Last update: 20/05/2015

Programs

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  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