Invited Speakers

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Bioelectricity Across Scales

Session Chair:
Teuta Pilizota, University of Edinburgh, and University of Cambridge, UK
Invited Speakers:
Francesco Pidaci, Center for Structural Biology, CNRS, France
Jenny Zhang, University of Cambridge, UK

Biomolecular Assemblies and Condensates

Session Chair:

Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge, UK

Invited Speakers:

Janet Kumita, University of Cambridge, UK
Halim Kusumaatmaja, University of Edinburgh, UK

Cell Architecture and Forces

Session Chair:
Tannie Liverpool, University of Bristol, UK
Invited Speakers:
Mathieu Piel, Institut Curie, France
Gijsje Koenderink, Delft University, Netherlands

Cell Metabolism and Growth

Session Chair:
Ruby Peters, University of Sheffield, UK
Invited Speakers:
Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, IFOM, and University of Milan, Italy
Maria Makarova, University of Birmingham, UK

Clocks, Timers and Cell Cycle Dynamics

Session Chair:

James Locke, University of Cambridge, UK

Invited Speakers:

Andrew Oates, EPFL, Switzerland
Nancy Papalopulu, University of Manchester, UK

Differentiation and Development

Session Chair:

Austin Smith, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK

Invited Speakers:

Ewa Paluch, University of Cambridge, UK
Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands, and University of Kyoto, Japan

Emerging Areas in the Physics of Life

Session Chair:

Alice Pyne, University of Sheffield, UK

Invited Speakers:

Aakash Basu, Durham University, UK
Hannah Smithson, University of Oxford, UK

Engineering Tissues and Organoids and Biohybrids
Session Chair:

Margarita Staykova, Durham University, UK

Invited Speakers:

Yuval Elani, Imperial College London, UK
Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, University of Glasgow, UK

Evolution Ecology and Epidemiology

Session Chair:

Bhavin Khatri, Imperial College, London, and Francis Crick Institute, UK

Invited Speakers:

Zena Hadjivasiliou, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Richard Neher, University of Basel, Switzerland

Imaging and Single Molecule Biology
Session Chair:

Maddy Parsons, King's College London, UK

Invited Speakers:

Chris Dunsby, Imperial College London, UK
Sandrine Leveque-Fort, ISMO-CNRS-Université Paris Saclay, France

Immunity, Resistance and Host/Pathogen Dynamics

Session Chair:

Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge, UK

Invited Speakers:

Jennifer Rohn, University College London, UK
Somenath Bakshi, University of Cambridge, UK

Microbes Across Length Scales

Session Chair:
Somenath Bakshi, University of Cambridge, UK
Invited Speakers:
Tanmay Bharat, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Rosalind Allen, University of Jena, Germany

Natural and Synthetic Molecular Machines

Session Chair:

Ehmke Pohl, Durham University, UK

Invited Speakers:

Atlanta Cook, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jonathan Heddle, Durham University, UK

Patterns, Waves, Transport, Collective Phenomena, and Microswimmers

Session Chair:
Marco Mazza, Loughborough University, UK
Invited Speakers:
Kirsty Wan, University of Exeter, UK
Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Physics of Disease

Session Chair:

Mark Leake, University of York, UK

Invited Speakers:

Sally Peyman, Heriot Watt University, UK
Laura Machesky, University of Cambridge, UK

Physics of the Nucleus
Session Chair:
Sarah Harris, University of Sheffield, UK

Invited Speakers:

Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, University of Cambridge, UK
Davide Marenduzzo, University of Edinburgh, UK

Protein Structure, Dynamics and Interactions

Session Chair:

Rivka Isaacson, King's College London, UK

Invited Speakers:

Laura Itzhaki, University of Cambridge, UK
Ehmke Pohl, University of Durham, UK

Tissue Growth, Mechanics and Mechanosensing
Session Chair:
Yoselin Benitez Alfonso, University of Leeds, UK

Invited Speakers:

Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London, UK
Sonia Contera, University of Oxford, UK