Scientific programme

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Plenary Talks

Lia Addadi (Rehovot/IL)
On ion transport and concentration toward mineral formation in sea urchin larvae

Anat Akiva (Eindhoven/NL)
Towards bone-on-a-chip – cell differentiation and extracellular matrix organisation

Colin Brownlee (Southampton/UK)
The unique molecular physiologies of biomineralizing phytoplankton - Animal, vegetable and mineral

Charles A. Ettensohn (Pittsburgh, PA/US)
Biomineralization in echinoderms - developmental mechanisms and evolution

Concepción Jiménez-López (Granada/ES)
Bioinspired magnetite nanoparticles as smart drug nanocarriers and hyperthermia agents

Susannah Porter (Santa Barbara, CA/US)
Patterns in the evolutionary acquisitions of mineralized skeletons

Elena Sturm (Konstanz/DE)
Getting to the roots of apatite-based biomineralization of dental hard tissues - from conodonts and cichlids to related bioinspired materials

Sylvie Tambutté (Monaco/MC)
Coral biomineralization - linking certain pieces of the puzzle