Past Symposia

2023

Symposium Leadership

Alexander Sever, Co-Chair

Mirna Ghattas, Co-Chair

Prof. M. Cynthia Goh, Faculty Advisor

Keynote Speakers

Karen Fleming - Johns Hopkins University

Leyla Soleymani - McMaster University 

​Kevin Gardner​ - City University of New York

​​Haissi Cui​ - University of Toronto

Anna Taubenberger​ - Technische Universität Dresden

Christine Mayr​ - Memorial Sloan Kettering

Program

2020

CBP 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We thank the keynote speakers for accepting our invitations. 

Symposium Leadership

Christian Imperiale, Co-Chair

Philippe Green, Co-Chair

Prof. M. Cynthia Goh, Faculty Advisor

Keynote Speakers

Samira Musah – Duke University

Philipp Kukura – University of Oxford

Klaus Hahn – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Avena Ross – Queen's University 

Teresa Head-Gordon – University of California Berkeley

Michelle Chang – University of California Berkeley

Ruby Sullan – University of Toronto

Peter R. Jaffé – Princeton University

2019

Symposium Leadership

Samantha McWhirter, Co-Chair

Hava Friedman, Co-Chair

Prof. M. Cynthia Goh, Faculty Advisor

Keynote Speakers

Anita Shukla – Brown University

Matt Trau – University of Queensland

Bin Zhang – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Brian Ingalls – University of Waterloo

Sabrina Leslie – McGill University 

Andrew Woolley – University of Toronto

Rebecca Jockusch – University of Toronto

Program

2018

Symposium Leadership

Caroline Pao, Chair

Prof. M. Cynthia Goh, Faculty Advisor

Prof. Gilbert Walker, Faculty Advisor

Prof. David McMillen, Faculty Advisor

Keynote Speakers

Lillian Chong – University of Pittsburgh

Carlos Baiz – University of Texas at Austin

Alexander A. Green – Arizona State University

Tuomas Knowles – University of Cambridge

Quaid Morris – University of Toronto

Teri W. Odom – Northwestern University

Susanna Widicus Weaver – Emory College of Arts and Sciences 

Program

2017

Symposium Leadership

Bryan Robertson, Chair

Prof. M. Cynthia Goh, Faculty Advisor

Prof. David McMillen, Faculty Advisor

Keynote Speakers

Lynette Cegelski – Stanford University

Frank Gu – University of Waterloo

Jill Millstone – University of Pittsburgh

Jeremy Schofield – University of Toronto

Markus Deserno – Carnegie Mellon University

Fiorenzo Omenetto – Tufts University

Holger Stark – Technische Universitaet Berlin

Program

2016

​Symposium Leadership

Kris Kim, Chair

Prof. M. Cynthia Goh, Faculty Advisor

Prof. David McMillen, Faculty Advisor

Keynote Speakers

Sarah Heilshorn – Stanford University

Herbert Levine – Rice University

Mark MacLachlan – University of British Columbia

Alex Mogilner – New York University

Gabriela Schlau-Cohen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Donald Weaver – University of Toronto

Yan Yu – Indiana University 

Program

2015

Keynote Speakers

Hue Sun Chan – University of Toronto

Janet Iwasa – University of Utah

Hongbin Li – University of British Columbia

Jacek Liplowski – University of Guelph

Andrew Pelling – University of Ottawa

Joshua Shaevitz – Princeton University

Erdal Toprak – Southwestern University 

2014

Symposium Leadership

Richard Kil, Chair

Prof. David McMillen, Faculty Advisor

Keynote Speakers

Julius Vancso – University of Twente

Yann Chemla – University of Illinois

Brian Kuhlman – University of North Caronlina

Roman Melnyk – University of Toronto

Manu Prakash – Stanford University

Jhih-Wei Chu – National Chiao Tung University

Jeff Tabor – Rice University 

Program

2013

Keynote Speakers

Paul Whitford – Northeastern University

Barry Lentz – University of North Carolina

Adam Cohen – Harvard University

Jason Dwyer – University of Rhode Island

Ashok Deniz – The Scripps Research Institute

Dwayne Miller – University of Toronto

Paul Wiseman – McGill University

Yann Chemla – University of Illinois 

2012

Keynote Speakers

Andrew Miranker – Yale University

Claudiu Gradinaru – University of Toronto

Jim Collins – Boston University

Richard Epand – McMaster University

Zahra Fakhraai – University of Pennsylvania

Suckjoon Jun – Harvard University

Klaus Gawrisch – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Klaus Schulten – National Institute of General Medical Sciences 

2011

Keynote Speakers

Dor Ben-Amotz – Purdue University

Shekhar Garde – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Guri Giaever – University of Toronto

Regis Pomes – University of Toronto

William Shih – Harvard University

Villy Sundstrom – Lund University

Roland Winter – TU Dortmund: Universitat

Justin Nodwell – McMaster University

Gary Pielak – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

2010

Keynote Speakers

Peng Chen – Cornell Univeristy

Julio Fernandez – Columbia University

Jose Onuchnic – University of California San Diego

Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy – University of Michigan

Ron Weiss – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Wilson – Georgia State University

Christopher Yip – University of Toronto

Peter Zandstra – University of Toronto 

2009

Keynote Speakers

Terry Allen - University of Alberta

Roy Duncan – Dalhousie University

Michael Ellison – University of Alberta

Harold G. Craighead – Cornell University

Gerhard Hummer – National Institutes of Health

Lewis Kay – University of Toronto

Igor Medintz – Naval Research Laboratory 

2008

Keynote Speakers

Boris Akhremitchev – Duke University

Robert M. Corn – University of California

Nancy Forde – Simon Fraser University

Raymond Kapral – University of Toronto

Glen S. Kwon – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michael D. Noseworthy – McMaster University

Brian Sykes – University of Alberta

Erik Winfree – California Institute of Technology 

2007

Keynote Speakers

Terry Allen - University of Alberta

Roy Duncan – Dalhousie University

Michael Ellison – University of Alberta

Harold G. Craighead – Cornell University

Gerhard Hummer – National Institutes of Health

Lewis Kay – University of Toronto

Igor Medintz – Naval Research Laboratory 

2006

Keynote Speakers

William Degrado – University of Pennsylvania

Jay Groves – University of California, Berkeley

Michael Grunze – Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat

Stuart Kauffman – University of Calgary

Kazuhiko Kinosita – Waseda University

Anthony Pawson – University of Toronto 

2005

Keynote Speakers

David Andrews – McMaster University

Christopher Dobson – University of Cambridge 

Leon Glass – McGill University

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer – Pennsylvania State University

Paul McEuen – Cornell University

Ned Seeman – New York University

Jim Wells – University of Toronto 

2004

Keynote Speakers

Edward Young – Iowa State University

Christopher McKay – NASA's Ames Research Centre

Robert Blakenship – Arizona State University

Benoit Roux – Cornell University

Stephen Ferguson – Western University

Terry Beverage – University of Guelph

Mark E. Tuckerman – New York University

Michelle Wang – Cornell University 

2003

Keynote Speakers

Anthony Auerbach – State University of New York at Buffalo

Mark Berg – University of South Carolina

Robert R. Birge – University of Conneticut

Paul Higgs – McMaster University

Gary J. Pielak – University of North Carolina

R. Peter Rand – Brock University

Jack Tuszynski – University of Alberta 

2002

Keynote Speakers

X. Sunney Xie – Harvard University

Jacob N. Israelachvili – University of California

Fred Sachs – State University of New York at Buffalo

R. Dean Astumian – University of Maine

Nils O. Petersen – University of Western Ontario

Rebecca Williams – Cornell University

Gilbert C. Walker – University of Pittsburgh