Founder:

Rosalia Moreddu, University of Southampton, UK

General Chairs:

Rosalia Moreddu, University of Southampton, UK

Malavika Nair, University of Oxford, UK

Sponsors:

EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (conference funding call), UK

People: Massimo Mariello, Rosalia Moreddu, Malavika Nair

Nanion Technologies, Germany

People: Rosalia Moreddu, Mustafa Djamgoz, Artem Kondratskyi

Khalifa University, UAE

People: Rosalia Moreddu, Anna Maria Pappa

Institute of Physics, UK

People: Rosalia Moreddu, Margarita Staykova

Opto Biosystems, UK

People: Rosalia Moreddu, Elise Jenkins

Bioelectricity by Mary Ann Liebert Inc., USA

People: Rosalia Moreddu, Mustafa Djamgoz

Device by Cell Press, UK

People: Rosalia Moreddu, Ioanna Bakaimi

University of Oxford, UK

People: Malavika Nair, Massimo Mariello

University of Southampton, UK

People: Rosalia Moreddu

Organization Support & Symposia Chairs:

Frankie J. Rawson, University of Nottingham, UK

Mustafa B. A. Djamgoz, Imperial College London, UK

Massimo Mariello, University of Oxford, UK

Margarita Staykova, Durham University, UK

Christian Baumgartner, TU Graz, Austria

Paola Sanjuan Alberte, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal

Elias Barriga, TU Dresden, Germany

Marc Fernandez-Yague, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Munehiro Asally, University of Warwick, UK

Custodio De Oliveira Nunes, TU Dresden, UK

Michal Cifra, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Keynote Speaker:

Michael Levin, Tufts University, USA

Invited Speakers:

Roisin Owens, University of Cambridge, UK

Marco Rolandi, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Valentina Benfenati, National Research Council, Italy

Teresa Pellegrino, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Michael Hughes, Khalifa University, UAE

Osamu Shimmi, University of Helsinki, Finland

Ludovica Cicci, Imperial College London, UK

Javier Cervera, University of Valencia, Spain

Giovanni Sena, Imperial College London, UK

Dimitra Georgiadou, University of Southampton, UK

Georges Limbert, University of Southampton, UK

Koushik Maharatna, University of Southampton, UK

Yujia Zhang, EPFL, Switzerland

Amanda Foust, Imperial College London, UK

Will Brackenbury, University of York, UK

Juanita Mathews, Tufts University, UK

Zeinab Jahed, University of California, San Diego, USA

Paulo R. F. Rocha, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Claudio Avignone Rossa, University of Surrey, UK

Munehiro Asally, University of Warwick, UK

Emiliano Descrovi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Natalie F. Melamed, Columbia University, USA

Dimitrios Kontziampasis, University of Leeds, UK

Sedat Nizamoglu, Koc University, Turkey

Yan Yan Shery Huang, University of Cambridge, UK

Francesco Pasqualini, University of Pavia, Italy

Amparo Guemes Gonzalez, University of Cambridge, UK

Johan Ulrik Lind, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Christopher Proctor, University of Oxford, UK

Roger Olsson, Lund University, Sweden

Dimitrios Koutsouras, University of Bath, UK

Paula Mendes, University of Birmingham, UK

Nayere Taebnia, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Ye Wang, University of Manchester, UK

Briliant A. Prabowo, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Agnes Purwidyantri, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Eleni Chatzilakou, Imperial College London, UK

Anthie Moysidou, Max Delbruck Centre, Germany

Gil Goncalves, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Sahar Ghorbanpour, TU Graz, Austria

Symposia:

Cellular dynamics

Morphogenesis

Computational methods

Biodevices

Cancer signalling

Cancer electrotherapy

Microbial bioelectricity

Materials design

Bioelectronic systems

Biochemical interfaces

Tissue engineering & in vitro models

In vitro biointerfaces

In vivo biointerfaces

Special Sessions:

Community - Building the bioelectricity community

Stuart Higgins, University of York, UK

Science Communication - Writing about science, for humans

Sally Adee, freelance science journalist and author

Enterprises - Companies in Bioelectricity, Engineering and Life Sciences

Massimo Mariello, University of Oxford, UK

Science & Society - Bioelectricity and policy

Daniel Konopka, Iontra Inc., USA

Science Comedy - Ig Nobel Prize

Mark Abrahams, mathematician and science comedian