Preliminary Program
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| Sunday, June 18 | ||
| 15:00 - 21:30 | Registration | |
| 19:00 | Welcome buffet at MPIPKS | |
| Monday, June 19 | ||
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Frank Jülicher (Director of MPI-PKS) | |
| Opening | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | A. James Hudspeth (Rockefeller University) | |
| Making an Effort to Listen: Mechanical Amplification by Myosin Molecules and Ion Channels in Hair Cells of the Inner Ear |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Pieter-Rein ten Wolde (AMOLF) | |
| The Physics of Gene Computation | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Stephan Grill (MPI-CBG) | |
| Backtracking kinetics determine the force sensitivity of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II in a factor dependent manner | ||
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | François Nédélec (EMBL, Heidelberg) | |
| Computational Approaches to Microtubule Organization | ||
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Phong T. Tran (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) | |
| Microtubules, MAPs, and Motors: Organizing Linear Arrays of Microtubules | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| Colloquium Talk | ||
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Harvard University, Boston) | |
| Mechanics and Motility | ||
| 18:00 | Dinner | |
| Tuesday, June 20 | ||
| Talks at MPI-CBG | ||
| 08:15 - 09:00 | Busses from MPI-PKS to MPI-CBG | |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Jonathon Howard (Director of MPI-CBG) | |
| Opening | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot) | |
| Simplicity in Biology | ||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Richard Carthew (Northwestern University, Chicago) | |
| Physical Modeling of Pattern Formation in Epithelia | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Marie-France Carlier (CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette) | |
| Control of Actin Assembly in Cell Motility | ||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 23:00 | Excursion and Conference Dinner | |
| Wednesday, June 21 | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Jacques Prost (ESPCI, Paris) | |
| Pulling Nanotubes with Molecular Motors | ||
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Iva Tolic-Nørrelykke (MPI-CBG, Dresden) | |
| How the Cell Finds its Own Center. Laser Scissors and Tweezers Studies |
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| 10:45 - 10:55 | Group Photo | |
| 10:55 - 11:25 | Coffee break | |
| 11:25 - 12:25 | Cornelis Weijer (University of Dundee, Dundee) | |
| Chemotactic Cell Movement and its Role in Development | ||
| 12:25 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Garrett M. Odell (University of Washington, Washington) | |
| Computer Simulation as a Tool for Exploring Cytoskeletal Dynamics | ||
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Jean-François Joanny (Institut Curie, Paris) | |
| Active Behavior of the Cytoskeleton | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Marcos González-Gaitán (MPI-CBG, Dresden) | |
| Morphogen Gradient Formation | ||
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Suzanne Eaton (MPI-CBG, Dresden) | |
| Development of Hexagonal Cell Packing in the Drosophila Wing Epithelium | ||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Dinner | |
| 19:00 | Poster session | |
| Thursday, June 22 | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Cécile Sykes (Institut Curie, Paris) | |
| Cell Movements and Force Generation | ||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Alex Mogilner (University of California, Davis) | |
| How Keratocytes Crawl: Computational Model of Lamellipodial Shape and Movement | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Julie Theriot (Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford) | |
| Physical Mechanisms Determining Speed and Direction in Actin-Based Motility | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Peter K. Sorger (MIT) | |
| Analyzing Life-Death Decisions in Human Cells Using a Systems Approach | ||
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Karsten Kruse (MPI-PKS, Dresden) | |
| Min-Oscillations in Eschrichia coli | ||
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15 - 17:15 | Ed Munro (University of Washington, Washington) | |
| Dynamics of Cell Polarization in the C. elegans Embryo | ||
| 17:15 - 18:15 | Michel Bornens (Institut Curie, Paris) | |
| Shape, Polarity and Division Axis in Animal Adherent Cells | ||
| 18:15 - 22:30 | Summer Party | |
| Friday, June 23 | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Thomas Duke (University of Cambridge, Cambridge) | |
| Active Cochlear Mechanics | ||
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Martin Göpfert (University of Köln, Cologne) | |
| Transduction and Amplification in the Drosophila Ear | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Johan Paulsson (Harvard University, Boston) | |
| Fundamental limits and trade-offs in negative feedback control | ||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 18:00 | Dinner | |
Last update: June 16, 2006
