Confirmed speakers and workshop instructors (as of Jan 10, 2013)
Alexander Bershadsky
Weizmann Institute, Israel/ National University Singapore, Singapore
Physical forces in cell motility and adhesion
Dennis Disher
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Controlling stem cell differentiation with materials
Dan Fletcher
University of California-Berkeley, USA
Membrane and cytoskeletal reconsitution, mechanotransduction
Maria Garcia-Parajo
ICFO Barcelona, Spain
Single molecule biophotonics
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg*
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Morphogenesis in Development
Frank Juelicher
Max Planck Institute - Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
Frank Juelicher
Max Planck Institute - Physics of Complex Systems
Active cellular processes, Physics of the cytoskeleton and of motor proteins
Josef Kaes
Universitaet Leipzig, Germany
Cell motility and contractility
Benoit Ladoux*
Université Paris Diderot, France/National University Singapore, Singapore
Cell migration, Mechanotransduction
Christophe Lamaze
Institut Curie, France
Cell Signalling and Membrane Tension
Thomas Lecuit*
IBDML Marseille, France
Cell polarity and tissue morphogenesis
Martin Lenz
University of Paris-South, France
Theoretical description of contractile non-sarcomeric actomyosin bundles
Roop Mallik
TIFR Mumbai, India
Molecular and mechanical basis of organelle movement in cells
Dyche Mullins*
University of California San Francisco, USA
Regulation and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton
Dave Odde*
University of Minnesota, USA
Modeling cell migration and division
Matthieu Piel*
Institut Curie, France
Systems Cell Biology of Cell polarity and Cell division
Jacques Prost
ESPCI, France
Physical properties and collective behavior of active soft and biological matter
Pramod Pullarkat*
Raman Research Institute, India
Cell viscoelasticity and stress stiffening
Sriram Ramaswamy*
TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, India
Nonequilibrium, soft-matter and biological physics
Guillaume Salbreux
MPI-Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
Physics of the cytoskeleton
Christoph Schmidt*
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
Cell Biophysics, Microrheology, Motor Proteins and Mitosis
Bidisha Sinha*
IISER Kolkata, India
Coupling of Plasma Membrane and Cytoskeleton
Richard Treisman
London Research Institute, UK
Actin dynamics and its role in gene transcription
Xavier Trepat
University of Barcelona, Spain
Traction force microscopy, cell motility and tissue dynamics
Ronen Zaidel-Bar
National University Singapore, Singapore
Cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion, C. elegans development
*) present during the workshop