Preliminary Program
| Tuesday, June 4 | |
| 08:00 - 16:30 | Registration |
| Wednesday, June 5 | |
| 08:00 - 10:10 | Registration |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Jacques Prost (ESPCI) |
| General overview: In vivo, in vitro, in silico | |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | John Toner (University of Oregon) |
| Strong fluctuations and long-range correlations in active matter: What to measure? | |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Francesco Ginelli (University of Aberdeen) |
| Microscopic models for theory and experiments | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Kazuhiro Oiwa (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe) |
| Microtubules motility assays | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Zvonimir Dogic (Brandeis University) |
| From extensile bundles to active gels, liquid crystals, emulsions and vesicles | |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Open discussion |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Coffee break |
| 16:50 - 17:30 | Eric Bertin (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) |
| Continuous descriptions of dry active matter: An update and what we learn from them | |
| 17:30 - 18:10 | M. Cristina Marchetti (Syracuse University) |
| Continuous descriptions of active matter: Where do we stand? | |
| 19:00 - 22:00 |
Conference dinner at Alte Meister, Café & Restaurant (Theaterplatz 1a, 01067 Dresden) |
| Thursday, June 6 | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Erwin Frey (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Length regulation of dynamic microtubules | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Christoph Erlenkaemper (CNRS, Institut Curie, Paris) |
| Length dynamics of active polar filaments | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Andreas Bausch (Technische Universität München) |
| Cytoskeletal pattern formation | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Fred MacKintosh (VU University Amsterdam) |
| Active gels | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Jean-François Joanny (Université Pierre et Marie Curie UPMC) |
| Cortical actin and dynamics of cytokinesis | |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Gijsje Koenderink (FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam) |
| Active biopolymer networks | |
| 15:20 - 16:30 | Open discussion |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Coffee break |
| 16:50 - 17:30 | Cécile Sykes (CNRS, Institut Curie, Paris) |
| Cell shape changes: Role of actin polymerization forces and acto-myosin contractility | |
| 17:30 - 18:10 | Josef Käs (University of Leipzig) |
| The physical bounds of in vivo cell motility | |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| Friday, June 7 | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Christoph Schmidt (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) |
| Non-equilibrium cytoskeletal networks probed with active and passive microrheology | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Anne Bernheim (Ben-Gurion University) |
| Self-organization properties of active filament-motor systems | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Michael Murrell (University of Wisconsin) |
| Force generation in actomyosin networks | |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Laurent Blanchoin (CEA Grenoble) |
| Directed actin self assembly and contractility | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Stephan Grill (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Morphogenetic functions of actomyosin | |
| 14:10 - 14:50 | Frank Jülicher (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Microtubule dynamics in cell division | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Coffee break |
| 15:10 | Final discussion & departure |
Last update: 06/06/2013
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