6th International Symposium on Mechanobiology Chairs/Invited Speakers

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

Ghada Alsaleh, University of Oxford, UK
Talk title: Aging beyond earth: new ways to understand cellular decline and renewal from immune senescence to autophagy
Kerstin Blank, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute of Experimental Physics, Austria
Chris Chen, The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and The Biological Design Centre at Boston University, USA
Matt Dalby, University of Glasgow, UK
Alba Diz-Muñoz, EMBL, Germany
Lorna Dougan, University of Leeds, UK
Kristian Franze, Institute of Medical Physics and Max Planck Centre for Physics and Medicine, Germany and University of Cambridge, UK
Talk title: The chemo-mechanical regulation of brain development
Marco Fritzsche, Rosalind Franklin Institute and Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, UK
Sylvain Gabriele, University of Mons, Belgium
Andrés Garcia, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and Regents' Professor at Woodruff School, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Talk title: Targeting FAK Mechanosignaling to Mitigate Extracellular Matrix Overproduction and Inflammatory Cascades in Pulmonary Fibrosis
Ben Goult, University of Liverpool, UK
Talk title: Mechanical scaffolding of enzymatic signalling by talin
Adrien Hallou, University of Oxford, UK
Tom Hodginkson, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
Hae-Won Kim, ITREN, Korea
Isaac Li, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Talk title: Engineering mechanical behaviour into single DNA molecules: catch bonds, compliance, and beyond

Song Li, University of California, USA
Talk title: Mechano-immunoengineering for cancer therapy
CT Lim, NUS, Mechanobiology Institute, National, University of Singapore, Singapore
Satyajit Mayor, University of Warwick, UK
Talk title: Encoding mechanochemical information in the plasma membrane of a living cell
Matthieu Piel, Institute Curie, France
Rashmi Priya, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Talk title: Morphogenesis in chaos: Building a beating heart
Yi-Xian Qin, Stony Brook University, USA
Stuart Reid, University of Strathclyde, UK
Pere Roca-Cusachs, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain
Talk title: Mechanical regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport
Victoria Sanz-Moreno, The Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Tim Saunders, University of Warwick, UK
Giuliano Scarcelli, University of Maryland, USA
Talk title: TBC
Masahiro Sokabe, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Nagoya University, Japan
Talk title: Sub-cellular Mechanisms of Gravity Sensing in Single Cells: A Report from Space
Joe Swift, The University of Manchester, UK
Talk title: Mechanobiology of cellular senescence and ageing
Jeremy Teo, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Talk title: Mechanical barriers to immunity: collagen fibril alignment as a determinant of immunological suppressionand exhaustion in the tumor microenvironment
Hawa Racine Thiam, Stanford University, USA
Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain
Talk title: Programming Shape in Living Tissues

Valerie Weaver, University of California, USA

Leslie Yeo, RMIT University, Australia
Jennifer Young, NUS, Mechanobiology Institute, National, University of Singapore, Singapore
Talk title: Elucidating distinct roles of extracellular matrix in cardiac aging
Tobias Zech, University of Liverpool, UK
Talk title: Nuclear force feedback as rheostat for actomyosin tension control
X. Frank Zhang, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Talk title: Force-Gated Mechanosensing in the VWF–Platelet GPIb-IX Axis: From A1 Mechanoactivation to Fc-Independent Immune Thrombocytopenia