Program

Monday, November 7th

8:30 - 9:00 Arrival + Registration
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome Address
9:15 - 10:00 Erwin Frey, LMU Munich
Regulation of oscillatory Min-protein patterns
10:00 - 10:45 Albert Goldbeter, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Temporal self-organization of the regulatory network driving the mammalian cell cycle
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 Xavier Trepat, Universitat de Barcelona
Mechanical guidance of collective cell migration
11:45 - 12:30 Marco Polin, University of Cambridge
Synchronization of Eukaryotic Flagella
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Vladimir Lorman, Université Montpellier 2
Physical principles of virus structure and self-assembly
14:45 - 15:30 Martin Castelnovo, ENS Lyon
RNA control of HIV-1 size polydispersity: an Atomic Force Microscopy study
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 Monica Berry, University of Bristol
Epitope mapping and mucin packaging in gels affect bacterial binding
16:45 - 17:30 Helmut Schiessel, Universiteit Leiden
Euler's Elastica and their Applications to DNA, Nucleosomes, and Chromatin Fibers
17:30 - Poster Session


Tuesday, November 8th

9:00 - 9:45 Stephan Grill, MPI-CBG / MPI-PKS Dresden
Intracellular pattern generation - mechanics meets biochemistry
9:45 - 10:30 Andrea Gamba, Polytechnico di Torino
Geometry, topology, and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in epithelial morphogenesis
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:30 Bénédicte Sanson, University of Cambridge
Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early embryos
11:30 - 12:15 Jean-Marie Lehn, ISIS, Strasbourg
Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry
12:15 - Departure