Day one: Tuesday 2 September, 20198:30-9:25 Registration
9:25-9:30 Welcome 9:30-11:00 Session 1 Invited speaker: Alex Dunn | Stanford Molecular origins of symmetry breaking at cell-cell adhesion complexes Andrew Stannard | King’s College London Mechanically modulating the nuclear translocation of proteins Dirk Benzinger | ETH Zurich Pulsatile transcription factor regulation reduces cell-to-cell variability in gene expression Invited speaker: Ben Lehner | Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Solving protein structures and understanding genetic interactions using deep mutagenesis 11:00-11:40 Coffee Break 11:40-12:25 Tribute to Suzanne Eaton 12:25-14:00 Lunch and Poster set-up 14:10-15:40 Session 3 Invited speaker: Lukas Kapitein | Utrecht University Navigating the neuronal cytoskeleton Invited speaker: Diana Fusco | University of Cambridge How spatial growth constraints evolution: insights from microbes and phages Maximilian Jakobs | University of Cambridge Microtubule polarity in axons is sorted by a molecular gradient of dynactin Invited speaker: Colin Russell | Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam Multiscale evolution of influenza viruses 15:45-16:20 Coffee break and Poster session 17:10-18:25 Session 4 Invited speaker: Assaf Zemel | Hebrew University Jerusalem Elastic interactions of cells and their role in cellular self-association Nicoletta Petridou | Institute of Science and Technology, Austria Tissue morphogenesis at criticality Invited speaker: Michael Krieg | The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona Exploring force transmission pathways during touch and proprioception 17:35 Drinks and Poster Session 19:00 Dinner and Conference Party |
Day Two: 3 September, 20199:30-10:45 Session 5
Invited speaker: Hyun Youk | Delft University of Technology Cells reshape habitability of temperature by helping each other replicate Serena Ding | Imperial College London Shared behavioral mechanisms underlie C. elegans aggregation and swarming Invited speaker: Alison Sweeney | University of Pennsylvannia Phase transitions and photonics in cephalopods 10:45-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-12:30 Session 6 Invited speaker: Sally Lowell | University of Edinburgh Mis-shapes, Mistakes, Misfits and how to avoid them: how do pluripotent cells make the right decisions? Henry De Belly | University College London Membrane tension regulates FGF driven fate choice in embryonic stem cells Invited speaker: Jared Toettcher | Princeton University Optogenetic rescue of a developmental patterning mutant 12:30-13:45 Lunch and Poster session 14:20-15:20 Session 7 Invited speaker: Suliana Manley | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Stochasticity and control in mitochondrial division Rasha Rezk | University of Cambridge The mechanical heterogeneity in human glioblastoma Shahaf Armon | Weizmann Institute of Science From Contraction Waves to Active Resistance to Rupture: Tissues as Sheets of Relaxation Oscillators Invited speaker: Anne Grapin-Botton | Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Organoids towards an understanding of self-organization in organogenesis 15:15-15:45 Coffee Break 16:00-17:15 Session 8 Invited speaker: Naama Barkai | Weizmann Institute of Science TBC Invited speaker: Walter Federle | University of Cambridge Slippery surfaces and sticky feet: Biomechanics of adhesion in insects 16:45-17:00 Prizes & closing remarks |