British Biophysical Society (BBS) & German Biophysical Society (DGfB) - Invited/Keynote Speakers


Meet our invited speakers - click the links below to review their areas of expertise.

British Biophysical Society (BBS)

  • Lorna Dougan, University of Leeds, UK
    Talk title: Makers, thinkers, creators: reimagining public engagement with biophysics
  • Karen Faulds, University of Strathclyde, UK
  • Sam Horrell, Imperial College London, UK
    Talk title: Science outreach: why so serious?
  • Rivka Isaacson, King’s College London, UK
    Talk title: Viewing the invisible in science and art
  • Gabriele Kaminski Schierle, University of Cambridge, UK
    Talk title: 
    The physiological role of alpha-synuclein at the presynapse
  • Heather Knight, Durham University, UK
    Talk title: 
    Probing the potential of the plant cell wall to restrict ice growth at freezing temperatures
  • Jonathan Machin, University of Leeds, UK
    Talk title: 
    Native outer membrane features control OMP folding and function 
  • Maxim Molodtsov, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
  • Agnes Noy, University of York, UK
    Talk title: Towards modelling DNA in biological environments
  • Andy Pickford, University of Portsmouth, UK
    Talk title: Assessing the performance of plastic-degrading enzymes using calorimetry
  • Karen Polizzi, Imperial College London, UK 
  • Alice Pyne, University of Sheffield, UK
    Talk title: Tracking and tracing complex DNA structures critical to human health
  • Charley Schaefer, University of Leeds, UK
  • Sarah Woolner, University of Manchester, UK

German Biophysical Society (DGfB)

  • Dina Grohmann, University of Regensburg, Germany
    Talk title: From method to mechanism: SLAM-FRET enables single-molecule views of dynamic human RNA machineries
  • Ulrich Keyser, University of Cambridge, UK
    Talk title: TBC
  • Eugene Kim, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany
    Talk title: 
    Mechanistic insights into SMC complexes from cryo-EM and single-molecule imaging
  • Philipp Kukura, University of Oxford, UK
    Talk title: 
    Unravelling biomolecular self-assembly by single molecule mass measurement
  • Jan Lipfert, University of Augsburg, Germany
    Talk title: 
    Single-molecule force and torque spectroscopy reveal conformational transitions in DNA and proteins
  • Carlos Penedo, University of St. Andrews, UK
    Talk title: 
    Sequence-independent imaging and mechanical manipulation of single-strand nucleic acids using chimeric SSBs
  • Sheena Radford, University of Leeds, UK
    Talk title: Building the wall: How do bacteria do it
  • Markus Sauer, University of Würzburg, Germany
    Talk title: Nanometer resolution 
    fluorescence imaging in cells
  • Anne Straube, University of Warwick, UK
    Talk title: How to control intracellular transporters
  • Philip Tinnefeld, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany
    Talk title: 
    Super-resolution for structural insights into DNA-protein interactions




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