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Programme Outline
Please note this programme is provisional and may be subject to change.
All timings are BST.
Tuesday 23 June
10:40 – 11:05
Invited Speaker Maximilia Frazão de Souza Degenhardt presenting talk “Seeing RNA as It Moves: A Direct Structural Perspective with AFM”
Session 1 Bio SPM
11:05 – 11:20
Contributed talk "From Oral Interface to Perception: Developing Native Nanodiscs for Deducing Protein-lipid Interactions Involved in Mouthfeel Mechanobiology" presented by Sanjai Karanth
Session 1 Bio SPM
11:20 – 11:25
Park Systems - "Nanoscale Chemical Characterisation with Photo-induced Force Microscopy" presented by Jonathan Moffat
Company Techno Bite - Session 1 Bio SPM
11:25 – 11:40
Contributed talk "Mechanical Characterisation of Lipid Membranes on Nano-Curved Surfaces" by Amal Alamri
Session 1 Bio SPM
11:40 – 11:45
Vmicro - "Introducing Lprobes and XLprobes Technology for Atomic Force Microscopy Techniques" presented by Benjamin Walter
Company Techno Bite - Session 1 Bio SPM
11:45 – 12:00
Contributed talk "AFM to Discover Polymyxin Antibiotics Mechanisms of Action and Resistance" by Carolina Borrelli
Session 1 Bio SPM
13:30 – 14:15
Keynote Speaker Simon Scheuring presenting talk "High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy (HS-AFM) Dynamic Single-Molecule Structural Biology"
Session 2 Dynamics by SPM
14:15 – 14:30
Contributed talk "Direct Visualization of Transcription by High-speed AFM" by Daniel Melters
Session 2 Dynamics by SPM
14:30 – 14:45
Contributed talk "Visualising Biomolecular Dynamics With DNA Nanotechnology and AFM" by Chalmers Chau
Session 2 Dynamics by SPM
15:30 – 15:55
Invited Speaker Shi-Xia Liu presenting talk "Organic Radical Molecules on Pb(111)"
Session 3 Materials SPM
15:55 – 16:00
HORIBA Scientific - "Adding Chemical Insight to Atomic Force Microscopy with Raman spectroscopy" presented by William Leigh
Session 3 Materials SPM
16:00 – 16:15
Contributed talk "Geometric and Electronic Properties of Catalytic Ag5 Atomic Quantum Clusters" by Elisabeth Bancroft
Session 3 Materials SPM
16:15 – 16:30
Contributed talk "Nanoscale Mapping of Chemical Heterogeneity in Graphene Oxide Sheets" by Zinnia Mallick
Session 3 Materials SPM
16:30 – 16:35
CN Tech - "Advanced Electric Nano-Characterization with Atomic Force Microscopy for Energy Research" presented by Paco Martinez
Company Techno Bite - Session 3 Materials SPM
16:35 – 17:00
Invited Speaker Thomas Siday presenting talk "Ultrafast Atomic-Scale Microscopy: Bringing Time Resolution to scanning probes"
Session 3 Materials SPM
Wednesday 24 June
09:25 – 09:30
Nu Nano - "Talk Title TBC" presented by TBC
Company Techno Bite - Session 4 Bio SPM
09:30 – 09:45
Contributed talk "Rheology of Tumor-associated Macrophages using Photothermal Actuation AFM" by Elena Tomaselli
Session 4 Bio SPM
09:45 – 10:00
Contributed talk "Intracellular Nanoscale Probing Mediated by Pulsed Electric Fields" by Djamel Eddine Chafai
Session 4 Bio SPM
10:00 – 10:05
SciMed - "ICAPPIC Scanning Probe Microscopes" presented by TBC
Company Techno Bite - Session 4 Bio SPM
10:05 – 10:30
Invited Speaker Melanie Köhler presenting talk "Sensory Biophysics of Flavor Perception: Nano-Biophysical Approaches to Decoding Chemo- and Mechanosensory Processes"
Session 4 Bio SPM
11:25 – 11:30
Nanosurf AG - "Talk Title TBC" presented by TBC
Company Techno Bite - Session 5 SPM Methods
11:30 – 11:45
Contributed talk "Atomic-Scale Dielectric and Structural Properties of Interfacial Water on Lipid Membranes" by Simone Benaglia
Session 5 SPM Methods
11:45 – 12:00
Contributed talk "Electroactive PLA Coatings for Implantable Biomaterials: Nanoscale Electrical Insights via Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy" by Juan Manuel Casares Lopez
Session 5 SPM Methods
12:00 – 12:15
Contributed talk "Fluidic Force Microscopy as a Tool for Material Science" by Georg Papastavrou
Session 5 SPM Methods
12:15 – 12:30
Contributed talk "Correlative Volumetric Live Imaging by Scanning Ion Conductance and Oblique Plane Microscopy" by Andrew Shevchuk
Session 5 SPM Methods
13:30 – 14:15
Keynote Speaker Leo Gross presenting "A molecule with half-Möbius topology"
Session 6 Materials SPM
14:15 – 14:30
Contributed talk "From Pixels to Physics: Mapping Localised Carrier Dynamics via KPFM" by Rehmat Goodwin
Session 6 Materials SPM
14:30 – 14:45
Contributed talk "Seebeck Polarity Inversion by Alkyne Co-Binding" by Charlie Wells
Session 6 Materials SPM
14:45 – 15:00
Contributed talk "Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy Reveals Polar Polymorphism in Organic Semiconductor Thin Films" by Esther Barrena
Session 6 Materials SPM
15:30 – 15:55
Invited Speaker Phil Moriarty presenting talk "Two-dimensional Molecular Diffusion Mimics “Universality Classes” of Bursty Human Dynamics”.
Session 7 UHV SPM
15:55 – 16:00
Oxford Instruments - "AFM redefined - Interferometry, Automation, and More" presented by Gabriele Selvaggio
Session 7 UHV SPM
16:00 – 16:15
Contributed talk "Measuring Competing Outcomes of a Single-molecule Reaction Reveals Classical Arrhenius Chemical Kinetics" by Pieter Keenan
Session 7 UHV SPM
16:15 – 16:30
Contributed talk "Measuring the Force Needed to Roll a Fullerene – Molecular Manipulation of C60 on Si(100) 2x1 at Room Temperature" by Callum Hayward
Session 7 UHV SPM
16:30 – 16:45
Contributed talk "Intramolecular Dissociation of Single Molecules on Si(111)-7x7" by Hannah Martin
Session 7 UHV SPM
18:45 – 22:30
AFM SPM 2026 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner at the The Refectory South, University House, University of Leeds
Thursday 25 June
09:00 – 09:25
Invited Speaker Laura Fumagalli presenting talk "Dielectric Properties of Water under Atomic-Scale Confinement and at Interfaces"
Session 8 Materials SPM
09:25 – 09:40
Contributed talk "Quasi-Heterointerfaces and Electronic Structure in Terraced MoS₂ Flakes" by Iddo Amit
Session 8 Materials SPM
09:40 – 09:55
Contributed talk "Tuning Charge Transport in Oligothiophene SAMs via Quantum Interference Effects" by Richa Arjariya
Session 8 Materials SPM
09:55 – 10:10
Contributed talk "Self-assembled Monolayers of Ruthenium Complexes on Template Stripped Gold for Memristive Devices" by Pramita Mondal
Session 8 Materials SPM
10:10 – 10:25
Contributed talk "Operando Electrochemical AFM of Nanoscale Dynamics in Cobalt Oxide Electrocatalysts under OER Conditions" by Anas Akhtar
Session 8 Materials SPM
11:00 – 11:25
Invited Speaker Timea Feller presenting talk "What Single Fibre Pulling Tells Us About Molecular Interactions in Fibrin"
Session 9 SPM Methods
11:25 – 11:40
Contributed talk "Resolving Molecular-Scale Structure in 2D-Materials with High-Resolution AFM in Air" by Francesco Leoni
Session 9 SPM Methods
11:40 – 11:55
Contributed talk "High-resolution AFM reveals changes in the orientation and porosity of the E. coli peptidoglycan network when exposed to mecillinam" by Abimbola Feyisara Adedeji-Olulana
Session 9 SPM Methods
11:55 – 12:10
Contributed talk "Shining Light on Single Molecule Dynamics: One Photon at a Time" by Eric Lundgren
Session 9 SPM Methods
12:10 – 12:25
Contributed talk "SPM-Based Noise Analysis as a Proxy for Real-Time Single Mitochondrial Electrochemical Activity" by Sidney Cohen
Session 9 SPM Methods
13:30 – 13:55
Invited Speaker Jacob Pattem presenting "Unravelling Nanoscale Chemistries in Complex Biological Systems Using Photo-induced Force Microscopy (PiFM)"
Session 10 Bio SPM
13:55 – 14:10
Contributed talk "Mechanical Characterization of Human Primary and Cancer Pancreatic Cells Using AFM-Based Microrheology" by Indrianita Lionadi
Session 10 Bio SPM
14:10 – 14:25
Contributed talk "Probing the Biophysical Landscape of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis Using Large-Scale Force Mapping and Microrheology in 3D Heterotypic Spheroid Models" by Jordan Turnay
Session 10 Bio SPM
14:25 – 14:40
Contributed talk "Time-resolved AFM Analysis of Architecture-dependent Nuclease-mediated Degradation in DNA origami" by Tanveer Ahmed
Session 10 Bio SPM
14:40 – 14:55
Contributed talk "Correlative Fluorescence Microscopy (STORM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM): STORMForce, to Elucidate Streptococcus Pneumoniae Division" by Laia Pasquina Lemonche
Session 10 Bio SPM