A number of speakers have been invited to give plenary presentations at the conference. The majority of the invited speakers are scheduled in sessions with a particular topic. Below you will find a list of these sessions with the invited speakers and some information about the session contents.
Besides the invited speakers within these sessions the organising committee has invited six additional, plenary speakers.
| Prof. Karl P. Hadeler | Tuebingen University, Germany |
| Competition, Variability, and Exclusion: | |
| Elimination of some and survival for many. | |
| Prof. Dr. Bruce R. Levin | Emory University, USA |
| Mathematical models of the within and between host | |
| & population biology of antibiotic treatment and resistance | |
| Prof. Dr. Lila Kari | The University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| DNA computing in vitro and in vivo | |
| Prof. Dr. Karl Sigmund | University of Vienna, Austria |
| Reciprocal altruism, direct and indirect | |
| Prof. Dr. Bela Novak | Technical University Budapest, Hungary |
| Modelling the cell division cycle | |
| Prof. Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob | Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
| Bacterial wisdom and the challenge | |
| & of antibiotic resistance |
The closing lecture of the conference will be a distinguished lecture by the first Okubo Prize laureate. This prize is an initiative of the Society of Mathematical Biology, together with colleagues in Japan to honor the memory of Professor Okubo.