Keynote Speakers

  • Tamir Gonencropped

    Tamir Gonen is a Group Leader at the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Prior to his current position, he was an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and the Director of the Molecular Electron Microscopy Laboratory at......Read More>>

  • Wilfred van Gunsteren

    Professor Wilfred van Gunsteren received his PhD in Nuclear Physics from the Free University, Amsterdam in 1976 before pursuing post-doctoral studies in molecular physics. He took up an appointment as Senior Lecturer in 1980 and then Professor of Physical Chemistry......Read More>>

  • Mitsu Ikura

    Dr. Mitsu Ikura is a Professor in Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Dr. Ikura obtained his Ph.D....Read More>>

  • Keiichi Namba

    Professor Keiichi Namba is currently a professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University. In addition to this position, Keiichi is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Gene Research, Nagoya University, and a Visiting Chief Researcher at......Read More>>

  • Daniela Nicastrocropped

    Daniela Nicastro received her Ph.D. in Biology from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany in 2000. Following 3 years in the lab of Prof. Baumeister at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich (1998-2001), she took a post-doctoral position at......Read More>>

  • Michael Sheetz

    Director of Mechanobiology Institute

    Details coming shortly....Read More>>

  • Henning Stahlberg

    Henning Stahlberg studied solid-state physics at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, and received his PhD for structural studies of bacterial photosynthesis membrane proteins from the Federal High-School in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1997....Read More>>

  • Prof Nieng Yan
    Nieng Yan

    Professor, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Prof. Yan received her B.S. degree from the Department of Biological Sciences & Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2000. She then pursued her PhD in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University under the supervision of Prof....Read More>>