Invited Speakers

Johan Elf

Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden;
Probing single molecule processes in living bacteria

Jay Groves

Department of Chemistry, Berkeley University of California , USA;
Membrane mechanics and cellular signal transduction

Matthias Heinemann

Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
TBA

Kalina Hristova

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA;
Quantitative characterization of protein interactions in crowded cellular environments

Hideki Kambara

Hitachi Ltd. and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan;
Development of DNA analysis Technologies for DNA and mRNA in a single-cell

Christof Klein

Division of Oncogenomics, University of Regensburg, Germany;
Genome and transcriptome analysis of single disseminated cancer cells: New insights into the systemic progression of cancer

Matthias Lütolf

Institute of Bioengineering, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland;
Microarrayed artificial niches for single adult stem cells

Mitinori Saitou

Laboratory for Mammalian Germ Cell Biology, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN Kobe Institute, Japan;
Single-cell cDNA microarray analysis of cell fate specification in mammalian development

Vahid Sandoghdar

Nano-optics Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
Visualizing fluorescent and nonfluorescent nanoscopic entities: pushing the limits

Michael Smith

Biologically Oriented Materials , ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
Dimensionality sensation through organization of the actin cytoskeleton

Ola Soderberg

Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden;
Proximity Ligation assays: a versatile tool for in situ detection of bio-molecules

Joachim Spatz

Max-Planck-Institüt für Metallforschung Stuttgart and Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Germany;
Dynamic responses of single cells to mechanically stimulating, nanostructured interfaces

Viola Vogel

Biologically Oriented Materials , ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
Title TBA

Daniel Zenklusen

Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA;
Dissecting gene expression using single molecule techniques

Hiroyuki Abe

Graduate Program of Human Sensing and Functional Sensor Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Japan;
Evaluating the quality of single human embryos with a non-invasive and highly sensitive measurement of respiration activity by scanning electrochemical microscopy

Shiroh Futaki

Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan;
Arginine-rich peptides as a vector of intracellular delivery

Yoshihiro Ito

Nano Medical Engineering Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute, Riken, Japan;
Gene imaging and gene-dependent drug release in living cell

Satoshi Konishi

Department of Micro System Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan;
On-chip Cellular Manipulation for Cellular Analysis

Yukio Nagasaki

Materials Science, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan;
Design of New Bionanoparticles with pH Responsive Signals

Takeaki Ozawa

Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan;
Optical Imaging of Biomolecules in Living Cells and Animals Using Split-Reporter Reconstitution Analyses

Mitsuyoshi Ueda

Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan;
Development of tools for analysis of comprehensive signals of subcellular biomolecules

Masafumi Yohda

Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan;
Structure, Function and Application of Hyperthermophilic Molecular Chaperones