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Schedule	Detailed Program	Conference Booklet

Schedule Registration takes place on Wednesday (9.10.) 7:30-8:20
Wednesday(9.10.)		Thursday(10.10.)		Friday(11.10.)
8:20-8:30 Opening
8:30-10:30 Actin I Koenderink Lenz Janshoff Bernheim		8:30-10:30 Tissues / Cancer Friedl Charras Betz Thirumalai		8:30-10:30 Actin II Bassereau Steinem Blanchoin Janke
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-13:00 Immune Cells Sengupta Theodoly Paszek Lennon-Duménil		11:00-12:30 Cell State Huang Membrane proteins Hub Hummer		11:00-13:00 Tissues & Morphogenesis - Lubatti Chan Guillamat Blanch-Mercader Zhang Kurniawan Membranes Barberi Hafner Farago Bächer Kruss Sitarska Forster Hähl
13:00-14:00 Lunch Buffet & Poster		12:30-13:30 Lunch Buffet & Poster		13:00-14:00 Lunch Buffet & Poster
14:00-15:00 Cell Mechanics I Lesman Oosterwyck Sung Kidoaki Nano Probes Monzel Falconieri Han Komaragiri		13:30-15:00 Cancer Büscher Fredrich Rosenbauer Leal-Egana Prunet Weber Actomyosin Networks Campillo Abu Hamed Flormann Dahmke Vliegenthart Makuch		14:00-14:45 Bacteria Pearce Najafi Sankaran Membrane Channels Alansary Ivanović Romanova
15:00-15:20 Coffee				14:45 - 15:00 Coffee
15:20-16:20 Cell Mechanics II Armistead Fregin Dietz Intracellular Transport Rueangkham Shaebani Mangeat Chatterjee		15:20-16:20 Adhesion Vargas Spengler Ghorbani Intermediate Filaments Schepers Lautenschläger Kraxner Lorenz		15:00-17:00 Microtubules Svitkina Bershadsky Merkel Tolić
16:30-17:30 Cell nucleus Hawkins Discher		16:30-17:30 Adhesion Smith Gaub		17:00 Fin
17:30-19:00 Posters & Snacks
19:00 Social dinner(Aula)		19:00 Social dinner(Tent)

Detailed Program
Wednesday	Thursday	Friday

Wednesday 9.10.
Time	Speaker			Topic of presentation
7:30-8:20	Registration
8:20-8:30	Opening
8:30-10:30	Actin I
8:30-9:00	Gijsje H. Koenderink			From mechanical resilience to active materialpropertiesin biopolymer networks
9:00-9:30	Martin Lenz			Elasticity from entanglements in branched actin
9:30-10:00	Andreas Janshoff			Viscoelastic properties of cells and cellular cortices
10:00-10:30	Anne Bernheim-Groswasser			Spontaneous shape transitions of active contractile sheets
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-13:00	Immune Cells
11:00-11:30	Kheya Sengupta			Morphodynamics and mechanosensitivity of spreading T cells
11:30-12:00	Olivier Theodoly			Directed migration of lymphocytes by integrins
12:00-12:30	Pawel Paszek
12:30-13:00	Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil			Impact of Mechanical Stress on the Immune-surveillance function of dendritic cells
13:00-14:00	Lunch Buffet & Poster
14:00–15:00	Cell Mechanics I						Nano Probes
14:00 - 14:15	Ayelet Lesman		Mechanical interaction between cells in fibrous environments				Cornelia Monzel		Subcellular Transfer of Nanoparticles and Targeting of Organelles oscillations
14:15 - 14:30	Hans V. Oosterwyck		Sprouting angiogenesis relies on tip cell pulling forces				Alessandro Falconieri		Mechanotransduction of axonal growth: novel perspectives in mechanobiology field
14:30 - 14:45	Baeckkyoung Sung		Dynamics of immune cell morphology and motility on a topographical surface with controlled elasticity				Mitchell Han		Optoregulated force application to individual cellular receptors using molecular motors
14:45 - 15:00	Satoru Kidoaki		Exercising mesenchymal stem cells through nomadic culture on heterogeneous field of matrix elasticity				Yesaswini Komaragiri		Role of oxidative stress on the cell mechanical properties of suspended and adherent cells
15:00-15:20	Coffee
15:20-16:20	Cell Mechanics II						Intracellular Transport
15:20-15:35	Fern J. Armistead		Mechanical phenotyping of single cells using shear and inertial microfluidics				Naruemon Rueangkham		Intracellular transport by molecular motors: the effect of number of binding sites
15:35-15:50	Bob Fregin		Dynamic real-time deformability cytometry: High-throughput single cell rheology in complex samples				M. Reza Shaebani		Dynamics, correlations, and search optimization in active processes with distinct motility states
15:50-16:05	Christian Dietz		Nanomechanical sub-surface mapping of living biological cells by force microscopy				Matthieu Mangeat		The narrow escape problem in a circular domain with radial piecewise constant diffusivity
16:05-16:20							Saptarshi Chatterjee		Microtubule search-and-capture mechanism orchestrates MTOC clustering and nuclear division via proper spindle positioning in yeast
16:30-17:30	Cell nucleus
16:30-17:00	Rhoda J. Hawkins			Force exertion on the cell nucleus
17:00-17:30	Dennis E. Discher			Nuclear Rupture at high curvature & high ratescauses defects in DNA repair, affecting cell cycle, differentiation, &genome variation
17:30 - 19:00	Posters & Snacks
19:00	Social dinner(Aula)

Thursday 10.10.
Time	Speaker			Topic of presentation
8:30-10:30	Tissues / Cancer
8:30-9:00	Peter Friedl			Jamming transitions of cancer cells during tissue invasion
9:00-9:30	Guillaume Charras			Dissecting the intercellular forces shaping tissues
9:30-10:00	Timo Betz			Walk my way: Collective migration in development and cancer
10:00-10:30	Dave Thirumalai			Cell growth rate dictates the onset of glass to fluid-like transition and long time super-diffusion in an evolving cell colony
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-11:30	Cell State
11:00-11:30	Sui Huang			Dynamics of cell state transitions – theory & single-cell transcriptomics
11:30-12:30	Membrane proteins
11:30-12:00	Jochen Hub			Molecular simulations of protein-membrane interactions during membrane fusion
12:00-12:30	Gerhard Hummer			Remodeling and destruction of biological membranes
12:30-13:30	Lunch Buffet & Poster
13.30 – 15.00	Cancer						Actomyosin Networks
13:30-13:45	Tobias Büscher		Tissue Competition: Coexistence and Tumor Heterogeneity				Clément Campillo		Morphology and mechanics of membrane nanotubes interacting with reconstituted actin networks
13:45-14:00	Thierry Fredrich		Fine- grained simulation of the microenvironment of vascularized tumors				Mohammad Abu Hamed		A simple model of Keratocyte interface dynamics
14:00-14:15	Jakob Rosenbauer		Multiscale Modeling of Tumor Development				Daniel Amadeus Dominic Flormann		Structural analysis of the actin cortex and its correlation to cell mechanics in adhered and suspended states
14:15-14:30	Aldo Leal-Egana		Confining cancer cells in 3D tumor-like microcapsules: A new strategy to induce tumor heterogeneity in vitro, and to enhance extravasation capabilities in vivo				Indra Navina Dahmke		Association of signaling active ErbB2 homodimers with actin-rich membrane structures of cancer cells revealed by liquid phase electron microscopy
14:30-14:45	Audrey Prunet		Soft cell confiner development to decipher the impact of mechanical stimuli on cancer cells				Gerrit Vliegenthart		Filamentous Active Matter: Band Formation, Bending, Buckling, and Defects
14:45-15:00	Andreas Weber		Does estrogen receptor drug binding influence breast cancer cell viscoelasticity?				Karol Makuch		Stokes' law in complex liquids and inside cell cytoplasm
15:00-15:20	Coffee
15:20-16:20	Adhesion						Intermediate Filaments
15:20-15:35	Diego Vargas		Effect of substrate stiffness on balance of active cell-cell and cell-ECM forces studied through a computational model of a deformable cell pair				Anna V. Schepers		Tuning the mechanics of single intermediate filaments
15:35-15:50	Christian Spengler		Single-Cell Force Spectroscopy to Study Bacterial Adhesion: Fundamental Mechanisms and Effect of Substrate Nano-Topography				Franziska Lautenschläger		Vimentin provides the mechanical resilience required for amoeboid migration and protection of the nucleus
15:50-16:05	Sadegh Ghorbani		KRestricting desmosomal assembly in interfollicular stem cells (IFSCs) via desmosomal protein nanopatterns				Julia Kraxner		Recovery Behavior of Single Vimentin Filaments
16:05-16:20							Charlotta Lorenz		Lateral Subunit Coupling Determines Intermediate Filament Mechanics
16:30-17:30	Adhesion
16:30-17:00	Ana-Sunčana Smith			Physical effects catalyzing cell adhesion: from mimetic systems to tissues
17:00-17:30	Hermann E. Gaub			Molecular Mechanisms of Extreme Mechanostability in Microbial Adhesion
17:30 - 19:00	Posters & Snacks
19:00	Social dinner(Tent)

Friday 11.10.
Time	Speaker			Topic of presentation
8:30-10:30	Actin II
8:30-9:00	Patricia Bassereau			Linkers at the membrane-cortical actin interface: only linkers?
9:00-9:30	Claudia Steinem			The architecture and mechanics of ezrin-linked minimal actin cortices
9:30-10:00	Laurent Blanchoin			Reconstitution of the dynamic steady state of actin networks
10:00-10:30	Carsten Janke			The tubulin code – a mechanism to control microtubule properties
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-13:00	Tissues & Morphogenesis						Membranes
11:00-11:15							Luca Barberi		ESCRT-III helical polymers deform membranes into helical tubes
11:15-11:30	Gabriele Lubatti		Cell competition in mouse embryo				A. E. Hafner		Physical modelling of ESCRT-III mediated cell division in archaea
11:30-11:45	Chii Jou Chan		A bottom-up approach to study the interplay between signaling and mechanics in early mammalian embryogenesis				Oded Farago		Interplay between membrane elasticity and active cytoskeleton forces regulates the aggregation dynamics of the immunological synapse
11:45-12:00	Pau Guillamat Bassedas		Integer topological defects steer cell flows during tissue morphogenesis				Christian Bächer		Blood platelet formation - a biological Rayleigh-Plateau instability
12:00-12:15	Carles Blanch-Mercader		Onset of 3D tissue morphogenesis near integer topological defects				Sebastian Kruss		Entropic chromatin swelling drives complex cellular behavior
12:15-12:30	Guanming Zhang		Collective behaviour of epithelial cells under different coordinated dynamics of cell polarisation				Ewa Sitarska		Towards understanding the role of BAR domain proteins in membrane tension sensing
12:30-12:45	Nicholas A. Kurniawan		Entropic origins of substrate-guided cell morphology and alignment				Joel C. Forster		Relating Surface Structure to Function in Cell Membrane Penetrating Nanoparticles
12:45-13:00							Hendrik Hähl		Hydrophobins: Model proteins and building blocks for lipid-free membranes and vesicles
13:00-14:00	Lunch Buffet & Poster
14:00-14:45	Bacteria						Membrane Channels
14:00-14:15	Daniel Pearce		Geometry and mechanics of growing bacterial suspensions				Dalia Alansary		Biochemical and electrophysiological approaches for studying the stoichiometry of ORAI channels
14:15-14:30	Javad Najafi		Flagellar number governs bacterial spreading and transport efficiency				Miloš Ivanović		Interpretation of SAXS data using MD simulations: Detergent micelles and ion cloud of charged proteins
14:30-14:45	Shrikrishnan Sankaran		Bacterial confinement in hydrogels to develop living therapeutic materials				S. G. Romanova		Stilbene derivative as a photosensitive compound to control the excitability of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes
14:45-15:00	Coffee
15:00-17:00	Microtubules
15:00-15:30	Tatyana Svitkina			How microtubules induce local membrane protrusion
15:30-16:00	Alexander D. Bershadsky			Crosstalk between myosin IIA filaments, integrinmediated cell-matrix adhesions, and microtubules
16:00-16:30	Rudolf Merkel			Cyclic Stretch is a Potent Cue for Animal Cells
16:30-17:00	Iva Tolić			Torques and forces in the mitotic spindle
17:00	Fin

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