Speakers

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Plenary Speakers

Nathalie Balaban, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Otger Campàs, TU-Dresden, Germany
Lorna Dougan, University of Leeds, UK
Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago, USA
L. Mahadevan, Harvard University, USA
Satyajit Mayor, University of Warwick, UK
Aleksandra Walczak, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France

Invited Speakers

Bioelectricity Across Scales

Session Chair: Teuta Pilizota, University of Edinburgh, and University of Cambridge, UK
Invited Speakers:
Francesco Pedaci, 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:
Ulrike Eggert, King’s College London, UK
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