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Day one: Tuesday 2 September, 2019


8:30-9:25 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, 2019


9:30-10:45 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
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