Invited speakers list

Corinne Albigès-Rizo (Institut pour l'Avancée des Biosciences, La Tronche, France)
Spatial compartmentalization of adhesion molecules and mechanotransduction of signals to the nucleus

Bruno Antonny (IPMC, Valbonne, France)
Dynamics of lipid membranes and coat proteins

Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie, Paris, France)
Biophysics of membranes and mechanisms of membrane trafficking using synthetic biology approaches

Marie-Cécile Caillaud (ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France)
Lipid signaling during plant cell division and organogenesis

Giovanni D’Angelo (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Glycosphingolipids make-up determines cellular identity during development

Arnaud Echard (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Membrane remododeling during the terminal steps of cell division

Chloé Feral (Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice, France)
Sphingolipid metabolism in the regulation of mechano-sensing by integrins

Cécile Gauthier-Rouvière (CRBM, Montpellier, France)
Endocytic processes in cell-cell and tumor microenvironment remodeling

Anne-Claude Gavin (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)
Lipid cooperativity in protein-membrane interactions

Nir Gov (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
Physics of membrane deformation and cytoskeleton

Volker Haucke (FMP, Berlin, Germany)
Molecular mechanisms of endocytosis and endosomal membrane dynamics

Jenny E. Hinshaw (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA)
Structural properties of dynamins in diverse cellular functions

Doris Höglinger (Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany)
Chemical tools and sensors to study lipid-mediated signaling

Jonathon Howard (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
Biochemistry and biophysics of the cytoskeleton

Elina Ikonen (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
Imaging methods to study inherited lysosomal lipid storage disorders

Ludger Johannes (Institut Curie, Paris, France)
Acute regulation of glycolipid-lectin (GL-Lect) endocytosis

Anne K. Kenworthy (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)
Structural biology of caveolae

Roland Knorr (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
Contacts between membrane-less condensates and membrane-bound organelles

Benoît Kornmann (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom)
Lipid exchange at membrane contact sites

Yamuna Krishnan (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
Quantitative imaging of organellar ions in living systems

Christophe Lamaze (Institut Curie, Paris, France)
Mechanobiology of caveolae

Emmanuel Lemichez (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Interference of toxins with membrane biomechanics during bacterial invasive processes

Harvey T. McMahon (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Endocytic membrane sculpting mechanisms

Guillaume Montagnec (Institut Gustaf Roussy, Paris, France)
Role of clathrin-coated structures in mechanotransduction and cell migration

William Prinz (NIH, Bethesda, USA)
Regulation of shape and lipid composition of membranes to optimize organelle function

Tom A. Rapoport (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)
How organelles form and maintain their characteristic shapes

Daniel Roderer (Leibniz-Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany)
The molecular mechanism of transmembrane receptor activation

Petra Schwille (Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany)
Mutual dependence of protein self-organization and membrane remodeling

Ilpo Vattulainen (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
Physics, chemistry, computational and medical sciences of membrane systems

Roberto Weigert (NIH, Bethesda, USA)
Mechanism of membrane remodeling during membrane trafficking and cell migration in live animals