INVITED SPEAKERS; AFFILIATION; TITLE OF PRESENTATION

Gregor Anderluh; National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia; The secret world of actinoporins, pore forming proteins of sea anemones

Hagan Bayley; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Cotranslocational unfolding of proteins by protein pores

Roland Benz; Jacobs-University Bremen, Bremen, Germany; A-B type of toxins of Bacillus anthracis and Clostridium botulinum: Differences and similarities

Michelle Dunstone; Monash University, Clayton (Australia); How to build a barrel: investigating the mechanism of MACPF pore formation

Teresa Frisan; Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Bacteria and cancer: role of genotoxins

Franco Gambale; Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy, Genoa, Italy; In memory of a missing friend, Gianfranco Menestrina a brilliant biophysicist

Robert Gilbert; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; MACPF/CDC proteolipid pores

Stefan Howorka; University College London, London, UK; Membrane-spanning pores composed of DNA

Toshi Kobayashi; RIKEN, Saitama, Japan; Pore-forming toxins as tools to image lipids

Yuri Korchev; Imperial College, London, UK; Biomedical application of Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy

Cesare Montecucco; University of Padoa, Padoa, Italy; On the mechanism of membrane translocation of tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins: a pore? or else?

Gilles Prévost; Institut de Bactériologie, Strasbourg, France ; The long way of staphylococcal leukotoxins to form pores

Yechiel Shai; The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Antimicrobial peptides: pore former or else (EBSA lecturer) 

Alex Tossi; University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; Oligomerization and pore formation by the human cathelicidin LL-37

Mark Wallace; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Parallel optical sequencing of DNA using protein nanopores

Rodney Welch; Medical Microbiology & Immunology Madison, WI (USA); LPS-dependent and -independent E. coli hemolysin activities