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Workshop 1: Cell and Tissue Movement: Schedule

Schedule

Monday, September 15
Tutorial and Opening
9:00-10:15am Welcome and overview of workshop: Marty Golubitsky and Leah Keshet
10:15-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:45am Tutorial 1: PDE's and cell movement: Thomas Hillen
11:45-12:45pm Tutorial 2: Finite element models and tissue mechanics: Wayne Brodland
12:45-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:15pm Tutorial 3: Cellular-based modelling: Stan Maree
3:15-3:30pm Coffee break
3:30-4:45pm Lecture: Roseanne Ford: Experimental studies of chemotactic bacteria in porous media
5:00pm Reception: Jennings Hall, 3rd floor
Tuesday, September 16
From the subcellular to the cellular
9:00-10:15am Cecile Sykes: Reconstitution of cytoskeletal dynamics at a liposome membrane
10:15-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:45am Katarina Wolf: Functional imaging of pericellular proteoysis in cancer cell invasion through 3D extracellular matrices
11:45-12:45pm Alexander Verkhovsky: Organization and dynamics of motile machinery in a simple cell
12:45-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:15pm Kevin Painter: Modelling cell migration in the ECM
3:15-4:15pm Poster session: Zhian Wang
4:15-5:15pm Discussion: (Sykes, Wolf, Painter, Ford) How to describe "a cell"?
Chairs: Thomas Hillen and Luigi Preziosi
5:15-6:30pm Four participant talks (10 min. each + 5 questions) : Wayne Brodland
Wednesday, September 17
Aspects of cell polarity in plants and animals
9:00-10:15am Veronica Grieneisen
10:15-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:45am Geoffrey Wasteneys: Polymer dynamics and the spatial organization of the cortical microtubule array in plant cells: implications for growth and morphology
11:45-12:45pm Jose Feijo: Excitement in sexual plant reproduction: the remarkable biology of pollen tubes and their urges for models
12:45-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:15pm Pablo A. Iglesias: Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Chemotactic Systems in Biology
3:15-4:15pm Poster session : Rosanne Ford and Alexandra Jilkine
4:15-5:15pm Discussion: (Feijo, Wastenays, Grieneisen, Iglesias) Cell polarity in animals and plants
Chairs: Leah Keshet and Roseanne Ford
5:15-6:30pm Four participants talks (10 min. each + 5 questions): Anita Kettemann, Arnaud Chauviere, Andy Stein, and Jop van Rooij
Thursday, September 18
From the cellular to the multicellular
9:00-10:15am Kristin Sherrard: Ascidian endoderm invagination occurs by apically constrained rounding of endoderm cells
10:15-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:45am Luigi Preziosi: Vascular Networks and Vascularised Tumours
11:45-12:45pm Ray Keller: Unsolved Mysteries of Tissue Shape Change By Cell Intercalation
12:45-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:15pm Matt Gibson: Cell topology and spindle geometry in proliferating Drosophila epithelia
3:15-4:15pm Poster session:
4:15-5:15pm Discussion: (Sherrard, Preziosi, Gibson) Tissue organization from cell properties
Chairs: V. Grieneisen and Mark Miodownik
6:00-9:00pm Banquet dinner at Holiday Inn on the Lane
Friday, September 19
Morphogenesis
9:00-10:15am Kasia Rejniak: Normal and malignant remodelling of epithelial tissues: an integrative IBCell model
10:15-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:45am Mark Miodownik: An analysis of the effect of biomechanics on the robustness of ventral furrow invagination in Drosophila melanogaster embryo
11:45-12:45pm Discussion: (Keller, Miodownik, Brodland) How an organism shapes itself
Chairs: Stan Maree and Kristin Sherrard
12:45-1:00pm Conclusion of workshop (Keshet/Golubitsky)