Preliminary programme
For the programme of the ECR Symposium on Wednesday 23rd September, check here.
Day one: Thursday 24 September 20268:45-9:20 Registration + Poster setup
9:20-9:30 Welcome session 9:30-11:00 Session 1 (Chair: Ben Steventon) Invited speaker: Jeremie Palacci (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, AT) Of Bacteria and Colloids Short talk: Draga Pihler-Puzovic (University of Manchester, UK) Unravelling three-dimensional active transport by ciliary arrays on coral surfaces Short talk: Dieter Baumgartner (California Institute of Technology - Caltech, US) Shear driven aggregation sets sinking rate of marine snow Invited speaker: Zena Hadjivasiliou (Francis Crick Institute, UK) About time: Memory and temporal dynamics in GRNs mediate global pattern scaling 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:15 Session 2 (Chair: James Locke) Keynote Speaker - Bragg Lecturer: Nancy Kleckner (Harvard University, US) Physical biology of chromosomes 12:15-14:15 Lunch and Poster session 14:15-15:30 Session 3 (Chair: Diana Fusco) Invited speaker: Berta Verd (University of Oxford, UK) Signalling controls developmental tempo, but not progression, in the zebrafish Tbox gene regulatory network Short talk: Divya Choudhary (Harvard University) Division of labour during bacterial warfare Invited speaker: Erik Clark (University of Cambridge, UK) Time-gated patterning in the Drosophila blastoderm establishes distinct expression boundaries downstream of moving stripes 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-17:30 Session 4 (Chair: Teuta Pilizota) Invited speaker: Marco Polin (IMEDEA UIB-CSIC, ES) Sibling Inhibition in Bacterial Colony Expansion Short talk: Maria Tatulea-Codrean (University of Amsterdam, NL) Swimming-limited aggregation of bacteria in liquid crystals Short talk: Fabrizio Olmeda (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria) Adult regenerative defects arise from discordant scaling of signal dependent growth and patterning Invited speaker: William Durham (University of Sheffield, UK) The orchestration of collective movement in biofilms 17:30 Poster session with Drinks reception 19:00 Dinner and Conference Party |
Day Two: Friday 25 September 20269:30-11:15 Session 5 (Chair: Somenath Bakshi)
Invited speaker: Victor Sourjik (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, DE) How physics guides evolution: lessons from bacterial motility Short talk: Ming Liu (University of Oxford, UK) How does diversity affect ecological stability? Invited speaker: Andrea Weisse (University of Edinburgh, UK) Heterogeneity in responses to ribosome-targeting antibiotics mediated by bacterial RNA repair Invited speaker: Peter Swain (University of Edinburgh, UK) More is more: circumventing a rate-affinity tradeoff in glucose transport 11:15-11:45 Coffee Break 11:45-12:45 Session 6 (Chair: Alexandre Kabla) Short talk: Lewis Mosby (University College London and Francis Crick Institute, UK) Combining morphogen and juxtacrine signalling to pattern at the single-cell scale Short talk: Amir Porat (University of Cambridge, UK) Symmetry-Based Methods Linking Theory and Experiment in Plant Morphogenesis Invited speaker: Jean-Leon Maitre (Institute Curie, FR) Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis 12:45-14:45 Lunch and Poster session 14:45-16:00 Session 7 (Chair: James Locke) Invited speaker: Pulin Li (Whitehead Institute - MIT, US) A bottom-up perspective of information propagation and computation in multicellular systems Short talk: Ivan Lobaskin (University of Cambridge, UK) Scaling behaviour reveals a self-organised branching strategy in the developing human lung Short talk: Jan Huertas (University of Cambridge, UK) The multiscale structure of chromatin inside biomolecular condensates 15:45-16:15 Coffee Break 16:15-17:15 Session 8 (Chair: Teuta Pilizota) Short talk: Aidan Brown (University of Edinburgh, UK) Thermal Inactivation of the Influenza Virus Short talk: Avishek Das (Durham University, UK) Utility of information for stochastic navigators Invited speaker: Elena Scarpa (University of Cambridge, UK) Dynamic nucleus and cytoskeletal adaptations to tissue confinement in developmental cell migration 17:15-17:30 Prizes & closing remarks |