Pre conference: Wednesday 21 September - 18:30, Speakers Dinner at St John's College Wordsworth Room
Day one: 22 September, 201608:30-09:10 Registration
09:10-09:15 Welcome Session I - Tissue Development (Session Chair: Benedicte Sanson) 09:15-09:45 Lene Oddershede – Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark Tissue Dynamics 09:45-10:00 Guy Blanchard – U. of Cambridge, UK The structure and logic of axis extension 10:00-10:30 Jérôme Gros – Institut Pasteur, France Mechanics of Gastrulation 10:30-11:10 Tea & Coffee Break Session II - Tissue Development continued (Session Chair: Benedicte Sanson) 11:10-11:40 Danijela Vignjevic – Institut Curie, France The role of tumor microenvironment in cancer cell invasion 11:40-11:55 Erik Clark – U. of Cambridge, UK Precise patterning of the Drosophila blastoderm by kinematic waves of Even-skipped expression 11:55-12:25 Anna Kicheva – IST Austria, Austria Specification of spinal cord pattern by opposing morphogen gradients 12:25-12:55 Guillaume Salbreux – Francis Crick Institute, UK Physics of epithelial morphogenesis 12:55-14:05 Lunch and Poster Set-up Display boards for posters are sized at 118 cm high by 84 cm wide (A0 - portrait) Session III: Cell Mechanics (Session Chair: Kristian Franze) 14:10-14:40 Joe Swift – Manchester University, UK Response to mechanical demand: from nucleus to matrix 14:40-14:55 Clotilde Cadart – Institut Curie, France Coordination of cell cycle progression and cell growth in animal cells to maintain size homeostasis 14:55-15:25 Paul Forscher – Yale University, USA Modulation of Traction Force by Focal Arp2/3 Dependent Actin Assembly 15:25-16:05 Tea & Coffee Break Session IV: Cell Mechanics continued (Session Chair: Kristian Franze) 16:05-16:35 Alba Diz-Muñoz – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Membrane tension as an integrator of signalling during neutrophil polarity 16:35-16:50 Nils Kronenburg – U. of St Andrews, UK Elastic Resonator Interference Stress Microscopy (ERISM)- A new tool for the long-term imaging of cellular stress during disease 16:50-17:20 Matthew Paszek – Cornell University, USA Physical Biology of the Glycocalyx 17:20-18:40 Poster Session 19:00 - PLM 11 Party - Fisher Building, St John's College (dinner & drinks |
Day Two: 23 September, 2016Session V: Bragg Lecture (Session Chair: Ewa Paluch)
09:00-10:00 Eric Wieschaus – Princeton University, USA Mechanics and Cellular Flow patterns in Early Embryos Session VI - Cell Fate Decisions (Session Chair: Kevin Chalut) 10:00-10:30 Dominic Grün – MPI-IE Freiburg, Germany Deciphering cellular differentiation trajectories with single cell transcriptomics 10:30-10:45 Berta Verd – KLI-Klosterneuburg, Austria A damped oscillator drives posterior gap gene expression 10:45-11:25 Tea & Coffee Break Session VII Cell Fate Decisions continued (Session Chair: Kevin Chalut) 11:25-11:55 Ben MacArthur – U. of Southampton, UK Stochastic models of stem cells 11:55-12:10 Phillip Greulich – U. of Cambridge, UK Dynamic heterogeneity in homeostatic stem cell populations 12:10-12:40 Michael Stumpf – Imperial College London, UK Uncertainty in the networks, landscapes and dynamics underlying developmental processes 12:40-13:45 Lunch & Poster Session Session VIII Biological Complexity (Session Chair: Jonathan Chubb) 13:50-14:05 Kalina Haas – U. of Cambridge, UK Mapping biochemical networks in single living cells: a Systems Microscopy approach 14:05-14:35 Mathias Lutolf – EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Mechanical control of intestinal organoid formation 14:35-14:50 Zahra Fahmi - The Babraham Institute/ U. of Cambridge, UK Diverse protein occupancy drives 3D genome organisation through heterogeneous Brownian motion 14:50-15:30 Tea & Coffee Break Session IX: Biological Complexity continued (Session Chair: Jonathan Chubb) 15:30-16:00 Damien Coudreuse – U. of Rennes, France Beyond complexity: lessons from simplified yeast cells 16:00-16:30 Berenike Maier – U. of Cologne, Germany How bacteria tune interaction forces to shape biofilms 16:30-17:00 Closing remarks, prize |
