Bringing Mechanobiology Researchers Together from Around the Globe
Organized by the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology with support from the National Science Foundation, the Annual Mechanobiology Symposium brings researchers from around the world together to discuss emerging issues in forces that control living systems in both plant and animal cells.
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Postdoc Preview Day
The CEMB will not be hosting Postdoc Preview Day for the 7th Annual Symposium.
Questions? Email pariel@seas.upenn.edu
Past Symposiums
Invited Speakers
- Abigail Buchwalter Cool — UC San Francisco
- Daniel Cohen — Princeton
- Michael Dustin — Oxford
- Jacky Goetz — CRBS, INSERM
- Morgan Huse — Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Sanjay Kumar — UC Berkeley
- Charlotte Kirchhelle — ENS Lyon
- Wesley Legant — UNC-Chapel Hill
- Karen Reddy — Johns Hopkins University
- Sarah Robinson — Sainsbury Laboratory
- Pere Roca-Cusachs — IBEC, University of Barcelona
Postdoc Preview Day — March 4, 2024
Hosted for prospective postdocs on March 4, 2024. Participants received travel and lodging for all 3 days.
Questions? Email cembinfo@seas.upenn.edu
Invited Speakers
- Adelin Barbacci — CNRS / INRAE
- Marco Fritzsche — Rosalind Franklin Institute
- Claire Hivroz — Institut Curie
- Andrew Holle — MBI, NUS
- Lance Kam — Columbia University
- Matthew Lang — Vanderbilt University
- Song Li — UCLA
- Yekaterina Miroshnikova — NIH
- Maeli Melotto — UC Davis
- Guilherme Nader — CHOP
- Verena Ruprecht — Centre for Genomic Regulation
- Kenneth Zaret — University of Pennsylvania
Postdoc Preview Day — April 3, 2023
First annual Postdoc Preview Day. Trainees received a travel grant for the symposium and pre-conference.
Questions? Email cembinfo@seas.upenn.edu
Invited Speakers
- Thomas Bertero — Université Côte d'Azur
- Kris A. DeMali — University of Iowa
- Sirio Dupont — University of Padua
- Peter Friedl — MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Alan Howe — University of Vermont
- Benoit Landrein — Université de Lyon
- Naomi Nakayama — Imperial College London
- Cindy Reinhart-King — Vanderbilt University
- Arun Sampathkumar — Max Planck Institute
- Valerie Weaver — UC San Francisco
Invited Speakers
- Alessandra Cambi — Radboud University Medical Center
- Anja Geitmann — McGill University
- Olivier Hamant — ENS Lyon
- Boris Hinz — University of Toronto
- Megan King — Yale University
- Laurent Pieuchot — CNRS / Univ. de Haute Alsace
- Ning Wang — Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Sara Wickström — Helsinki Institute of Life Science
Satellite meeting of the Society of Engineering Science. Supported by the NSF.
Invited Speakers
- Tobias Baskin — UMass Amherst
- Philip Bayly — Washington University
- Siobhan Braybrook — UCLA
- José Dinneny — Stanford
- Adrienne Roeder — Cornell
Invited Speakers
- Ovijit Chaudhuri — Stanford
- Margaret Gardel — University of Chicago
- Roger Kamm — MIT
- Pakorn ‘Tony’ Kanchanawong — MBI/NUS
- John Lowengrub — UC Irvine
- Iris Meier — OSU
- Alex Mogilner — NYU
- Gabriele Monshausen — Penn State
- GV Shivashankar — MBI/NUS
- Doris Wagner — UPenn
- Yu-li Wang — CMU
- Valerie Weaver — UCSF
