Keynote Speakers: Luc Thevenaz (EPFL, Switzerland) Giuliano Scarcelli (Univ. Maryland, USA) Birgit Stiller (MPI Erlangen, Germany) Kirill Larin (Univ. Houston, USA) Anna Taubenberger (TU Dresden, Germany) Nicoletta Petridou (EMBL, Germany) Invited Speakers: Shinji Kajimoto (Tohoku Univ., Japan) Brendan Kennedy (Univ. Western Australia) George Fytas (MPI Mainz, Germany) Alessio Zaccone (Univ. Milan, Italy) Ingolf Sack (Charite Berlin, Germany) Alberto Bilenca (Ben Gurion Univ., Israel) Stephanie Moellmert (MPI Erlangen, Germany)