Sessions
Session I: New AFM-Based Instrumentation for Biology and Medicine
Session chair: Dan Fletcher, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Topics: Novel force microscopy techniques, AFM-optical microscopy combinations, advanced probes
Session II: Biomolecular Force Spectroscopy
Session chair: Chris Yip, University of Toronto, Canada
Topics: Single molecule force spectroscopy, mechanical unfolding, Simulations and analysis of single molecule unfolding and refolding, Measurement of protein-protein and protein-surface interactions, Adhesion, Ligand-receptor binding forces
Session III: AFM of Biomaterial Surfaces
Session chair: Greg Haugstad, University of Minnesota, USA
Topics: Imaging biomedical material surfaces and coatings (morphology, nanomechanical properties, surface chemistry, polymer-drug mixtures); adsorption/modification; interface of synthetic materials and biological tissue
Session IV: AFM of Cells
Session chair: Michel Grandbois, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Topics: Live-cell force spectroscopy and cell adhesion, cell imaging, cell mechanics and mechanical activity, cell manipulation
Session V: Biomolecular Imaging
Session chair: Simon Scheuring, Institut Curie, France
Topics: High-resolution imaging, Single molecule analysis of DNA and protein complexes, Nano-imaging in medicine