BFNM 2023 Program Overview

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Monday 6 November

13:00 Opening (Registration desk open from noon)

Session 1 Protein Sequencing: State-of-the-art and alternative prospects

Invited Talks

• Francois Griaud, Basel (Novartis)
• Dietmar Reusch, Penzberg (Hoffmann-La Roche)

• ContrTalk Caroline Koch, London
• ContrTalk Nanami Takeuchi, Tokyo

Session 2 Sample Enrichment Strategies for Mass Spectrometry

Invited Talks

• Pitter Huesgen, Freiburg
• Karl Mechtler (Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna)

• ContrTalk Xialin Zhang, Aarhus

One-minute poster stage presentations

Poster Session with beer & pretzels

Tuesday 7 November

Session 3 Biological Nanopores

Invited Talks

• Giovanni Maglia (University of Groningen)
• Stefan Howorka (University College London)
• Jinghui Luo, Würenlingen (Paul Scherrer Institut)

• ContrTalk Joshua Foster, Amherst

Session 4 Micro- & nanofluidic Integration of Nanopores

Invited Talks

• Vincent Tabard-Cossa (University Ottawa)
• Ryuji Kawano (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
• Meni Wanunu (Northeastern University)

• ContrTalk Paolo Actis, Leeds

Session 5 Molecular Transport through Solid State Pores

Invited Talks

• Marija Drndic (University of Pennsylvania)
• Ulrich Keyser, Cambridge (University of Cambridge)
• Fabien Montel, Lyon (Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon - CNRS)

• ContrTalk Robert Johnson, Dublin

Industrial Forum

• IMEC
• Elements
• XFAB
• Picoquant
• Oxford Nanopore

• Winner of the Best Poster Award

Poster session with beer & pretzels

Conference Dinner at the Historical Merchants' Hall

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Wednesday 8 November

Session 6 Protein Detection Approaches

Invited Talks

• Liviu Movileanu, Syracuse (Syracuse University)
• Cees Dekker (Delft University of Technology)
• Michael Mayer (University of Fribourg)

• ContrTalk Viktor Stein, Darmstadt

Session 7 Theory and Modelling

Invited Talks

• Jeroen de Ridder (University Medical Center Utrecht)
• Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, Bremen (Constructor University)
• Aleksei Aksimentiev (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• ContrTalk Misa Yamaji, Tokyo

Social Activities in and around Freiburg

Special Guest Evening Lecture with Drinks (tbc)

Thursday 9 November

Session 8 Data Analysis and Computational Approaches

Invited Talks

• Murugappan Muthukumar (University of Massachusetts / Amherst)
• Kin Fai Au (Ohio State Unviersity)
• Amir Barati Farimani (Carnegie Mellon University)

• ContrTalk Tim Albrecht, Birmingham

Session 9 Outlook

Invited Talks

• Amit Meller, Haifa (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
• Jens Gundlach, Seattle (University of Washington)
• Aleksandra Radenovic, Lausanne (EPFL)

• ContrTalk Yunxuan Li, Cambridge

Closing Remarks

13:00 End of event