Physics of Biological Cells: from molecules to populations
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Tuesday 14 May 2024 (08:55)
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Thursday 16 May 2024 (14:00)
Monday 13 May 2024
Tuesday 14 May 2024
08:55
Welcome - Davide Marenduzzo
Welcome - Davide Marenduzzo
08:55 - 09:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
09:00
Keynote: Carsten Beta - Biohybrid active matter — how amoeboid cells actuate passive micro-cargo
Keynote: Carsten Beta - Biohybrid active matter — how amoeboid cells actuate passive micro-cargo
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
10:00
Andrew Goryachev - Pattern formation by proteins: diverse molecules and common principles
Andrew Goryachev - Pattern formation by proteins: diverse molecules and common principles
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
10:30
Nir Gov - Guided by curvature: A theoretical model of cellular shape dynamics and motility, coupling curvature and activity
Nir Gov - Guided by curvature: A theoretical model of cellular shape dynamics and motility, coupling curvature and activity
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:30
Jacob Halatek - Towards a Theory of Pattern Formation in Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Jacob Halatek - Towards a Theory of Pattern Formation in Reaction-Diffusion Systems
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:00
Sergio Alonso - Interplay between biochemical pattern formation and cell locomotion
Sergio Alonso - Interplay between biochemical pattern formation and cell locomotion
12:00 - 12:20
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:20
Judith Lutton - Mathematical modelling of macropinocytosis informed by quantitative analysis of cell surfaces
Judith Lutton - Mathematical modelling of macropinocytosis informed by quantitative analysis of cell surfaces
12:20 - 12:40
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:40
Francesco Avanzini - Nonideal Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Multiple Routes to Instability
Francesco Avanzini - Nonideal Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Multiple Routes to Instability
12:40 - 13:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
14:00
Isabella Guido - Mechanical instability in living matter
Isabella Guido - Mechanical instability in living matter
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
14:30
Philip Pearce - Pattern formation by living droplets in chemoattractant gradients
Philip Pearce - Pattern formation by living droplets in chemoattractant gradients
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
15:00
Suzanne Fielding - Modelling the rheology of biological tissue
Suzanne Fielding - Modelling the rheology of biological tissue
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
15:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
16:00
Markus Bär - Pattern formation in active biological fluids
Markus Bär - Pattern formation in active biological fluids
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
16:30
Linda Hirst - Self-Mixing Active Fluids
Linda Hirst - Self-Mixing Active Fluids
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
17:00
Rodrigo García-Tejera - Licensing and competition of stem cells at the niche combine to regulate tissue maintenance
Rodrigo García-Tejera - Licensing and competition of stem cells at the niche combine to regulate tissue maintenance
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
17:20
Rachel Los - Play nice or pay the price: an interdisciplinary study of cooperators and cheaters in a growing microcolony
Rachel Los - Play nice or pay the price: an interdisciplinary study of cooperators and cheaters in a growing microcolony
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
17:40
Edoardo Maria Mollica - Bacterial motility effects on leaf colonisation
Edoardo Maria Mollica - Bacterial motility effects on leaf colonisation
17:40 - 18:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
18:00
Poster viewing
Poster viewing
18:00 - 20:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 15 May 2024
09:00
Keynote: Julia M Yeomans - Modelling collective cell dynamics using active matter physics
Keynote: Julia M Yeomans - Modelling collective cell dynamics using active matter physics
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
10:00
Willem Vanderlinden - Genome topology in retroviral integration
Willem Vanderlinden - Genome topology in retroviral integration
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
10:30
Martin Howard - Diffusion-Mediated Coarsening Can Explain Meiotic Crossover Interference
Martin Howard - Diffusion-Mediated Coarsening Can Explain Meiotic Crossover Interference
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:30
Rosana Collepardo Guevara - Physicochemical regulation of the liquid-like organisation of chromatin
Rosana Collepardo Guevara - Physicochemical regulation of the liquid-like organisation of chromatin
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:00
Giada Forte - Transcription modulates chromatin dynamics and locus configuration sampling
Giada Forte - Transcription modulates chromatin dynamics and locus configuration sampling
12:00 - 12:20
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:20
Janni Harju - Loop-extruders alter bacterial chromosome topology to direct entropic forces for segregation
Janni Harju - Loop-extruders alter bacterial chromosome topology to direct entropic forces for segregation
12:20 - 12:40
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:40
Luke Davis - Minimal model rationalizes cascading inhomogeneities in biomolecular condensates
Luke Davis - Minimal model rationalizes cascading inhomogeneities in biomolecular condensates
12:40 - 13:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
14:00
Pietro Cicuta - Physics meet biology in collective states of motile cilia
Pietro Cicuta - Physics meet biology in collective states of motile cilia
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
14:30
Andrea Weisse - The role of RNA repair in transient resistance to translation-targeting antibiotics
Andrea Weisse - The role of RNA repair in transient resistance to translation-targeting antibiotics
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
15:00
Marco Polin - Single cell death triggers local avoidance response in the cosmopolitan picoeukaryote Micromonas
Marco Polin - Single cell death triggers local avoidance response in the cosmopolitan picoeukaryote Micromonas
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
15:30
Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
16:00
Teuta Pilizota - Swimming on the edge: saturation of E. coli's flagellar motor speed proportionality to proton motive force
Teuta Pilizota - Swimming on the edge: saturation of E. coli's flagellar motor speed proportionality to proton motive force
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
16:30
Eleonora Secchi - Biofilms in fluids: flow-driven assembly dynamics and rheology
Eleonora Secchi - Biofilms in fluids: flow-driven assembly dynamics and rheology
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
17:00
Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz - Comparative analysis of diatom gliding motility
Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz - Comparative analysis of diatom gliding motility
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
17:20
Kuheli Biswas - Universality of phenotypic distributions in bacteria
Kuheli Biswas - Universality of phenotypic distributions in bacteria
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
17:40
Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer - Bioelectric control of locomotor gaits in a walking single cell
Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer - Bioelectric control of locomotor gaits in a walking single cell
17:40 - 18:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
19:30
Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Thursday 16 May 2024
09:00
Keynote: Alexander Grosberg - Polymer physics of DNA
Keynote: Alexander Grosberg - Polymer physics of DNA
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
10:00
Aneta Koseska - Signaling homeorhesis underlies accurate determination of cellular phenotype
Aneta Koseska - Signaling homeorhesis underlies accurate determination of cellular phenotype
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
10:30
Lendert Gelens - The Rhythmic Cytoskeleton: Controlling the Cell Division Cycle
Lendert Gelens - The Rhythmic Cytoskeleton: Controlling the Cell Division Cycle
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:30
Liedewij Laan - Cell polarity in budding yeast as a window on evolution
Liedewij Laan - Cell polarity in budding yeast as a window on evolution
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:00
Sebastian Aland - Numerical simulation of active cell surfaces - from pattern formation to cell division
Sebastian Aland - Numerical simulation of active cell surfaces - from pattern formation to cell division
12:00 - 12:20
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:20
Dionn Hargreaves - Mitotic spindle dynamics in stretched epithelial tissues, in vivo and in silico
Dionn Hargreaves - Mitotic spindle dynamics in stretched epithelial tissues, in vivo and in silico
12:20 - 12:40
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:40
Alexander Mietke - Mechanics of asymmetric cell division
Alexander Mietke - Mechanics of asymmetric cell division
12:40 - 13:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre