Barbara Boyan - Review of cell biology: structure and function of a cell
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Georgia, USA
 Interests:
Mechanism of action of hormones and growth factors in chondrocytes and osteoblasts, normal and pathological calcification, tissue engineering, response of cells to biomaterials.

Marcus Müller - Concepts in statistical physics: an introduction
University of Göttingen,
Germany		 Interests:
Statistical physics of soft matter, studied by computer simulation and numerical self-consistent field theory. Special focus on polymer physics, interfacial and wetting phenomena, and biologically motivated problems.

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Susan Perkin - Surface forces with a focus on biointerfaces
Department of Chemistry
University College London, UK		 Interests:
Surface interactions and interfacial phenomena.

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Erich Sackmann - Biophysics of the cytoskeleton and cell adhesion
Technische Universität München,
Germany		 Interests:
Physics of biological materials (Membranes, Biomacromolecular Networks, Cells). Self-organization and function of artificial and biological membranes, actin-based cell cytoskeleton, solid-supported lipid-protein membranes, ultrathin hydrated polymer layers, surface sensitive techniques, neutron scattering, viscoelastic microscopy of cells.

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Oleg Borisov - Conformation of polymers at surfaces and interfaces
CNRS and Pau University,
France		 Interests:
Theoretical physical chemistry of polymers and colloids: polymers in solutions and at interfaces, adsorption, polymer brushes, branched polymers, polyelectrolytes, polymer-surfactant interactions and self-assembly.

Evan Evans - Forces that drive self-assembly
University of British Columbia,
Canada Boston University, USA		 Interests:
Nano-microscale biomechanics, ultrasensitive force probes and extreme resolution optical techniques, material properties of cellular structure, role of structural forces in cell biochemistry.

Gerrit van Meer - Cell membranes: the biology perspective
Bijvoet Center and Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University,
The Netherlands.		 Interests:
Membrane enzymology; Molecular cell biology of lipids, covering the chemistry, biology and physics of membrane lipids, and of proteins involved in their metabolism and transport.

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Michael Kozlov - Mechanisms of membrane curvature generation and sensing by proteins
Tel Aviv University,
Israel		 Interests:
Mechanics of cell membranes. Cell membrane fusion.

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Sarah Keller - Thermodynamics: Critical phenomena in model membranes
University of Washington,
USA		 Interests:
Cell membrane model systems. Inhomogeneous distributions of lipids within membranes that model cell membranes.

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Jean-Baptiste Manneville - Introduction to proteins - Examples from the membrane trafficking field
Institut Curie - CNRS
Paris, France		 Interests:
Intracellular trafficking; coat proteins; membrane biophysics.

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Ronald G. Larson - Rheology of complex fluids
University of Michigan,
USA		 Interests:
Complex fluids, polymers, fluid mechanics, surfactants, biomolecules, transport theory, rheology, instabilities, constitutive theory.

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Ralf Richter - Wet surface analysis techniques 1
CIC BiomaGUNE, Spain
Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Germany		 Interests:
Supramolecular self-organization in bio(techno)logy, biological surface science, glycobio(techno)logy, lipid membranes, surface sensitive analytical techniques.

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Ilya Reviakine - Wet surface analysis techniques 2
CIC BiomaGUNE, and the University of the Basque Country, Spain Interests:
Interactions between biomaterials and (model) biological systems. Studying soft, hydrated (bio) interfaces: metrology and dynamics. Lipid membranes and model systems. Protein crystallization.

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Aleš Benda - Fluorescence methods at interfaces
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Czech Republic		 Interests:
Wide-field and confocal fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, time-correlated single photon counting, ellipsometry, model biomembranes, DNA condensation.

Wim Hermens - Transport limitations as an obstacle in the measurement
of high-affinity binding parameters

University of Maastricht,
the Netherlands		 Interests:
Membrane-protein interactions.
Ellipsometry. In vivo estimation of myocardial injury.

Achim Wixforth - Honey, I shrunk the lab! Microfluidic applications for on-chip laboratories
Universität Augsburg, Augsburg,
Germany		 Interests:
Surface acoustic waves. (Dynamical) lateral superlattice on semiconductor nanostructures, carbon nanotubes, (semiconductor) nanocrystals, novel materials and material combinations for electronical, optical, and mechanical applications, microfluidic systems, biochips, lab-on-a-chip, biophysics of membranes.

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