Fifteen years of Servitude et Grandeur to the application of a biophysical technique in medicine: The tale of AFMBioMed

Jean-Luc Pellequer (1) , Pierre Parot (2) , Daniel Navajas (3) , Sanjay Kumar (4) , Vesna Svetličić , Simon Scheuring (5) , Jun Hu (6) , Bin Li (7) , Adam Engler (8) , Susana Sousa (9) , Małgorzata Lekka (10) , Marek Szymoński (11) , Hermann Schillers (12) , Michaël Odorico (13) , Frank Lafont (14) , Sébastien Janel (14) , Felix Rico (15)

1 IBS - UMR 5075 - Institut de biologie structurale
2 IRB - Institut Ruđer Bošković
3 University of Barcelona
4 UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley]
5 Bio-AFM-Lab - BIO-AFM-LAB Bio Atomic Force Microscopy Laboratory
6 CAS - Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing]
7 UESTC - University of Electronic Science and Technology of China [Chengdu]
8 UC San Francisco - University of California [San Francisco]
9 NETEC - Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale et Comparée
10 PAN - Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences = Académie polonaise des sciences
11 UJ - Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie = Jagiellonian University
12 WWU - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster
13 L2ME - Etude de la Matière en Mode Environnemental
14 CIIL - Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204
15 LAI - Adhésion et Inflammation

AFMBioMed is the founding name under which international conferences and summer schools are organized around the application of atomic force microscopy in life sciences and nanomedicine. From its inception at the Atomic Energy Commission in Marcoule near 2004 to its creation in 2007 and to its 10th anniversary conference in Krakow, a brief narrative history of its birth and rise will demonstrate how and what such an organization brings to laboratories and the AFM community. With the current planning of the next AFMBioMed conference in Münster in 2019, it will be 15 years of commitment to these events.

Mots clés: force spectroscopy; biomechanics; Atomic Force Microscopy; nanotoxicology; nanomedicine; Imaging; Single molecules; high-speed AFM; nanoindentation

Domaines: Biologie structurale [q-bio.BM]

Jean-Luc Pellequer, Pierre Parot, Daniel Navajas, Sanjay Kumar, Vesna Svetličić, et al.. Fifteen years of Servitude et Grandeur to the application of a biophysical technique in medicine: The tale of AFMBioMed. Journal of Molecular Recognition, 2018, pp.e2773. ⟨10.1002/jmr.2773⟩. ⟨hal-02009736⟩