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 Talk title: Regulation
of mesenchymal stromal (stem) cell mechanotransduction to support better cells
for cell therapies
Lorna Dougan, University of Leeds, UK Talk title: Mechanochemistry of Protein Hydrogels: Linking Molecular Forces to Macroscopic Function
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 Talk title:Assessing the Performance of Plastic-Degrading Enzymes Using Calorimetry
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
Chwee Teck Lim, NUS, Mechanobiology Institute, National, University of Singapore, Singapore Talk title:Decoding the Mechanoresilience of Circulating Tumor Cells
Satyajit Mayor, University of Warwick, UK Talk title: Encoding mechanochemical information in the plasma membrane of a living cell
Matthieu Piel, Institute Curie, France Talk title: Water content in the cell and the nucleus
Rashmi Priya, The Francis Crick Institute, UK Talk title:Morphogenesis in chaos: Building a beating heart
Yi-Xian Qin, Stony Brook University, USA Talk title:Regulation of Osteogenesis and Anti-Osteoclastogenesis by Noninvasive Low-Intensity Ultrasound with Piezo-1 Channel Activation
Stuart Reid, University of Strathclyde, UK Talk title: Nanovibration as a precise mechanotransductive tool for cell engineering
Pere Roca-Cusachs, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain Talk title:Mechanical regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport
Giuliano Scarcelli, University of Maryland, USA Talk title: Brillouin
microscopy for cell and tissue biomechanics
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 Talk title: How
does nuclear mechanobiology shape neutrophil functions?
Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain Talk title: Programming Shape in Living Tissues
Valerie Weaver, University of California, USA Talk title: Forcing inflammation to drive tumor initiation and progression
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