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Pre conference: Wednesday 13 September - 18:30, Speakers Dinner at St John's College Wordsworth Room

Day one: 14 September, 2017


09:00-09:25 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, 2017


Session 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)
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