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The Keynote Lecture
Johanna Ivaska
Turku Bioscience Centre, Turku, Finland, EMBO member
Talk title: Integrin mediated cell adhesion in modulation of cancer progression
Speakers
Adam Byron
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Talk title: Mechano-regulation of gene expression by adhesion proteins
Alexander D Bershadsky
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Talk title: Integrin-based Adhesion Modules in a Crosstalk with Microtubules
Ben Goult
School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Talk title: Mechanical control of enzymatic processes via talin
Bernhard Wehrle-Haller
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Talk title: To be announced
Christoph Ballestrem
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Talk title: How the cellular environment modulates tensin3 to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation
Corinne Albiges-Rizo
Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
Talk title: To be announced
David Calderwood
Yale University, New Haven, USA
Talk title: Organization and dynamics of focal adhesion proteins
Haguy Wolfenson
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Talk title: Enzymatic regulation of fibronectin fibrillogenesis: a novel route for fibrosis inhibition
Ivan De Curtis
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Talk title: Assembly and regulation of plasma membrane-associated networks at the front of motile cells
Jim Norman
Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow, UK
Talk title: Unexpected roles of the mRNA translation machinery in influencing α5β1-integrin function to generate fibronectin-rich tumour initiation niches in the liver
Maddy Parsons
Nikon Imaging Centre@King’s & Microscopy Innovation Centre, King’s College London, London, UK
Talk title: Epithelial adhesion receptors in tissue inflammation
Mark Morgan
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Liverpool, UK
Talk title: Integrin-RTK crosstalk in cancer and fibrosis
Miguel Angel del Pozo
Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
Talk title: Tension-sensing membrane domains in mechanoadaption and mechanotransduction
Mirjana Liović
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Talk title: The effect of the amount of mutant keratin protein expressed on the EB simplex adhesome
Nikolina Stojanović
Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Talk title: The role of talin2-KANK2 functional interaction in focal and fibrillar adhesions
Olivier Rossier
University Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Talk title: Defining how the shape of talin supports its function inside living cells
Patrick Caswell
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Talk title: Matrix assembly in the ovarian cancer metastatic niche
Paul Atherton
Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Talk title: The regulation of Liprin-α clustering by ECM cues
Reet Kurg
Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Talk title: Unraveling the origin of extracellular vesicles
Reinhard Faessler
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Talk title: To be announced
Sangyoon Han
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA
Talk title: Feedback interaction between FAK and talin mechanosensitivity for stiffness sensing
Smadar Ben Tabou de Leon
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Talk title: The mechano-genetic regulation of biomineralization in the sea urchin embryo
Staffan Stromblad
Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden
Talk title: Mechanical regulation of hemidesmosomes
Susanna C Fagerholm
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Talk title: Integrins as regulators of dendritic cell mechanical immune memory
Thomas Zacharchenko
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Talk title: Structural analysis of adhesion protein interactions
Tobias Zech
Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of System, Molecular and Integrative Biology, Liverpool, UK
Talk title: Mechanical regulation of metabolism to fuel cancer progression
Vesa Hytönen
Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Talk title: Talin is associated with multiple diseases
