Physics of Biological Systems

27 May 2025, 09:00 → 29 May 2025, 15:05 Europe/London

Elm Lecture Theatre (Nucleus Building)

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Tuesday 27 May

09:00 → 10:00 Keynote: Stephan Grill - Chiral Morphogenesis

10:00 → 10:30 Kirsty Wan - Perspectives on multiciliary coordination across scales

10:30 → 11:00 Alexander Morozov

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Julien Tailleur - Motility-regulation across scales in bacterial mixtures

12:00 → 12:20 Mathieu Dedenon - An agent-based model for active nematics and beyond

12:20 → 12:40 Jeffrey Everts - Odd viscosity in chiral active fluids

12:40 → 13:00 Diogo Pinto - Mechanical stresses induced by turbulent flows can compromise epithelial tissue integrity

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Anna Erzberger - How geometry drives the self-organisation of living matter

14:30 → 15:00 Ivan Erofeev - Cortex stress conditions apical structure

15:00 → 15:30 Rhoda Hawkins - The force of molecular motor movement on filaments

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Michael Chiang - Understanding Orientational Order in Cell Monolayers with Multiphase Field Modelling

16:30 → 17:00 Gijsje Koenderink - How cytoskeletal crosstalk makes cells strong

17:00 → 17:20 Nicolas Cuny - Biomechanical determinants of shape diversity in cnidarian larvae

17:20 → 17:40 Eleonora Pero - The Flow-Driven Role of Red Blood Cells in Platelet Adhesion Mechanics and Thrombus Morphology

17:40 → 18:00 Laila Saliekh - Bacterial chaining produces multiple modes of colony buckling.

18:00 → 20:00 Poster Session

Wednesday 28 May

09:00 → 10:00 Keynote: Raphael Voituriez - Cellular footprints : examples of emergent memory effects in cell migration.

10:00 → 10:30 Satya Majumdar - Universal dynamics of a passive particle driven by Brownian motion.

10:30 → 11:00 Juraj Szavits-Nossan - Exploring the landscape of stochastic gene expression models using queueing theory

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Ada Altieri - Moment-matching inference for gut microbial communities

12:00 → 12:20 Tuan Pham - Dynamical Theory for Adaptive Systems

12:20 → 12:40 Jeremy Guntoro - Information thermodynamics of genotype-phenotype maps

12:40 → 13:00 Mehmet Can Ucar - Space-filling optimization in branching morphogenesis

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Nathan Goehring - Cell cycle oscillations balance responsiveness and stability in a developmental cell polarity network

14:30 → 15:00 Peter Bieling - Biochemical principles of Rho GTPase patterning

15:00 → 15:30 Martin Loose - How Filament Mortality Drives FtsZ Self-Organization

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Christoph Weber - Theory for bottom-up sequence selection and evolution.

16:30 → 17:00 Darius Koester - Characterisation and application of Curly, a small protein with big impact on actin filament curvature

17:00 → 17:20 Lara Krüger - Uncovering molecular mechanisms driving asymmetric cell division with synthetic biology

17:20 → 17:40 Keaton Burns - Modern Spectral Methods for Complex Fluids using Dedalus

17:40 → 18:00 Henrik Weyer - Equilibrium-like interface laws for intracellular protein patterns

19:30 → 21:30 Conference Dinner

Thursday 29 May

09:00 → 10:00 Keynote: Cristina Marchetti -Motile defects in active nematic solids as organizing centers of morphogenesis.

10:00 → 10:30 Agnes Noy - Towards modelling DNA in biological environments

10:30 → 11:00 Chris Brackley - From order to disorder in chromatin fibres

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Xiaohua Shen - From DNA to Life: Decode the noncoding genome

12:00 → 12:20 Catherine Naughton - Transcription-dependent propagation of DNA supercoiling in human cells

12:20 → 12:40 Shaoqian Ma - Single-cell nascent transcription is sparse and heterogenous, revealing cellular plasticity

12:40 → 13:00 Elias Friman - Cohesin loop extrusion dynamics and CTCF affect long-range enhancer-driven transcription

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:01 End of Conference