Invited Speaker Lists, 2012 - 2023

+ 2023



Barry Stoddard Fred Hutch, United States of America
Janet Deane Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UK
Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
Simon Scheuring Weill Cornell Medical College, United States of America
Bil Clemons California Institute of Technology, United States of America
Jin Zhang University of California San Diego, United States of America
Won Do Heo Cancer Metastasis Control Center, Korea
Cesar A.Ramirez-Sarmiento Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Ann McDermott Columbia University, United States of America
Faith Osier Imperial college, UK
Crina Nimigen Weill Cornell Medical College, United States of America
Gira Bhabha Skirball Institute, United States of America
Radu Aricescu University of Cambridge, UK
Matt Doyle University of Sydney, Australia
Yan Jiang University of Sydney, Australia
Filippo Mancia Columbia University, United States of America
Melanie Ohi University of Michigan, United States of America
Denise Wootten Monash University, Australia

+ 2022


Adrian Elcock University of Iowa, United States of America
Elisa Fadda Maynooth University, Ireland
Chi-Min (Mimi)Ho Columbia University, United States of America
Lynn Kamerlin Uppsala University, Sweden
Allison Kraus Case Western Reserve University, United States of America
Adrian Mulholland University of Bristol, UK
Jian Payandeh Genetech Inc, United States of America
Charles Sanders Vanderbilt University, United States of America
Jeanne Stachowiak The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Robert Tampe Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Elizabeth Villa Howard Hughes Medical Institute & University of California San Diego, United States of America
Hao Wu Boston Children's Hospital, United States of America
Junyu Xiao Peking University, China

+ 2021

Nozomi Ando Cornell University, United States of America
Ewan Birney EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom
Jesse Bloom Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Bridget Carragher Columbia University, United States of America
David Eisenberg University of California, United States of America
Dame Juliet Gerrard The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Eva Kowalinski European Molecular Biology Laboratory, France
Mike Lawrence Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia
Jason McLellan The University of Texas, United States of America

+ 2020

Anne Bertolotti MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Oliver Clarke Columbia University, USA
Monika Fuxreiter University of Debrecen, Hungary
Jay Groves Berkeley University, USA
Andrei Lupas Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
Jennifer Martin University of Wollongong, Australia
Simon Newstead University of Oxford, UK
Kelly Nguyen MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,UK
Nicholas Noinaj Perdue University, USA
Tracy Palmer Newcastle University, UK
Stefan Raunser Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
Amy Rosenzweig Northwestern University, United States of America
Shabih Shakeel MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom

+ 2019

Frances Arnold California Institute of Technology, USA
Nenad Ban ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Maria Barna Stanford University, USA
Patrick Cramer Max Planck Institude for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Eleanor Dodson University of York, UK
Tamir Gonon Howard Hughes Medical Institue, USA
Leo James Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
David Komander Cambridsge Biomedical Campus, UK
Tanja Kortemme UCSF School of Pharmacy, USA
Eva Nogales University of California, USA
Michael Rosen IT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Mikhail Savitski EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Helen Walden University of Glasgow, UK

+ 2018

Nieng Yan Tsinghua University, China
Jason Gestwicki University of California San Francisco, United States
Rachel Green Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
Richard Henderson MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
Andreas Plueckthun Universitaet Zurich, Switzerland
Richard Neutze University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Carrie Partch University of California Santa Cruz, United States
Tanja Mittag St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States
Natalia Jura Department of Biochemistry,
University of California, San Francisco
Liz Miller Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Sarel Fleishman Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Cynthia Wolberger John Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
Harald Janovjak Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
Mads Daugaard University of British Columbia, Canada

+ 2017

Dame Carol Robinson Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University
Jane Clarke Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Marina V. Rodnina Institute of Physical Biochemistry,
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Hye Yoon Park Department of Physics & AstronomySeoul National University
James Fraser Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences,
California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
Judith Frydman Stanford University
David Drew Wallenberg Academy Fellow,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Stockholm University
Lucia Banci Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence
Rohit V. Pappu Department of Biomedical Engineering Washington University
Gerhard Wagner Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
Steven Ludtke Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Co-Director National Center For Macromolecular Imaging,
Baylor College of Medicine
Kevin Gardner Director, Structural Biology Initiative,
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, City College of New York
Doreen Matthies National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Cell Biology,
Biophysics Section, NIH/NCI/CCR
Charalampos Babis Kalodimos Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota

+ 2016

Cheryl Arrowsmith University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Titus Boggon Yale University School of Medicine, United States
Doryen Bubeck Department of Natural Sciences, London, United Kingdom
William DeGrado University of California, United States
Dirk Görlich Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Ramanujan S. Hegde MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sun Hur Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital,
United States
Grant Jensen California Institute of Technology, United States
Yvonne Jones Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics,
University of Oxford, UK
Ulrike Kutay Institut für Biochemie, Switzerland
Mikael Oliveberg Stockholm University, Sweden
Lori Passmore MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
Irit Sagi Department of Biological Regulation, Israel
Sachdev Sidhu Donnelly Centre, Canada
Susan Taylor Leichtag Biomedical Research Building, United States
Michael Weiss Case Western Reserve University, United States
Steve J Weiss Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, United States

+ 2015

Wolfgang Baumeister Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Senyon Choe Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States
Deborah Fass Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Albert Heck Utrecht University, Netherlands
Colin Kleanthous University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Susan Lea University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Chris Overall University of British Columbia, Canada
Sabine Petry Princeton University, United States
Nikolaus Pfanner University of Freiburg, Germany
Carol Post Purdue University, United States
Venki Ramakrishnan MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
Helen Saibil Birkbeck College, United Kingdom
Brenda Schulman St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States
Janet Smith University of Michigan, United States
Nobuhiko Tokuriki Michael Smith Laboratories,
University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
Jim Wells UCSF Mission Bay, United States
Beili Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Ry Young Texas A&M University, United States

+ 2014

Hagan Bayley Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Jennifer Cochran Stanford University
Anne Dell Imperial College, London
Ivan Dikic Goethe University School of Medicine
Petra Fromme Arizona State University
Anne-Claude Gingras Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
Jan Löwe MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Tom Muir Princeton University
Pamela Peralta-Yahya Georgia Institute of Technology
Adam Perriman University of Bristol
Hidde Ploegh Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Felix Rey Institut Pasteur
Andrej Sali University of California at San Francisco
Aimee Shen University of Vermont
Dieter Söll Yale University
Sarah Teichmann EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Sharon Tooze Secretory Pathways Laboratory
Mark Wallace University of Oxford
Hong Zhou University of California
Ashley Buckle Monash University
Megan Maher La Trobe University

+ 2013

Toshio Ando Kanazawa University
William Catterall University of Washington
Valerie Daggett University of Washington
Monika Fuxreiter University of Debrecen
Klaus Hahn University of North Carolina
Manajit Hayer-Hartl Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
F. Ulrich Hartl Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
So Iwata Membrane Protein Crystallography Group,
Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College
Stephen Kent University of Chicago
Carolyn Larabell University of Carolina
Peter Wright Scripps Research Institute
Hao Wu Childrens Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
Ming Zhou Baylor College of Medicine
Sandro Ataide University of Sydney
Nigel Bunnett Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Andrew Deans St Vincents Institute of Medical Research
Nick Dixon University of Wollongong
Katharina Gaus University of New South Wales
David James Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Mike Lawrence Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Trevor Lithgow Monash University
Chris MacRaild Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jamie Rossjohn Monash University

+ 2012

Ad Bax National Institutes of Health
Andrew P Carter MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Jane Clarke University of Cambridge
David S. Eisenberg University of California
Samuel Gellman University of Wisconsin
Lila Gierasch University of Massachusetts
Anne Houdusse Institut Curie
Sophie Jackson University of Cambridge
Rick Lewis Newcastle University
Stephen Pak University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Sheena Radford University of Leeds
Carol Robinson Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory
Charles Sanders Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Shirish Shenolikar Duke University Medical Center
Michael F Summers University of Maryland
Nick Tonks Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Jake Baum Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
John Carver University of Adelaide
David Fairlie University of Queensland
Mark Hulett La Trobe University
Bostjan Kobe University of Queensland
Gottfried Otting Australian National University
Oliver Rackham University of Western Australia
Nicole Verills University of Newcastle