The Biological Surfaces and Interfaces series of meetings have a distinguished history of uniting researchers from diverse
disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, clinical disciplines) studying interfaces between biological
systems and artificial materials, and within biological systems (such as cell membranes and their model, cell-extracellular
matrix and cell-cell contacts, etc).
Since 2003, it served as the forum for the European and international interdisciplinary researchers in the field to exchange their ideas
and mentor generations of young scientists.
In a move that is absolutely unprecedented in the 17-year history of these meetings, and contrary to their spirit and history, the organizers were not advertising the meeting or sharing information
about the meeting organization with the rest of the scientific community, including those of us who helped with the initial stages of the organization.
The application portal opened in March 2022, after the initial deadlines for the YTF fellowships and general attendance
have already passed. After some back-and-forth with FEBS put additional pressure on the organizers, some advertisements appeared and the application
deadlines were extended several times, offering the wider scientific community a chance to apply for the YTF fellowships and conference attendance,
without, however, communicating the extensions to the rest of us.
FEBS Biological Surfaces and Interfaces Workshop on Interface Dynamics
Manuel Salmerón-Sánchez (University of Glasgow, UK), Ilya Reviakine (UWashington, Seattle, USA), chairs.
Marta Bally (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), vice-chair.
Conference Program (pdf). Photos from the 2017 conference.
ESF-EMBO Biological Surfaces and Interfaces Symposium
Julie Gold (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) and Joachim Spatz (Stuttgart, Germany), chairs.
Fredrik Höök (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) and Janos Vörös (ETH Zürich, CH), co-chairs.
Program pdf.
2007
ESF-EMBO Biological Surfaces and Interfaces Symposium
Marcus Textor (ETH-Zurich, Switzerland) and Giovanni Marletta (Università di Catania, Italy), chairs.
Julie Gold (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) and Joachim Spatz (Stuttgart, Germany), vice-chairs.
Program pdf.
