New directions in 2D and 3D bionanomaterials: immunology, mechanobiology, cancer
Sep 18 – 21 2023, European Materials Research Society Meeting
Warsaw, Poland
Keynote Speakers:
Benoit Ladoux
Institut Jacques Monod
Joachim Spatz
Max Planck Inst. for Medical Research and Heidelberg Univ.
Jonathan Schneck
Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speakers:
Nicolas Voelcker
Monash University
Ana Suncana Smith
Erlangen University
Christelle Prinz
Lund University
Eva Sevcsik
Vienna Univ. of Technology
Nikolaj Gadegaard
University of Glasgow
Ada Cavalcanti - Adam
University of Bayreuth
Ana Teixeira
Karolinska Institute
Enrico Klotzsch
ETH Zurich
Haguy Wolfenson
Technion
Ciro Chiappini
King's College London
Katelyn Spillane
Ayelet Lesman
Tel-Aviv University
Cornelia Lee-Thedieck
Oskar Staufer
Leibnitz Inst. New Materials
Joshua Grolman
Technion
Barbara Blanco Fernandez
Univ. of Santiago de Compostela
Leeya Engel
Technion
Anne Charrier
Aix-Marseille University - CNRS
Angelo Accardo
Delft University of Technology
Judit Morla
Mount Sinai Hospital
Organizers:
Mark Schvartzman
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Judith Guasch
Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain
Kheya Sengupta
Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille, France
Saba Ghassemi
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Key Topics
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Materials-based niches for the study of immune cell signaling
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Materials for the immune cell culture for immunotherapy
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Materials and devices for the study of T cell mechano-sensing
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Materials for the study of cancer, including organoids
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Materials for the study of cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion
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Materials for mechanobiology, including 3D scaffolds
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Nanomaterials for the controlled cell culturing and high throughput cell imaging
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Theoretical models for the cell-environment mechanical
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Nanomaterials and devices for the study of the transmembrane receptor organization in the signal propagation
Three best posters and one contributed lecture will be selected for student awards
