Pre conference: Wednesday 13 September - 18:30, Speakers Dinner at St John's College Wordsworth Room
Day one: 14 September, 201709:00-09:25 Registration
09:25-09:30 Welcome Session I: Assembly and self-organisation 09:30-10:00 David Rueda – Imperial College London, UK Watching Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions from single Molecules to Single Cells 10:00-10:15 Emily Gehrels – Harvard University, USA Modulating and addressing colloidal interactions using light 10:15-10:30 Danielle Mersch – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Ants coordinately transport brood without communication 10:30-11:00 Andela Saric – University College London, UK Functional and pathological protein assembly 11:00-11:40 Tea & Coffee Break Session II: Bragg Lecture 11:40-12:40 Alexander van Oudenaarden – Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands Revealing novel cell types, cell-cell interactions, and cell lineages by single-cell sequencing 12:40-14:10 Lunch and Poster Set-up Session III: Motility 14:10-14:40 Milka Sarris – University of Cambridge, UK Leukocyte interpretation of chemical gradients in complex tissue environments 14:40-14:55 Harshitha Kotian – Indian Institute of Science, India Swarming in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Global optimisation from local interaction 14:55-15:25 Greg Stephens – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Capturing the continuous complexity of natural behavior in the movement of C. elegans 15:25-16:05 Tea & Coffee Break Session IV: Mechanics 16:05-16:35 Patricia Bassereau – Institut Curie, France Scissioning membranes with friction 16:35-16:50 Vikas Trivedi – University of Cambridge, UK Decoupling contractility and growth of cardiomyocytes in vivo 16:50-17:20 Pierre-François Lenne – IBDM, France Irreversibility of cell shape changes during morphogenesis 17:20-18:40 Poster Session 19:00 - PLM 12 Party - Old Divinity School, St John's College (dinner & drinks) |
Day Two: 15 September, 2017Session V: Dynamics and feedbacks
09:30-10:00 Alexander Aulehla – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Oscillatory signaling dynamics during mesoderm patterning 10:00-10:15 Ana Rita Araujo – Imperial College London, UK Temporal Insulation of Mitosis – one more job for positive feedback 10:15-10:45 Conrad Mullineaux – Queen Mary University of London, UK Vision in cyanobacteria 10:45-11:15 Tea & Coffee Break Session VI: Evolution 11:15-11:30 Alexander Leonard – University of Cambridge, UK Emergence of Structural Complexity in Biological Evolution 11:30-12:00 Michel Milinkovitch – University of Geneva, Switzerland A Living Cellular Automaton: when Charles Darwin meets John von Neumann and Alan Turing 12:00-12.30 Liedewij Laan – Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Evolutionary self-organisation: lessons from the polarisation machinery in budding yeast 12:30-13:45 Lunch & Poster Session Session VII: Mechanics of development 13:45-14:00 Stephanie Hoehn – University of Cambridge, UK Variation, regulation and forces in morphogenesis – cell sheet folding in Volvox 14:00-14:30 Suzanne Eaton – MPI CBG, Germany Mechanical tension regulates endocytic turnover of E-Cadherin during pupal wing morphogenesis 14:30-14:45 Matthäus Mittasch – TU Dresden, Germany Light-driven intracellular flow perturbations to unravel transport-dependent organization in cells and developing embryos 14:45-15:15 Jean-Léon Maître – Institut Curie, France Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis 15:15-15:45 Tea & Coffee Break Session VIII: Materials 15:45-16:15 Mathias Kolle – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Harnessing Nature’s Light Manipulation Strategies for Dynamic Optical Materials 16:15-16:45 Eric Dufresne – ETH Zürich, Switzerland How do living organisms regulate material properties? 16:45-17:00 Closing remarks, prizes (sponsored by Physical Biology) |
