Annual Progress Conference
29-30 April 2014, Malta
European network on applications of Atomic Force Microscopy
to NanoMedicine and Life Sciences
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COST Domain - Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences (BMBS)
COST is supported
by the EU Framework Programme
ESF provides the COST Office
through a European Commission contract
Once more, everything is here!
COST is supported
by the EU Framework Programme
ESF provides the COST Office
through a European Commission contract
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The main objective of the COST Action is to further develop and transfer the
biophysical achievements of Atomic Force Microscopy to NanoMedicine and clinical
research.
Is AFM useful in a clinical environment?
If yes, when, where, and how?
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Evolution: In Krakow, on September 2012, MC decided to favor organizing
specific Workshops under WG control.
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Imagerie High
Resolution Imaging
of Single
Molecules
Cellular Mechanics
Dynamic Force
Spectroscopy
(DFS)
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24 COST countries
AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, EL, ES, FI, FR, HR,
HU, IE, IL, IT, LT, LU, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO,
SRB, TR, UK
Chair of the Action:
Prof. Pierre PAROT (FR)
Vice Chair of the Action:
Prof. Hans OBERLEITHNER (DE)
DC Rapporteurs:
Prof Pavle ANDJUS (RS)
DC Rapporteurs:
Prof Spiros H. ANASTASIADIS (EL)
Science officer of the Action:
Dr Giuseppe LUGANO
Administrative officer of the Action:
Ms Svetlana VOINOVA
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Meetings
2010 Kickoff Meeting Brussels, December 10 (LO: Magdalena Radwanska)
2011 WG Meeting Paris, May 10-13 (LO: Pierre Parot)
2011 MC Meeting August 23 // AFMBioMed Conference Paris 2011
(LO: Simon Scheuring)
2012 WG Meeting Linz February 3-4 // Linz Workshop 2012 (LO: Peter Hinterdorfer)
2012 MC Meeting Cracow September 14 (LO: Magorzata Lekka)
2012 Workshop Standardization Madrid, 18-19 October (LO: Ricardo Garcia)
2012
Workshop NanoToxicology Bucarest, 12-13 November
(LO: Marius Enachescu)
BM0903 TD1206
2013 Workshop Standardization II Enschede, 21-22 March, (LO: Peter Schön)
2013 Worshop Education Genoa Camogli, 15-16 April (LO: Massimo Vassalli and
2013
Alessandro Podesta)
Workshop Nanoparticules Dijon, 3-4 July, (LO: Eric Lewnieska)
2013 MC & Workshop AFM for Drug Design Dubrovnik, 26-27 September (LO:
Vesna Svetlicic & Zoran Madic)
2014 Workshop Standardization Viterbo, 20-22 March, (L.O. Salvatore Cannistraro)
2014 Workshop Standardization Belvaux, 1-3 July, (Jean-Nicolas Audinot) join meeting with TD1204 Modelling Nanomaterial Toxicity (MODENA)
2014 MC & Workshop Standardization Cambridge, 223-25 September, (L.O. Robert Henderson)
2014 Final COST Action Meeting Paris, 28 November (L.O. Pierre Parot)
Schools
2011 Marcoule Summer School, August 30 – September 2; 26 trainees (LO: Jean-Luc Pellequer)
2012 Cracow Summer School, September 2012 (LO: Magorzata Lekka)
2013 Marcoule Summer School, 1-6 September 2013 (LO: Michael Odorico)
2014 Lille Summer School, 25-29 August (L.O. Frank Lafont)
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From Croatia to France, Dr Galja Pletikapić, Rudjer Bokovic; Institute, Zagreb(HR)
STSM Topic: Characterization of nanoparticles using AFM Reference
From Italy to France, Prof. Anna Rita Bizzarri, University of Tuscia,01100 Viterbo(IT)
STSM Topic: DFS standardisation
From France to Croatia, STSM Applicant: Dr Christian Godon, CEA, Bagnols sur Cèze STSM Topic: Standarization of
nanoparticles
From France to Italy, STSM Applicant: Mr Jean-Marie TEULON,CEA,30200 BAGNOLS SUR CEZE Cedex(FR) ,
STSM Topic: DFS standardisation
From France to Switzerland)
STSM Applicant: Dr Ludovic Roussille,U1006 INSERM / Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille (FR) , STSM
Topic: Combined AFM and TERS measurements of biological membranes
From Russian Federation to Denmark
STSM Applicant: Mr George Shevelev,Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk (RU) ,
STSM Topic: AFM investigation of forse and thermodynamic parametras of native and mutanted double stranded DNA
From Italy to United Kingdom
STSM Applicant: Dr Massimiliano Papi,Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma (IT) , STSM Topic: Development of
the Atomic Force Microscopy for Ophthalmic Diagnosis
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STSM
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Outputs from the Networking
Workshop Dijon July 2013
Standardization: Imaging single molecules and single particules; Force
Spectroscopy
Workshop/MC Dubrovnik September 2013
AFM for Drug Discovery / Standardization Mechanics and Education
Joint PCMDDD-3 & COST Action TD 1002 session
Invited Lectures
Ratnesh Lal, Srinivasan Ramachandran, Fernando Teran Arce, Preston Landon, University
of California San Diego, USA, AFM Nanoimaging and nanomechanics for nanomedicine
Robert Henderson, University of Cambridge, UK, G-quadruplex DNA and DNA origami:
Insights from atomic force microscopy
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Added value of networking vs burning EU money!
TOPICS
* High resolution Imaging (unknown proteins)
* Cell Mechanics (gel, cells)
* Force Spectroscopy (antibody antigene interaction)
* Nanoparticules (UP or sea water)
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The Dubrovnik procedure: how to standardize measuring
mechanical properties of soft samples in AFM
Jens Schäpe1, Tomas Luque2, Holger Doschke1, Hermann Schillers3, Mike Wälte3,
Juan José Uriarte2, Noelia Campillo2, Georgios PA Michanetzis4, Justyna Gostek5,
Andra Dumitru6, Elena T. Herruzo6, Pierre Parot7, Massimiliano Galluzzi8,
Alessandro Podesta8, Simon Scheuring9, Yannis Missirlis4, Ricardo Garcia6,
Michael Odorico7, Malgorzata Lekka5, Felix Rico9, Jean-Luc Pellequer7, Hans
Oberleithner3, Daniel Navajas2, Manfred Radmacher1
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Institute of Biophysics, University Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, University of Barcelona, and CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias,
08028 Barcelona, Spain
3 Institute of Physiology II, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
4 Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, 265 04 Patras, Greece
5 The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-342 Cracow,
Poland
6 Institute of Microelectronics Madrid, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
7 CEA iBEB, Department of Biochemistry and Nuclear Toxicology, F-, 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
8 CIMaINaDept. of Physics and CIMAINA, Università degli Studi di Milano,Università degli Studi di Milano, via
Celoria 16, 20133 20133 Milano, Italy 9 U1006 INSERM, Aix-Marseille University, Parc Scientifique et
Technologies de Luminy, 13009 Marseille, France
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During Year 3 we had a very good collaboration with the company
NanoAndMore.
They help us a lot providing free AFM tips allowing standardization
experiments in several team involved in the Action.
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* Atomic force microscopy characterization of silver nanoparticles interactions with marine diatom cells
and extracellular polymeric substance.
G. Pletikapić, V. Žutić, I. Vinković Vrček, V. Svetličić, J. Mol. Recognit., (2012), DOI: 10.1002/jmr.2177.
* Polymer Networks Produced by Marine Diatoms in the Northern Adriatic Sea.
V. Svetličić, V. Žutić, T. Mišić Radić, G. Pletikapić, A. Hozić Zimmermann, and R. Urbani, Marine Drugs, 9
(2011) 666-679.
* Quantitative Nanomechanical Mapping of Marine Diatom in Seawater Using Peak Force Tapping AFM
G. Pletikapić, A. Berquand, T. Mišić Radić, and V. Svetličić, Journal of Phycology, 48 (2012) 174–185.
* Adhesive-free colloidal probes for nanoscale force measurements: Production and characterization.
Indrieri, M.; Podesta, A.; Bongiorno, G.; Marchesi, D.; Milani, P., Review of Scientific Instruments 2011, 82
(2), 023708-11.
* Fluorescence and atomic force microscopy imaging of wall teichoic acids in Lactobacillus plantarum.
Andre, Deghorain, va Swam, Kleerebezem, Hols and Dufrêne, ACS Chem. Biol., 6 (2011) 366-376.
* Effect of Antimicrobial Peptide-Amide: Indolicin on Biological Membranes.
Végh, Nagy, Balint, Kerényi, Rakhely, Varo and Szegletes, Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Vol
2011 (2011) ID 670589, 6 pages doi: 10.1155/2011/670589.
* Forces guiding assembly of light-harvesting complex 2 in native membranes.
Lu-Ning Liu, Katia Duquesne, Filipp Oesterhelt, James N. Sturgis, and Simon Scheuring , PNAS, June 7,
2011, 108 (23) 9455–9459.
* Two barriers for sodium in vascular endothelium?
H. Oberleithner, Annals of Medicine (2012), DOI: 10.3109/07853890.2011.653397, Mini Review
* Nanomechanics and Sodium Permeability of Endothelial Surface Layer Modulated by Hawthorn
Extract WS 1442.
W. Peters, V. Drueppel, K. Kusche-Vihrog, C. Schubert, H. Oberleithner, PloS ONE, 2012, 7 (1) e29972.
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Nanomechanical characterization of eye lens
cells and the effect of cytoskeletal drugs
WG1 and WG4
Nanoparticles and the environment
Ag NPs and marine diatoms
WG4
Ag NP aggregtion in SW
Cytoskeletal drugs: no effect on cell elasticity
Ag NPs: diatom cell wall penetration
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FACTS
Over 200 scientists participated to Action activities (female 28% , Early Stage
Researcher 35%)
6 workshops on Standardization (5), Education (1)
4 active groups of labs involved in 4 topics of AFM in biology:
High resolution, Mechanobiology, Force Spectroscopy, Nanotoxicology
First Summer School 2011: 26 trainees, 12 instructors
Second Summer School 2012: 24 trainees, 11 instructors
Third Summer School 2013: 24 trainees, 10 instructors
6 STSM in 2013
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Leading a COST Action: an APORIA
COST Action: Just burning EU money!
{from COST office} The tangible outputs are preferred. Please, notice that correct
use of COST tools (e.g. well organized meetings) per se is NOT a tangible output,
but indeed a tool to achieve your results.
COST aims at supporting Cooperation in Science and Technology
Cooperation: Joint operation or action
COST does not fund research itself, but provides support for networking
activities carried out within COST.
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LABORATORY
In this room Please endeavour to emulate
the first five letters and not the last seven.
Thank you
Clearly, we can not spend 4 years talking. Even in the best places in Europe.
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How is it possible to solve this issue?
-1- Convincing people that United we stand, divided we fall.
(in French: L’union fait la force).
Most of the teams involved in a COST Action are not rich.
Despite their interest in COST Action, most people are not willing to invest
their own money in a collective and anonymous project. No personal credit.
In science if you rare not the first you are nobody!
Most of the team expect they will not spend their own funds but at the
contrary are hoping to receive money for the join project.
During my talk at the kickoff meeting, I explained that …..100 000 € : 40 =
2500 €
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-2- Giving the minimum for ACTING!
Most of the participants are experimenters NOT theorists.
For instance to perform experiments decided during a WG meeting, at least
they need samples or chemicals, especially when they want to improve
standardization by performing the same experiment in different laboratories.
We strongly suggest to dedicate 10 - 15% of the total annual budget to allow
this kind of expenses.
This should be consider not as funding research (NO SALARIES, NO
INVESTMENT which represent more than 80% of research activity) but
helping people involved in a COST Action to do something else than just
burning EU money and obtain relevant results.
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The Education Site, Leader: Alessandro Podesta, IT
Third COST Action TD 1002 Summer School
Marcoule, France 1-6 September 2013
24 trainees 6 Lecturers 5 Trainers
young (almost) and excellent gender balance!
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