Day 1 – Thursday 18 June 2026
09:00 – 09:30
09:30 – 09:45
Registration and Welcome Coffee
Welcome note from the organizers
Brenda Kwak (Geneva, CH)
09:45 – 12:00
Mechanotransduction
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 -15:00
Effect of sex on disease vulnerability
15:00- 15:30
Coffee break
15:30-16:30
Poster session
16:30 – 17:30
Keynote speaker
David Steinman (Toronto, CA)
19:15 –
Conference diner
Day 2 – Friday June 19th 2026
08:30 – 9:30
Emerging concepts in mechanotransduction
9:30 – 10:00
Coffee break
10:00 – 13:00
Emerging concepts in mechanotransduction II
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch break & Poster session 2
13:00 – 14:30
In vitro models for biomechanical research
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee break
15:00 – 17:00
Advanced imaging for biomechanical forces, wall structure and function