Keynote Speakers

Norman Dovichi, Professor Norman Dovichi holds the Grace-Rupley Professorship at the University of Notre Dame. His research group has specialized in ultrasensitive bioanalysis. The group has played pioneering roles in single molecule detection, single cell analysis, and high throughput DNA sequencing. Dovichi was named as the only chemist among a dozen other scientists as an unsung hero of the human genome project by Science."
Nicholas Navin, Assistant Professor Dr. Navin is an assistant professor at the MD Anderson Cancer Center where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Genetics and Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Dr. Navin completed his postdoctoral studies at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and graduate training at Stony Brook University in New York. Prior to his academic training Dr. Navin worked as a computational biologist for several biotechnology companies. The Navin laboratory is currently using single-cell and next-generation sequencing to study genomic diversity and evolution in breast cancer.
Marcus Textor, Professor Marcus Textor is professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, Department of Materials. He studied chemistry at the University of Zurich. Between 1978 and 1994 he worked in different R&D functions in industry related to metal, automotive and packing applications. In 1994 he joined ETH Zurich, Department of Materials and built up a research in the area of surfaces and interfaces of light metals and biomaterials, covering fundamental aspects in the behaviour of materials in contact with biological milieus and the design of surfaces that elicit biospecific responses for applications as biosensors, medical implants, cell culture platforms, carriers for drug delivery and nanomaterials for medical imaging.