DAY 2 | Tuesday 31 August

SESSION II

Nanobio - Cells and Tissues

08.30 - 09.00

25 min+5 min Q&A

Alan Grodzinsky     **INVITED**

MIT, Boston, USA

Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Mechanics of Cartilage: Relevance to Joint Disease and Repair

09.00 – 09.20

15 min+5 min Q&A

Marija Plodinec
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Mechanical markers of tumor progression in breast cancer

09.20 – 09.40

15 min+5 min Q&A

Georg Fantner
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland & MIT, Boston, USA

Imaging Bacterial Cell Death Induced by Antimicrobial Peptides in Real Time using high speed AFM

09.40 – 10.00

15 min+5 min Q&A

Stefano Leporatti

NNL-Nanoscience Institute, Lecce, Italy

Nanotechnology for Cancer Therapy: NanoCarriers and BioMechanics

10.00 – 10.30

Coffee break

10.30 – 11.00

25 min+5 min Q&A

Michael Sheetz     **INVITED**

Columbia University, USA and National University of Singapore, Singapore

Cellular Mechanosensing: Stretching Again and Again

11.00 - 11.20

15 min+5 min Q&A

Clemens Franz
Center for Functional Nanostructures, Karlsruhe, Germany

Tailored 2D and 3D Cell Culture Substrates for AFM-based Single-Cell Force Spectroscopy

11.20 - 11.40

15 min+5 min Q&A

Marek Janko

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Tissue preservation in the 5300-years-old Iceman

11.40 – 12.00

15 min+5 min Q&A

Marko Loparic
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Improved Tribological Properties of Engineered Cartilage Surface by Sliding Motion as Assessed by Friction Force Atomic Force Microscopy (FF AFM)

12.00 - 13.20

Lunch buffet

SESSION III

Nanomaterials - Properties: electric, magnetic, chemical, thermal, optical …

13.20 – 13.50

Julie  Macpherson     **INVITED**

University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom

New Advances in Electrochemical Imaging Techniques

13.50 – 14.10

15 min+5 min Q&A

Laura Fumagalli
University of Barcelona and Institute of BioEngineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, Spain

Quantifying the dielectric constant at the nanoscale using electrostatic force microscopy

14.10 - 14.30

15 min+5 min Q&A

Stefan Weber
MPI for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

Mapping of Local Conductivity Variations in Torsion Mode by Scanning Probe Microscopy

14.30 – 14.50

15 min+5 min Q&A

Dominik Ziegler
ETH Zürich , Zürich, Switzerland

How Frequency Modulation overcomes the height dependence in lift-mode KFM

14.50 -15.10

15 min+5 min Q&A

Francesco Stellaci
MIT and EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Sub-nanometer resolution mapping of the solid-liquid adhesion energy

15.10 - 15.40

Coffee break (Foyer)

15.40 – 16.10

25 min+5 min Q&A

Fraser Stoddart     **INVITED**

Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Fashioning Functional Materials with Integrated Mechanostereochemical Systems

16.10 – 16.30

15 min+5 min Q&A

Rauf Bakhtizin

Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russian Federation

Site-specific adsorption of fluorofullerene molecules on Si surface

16.30 – 16.50

15 min+5 min Q&A

Christian Iacovita
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Surface supported supramolecular assemblies built from Acetylene substituted porphyrins: Competition of binding motifs inducing the control of dimensionality in stages.

16.50 – 17.10

15 min+5 min Q&A

Sascha Koch
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Force Field Spectroscopy of the h-BN Nanomesh on Rh(111)

17.10 – 17.30

15 min+5 min Q&A

Raphaëlle Dianoux
Nanoscan, Dübendorf , Switzerland

Investigation of bit-patterned media by high-resolution Magnetic Force Microscopy

17.30 – 17.50

15 min+5 min Q&A

Sean O'Shea

Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore

Approaches for nanoscale electrical characterisation

17.50 – 19.30

Posters (Foyer)

19.45

Meeting in the entrance hall

Departure for Conference Dinner

20.00 – 23.00

Conference Dinner & Drinks