Biophysical Society Newsletter - February 2016

Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2016

FEBRUARY

Mechanobiology of Disease Singapore | September 27–30, 2016

This meeting aims to bring together an interdisciplinary set of researchers and technology partners that are investigating and exploiting me- chanical properties of cells that are associated with disease or dysfunction. World leaders in these topics will identify scientific areas of impact in understanding and treating disease, and consider the development of drug screening tools, diagnostics and therapeutics that target or exploit the mechanobiology of cells. Such a unique biophysical perspective has the potential to bring solutions for a range of disease states.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dino Di Carlo , University of California, Los Angeles, USA Jochen Guck , Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany Linda Kenney , Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Chwee Teck Lim , Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Michael Sheetz , Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore G.V. Shivashankar , Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore SPEAKERS Clare Bryant University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Kevin Chalut , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Alex Dunn , Stanford University, USA Adam Engler , University of California, San Diego, USA Marco Foiani , IFOM the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Italy Susan Gasser , Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland Katharina Gaus , University of New South Wales, Australia

Deadlines

Abstract Submission June 6, 2016

Early Registration July 5, 2016

Gregory Giannone , Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, France Gisou van der Goot , École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Carl-Phillip Heisenburg , Institute of Science and TechnologyAustria (ISTAustria), Austria

Linda Kenney , Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Birgit Lane , National University of Singapore, Singapore

Deborah Leckband , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Thomas Lecuit , Insitut de Biologie de Development de Marseille, France Chwee Teck Lim , Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Henry Tse , CtyoVale, Inc., USA Oliver Otto , Dresden University of Technology, Germany Daniela Rhodes , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Amy Rowat , University of California, Los Angeles, USA Michael Sheetz, Mechanobiology Institute , Singapore G.V. Shivashankar, Mechanobiology Insitute , Singapore Krystyn Van Vliet , MIT, USA Bernard Wehrle-Haller , University of Geneva, Switzerland Marvin Whiteley , University of Texas at Austin, USAA

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