Keynote Speakers

Dr. Thorsten Hugel
University Freiburg, Germany

"Comprehensive biomaterial characterization by AFM and fluorescence"

Prof. Dr. David Alsteens

UCLouvain, Belgium

"Probing Virus Binding Sites to Animal Cells Using Atomic Force Microscopy"

Dr. Kerstin Blank

Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany

"Mechanoresponsive proteins - from molecular mechanisms towards applications in biology and materials science"

Prof. Nicholas D. Spencer

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Dr. Vladimir Korolkov

Park Systems, United Kingdom

Dr. Bizan Balzer

University Freiburg, Germany

"Single Molecule Friction"

Dr. Céline Lichtensteiger

University of Geneva, Switzerland

"Scanning probe microscopy and x-ray diffraction studies of domains and domain walls in ferroelectric thin films"

Prof. Thomas Perkins

 University of Colorado Boulder, US

"Probing the hidden dynamics and energetics of diverse biomolecular systems by AFM"

Prof. Dr. Karin Jacobs

Saarland University, Germany

"Quantitative bioadhesion studies by SPM and force spectroscopy"

Prof. Dr. Georg Papastavrou

University of Bayreuth, Germany

Prof. Dr. Lukas Eng

Technical University Dresden, Germany

"Applying Sample Strain in-situ –
A Multimodal Nanoscale Analysis including scanning probe microscopy"

Dr. Alice Pyne

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

"Base-pair resolution analysis of the effect of supercoiling on DNA structure and interactions"

Prof. Dr. Roland Bennewitz

 INM - Leibniz Institut for New Materials, Germany

“Single-molecule force spectroscopy at biomaterial surfaces”

Prof. Dr. Michael Nash

University of Basel & ETH Zurich, Switzerland

"Engineering biophysical properties of molecular therapeutics"

Dr. Martin Edwards

University of Arkansas, US