine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, US
- Karim Fahmy, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, DE
- Volker Kiessling, University of Virginia, Center for Membrane Biology & Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, US
- Annette Meister, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Mitteldeutsches Zentrum für Struktur und Dynamik der Proteine, DE
S23 Molecular Recognition
Chairs: Hans-Joachim Galla, DE & Fredrik Höök, SE
- Philipp Kukura, Exeter College Oxford, Department of Chemistry - Physical Chemistry, UK
- Horst Vogel, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, CH
- Claudia Steinem, University of Göttingen, Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, DE
- Marta Bally, Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics, SE
- Christian Meyners, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, DE
- Nuno C. Santos, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, PT
S24 Neurosciences
Chairs: Peter Hegemann, DE & Kristian Franze, UK
- Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, Department of Physiology, US
- Anne Desmazieres, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épiničre (ICM), FR
- Tobias Moser, University of Göttingen, Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain, InnerEarLab, DE
- Detlev Schild, Medical School of the University of Göttingen, Department of Neurophysiology and Cellular Biophysics, DE
- Albrecht Haase, University of Trento, Department of Physics, IT
- Maxim Igaev, University of Osnabrück, Department of Neurobiology, DE
New and Notable
Chairs: Helmut Grubmüller, DE & Anthony Watts, UK
- Karl Duderstadt, University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Single Molecule Biophysics, NL
- Janine Brunner, University of Zurich (UZH), Department of Biochemistry, CH
- Holger Stark, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, 3D Electron Cryo-Microscopy, DE
- Jean-Pierre Simorre, Institute of Structural Biology, Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy Group, FR