09/01/2026
Prof. Yannis F. Missirlis from Patras University, will be the guest of the Nano Open Webinar, which will be held on January 14, 2026, Wednesday at 11:00 in SUNUM Foyer as a hybrid. Prof. Yannis F. Missirlis will talk about mechano-chemical information in cells and emergent properties in multicellular organisms.
In this talk, Prof. Missirlis will try to explore the elusive term "emergent properties" in biological functions, which is being used somehow qualitatively, being quite exciting at the same time. Prof. Missirlis will be an overview of experimentally based ideas of how mechanical and biochemical information are driving a cell's function, and how the phenomenological aspects of clusters of collaborating cells, tissues, organs and all the way to organisms and their social organizations are "emerging".
To register for the Nano Open Webinar which will be held a hybrid way on January 14, 2026, Wednesday, at 11:00: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/019b971c20d87c9a8fe9e37855defb6b
About Prof. Yannis F. Missirlis
Professor Yannis Missirlis graduated as Chemical Engineer from the NTUA (Athens-1969), received a M.Sc in Chemical Engineering, (Syracuse-USA, 1971) and his Ph.D. from Rice University (Houston-1973) in Biomedical Engineering.
Prof. Missirlis was Assistant /Associate Professor at McMaster University (Canada,1974-1980) before joining the University of Patras in 1981, as a full Professor, directing since then the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, until his retirement (1/9/2013).
Prof. Missirlis has served as Vice-Rector of the University (1986-1988), as a member of the European, and the World Council of Biomechanics. He is an Honorary Member of European Society of Biomechanics, and of the ESB (Biomaterials). In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE).
He has coauthored a textbook: “Biomaterials, A Tantalus Experience”( Helsen-Missirlis, 2011), coedited 2 books: “Modern aspects of Protein Adsorption on Biomaterials” (Missirlis-Lemm, 1991) and “ The role of Platelets in Blood- Biomaterial Interactions” ( Missirlis-Wautier, 1993). He has published >90 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, several chapters in books, and currently is active in the area of cell-material interactions, mechanotransduction, tissue engineering, biomechanics from nano-to macro level.
Prof. Missirlis is currently a SUNUM Affiliated Researcher (Sabanci University Nanotechnology Center, Istanbul, Turkiye), and Collaborator of the LTFN Laboratory at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
