In 2006, Pierre Parot and Jean-Luc Pellequer created AFMBioMed, a scientific organization for international conferences on the use of atomic force microscopy in nanomedicine and life sciences. The genesis and development of AFMBioMed are described in the editorial of the 15 years of its existence.
Past conferences :
- 2007 : 1st AFMBioMed international conference was organized at the CosmoCaixca Science Museum in Barcelona (local chair : Daniel Navajas, Univ. Barcelona). Volume spécial dans le Journal of Molecular Recognition.
- 2008 : 2nd AFMBioMed international conference was organized at the Hyatt Regency Monterey, California (local chair : Sanjay Kumar, UC Berkeley). Volume spécial dans le Journal of Molecular Recognition.
- 2010 : 3rd AFMBioMed international conference was organized in Red Island, Croatia (local chair : Vesna Svetlicic, RBI Zagreb). Special issue of the Journal of Molecular Recognition.
- 2011 : 4th AFMBioMed international conference was organized at the Institut Curie, Paris, France (local chair : Simon Scheuring, Inst. Curie). Special issue of the Journal of Molecular Recognition.
- 2013 : 5th AFMBioMed international conference was organized at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, China (local chair : Jun Hu, Jiao Tong University). Special issue of the Journal of Molecular Recognition.
- 2014 : 6th AFMBioMed international conference was organized at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, San Diego, California (organisateur local : Adam Engler, UCSD). Special issue of the Journal of Molecular Recognition.
- 2016 : 7th AFMBioMed international conference was organized at the Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett, Porto, Portugal (local chair : Sousana Sousa, INEB). Special issue of the Journal of Molecular Recognition.
- 2017 : 8th AFMBioMed international conference was organized in Krakow at the law school of Jagiellonian University (local chairs : Malgorzata Lekka, Polish Academy of Sciences). Special issue of the Journal of Molecular Recognition.
- 2019 : 9th AFMBioMed international conference was organized at the Fürstbischöfliches Schloss Münster, Germany (local chair : Hermann Schillers, Institute of Physiology II, University Hospital Münster, UKM). Special issue of the Journal of Molecular Recognition.
- 2022 : 10ème conférence internationale AFMBioMed s’est déroulée Nagoya-Okasaki, Japon (Organisateur local chair : Takayuki Uchihashi, Nagoya Univ.). Volume spécial dans le Journal of Molecular Recognition.
To come :
- 2025 : 11th AFMBioMed international conference will be organized at the historic building of University Barcelona (local chair : Marina I Giannotti, IBEC, CIBER-BBN, Univ. Barcelona).