Last update: 20/05/2015
Sunday, 17 May | |
18:00 - 21:00 | Registration |
19:00 - 21:30 | Welcome reception |
Monday, 18 May | |
09:00 - 09:15 | Opening - Roderich Moessner, MPIPKS Director & |
Scientific Coordinators | |
chairperson: Lisa Manning | |
09:15 - 10:00 | Stephan Grill (BIOTEC, Dresden) |
Mechanochemical pattern formation | |
10:00 - 10:45 | Anthony Hyman |
(Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden) | |
Liquid-like compartments in cells: Implications for polarity and neurodegenerative disease | |
10:45 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Iva Tolić (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb) |
Spindle assembly via rotational diffusion of microtubules | |
11:45 - 12:30 | David K. Lubensky (University of Michigan) |
The cyanobacterial circadian clock, from test tube to cell | |
12:30 - 13:30 | lunch |
chairperson: Sergey Denisov | |
14:30 - 15:15 | Berenike Maier (Universität zu Köln) |
Bacterial segregation dynamics succeeding genetic variation | |
15:15 - 16:00 | Benjamin Friedrich (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems) |
Synchronisation and mechano-chemical oscillators | |
16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
16:30 - 17:30 |
sincel15 colloquium |
chairperson: Vasily Zaburdaev | |
Jané Kondev (Brandeis University) | |
Chromosome Folding in Cells | |
18:30 - 19:30 | supper |
Tuesday, 19 May | |
chairperson: Igor Aronson | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Samuel Safran (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot) |
Contractility-mediated scaling of diffusive mechano-morphogen gradients | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Paul Janmey (University of Pennsylvania) |
Elastic responses of tissues and networks under compression | |
10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Erwin Frey (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
Pattern formation in cellular processes | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Gijsje Koenderink (FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam) |
Dynamics of active cytoskeletal networks | |
12:30 - 13:30 | lunch |
chairperson: Karsten Kruse | |
14:30 - 15:00 | Jens Karschau |
(Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden) | |
Exact embryonic control of the timing of genome activation in zebrafish: Interplay between the numbers of nucleosomes and transcriptional machinery | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Carlo Manzo (ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona)) |
Heterogeneous diffusion on living cell membranes leads to ergodicity breaking and correlates with receptor function | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Peter Dieterich (Technische Universität Dresden) |
Anomalous dynamics of murine neutrophils under chemotacting conditions | |
16:00 - 16:15 | coffee break |
16:15 - 17:00 | Pablo Iglesias (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) |
Excitable behavior and directed cell motility | |
17:00 - 17:30 | Thomas John (Universität des Saarlandes) |
Brownian and non-Brownian properties of passive particles in an active fluid | |
18:00 - 19:00 | supper |
19:00 - 21:00 | poster session I |
Wednesday, 20 May | |
chairperson: Iva Tolić | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Lene Oddershede (University of Copenhagen) |
Long-range ordered vorticity patterns in living tissue induced by cell division | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Ralf Metzler (Universität Potsdam) |
Facilitated diffusion and rapid search hypothesis | |
10:30 - 10:40 | group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page) |
10:40 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Eli Barkai (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan) |
Strong anomalous diffusion: beyond the central limit theorem | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Karsten Kruse (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken) |
Spiral actin-polymerization waves can generate amoeboidal cell crawling | |
12:30 - 13:30 | lunch |
13:30 - 18:00 |
Excursion to Saxon Switzerland |
bus transfer, easy hiking tour (appropriate shoes and clothing recommended) | |
19:00 - 21:00 |
restaurant Chiaveri (Sächsischen Landtag, Bernhard-von-Lindenau-Platz 1, Dresden) |
Thursday, 21 May | |
chairperson: Carsten Beta | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Thomas Shimizu (FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam) |
Dissecting bacterial motility strategies across scales | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Frank Jülicher |
(Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden) | |
Shaping a fly wing | |
10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Gerard C. L. Wong (UCLA, Los Angeles) |
Not-so-random walks: How motility appendages, exopolysaccharides, and cdiGMP signals impact early biofilm motility and organization | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Igor Aronson (Argonne National Laboratory) |
Phase-field model of collective cell migration | |
12:30 - 13:30 | lunch |
chairperson: Tom Shimizu | |
14:30 - 15:00 | Ambarish Kunwar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) |
A new strategy to regulate bi-directional cargo transport by molecular motors | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Pietro Lio' (University of Cambridge) |
Dynamics of circulating cancer cells | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Katja Taute (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam) |
3D tracking reveals bacterial motility strategies and their mechanical constraints | |
16:00 - 16:15 | coffee break |
16:15 - 17:00 | Mikhail Ivanchenko (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod) |
Distributed classifiers based on synthetic genetic circuits | |
17:00 - 17:30 | Sigolene Lecuyer (CNRS & Université Grenoble Alpes) |
Deciphering bacteria-surface interaction and early biofilm development with Reflection Interference Microscopy | |
18:00 - 19:00 | supper |
19:00 - 21:00 | poster session II |
Friday, 22 May | |
chairperson: Pablo Iglesias | |
09:00 - 09:45 | Melda Tozluoglu (University College London) |
Mechanisms enabling plasticity of cancer cell motility under changing extracellular matrix conditions | |
09:45 - 10:30 | Peter Hänggi (Universität Augsburg) |
Rectifying particle transport via entropic barriers and hydrodynamics | |
10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 11:45 | Moritz Kreysing (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden) |
Heat and the origin of life | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Carsten Beta (Universität Potsdam) |
Spatiotemporal actin patterns in the cortex of motile amoeboid cells | |
12:30 - 13:30 | lunch & departure |
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