Invited Speakers

• Marc Bohner
  RMS Foundation, Bettlach, Switzerland
  Nanodefects to Tune the Chemical and Biological Properties of Calcium Phosphate Biomaterials
  
  
• Frank Caruso
  University of Melbourne, Australia
  Engineered, Responsive Polymer Carriers for Biomedical Applications
  
  
• Jennifer Cha
  University of California, San Diego, USA
  Biomolecular Architectures and Systems for Nanoscience Engineering
  
  
• Patrick Couvreur
  Université de Paris-Sud, France
  Nanomedicines: a New Approach for the Treatment of Severe Diseases
  
  
• Harold Craighead
  Cornell University, New York, USA
  Nanostructures for Biological Investigations
  
  
• Cees Dekker
  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  Solid State Nanopores for Single Molecule DNA Analysis
  
  
• Emmanuel Delamarche
  IBM Rüschlikon, Switzerland
  Patterning Proteins on Surfaces: at What Scales and What for?
  
  
• Ruth Duncan
  Cardiff University, Great Britain
  Polymer Therapeutics: Treatments of Cancer and for Tissue Repair
  
  
• Bengt Fadeel
  Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  Interactions of Engineered Nanomaterials with the Immune System
  
  
• Christof Fattinger
  F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
  Exploiting Biological Diversity
  
  
• María García-Parajo
  Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  Single Molecule Nanotools in Immunology
  
  
• Hermann E. Gaub
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
  Force and function: Probing Proteins with Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy
  
  
• Hans Griesser
  University of South Australia, Australia
  PEGylated Nanoparticles for Cancer Detection and Treatment
  
  
• Stefan W. Hell
  Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
  Nanoscopy with Focussed Light
  
  
• Fredrik Höök
  Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
  Integrating Microfluidics with Nanoplasmonic Sensing of Cell-Membrane Mimics
  
  
• Jeffrey A. Hubbell
  EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  Targeting, Delivery and Adjuvancy in Vaccines
  
  
• David Kaplan
  Tufts University, Medford, USA
  Dynamic Biomaterial Systems Based on Silk Proteins
  
  
• Nobuo Kimizuka
  Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
  Adaptive Self-Assembly in Coordination Nanoparticles
  
  
• David Klenerman
  University of Cambridge, Great Britain
  Single Molecules on Living Cells
  
  
• Harald F. Krug
  EMPA, St. Gallen, Switzerland
  3R of Nanotoxicology: Reactions, Regulation and Restriction? 
  
  

• Ick-Chan Kwon
  Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
  Polymer Nanotechnology for Molecular Imaging
  
  
• Luke P. Lee
  University of California, Berkeley, USA
  Bionanoscience via Satellite Nanoscopes
  
  
• Hongbin Li
  University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  Protein Mechanics of Artificial Elastomeric proteins: from Single Molecule to Biomaterials
  
  
• Luis M. Liz-Marzan
  Universidade de Vigo, Spain
  SERS-Based Diagnosis and Biodetection
  
  
• Cait MacPhee
  University of Edinburgh, Great Britain
  Hybrid Nanomaterials: Exploiting Biological Self-Assembly for Novel Functions
  
  
• Sebastian Maerkl
  EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  Software Programmable Microfluidic Devices: Bringing High-End Microfluidics to the Masses
  
  
• Yasuhiro Matsumura
  National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  A New Aspect of Drug Delivery System in Cancer Therapy
  
  
• Sally L. McArthur
  Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
  Plasma, Particles and PDMS
  
  
• Rachel McKendry
  University College London, Great Britain
  Nanomechanical Sensors for Superbugs and Superdrugs
  
  
• Phillip B. Messersmith
  Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
  Mussel Adhesive Proteins and their Biologically Inspired Analogs for Nanobiotechnology
  
  
• Yukio Nagasaki
  University of Tsukuba, Japan
  Nitroxyl Radical Containing Nanoparticle for Novel Theranostics
  
  
• Andre Nel
  University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  Nanotoxicology as a Predictive Science: From Cells to Animals
  
  
• Demetri Psaltis
  EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  Second Harmonic Nanoparticles in Bioimaging
  
  
• Simon Scheuring
  Institut Curie, Paris, France
  Membrane Proteins in Native Membranes Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy: Watching Biological Nano-Machines at Work
  
  
• Bettina Sobotka
  BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany
  Biofilms in Industry and Medicine - An Overview
  
  
• Patrick S. Stayton
  University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  Opening the Intracellular Universe of Disease Targets to Biologic Drugs
  
  
• Molly Stevens
  Imperial College, London, Great Britain
  Engineering the Cell-Material Interface
  
  
• Samuel I. Stupp
  Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
  Cell Signaling with Nanostructures for Regeneration
  
  
• Lech Wieczorek
  CSIRO, Lindfield, Australia
  Gold Nanoparticle Chemiresistors - Towards a Universal (Bio)Chemical Sensor System?
  
  
• Itamar Willner
  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  Functional Biomolecule Nanostructures for Sensing, Catalysis and Circuitry
  
  
• Karen L. Wooley
  Texas A&M University, USA
  Well-Defined, Biologically-Inspired Nanoscopic Objects Derived from Synthetic Polymer Building Blocks
  
  
• Yi Yan Yang
  A*Star Singapore, Singapore
  Nanostructures Self-Assembled from Polymers with Well-Defined Molecular Structure for Targeted Delivery of Therapeutics
  
  
• Renato Zenobi
  ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
  Label-Free Chemical Nanoanalysis of Biological Samples using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS)