International Conference
Discover the program
1. Bio- & Nanotechnology for health & environment ;
2. Bio- & Nanomaterials from labs to medical applications ;
3. The bio & non-bio interface ;
4. Intrumentations for materials & life sciences.
They will be presented over 8 sessions (2 per day), with one free day dedicated to networking and informal discussions. Saturday 6 morning will be dedicated to a special session. The International conference will conclude on Saturday June 6 at midday.
See below the program of NANO in BIO 2026:
Paul Ashby
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Menglin Chen
Aarhus University, Denmark
Bianxiao Ciu
University Stanford, USA
Ricardo Garcia
Instituto de Ciencia de Materials de Madrid, Spain
Frederic Kanoufi
CNRS Paris, France
Joerg Lahann
University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Ruiz Molina
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelon, Spain
Birgit Plochberger
Department of Medical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Michelle Peckham
Leeds University, UK
Jie Song
Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Science
Bjørn Torger Stokke
Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway
Tom Willhammer
Stockholm University, Sweden
Ruibing Wang
Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau
Tomaso Zambelli
ETHZ, Switzerland
Elodie Boisselier
Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Dr. Elodie Boisselier is a full professor at Université Laval and a researcher at the CHU de Quebec Research Center (Quebec City, Canada). Her work focuses on the use of gold nanoparticles for innovative applications in nanomedicine.
Dennis Discher
University of Pennsylvania, USA
His lab discovers, explains, and exploits cell, molecular, and tissue mechanobiology.
Adeline Goulet
Université Aix Marseille, France
Adeline GOULET is a CNRS Research Director and co-leader of the “Structural and Molecular Virology” team at the Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes Macromoléculaires in Marseille, France. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms by which bacteriophages infect their bacterial hosts, with relevance to both the food industry (Lactococcus lactis, Streptococcus thermophilus, Oenococcus oeni) and human health (mycobacteria). She combines structural biology approaches, including cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, computational methods, and biochemistry. She was awarded the 2022 CNRS Bronze Medal for her work elucidating phage-host interactions at the molecular level.
Georg Fantner
EPFL, Switzerland
Georg E. Fantner, co-director of the Institute for Bioengineering at EPFL, leads the Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation Laboratory, specializing in atomic force microscopy.
Philippe Leclere
Université de Mons, Belgium
Philippe Leclère is Full Professor at the University of Mons, Belgium. His research aims at the characterization by means of scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy techniques of the morphology and the nanoscale properties of materials.
Malgorzata Lekka
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Malgorzata Lekka’s research focuses on nanomechanorheology of cells and tissues as indicators of various pathologies, including cancers, and of processes such as mechanometabolism.
Simon Scheuring
Cornell University, USA
Simon Scheuring is a leading biophysicist at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for his pioneering work in nanoscale imaging of biological membranes, particularly through advanced applications of atomic force microscopy. His research provides unique insights into the organization and dynamics of membrane proteins, with important implications for understanding fundamental cellular processes.
Cécile Breyton
CEA Grenoble,
France
1. Bio- & Nanotechnology for health & environment
- Smart surfaces, (bio)fouling, biomimicking
- Environmental biotechnology, detection and monitoring
- Cancer diagnosis, mechanobiology, nanomedicine
- Drug delivery, Single-Molecule and nanosensors
2. Bio- & Nanomaterials from labs to medical applications
- Tissue enginering, nanomedicine, drug delivery
- Nanotoxicity, nanomechanics
- Self-assembly & nano-organized structures
- Coacervates & Self-assembly
- Biomaterials & nanomaterials for health applications
3. The bio & non-bio interface
- Functional material-biology interfaces
- Electrochemistry and chemical control at the Nanoscale
- Nano & biosensors, organ-on-chip & Lab-on-chip
- Functional material-biology interfaces
- Micro & nanofluidics, Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
4. Intrumentations for materials & life sciences
- Super-resolution in optical/scanning probe techniques
- Rheology and computational techniques
- Electron microscopies (EM, cryoEM)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for micro/spectroscopies
Keynotes lectures
Elodie Boisselier
Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Dr. Elodie Boisselier is a full professor at Université Laval and a researcher at the CHU de Quebec Research Center (Quebec City, Canada). Her work focuses on the use of gold nanoparticles for innovative applications in nanomedicine.
Georg Fantner
EPFL, Switzerland
Georg E. Fantner, co-director of the Institute for Bioengineering at EPFL, leads the Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation Laboratory, specializing in atomic force microscopy.
Philippe Leclere
Université de Mons, Belgium
Philippe Leclère is Full Professor at the University of Mons, Belgium. His research aims at the characterization by means of scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy techniques of the morphology and the nanoscale properties of materials.
Malgorzata Lekka
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Malgorzata Lekka’s research focuses on nanomechanorheology of cells and tissues as indicators of various pathologies, including cancers, and of processes such as mechanometabolism.
Cécile Breyton
CEA Grenoble,
France
Dennis Discher
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Adeline Goulet
Université Aix Marseille, France
Simon Scheuring
Cornell University,
USA
Invited speakers
Paul Ashby
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Peer Fischer
Heidelberg University , Germany
Yonsei University, South Korea
Ricardo Garcia
Instituto de Ciencia de Materials de Madrid, Spain
Joerg Lahann
University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Ruiz Molina
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelon, Spain
Bjørn Torger Stokke
Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway
International Conference
Discover the program
1. Bio- & Nanotechnology for health & environment
- Smart surfaces, (bio)fouling, biomimicking
- Environmental biotechnology, detection and monitoring
- Cancer diagnosis, mechanobiology, nanomedicine
- Drug delivery, Single-Molecule and nanosensors
2. Bio- & Nanomaterials from labs to medical applications
- Tissue enginering, nanomedicine, drug delivery
- Nanotoxicity, nanomechanics
- Self-assembly & nano-organized structures
- Coacervates & Self-assembly
- Biomaterials & nanomaterials for health applications
3. The bio & non-bio interface
- Functional material-biology interfaces
- Electrochemistry and chemical control at the Nanoscale
- Nano & biosensors, organ-on-chip & Lab-on-chip
- Functional material-biology interfaces
- Micro & nanofluidics, Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
4. Intrumentations for materials & life sciences
- Super-resolution in optical/scanning probe techniques
- Rheology and computational techniques
- Electron microscopies (EM, cryoEM)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for micro/spectroscopies
List of speakers
See below for the list of speakers for the conference.
Keynotes lectures
Cécile Breyton
CEA Grenoble,
France
Elodie Boisselier
Université de Laval, Québec, Canada
Dennis Discher
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Georg Fantner
EPFL,
Switzerland
Adeline Goulet
Université Aix Marseille, France
Philippe Leclere
Université de Mons, Belgium
Malgorzata Lekka
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Simon Scheuring
Cornell University,
USA
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