Scientific programme

Organizing committee

Energy Commission (CEA) with University of Barcelona and Bioengineering Institute of Catalonia. The committee is composed by key leading biologists through out Europe working with AFM.

CEA
CEA is a French government-funded technological research organization. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.

IBEC
The Bioengineering Institute of Catalonia (IBEC) was established in 2005 by the Government of Catalonia, the University of Barcelona and the Technical University of Catalonia. IBEC seeks to further the development of multidisciplinary research of excellence, from basic studies to medical applications, in the field of biomedical engineering.

University of Barcelona
The University of Barcelona (UB), founded in 1450, can lay claim to being the leading university in Catalonia. It is the university with the most students and offers the widest and most complete range of courses. The UB is the leading centre for university research in Spain and is one of the largest in Europe in terms of the number of research programs and the excellence of its results.

Pierre Parot
CEA/DSV, Marcoule, France

Jean-Luc Pellequer
CEA/DSV, Marcoule, France

Daniel Navajas
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Yves Dufrêne
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Peter Hinterdorfer
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

Simon Scheuring
Institut Curie, Paris, France

Christian Le Grimellec
Inserm, Montpellier, France