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
   
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
   
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