Programme
Day one: Tuesday 11 September, 20188:00-9:00 Registration
9:10-9:15 Introduction 9:15-11:00 Session 1 Invited speaker: Daniel St Johnston (University of Cambridge - UK) Alternative modes of epithelial polarity Jonathan Fouchard (University College London - UK) Basal constriction generates spontaneous curvature governing 3D substrate-free epithelial monolayer shape Invited speaker: Aryeh Warmflash (Rice University - Houston, USA) Self-organizing stem cell systems to study early human development Steffen Rulands (Max Planck Institute - Dresden, Germany) Collective oscillations in DNA methylation during exit from pluripotency 11:00-11:40 Coffee Break 11:40-12:40 Session 2 Turing Lecture: Ben Simons (University of Cambridge - UK) Emergent phenomena in tissue stem cell biology 12:40-14:10 Lunch and Poster set-up 14:10-15:40 Session 3 Invited speaker: Aleksandra Walczak (ENS - Paris, France) Prediction in immune repertoires Etienne Loiseau (Aix-Marseille Univ. - France) The spatiotemporal organization of cilia activity drives multiscale circular flows of mucus in reconstituted human bronchial epithelium Jean-Daniel Julien (Max Planck Institute - Göttingen, Germany) A model for the organisation of contractions and fluid flows in the slime mould Physarum polycephalum Invited speaker: Yoël Forterre (Aix-Marseille Univ. - France) Gravisensing in plants relies on an active granular medium 15:40-17:10 Coffee break and Poster session - even numbers 17:10-18:25 Session 4 Invited speaker: Andreas Herz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität- Munich, Germany) Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation David Brücker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - Munich, Germany) Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamics of Confined Cell Migration Invited speaker: Rosa Cossart (Aix-Marseille Univ., INSERM - France) Cortical hub neurons: when theoretical predictions feed experiments 18:30 Aperitif & Dinner PLM13 Programme (printable) |
Day Two: 12 September, 20188:30-9:00 Welcoming coffee
9:15-10:45 Session 5 Invited speaker: Pavel Tomančák (Max Planck Institute - Dresden, Germany) A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects Guy Blanchard (University of Cambridge - UK) Radially patterned cell behaviours drive tube budding from an epithelium Marija Matejcic (Max Planck Institute - Dresden, Germany) A non-cell autonomous actin redistribution enables isotropic retinal growth Invited speaker: Marie-Hélène Verlhac (Collège de France - Paris, France) Aberrant cortical tension generates aneuploidy in oocytes 10:45-11:20 Coffee Break 11:20-12:35 Session 6 Sandra Lemke (Max Planck Institute - Martinsried, Germany) A small proportion of Talin molecules transmit forces to achieve muscle attachment in vivo Invited speaker: Pere Roca-Cusachs (IBEC- Barcelona, Spain) The molecular clutch model as a framework to understand integrin-mediated mechanotransduction Sham Tlili (Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore - Singapore) The interplay between mechanical forces and cell differentiation drives shape formation in the developing zebrash myotome Anaïs Bailles (Aix-Marseille Univ., CNRS - France) A self-organized mechanical cycle underlies a tissue contractile wave and polarizes morphogenesis of the Drosophila endoderm 12:35-14:20 Lunch and Poster session - odd numbers 14:20-15:20 Session 7 Bragg Lecture: Terence Hwa (University of California - San Diego, USA) Dimension Reduction by Cells 15:20-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:15 Session 8 Invited speaker: Tâm Mignot (Aix-Marseille Univ., CNRS - France) Linking single cell behaviors to the formation of multicellular patterns in a social bacterium Clara Essmann (University College London - UK) Mechanical sensing of damage? Invited speaker: Kristian Franze (University of Cambridge - UK) The molecular control of microtubule orientation in neurons 17:15-17:30 Prizes & closing remarks |