AFMBioMed Conferences

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

Past conferences:

• 2007 : 1st AFMBioMed international conference was organized at the CosmoCaixca Science Museum in Barcelona (local chair: Daniel Navajas, Univ. Barcelona). Special issue of the Journal of Molecular Recognition.

• 2008 : 2nd AFMBioMed international conference was organized at the Hyatt Regency Monterey, California (local chair: Sanjay Kumar, UC Berkeley). Special issue of the 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).

To come:

• 2021 : 10th AFMBioMed international conference is organized at Nagoya, Japan (local chair: Takayuki Uchihashi, Nagoya University).