Program

The program is organised along 5 days, starting on Sunday afternoon 3/3/2024 with an opening session and going on till Thursday lunch time, to let people some flexibility to leave.

3/3@17:00
Opening session
  • Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia; Barcelona, Spain
  • Sylvain Gabriele, University of Mons
  • Hatice Holuigue, Universita degli Studi di Milano
  • Patrizia Romani, Department of Molecular Medicine
  • Carmen Martinez Fernandez, ICFO
4/3@9:00
Nanomechanics and Mechanosensing
  • Julia Cordero, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Marco Capitanio, University of Florence
  • Sandra Citi, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Alba Diz-Munoz, European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
  • Luca Puricelli, Area Science Park - Padriciano, 34149 Trieste - Italy
  • Carmelo Ferrai, University Medical Center Gottingen (UMG)
4/3@16:00
Cellular mechanobiology and mechanotransduction
  • Anthony Hyman, Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
  • Giuseppe Ciccone, University of Glasgow (UK)
  • Seungkuk Ahn, ETH Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
  • Ellie Tzima, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
  • Olivia Johnson-Love, University of Strathclyde
  • Leslie Yeo , Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University)
  • Dunja Alexandra Al-Nuaimi, ETH Zurich
5/3@9:00
Modelling mechanobiology
  • Frank Julicher, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
  • Neus Sanfeliu, ICFO
  • Leonardo Barzaghi, IFOM - The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology
  • Daniele Panozzo, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (US)
  • Benjamin M. Friedrich, Physics of Life, TU Dresden, Germany
  • Raphael Jakob, ETHZ
5/3@14:00
Round Table Discussion
  • Raghavendra Palankar, Associate Editor Nature Nanotechnology
  • Aldo Ferrari, Hylomorph, Zurich, Switzerland
6/3@9:00
Collective cellular processes
  • Benjamin M. Geiger, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  • Francesco Pasqualini, University of Pavia
  • Eulashini Chuntharpursat-Bon, University of Leeds
  • Prisca Liberali, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
  • Davide Battistessa, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
  • Jacopo Di Russo, RWTH Aachen University & DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials
6/3@16:00
Organoids and multicellular systems
  • Matthias Lutolf, Institute of Human Biology and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Emanuela Jacchetti, POLITECNICO DI MILANO
  • Gabriela Da Silva Andre, Macromolecular Engineering Lab, ETH Zurich
  • Barbara Treutlein, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
  • Akanksha Jain, D-BSSE, ETH-Zurich
  • Manola Moretti, Laboratory for Nanomedicine, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 23955-6900 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
7/3@9:00
Closing session
  • Verena Ruprecht, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
  • Enrico Klotzsch, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin
  • Ali Shahrokhtash, Aarhus University, Interdiciplinary Nanoscience Center
  • Matthieu Piel, Institut Curie, Paris, France
  • Stefania Saporito, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
  • Roel Kooi, Eindhoven University of Technology