Talks:
All talk sessions take place at Haus des Buches, large conference hall, ground floor. Contributed talks are allocated 15 min including discussion, whereas invited talks are allocated 20 min plus 10 min discussion.

Posters:
The session for poster presentation takes place at the Haus des Buches. During this session, there will be a snack buffet for all participants. The poster boards will be marked with the number according to the scientific program. Posters must fit within a rectangle 90 cm wide and 120 cm high (DIN A0), portrait format. The material necessary to mount the poster (pins or "Poster Strips") will be provided.

Tuesday - October 4, 2016
 

11:00 – 13:00	Conference check-in and on-site registration
13:00 – 13:15	Opening | Welcome
Session I: Functional Mechanics of Cancer Cells
13:15 – 13:45	Effect of Hyaluronic Acid on Mechanoresponse of Cancer Cells Paul Janmey (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
13:45 – 14:15	Phenotyping Single Cell Derived Microtissues by Time-Resolved Imaging and Molecular Sequencing Roland Eils (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany)
14:15 – 14:30	Change Matters: A Time-Varying Parameter Model for Cell Migration Christoph Mark (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
14:30 – 14:45	TA Instruments - High Performance Thermal and Rheological Characterization Matthias Quaißer  (TA Instruments AG, Germany)
14:45 – 15:15	Micro-Structured Surfaces for Assessment of Migratory Phenotypes Joachim Rädler (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)
15:15 – 15:45	Coffee break
15:45 – 16:15	Cytoskeleton Mechanics and Forces in Cancer Allen Ehrlicher (McGill University, Montréal, Canada)
16:15 – 16:45	Liver Mechanics and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Rebecca Wells (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
16:45 – 17:15	Probing the Physical Properties of the Microenvironment Niche Kandice Tanner (National Cancer Institute, USA)
17:15 – 17:30	Insights about the Role of Single- and Double-Strand Breaks in Cancer Radiotherapy Fabrizio Cleri (Lille University I, France)
17:30 – 18:00	Physical Dynamics of Cancer Response to Chemotherapy in 3D Microenvironments:  A Platform to Examine Complex Physical and Chemical Microenvironments Lisa J. McCawley (Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, USA)
18:00 – 18:15	LINC-ing the Nucleus, the Cytoskeleton and Cancer Patricia M. Davidson (Institut Curie, France)
18:30	Round table: All participants are invited to join a barbecue. (Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, Linnéstr. 5, 04103 Leipzig)

Wednesday - October 5, 2016
 

Session II: Membranes and the Cytoskeleton
08:30 – 09:00	Cancer Metastasis in Bone: Investigating the Role of Cancer Cell Interaction with Bone Matrix Proteins and Mesenchymal Stem Cells on the Single Cell Level Hauke Clausen-Schaumann (University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany)
09:00 -09:30	Measuring and Modeling Collective Cell Migration Wolfgang Losert (University of Maryland, USA)
09:30 – 10:00	Cytoskeletal Intermediate Filaments - from Self-Assembly to Cell Mechanics Sarah Köster (Georg August University Göttingen, Germany)
10:00 – 10:15	Multiparametric Imaging of Collagen I Self-Assembly, and Cytoskeleton  Reorganisation in Living Cells Dimitar Stamov (JPK Instruments AG)
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15	The Mechanical Control of CNS Development and Disease Kristian Franze (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
11:15 – 11:30	Matrix Adhesion Sites Drive 3D Cancer Cell Migration through Direct Force  Coupling to the Nucleus Tobias Zech (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
11:30 – 11:45	Fiber Slippage in Collagen Matrices Enables Long-range Transmission of Mechanical Signals Between Local Cells Hamid Mohammadi (The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom)
11:45 – 12:15	Mechanics of Cancer Cell Invasion in Vivo Peter Friedl (The University of Texas, Houston, USA)
12:15 – 12:30	Investigating Heterogeneity of Tumor Mechanical Properties with Super-Resolution Multifrequency Magnetic Resonance Elastography Eric Barnhill (Charité Berlin, Germany)
12:30 – 13:00	Bacteria-Associated Cancer Theranostics: When Bacteria Meet Cancer Jung Joon Min (Chonnam National University Medical School, Republic of Korea)
Poster Session
13:00 – 15:30	Presentation of the contributed posters with discussions and lunch buffet - in front of lecture hall -
Afternoon	Guided City Tour with Josef Käs Social event for invited speakers: Dinner at "Auerbachs Keller"

Thursday - October 6, 2016
 

Session III: Cell Migration in Cancer
08:30 – 09:00	Novel Methods to Study Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion Ben Fabry (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
09:00 – 09:30	Mechanical Aspects of Angiogenesis Stefan Zahler (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
09:30 – 10:00	Basement Membrane Fragments Contribute to the Regulation of the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Christine-Maria Horejs (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00	Mechanobiology, Migration and Coordinated Cell-Remodeling in Invading Breast-Cancer Cells Daphne Weihs (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel and CSPO journal)
11:00 – 11:30	Gene Therapy Coming of Age Dietger Niederwieser (University Hospital Leipzig, Germany)
11:30 – 12:00	Programming the Mechanical Properties of Bionic Networks Jörg Schnauß (University of Leipzig, Germany)
12:00 – 12:30	Employing Nanostructured Scaffolds for Long-Term Adult Tissue Culture and Investigation of Tissue Mechanics at the Nanoscale Mareike Zink (University of Leipzig, Germany)
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
Session IV: Micro Tools in Cancer Research
14:00 – 14:30	Condensing DNA into Nanostructures Friedrich Simmel (Technical University Munich, Germany)
14:30 – 15:00	Why Do Rigid Tumors Contain Soft Cancer Cells? Josef A. Käs (University of Leipzig, Germany)
15:00 – 15:30	Dynamics of Circular Dorsal Ruffles and their Role in Cancer Hans-Günther Döbereiner (University of Bremen, Germany)
15:30 – 16:00	Cell Binding Peptides from Statistical Analysis of Random Peptide Phage Display Libraries Michael Szardenings (Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany)
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
Special Focus Session: Programming Nanomaterials Against Cancer
16:30 – 17:00	Spatial Signalling at the membrane Ana Teixeira (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
17:00 – 17:30	Bottom-up Engineering of Nanoscale Devices to Program Biological Materials David M. Smith (Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany)
17:30 – 17:45	Novel Tools for Discovery, Development and QC of Therapeutic (Bio)Molecules Tobias Pflüger (NanoTemper Technologies GmbH, Germany)
17:45 – 18:15	Membrane - Targeting DNA Nanostructures Ralf Seidel (University of Leipzig, Germany)
18:15 – 18:45	Death by Gold:  Targeting Invasive Glioblastoma Cells by Peptide - Functionalized Gold Nanorods Diana Goncalves-Schmidt (Leibniz-Institut for Polymer Research Dresden, Germany)
19:00	Prospective end