DAY 1 | Monday 30th August

Location: Messe Basel

Conference Room:Montreal

Posters: Foyer

08.00 – 12.00

Registration and Tutorials

12.00 – 12.50

Snack/lunch (Foyer)

13.05

Start of the conference (Montréal)

13.05-13.15

Introduction

Christoph Gerber                                Roderick Lim                          

Conference Chairman                           Conference Co-Chairman

Mark Munch

Veeco Instruments

13.15-13.20

Opening Remarks

Prof. Dr. Christian Schönenberger

Department of Physics, and Director, Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland

SESSION I

Nanobio - Molecular Machines and Systems

13.20 – 13.50

25 min+5 min Q&A

Hermann Gaub     **INVITED**

Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany

Force and function: Probing individual proteins with AFM-based force spectroscopy

13.50 – 14.10

15 min+5 min Q&A

Armin Kramer

University College London, London, UK

Nanomechanical Studies Reveal Inner Structure of Nuclear Pore Complexes

14.10 – 14.30

15 min+5 min Q&A

Anne-Sophie Duwez
University of Liege, Belgium

Interfacing a Synthetic Molecular Shuttle with the AFM

14.30 – 14.50

15 min+5 min Q&A

Jong-in Hahm
Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA

Elucidating Protein Adsorption Behavior on Nanoscale Polymeric Surfaces and Engineering New Protein Assembly at Nanoscale

14.50 – 15.10

25 min+5 min Q&A

Janne T. Hyötylä
Biozentrum & Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Synthetic protein targeting based on polyethylene glycol and associated antibodies

15.10 – 15.40

Coffee break (foyer)

15.40 - 16.10

25 min+5 min Q&A

Zhifeng  Shao     **INVITED**

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

A Novel Structural Model of IgM and Its Interaction with Malarial Protein PfEMP1

16.10-16.50

15 min+5 min Q&A

Martin Guthold

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC, USA

Mechanical Properties of Fibrin Fibers and Fibrin Fiber Junctions

16.50-17.10

Einat Tirosh
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Real-Time Monitoring of Opto-Mechanical Switching of Self-Assembled Monolayer Films Containing the Azo-Benzene Group

17.10-17.30

Kim Sweers

University of Twente, Twente, the Netherlands

Mechanical characterization of α-synuclein fibrils using AFM imaging and force spectroscopy

17.30-18.45

Posters Session (Foyer)

18.45-20.00

Poster session / Snack buffet (Foyer)