Physics of Biological Cells: from molecules to populations

Name: Physics of Biological Cells: from molecules to populations
Start: 2024-05-14T08:55:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-16T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Nucleus Building

14 May 2024, 08:55 → 16 May 2024, 14:00 Europe/London

Elm Lecture Theatre (Nucleus Building)

Elm Lecture Theatre

Nucleus Building

Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG

Description

Information for Delegates

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Tuesday, 14 May
- 08:55 → 09:00
  
  Welcome - Davide Marenduzzo 5m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Keynote: Carsten Beta - Biohybrid active matter — how amoeboid cells actuate passive micro-cargo 1h Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Andrew Goryachev - Pattern formation by proteins: diverse molecules and common principles 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Nir Gov - Guided by curvature: A theoretical model of cellular shape dynamics and motility, coupling curvature and activity 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 11:30 → 12:00
  
  Jacob Halatek - Towards a Theory of Pattern Formation in Reaction-Diffusion Systems 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 12:00 → 12:20
  
  Sergio Alonso - Interplay between biochemical pattern formation and cell locomotion 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 12:20 → 12:40
  
  Judith Lutton - Mathematical modelling of macropinocytosis informed by quantitative analysis of cell surfaces 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 12:40 → 13:00
  
  Francesco Avanzini - Nonideal Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Multiple Routes to Instability 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 14:00 → 14:30
  
  Isabella Guido - Mechanical instability in living matter 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 14:30 → 15:00
  
  Philip Pearce - Pattern formation by living droplets in chemoattractant gradients 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Suzanne Fielding - Modelling the rheology of biological tissue 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee break 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Markus Bär - Pattern formation in active biological fluids 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Linda Hirst - Self-Mixing Active Fluids 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 17:00 → 17:20
  
  Rodrigo García-Tejera - Licensing and competition of stem cells at the niche combine to regulate tissue maintenance 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 17:20 → 17:40
  
  Rachel Los - Play nice or pay the price: an interdisciplinary study of cooperators and cheaters in a growing microcolony 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 17:40 → 18:00
  
  Edoardo Maria Mollica - Bacterial motility effects on leaf colonisation 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 18:00 → 20:00
  
  Poster viewing 2h Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
Wednesday, 15 May
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Keynote: Julia M Yeomans - Modelling collective cell dynamics using active matter physics 1h Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Willem Vanderlinden - Genome topology in retroviral integration 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Martin Howard - Diffusion-Mediated Coarsening Can Explain Meiotic Crossover Interference 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 11:30 → 12:00
  
  Rosana Collepardo Guevara - Physicochemical regulation of the liquid-like organisation of chromatin 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 12:00 → 12:20
  
  Giada Forte - Transcription modulates chromatin dynamics and locus configuration sampling 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 12:20 → 12:40
  
  Janni Harju - Loop-extruders alter bacterial chromosome topology to direct entropic forces for segregation 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 12:40 → 13:00
  
  Luke Davis - Minimal model rationalizes cascading inhomogeneities in biomolecular condensates 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 14:00 → 14:30
  
  Pietro Cicuta - Physics meet biology in collective states of motile cilia 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 14:30 → 15:00
  
  Andrea Weisse - The role of RNA repair in transient resistance to translation-targeting antibiotics 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Marco Polin - Single cell death triggers local avoidance response in the cosmopolitan picoeukaryote Micromonas 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee break 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Teuta Pilizota - Swimming on the edge: saturation of E. coli's flagellar motor speed proportionality to proton motive force 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Eleonora Secchi - Biofilms in fluids: flow-driven assembly dynamics and rheology 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 17:00 → 17:20
  
  Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz - Comparative analysis of diatom gliding motility 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 17:20 → 17:40
  
  Kuheli Biswas - Universality of phenotypic distributions in bacteria 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 17:40 → 18:00
  
  Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer - Bioelectric control of locomotor gaits in a walking single cell 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 19:30 → 21:30
  
  Conference Dinner 2h Hotel du Vin Bistro
  
  Hotel du Vin Bistro
  
  11 Bristo Place Edinburgh EH1 1EZ
Thursday, 16 May
- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Keynote: Alexander Grosberg - Polymer physics of DNA 1h Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Aneta Koseska - Signaling homeorhesis underlies accurate determination of cellular phenotype 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Lendert Gelens - The Rhythmic Cytoskeleton: Controlling the Cell Division Cycle 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 11:30 → 12:00
  
  Liedewij Laan - Cell polarity in budding yeast as a window on evolution 30m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 12:00 → 12:20
  
  Sebastian Aland - Numerical simulation of active cell surfaces - from pattern formation to cell division 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 12:20 → 12:40
  
  Dionn Hargreaves - Mitotic spindle dynamics in stretched epithelial tissues, in vivo and in silico 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 12:40 → 13:00
  
  Alexander Mietke - Mechanics of asymmetric cell division 20m Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Elm Lecture Theatre
  
  Nucleus Building
  
  Kings Buildings Campus Thomas Bayes Rd Edinburgh EH9 3FG