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Preliminary programme

Day one: Thursday 28 September, 2023


9:00-9:50 Registration + Poster setup
9:50-10:00 Welcome session
 
10:00-11:15 Session 1
Invited speaker: Srinjan BASU (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK)
Towards a single molecule perspective of nuclear dynamics in the early mammalian embryo
 
Short talk: Amy BRIFFA (Babraham Institute, UK)
Is the variation of intragenic DNA methylation in Arabidopsis natural populations governed by genetic or epigenetic inheritance?

Invited speaker: Anne-Florence BITBOL (EPFL, Switzerland)
Optimization and historical contingency in protein sequences
 
11:15-11:45 Coffee Break
 
11:45-12:30 Session 2
Keynote Speaker - Bragg Lecturer: Naama BARKAI (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
How transcription factor locate their binding sites in large genomes: a role for intrinsically disordered regions

12:30-12:45 IOP Annual General Meeting (only IOP members)

12:45-14:00 Lunch and Poster session
 
14:00-15:45 Session 3
Invited speaker: Edwige MOYROUD (Sainsbury Lab - University of Cambridge, UK)
Micro-patterns: understanding how flowers sculpt their surface

Invited speaker: Robert ENDRES (Imperial College London, UK)
70 years later: revisiting Turing patterns with synthetic biology, mathematical modelling, and machine learning
 
Short talk: Ferdinando INSALATA (Imperial College London, UK)
Stochastic survival of the densest can solve the enigma of the expansion of mitochondrial mutations in the ageing of skeletal muscle fibres

Invited speaker: Jonathan CHUBB (University College London, UK)
Pattern formation by living droplets
 
15:45-16:15 Coffee break 
 
16:15-17:00 Session 4
Short talk:
Maria Cristina CANNARSA (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
Optogenetic control of a synthetic genetic clock in living cells

Invited speaker: KC HUANG (Stanford University, USA)
It’s getting hot in here

​17:00 Drinks reception
 
19:30 ​Dinner and Conference Party

Day Two: Friday 29 September, 2023


9:30-11:00 Session 5
Invited speaker: Kate MCDOLE (MRC-LMB, UK)
How the embryo gets its shape: Understanding early mouse development with light-sheet microscopy
 
Short talk:
Guillermo SERRANO NAJERA (University of Cambridge, UK)
How to turn a chick in to a frog? Generation of alternative gastrulation modes in the chick embryo reveals new evolutionary constraints
 
Short talk:
Francine KOLLEY (TU Dresden, Germany)
How to build muscle?

Invited speaker: Kirsty WAN (Exeter University, UK)
From sea cells to sea shells (sometimes on the seashore)

 
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30-12:45 Session 6
Invited speaker: Sujit DATTA (Princeton University, USA)
Sticking together: How bacterial collectives use chemical cues to (re)shape themselves

 
Short talk:
Remy COLIN (MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
Active density fluctuations in bacterial binary mixtures

Invited speaker: Greg STEPHENS (Vrije University, Netherlands)
Plenty of room at the top:  integrative insights from the posture-scale dynamics of animal behavior


12:45-14:00 Lunch and Poster session
 
14:00-15:30 Session 7
Invited speaker: Morgan DELARUE (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Cell growth under mechanical pressure


Short talk: Jamie WHEELER (Sheffield University, UK)
Gradient sensing in surface-attached bacteria

Short talk: Margarita STAYKOVA (Durham University, UK)
Patterning and dynamics of membrane adhesion under hydraulic stress
 
Invited speaker: Jacqui TABLER (MPI-CBG, Germany)
Collagen organisation regulates context-dependent cellular dynamics of mesenchymal collectives in vivo

 
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
 
16:00-17:00 Session 8
Invited speaker: Bruno MARTINS (University of Warwick, UK)
Round the clock: circadian gene expression, growth and division in cyanobacteria


Invited speaker: Rita MATEUS (MPI-CBG / PoL TUD, Germany)
Growth control across scales

 
17:00-17:10 Prizes & closing remarks

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