www.embo-embl-symposia.org Mechanical Forces in Biology ORGANISERS Dennis E. Discher University of Pennsylvania, USA Margaret Gardel University of Chicago, USA Armagan Kocer University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands François Nédélec EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Barry Thompson The Francis Crick Institute, UK ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE 19 APRIL 2017 REGISTRATION DEADLINE 31 MAY 2017 SPEAKERS EMBO | EMBL Symposium 12 –15 July 2017 Heidelberg | Germany EMBL Advanced Training Centre #EESMechanical CONTACT [email protected] Anna Akhmanova Utrecht University, The Netherlands Alexander Bershadsky Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore Dennis E. Discher University of Pennsylvania, USA Margaret Gardel University of Chicago, USA Miriam B. Goodman Stanford University School of Medicine, USA Carsten Grashoff Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB), Germany Stephan Grill TU Dresden, Germany Armagan Kocer University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands Michel Labouesse Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, France Thomas Lecuit IBDM – Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, France Rong Li Johns Hopkins University, USA Roop Mallik Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India Nicolas Minc Institut Jacques Monod, France François Nédélec EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Celeste M. Nelson Princeton University, USA Stefano Piccolo University of Padova, Italy Beth Pruitt Stanford University, USA Sanjeevi Sivasankar Iowa State University of Science and Technology, USA Barry Thompson The Francis Crick Institute, UK Xavier Trepat Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain Ronen Zaidel-Bar National University of Singapore, Singapore Copyright Janine Heers, Scientific Illustrations www.janineheersillustration.com, Hand drawing of Nautilus shell KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Carl-Philipp Heisenberg IST, Austria Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Harvard University, USA