INVITED SPEAKERS Katharina Stapelmann (NC State University / USA) Audrey Glory (Montreal Cancer Institute / Canada) Tetsuji Shimizu (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) / Japan) Martin Weiss (University of Tuebingen / Germany) LanLan Nie (HuaZhong University of Science and Technology / P.R. China) Martina Modic (Jožef Stefan Institute / Slovenia) Francesco Tampieri (University Polytechnic de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) / Spain) Romolo Laurita (University of Bologna / Italy ) Ihn Han (Kwangwoon University / Korea) Lenka Zajickova (Masaryk University, Brno Central European Institute of Technology – CEITEC, Brno University of Technology / Czech Republic) Laura Fouassier (Researcher and group leader at INSERM, Paris, France)