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| Sunday, March 20 | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception |
| Monday, March 21 | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Scientific coordinators |
| Opening | |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Norbert Perrimon (Harvard Medical School, Boston) |
| Growth and patterning of Drosophila epithelia | |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Damian Brunner (Universität Zürich) |
| Exploring the generation and coordination of forces shaping the Drosophila Embryo | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Martine Ben Amar (École Normale spérieure / Université Pierre / Marie Curie) |
| Theoretical models for growth of melanoma | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Tony Hyman (MPI für Molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik) |
| Mechanisms controlling cell rounding | |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Ulrich Schwarz (Universität Heidelberg) |
| Active contractility in cells and tissues | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Darren Gilmour (The European Molecular Biology Laboratory - Heidelberg) |
| Crowd control: Modulating cell motility within migrating collectives | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | MGTDC11 Colloquium |
| Chairman: Frank Jülicher (MPI PKS Dresden) | |
| Ben Simons (Cambridge University) | |
| Universalities of stem cell fate in adult tissues | |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| Tuesday, March 22 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Dirk Drasdo (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt) |
| On the possible role of biomechanical interactions in liver regeneration and liver tumor growth | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Pierre Nassoy (CNRS / Institut Curie) |
| Design of cellular capsules as 3D in vitro models of tumors | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Erwin Frey (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Pattern formation in bacterial metapopulations | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Emmanuel Farge (Institut Curie) |
| Mechanotransduction in embryonic and tumour development, and evolutionary perspectives | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | L. Mahadevan (Harvard University) |
| Simple aspects of growth and form | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Andrew Oates (MPI für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden) |
| Pattering embroyos with oscillations | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan (University of Geneva) |
| Dynamics of Dpp signalling and growth control | |
| 16:45 - 19:00 |
Poster session I |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 |
Poster session I |
| Wednesday, March 23 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Olivier Pourquié (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch) |
| Patterning the vertebrate axis | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Lars Hufnagel (European Molecular Biology Laboratory - Heidelberg) |
| Biophysical aspects of tissue growth | |
| 10:30 - 10:35 |
Group photo |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Luigi Preziosi (Politecnico di Torino) |
| Cell adhesion and re-organisation in a multiphase model describing tumour and tissue growth | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Jochen Guck (University of Cambridge) |
| Cell compliance in 3D migration | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 20:00 |
Excursion |
| 20:00 |
Conference dinner |
| Thursday, March 24 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | David Nelson (Harvard University) |
| Cooperation and Competition at Frontiers | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Michel Labouesse (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch) |
| How tension helps coordinate morphogenetic events among different cell types | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Michael Brenner (Harvard University) |
| Linear algebra and Darwin's finches | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Yohanns Bellaiche (CNRS / Institut Curie) |
| Morphogenesis of the Drosophila thorax epithelium | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Barry Thompson (Cancer Research UK, London) |
| Planar polarisation of the atypical myosin Dachs orients cell divisions in Drosophila | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Dan Kiehart (Duke University) |
| Forces for morphogenesis: Dorsal closure as a model system | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Ernst H. K. Stelzer (The European Molecular Biology Laboratory - Heidelberg) |
| Brdiging the gap with three-dimensional cell biology | |
| 16:45 - 19:00 |
Poster session II |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 |
Poster session II |
| Friday, March 25 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Guillaume Salbreux (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme) |
| Cone mosaic formation in the zebrafish retina | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Josef Käs (Universität Leipzig) |
| Are biomechanical changes necessary for tumor progression? | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Len Pismen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) |
| Cytoskeleton fluidization, reinforcement and polarization: motor redistribution and prestress effect | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (IST Austria) |
| Cell and tissue mechanics in zebrafish gastrulation | |
| 12:30 - 12:40 | Closing remarks |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Departure |
For further information please e-mail to: mgtdc11
mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
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