08.45 – 09.00 A. Ferrari - M. Vassalli
Introduction

09.00 – 9.45 M.T. Raimondi
Nanoscale manipulation of stem cell shape

9.45 – 10.30 P. Glynne-Jones
Acoustic radiation forces for mechanobiology

10.30 – 11.15 H. Eghlidi
Controlling and dictating the motion of nanoscale viruses in a liquid with single virus resolution

11.15 – 11.30
Coffee break

11.30 – 12.15 P. Roca-Cusachs
Understanding the cell-extracellular matrix mechanical link: from molecular roles to emerging behaviors

12.15 – 12.45 D. Carugo
Micro-engineered devices for ultrasound-mediated drug delivery: production, characterisation and bio-physical effects

12.45 – 13.15 M. Paturzo
Label-free cell behavior analysis by digital holographic methods

15.00 – 15.45 G.Scita
Endocytic control of collective motility

15.45 – 16.30 A.Nicolas
Multiscaled confinement and guidance of cells by gradients of rigidity

16.30 – 17.15 C. Canale
Single cell force spectroscopy suggests the unpredicted affection of cells adhesion capability induced by toxic amyloid oligomers

17.15 – 17.30
Coffee break

17.30 – 18.00 Nanosurf AG
AFM beyond imaging

18.00 – 18.30 T. Lendenmann
Confocal reference-free Traction Force Microscopy

18.30 – 19.00 A. Taubenberger
Studying mechanical aspects of adipogenesis

09.00 – 09.45 J.Guck
Feeling for cell function: mechanical phenotyping at 1000 cells/sec

09.45 – 10.30 D.Arosio
Chloride and pH imaging from live neurons to brain

10.30 – 10.45
Coffee break

10.45 – 11.15 M. Panagiotakopoulou
Paramorphotic youth: a new mechanism of tumor migration unveiled in a nanoprinted model

11.15 – 11.45 G.Palazzolo
Shaping the extracellular microenvironment to control cell function

11.45 – 12.15 R. Oria
Force loading explains how substrate rigidity and ligand nano-distribution regulate cell response

12.15 – 12.30
Concluding Remarks