July 9 16:00 - 21:00 Arrival, Registration, Check-in and dinner

TIME Day 1
July 10
Day 2
July 11
Day 3
July 12
Day 4
July 13
Day 5
July 14
8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 Surface forces with a focus on biointerfaces
Jacob Klein (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Polymer Physics at Interfaces and Surfaces
Jens-Uwe Sommer (Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany)
Cell membranes: the biology perspective
David Daleke (Indiana University, IN, USA)
Proteins and other amino acid polymers: adsorption and self-assembly
M.A. Cohen Stuart (Wageningen University, the Netherlands).
Engineered Surface Modifications To Precision-Direct Biological Responses
Buddy Ratner (University of Washington, WA, USA)
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee break / Posters Coffee break / Posters Coffee break / Posters Coffee break / Posters Coffee break / Posters
11:00 - 12:15 Forces that Drive Self-Aseembly
Sergi Garcia Mañes (Kings College London)
Review of thermodynamics: phase equilibrium, phase diagrams
Nicholas L. Abbott (University of Wisconsisn-Madison, USA)
Proteins: structure / function / analysis
Oscar Millet (CIC bioGUNE, Bilbao, Spain)
Mechanotransduction of stem cells
Sarah Cartmell (University of Manchester, UK)
Taking Advantage of Disorder: on Amorphous and Crystalline Phases in Biomineralization
Julia Mahamid (Max Plank Institute for Biochemistry, Germany)
12:15 - 13:00 Coffee break / Posters Coffee break / Posters Coffee break / Posters Coffee break / Posters Coffee break / Posters
13:00 - 14:15 Blame Boltzmann: The important role of entropy in bio- & soft matter science
Mirjam Leunissen (AMOLF, The Netherlands)
Cell membranes: the physics perspective.
Michael Kozlov (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Fluorescence methods for studying complex interfaces
Cecile Leduc (University of Bordeaux, France)
Biophysics of cytoskeleton and cell adhesion
Jenny Gallop (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK)
Biosensors
Fredrik Höök (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
14:30 - 16:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
16:00 - 20:00 Cultural program Laboratory Laboratory Laboratory Departure
21:00 Workshop Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner