Confirmed speakers and workshop instructors (as of Jan 10, 2013)

 

Alexander Bershadsky
Weizmann Institute, Israel/ National University Singapore, Singapore
Physical forces in cell motility and adhesion

Dennis Disher
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Controlling stem cell differentiation with materials

Dan Fletcher
University of California-Berkeley, USA
Membrane and cytoskeletal reconsitutionmechanotransduction

Maria Garcia-Parajo
ICFO Barcelona, Spain
Single molecule biophotonics

 Carl-Philipp Heisenberg*
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Morphogenesis in Development

Frank Juelicher
Max Planck Institute - Physics of Complex Systems, Germany

Frank Juelicher
Max Planck Institute - Physics of Complex Systems
Active cellular processes, Physics of the cytoskeleton and of motor proteins

Josef Kaes
Universitaet Leipzig, Germany
Cell motility and contractility

Benoit Ladoux*
Université Paris Diderot, France/National University Singapore, Singapore  
Cell migration, Mechanotransduction

Christophe Lamaze
Institut Curie, France
Cell Signalling and Membrane Tension

Thomas Lecuit*
IBDML Marseille, France
Cell polarity and tissue morphogenesis

Martin Lenz
University of Paris-South, France
Theoretical description of contractile non-sarcomeric actomyosin bundles

Roop Mallik
TIFR Mumbai, India
Molecular and mechanical basis of organelle movement in cells

Dyche Mullins*
University of California San Francisco, USA
Regulation and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton

Dave Odde*
University of Minnesota, USA
Modeling cell migration and division

Matthieu Piel*
Institut Curie, France
Systems Cell Biology of Cell polarity and Cell division

Jacques Prost
ESPCI, France
Physical properties and collective behavior of active soft and biological matter

Pramod Pullarkat*
Raman Research Institute, India
Cell viscoelasticity and stress stiffening

Sriram Ramaswamy*
TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, India
Nonequilibrium, soft-matter and biological physics

Guillaume Salbreux
MPI-Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
Physics of the cytoskeleton

Christoph Schmidt*
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
Cell Biophysics, Microrheology, Motor Proteins and Mitosis

Bidisha Sinha*
IISER Kolkata, India
Coupling of Plasma Membrane and Cytoskeleton

Richard Treisman
London Research Institute, UK
Actin dynamics and its role in gene transcription

Xavier Trepat
University of Barcelona, Spain
Traction force microscopy, cell motility and tissue dynamics

Ronen Zaidel-Bar
National University Singapore, Singapore
Cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, C. elegans development

*) present during the workshop