Invited Speakers
Keynote Speaker

Christopher Hernandez, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bioengineering, and Therapeutic Sciences
University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
San Francisco, CA, USA
Open Science

Serena Bonaretti, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Balgrist Campus
Zurich, Switzerland
Osteocyte structure and function

Karl Lewis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA

Chelsea Heveran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT, USA
Spatial transcriptomics in bone

Thomas Andersen, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Clinical Research
University of Southern Denmark
Odense, Denmark
Multiscale bone structure and function

Ottman Tertuliano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Mariana Kersh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
Clinical bone imaging

Steven Boyd, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Bone marrow and adipocytes

Daniel Coutu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Anjali Kusumbe, Ph.D.
PI and Director of the Oxford Tissue Imaging Centre
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Mechanoregulation of Bone Deveopment & Regeneration

Chao Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology
Shenzhen, China

Elazar Zelzer, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Department of Molecular Genetics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
Emerging Paradigms in Bone Research

Lilian Plotkin, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN, USA

Tadahiro Iimura, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology, School of Dental Medicine
Hokkaido University
Hokkaido, Japan
Preclinical bone imaging

Saravana Ramaswamy, Ph.D.
Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Clinical Sciences
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom

Warren Grayson, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD, USA