Keynote Speakers

Johannes Buchner

Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Johannes Buchner received his PhD from the University of Regensburg, Germany, in 1991, working with Rainer Jaenicke and Rainer Rudolph on different aspects of protein folding....Read More>>
Nagasuma Chandra

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Chih-Cheng Chen

Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Our research interest is molecular nociception, which is to understand the molecular mechanism and genetic control of pain sensation.One of our major interests is in pain associated tissue acidosis. Muscle pain is our current focus....Read More>>
Heping (Peace) Cheng

Peking University, Beijing, China

The current research focus is on the mechanism, regulation, and biology of mitochondrial “superoxide flashes”....Read More>>

Yifan Cheng

University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Yifan Cheng is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of California San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in solid state physics and studied electron microscopy and crystallography....Read More>>
Markus Deserno

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

In my research I use both theoretical and computational techniques. On the theoretical side I use tools from continuum elastic descriptions, differential geometry, density functional theories, and statistical thermodynamics....Read More>>

Bob Dirksen

University of Rochester, NY, USA

Dr. Dirksen received a Ph. D. in Pharmacology at the University of Rochester in 1992. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Kurt Beam at Colorado State University, he returned to the University of Rochester in 1998 as an Assistant Professor......Read More>>
Petra Fromme

Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Petra Fromme is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University. With over 20 years of experience in the field of membrane protein X-ray crystallography, Dr. Fromme's expertise lies in femtosecond crystallography and developmental methodology for......Read More>>

Tamir Gonen

HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA

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>>
Mitsu Ikura

University of Toronto and Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

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>>

So Iwata

Imperial College London, UK

Prof. Iwata was awarded a PhD at University of Tokyo in 1991. He was then a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Japan (1991-2), then at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysics, Germany (1992-6). He accepted a......Read More>>
Armagan Kocer

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Dr. Armagan Kocer studied Biology at the Middle East Technical University (Turkey). She did her Ph.D. at the same university in collaborated with Prof. G.T. Robillard at the University of Groningen and studied a killer yeast toxin....Read More>>

Werner Kühlbrandt

Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany

Werner Kühlbrandt studied chemistry and crystallography at the Free University Berlin, and biochemistry and biophysics at King’s College London. He did his PhD with Nigel Unwin at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, investigating the structure of......Read More>>
Zhe Lu

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Our laboratory investigates both the fundamental mechanisms of ion channels and the pathogenesis of ion channel-based genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and diabetes, and develops novel pharmacological agents to control the activity of specific types of ion channels....Read More>>

Steven Ludtke

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Steven Ludtke is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. He also codirects the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, and the CIBR (Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research) Center at BCM....Read More>>
Justin Macdonald

University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

Dr. Justin MacDonald is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Chair of the Smooth Muscle Research Group at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta at the University of Calgary (Calgary, AB, Canada)....Read More>>

Anastasios Melis

University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Anastasios Melis received his B.Sc. degree in Biology at the University of Athens, Greece, and the Ph.D. degree in molecular biophysics from the Florida State University, Tallahassee....Read More>>
Keiichi Namba

Osaka University, Suita, Japan

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>>

Crina Nimigean

Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Crina Nimigean received her Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics in 1999 from the University of Miami School of Medicine under the supervision of Karl Magleby. After almost 5 years as a post-doctoral fellow in Chris Miller’s laboratory at Brandeis University,......Read More>>
Hiroyuki Noji

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Professor Hiroyuki Noji, a Professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, is a Single-Molecule Biophysicist. He has been studying the chemomechanical coupling mechanism of FoF1 ATP synthase by the use of single-molecule techniques....Read More>>

Diane Papazian

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Diane Papazian is a Professor in the Department of Physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She received her undergraduate education at the University of Michigan, where she studied chemistry. She obtained her Ph.D....Read More>>
Ian Parker

University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Ian Parker is a professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Physiology at the University of California, Irvine. His research centers of the application of fluorescence microscopy techniques to study cellular calcium signaling and cell-cell interactions....Read More>>

Ilme Schlichting

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany

Ilme Schlichting heads the Depart. of Biomolecular Mechanisms at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. After obtaining her Ph.D. with Kenneth Holmes she moved to Brandeis University to postdoc with Gregory Petsko....Read More>>
Jian-Ren Shen

Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Jian-Ren Shen received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang Agricultural University (now Zhejiang University) in China and Ph. D degree from The University of Tokyo in Japan....Read More>>

Jon Skinner

Jon Skinner is paediatric cardiologist/electrophysiologist at Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, and Associate Professor at Auckland University. He leads the national arrhythmia service for children and adults with congenital heart disease and the Cardiac Inherited Diseases Group which runs......Read More>>
Henning Stahlberg

University of Basel, Switzerland

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>>

Wilfred van Gunsteren

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

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>>
Bonnie Wallace

Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Bonnie Ann Wallace is Professor of Molecular Biophysics in the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at Birkbeck College, University of London. She obtained her PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and did postdoctoral work (as a......Read More>>

Tao Xu

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tao Xu, Professor, Director of Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Tao Xu received his B.S. and Ph. D. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. From 1996 to 1999 he undertook postdoctoral work with Prof....Read More>>
Nieng Yan

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>>

Mingjie Zhang

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

His research is focusing on molecular mechanisms of organization and regulation of neuronal signalling complexes and machinaries in controlling cell polarity by using protein crystallography and NMR spectroscopy....Read More>>
Robert Parton

University of Queensland

Robert Parton studied biochemistry in the UK before moving to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. He received Royal Society and EMBO postdoctoral fellowships before becoming a group leader in 1990 studying plasma membrane domains and cell surface dynamics....Read More>>