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PoC
Booklet
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TALKS
All talk sessions take place at Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Invited talks are scheduled 20 min plus
10 min discussion.
Contributed talks are allocated 15 min
including discussion.
POSTERS
The session for poster presentation takes place at the Centre
for Biotechnology and Biomedicine
on October 5, 2017. During this session, there will be a snack buffet
for all participants.
WELCOME DINNER
On October 4, 2017 we would like to invite you to take part in our
Welcome Dinner.
Prepare for good conversation and food - we are looking forward to
meeting you!
Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences,
Linnéstr. 5, 04103 Leipzig, first floor,
18:30.
P R E L I M I N A R Y
A G E N D A
Wednesday - October 4, 2017
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11:00 – 13:00
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Conference check-in and on-site registration |
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13:00 – 13:15
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Opening | Welcome Words by
Mayor of Leipzig |
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Session I: Cell Migration & Invasion
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13:15 – 13:45
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Slice
Cultures as Tool to Study Cancers in Vitro
Ingo Bechmann
(University of Leipzig, Germany) |
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13:45 – 14:15
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Hybrid
Epithelial/Mesenchymal Phenotype (E/M) – a ‘Metastatic Sweet Spot’
Mohit Kumar Jolly
(Rice University, USA) |
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14:15 – 14:45
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Control
of Cancer Cell Invasion by Nuclear Deformability
Katarina Wolf
(Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands) |
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14:45 – 15:00
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High
Shear Stresses under Exercise Condition Destroy Circulating Tumor Cells
in a Microfluidic System
Sagar Regmi
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) |
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15:00 – 15:30
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Matrix
Adhesion Site Function in Polarised Invasive Migration
Tobias Zech
(University of Liverpool, GB) |
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15:30 – 16:00
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Coffee break |
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Special Focus Session: Collective Cell Behavior |
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16:00 – 16:30
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Control
of Mechanochemical Self-Organization during Cell Polarization
Stephan Grill
(Technical University Dresden, Germany) |
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16:30 – 17:00
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Physical
Forces Driving Migration, Division and Folding of Epithelial Sheets
Xavier Trepat
(IBEC Barcelona, Spain) |
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17:00 – 17:15
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Mechanisms
of Collective Cell Migration and the Influence of the Microenvironment
Andrew Clark
(Institute Curie, France) |
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17:15 – 17:45
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Unjamming
and Cell Shape Changes in Breast Cancer
Jae Hun Kim
(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA) |
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17:45 – 18:15
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Tissue
Surface Tension in Simple Models of Dense Biological Tissues
Daniel Sussman
(Syracuse University, USA) |
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18:30
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Welcome Dinner |
Thursday - October 5, 2017
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Session II: Biomechanics
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08:15 – 08:30
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Guiding
3D Cell Migration inside Strained Synthetic Hydrogel Micro-Structures
Miriam Dietrich
(Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany) |
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08:30 – 09:00
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The Weakness
of Senescent Fibroblasts
Kay Gottschalk
(University of Ulm, Germany) |
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09:00 – 09:30
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Squish and
Squeeze – the Role of the Nucleus and Lamins in Cancer Metastasis
Jan Lammerding
(Cornell University, USA) |
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09:30 – 10:00
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Interactions
of Natural Killer Cells with Cancer Cells in a 3-D Environment
Ben Fabry
(Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
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10:00 – 10:30
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Coffee break |
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10:30 – 11:00
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Integrating
Scales in Cancer Mechanobiology: The NCI Physical Sciences – Oncology Network
Nastaran Zahir
(National Cancer Institute, USA) |
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11:00 - 11:15
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Light
Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy: Advantages for Living Specimens
Ulf-Dietrich Braumann
(Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Germany) |
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11:15 – 11:45
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From “CAR
T Cells” to CAR Expressing NK Cells for Cancer Retargeting
Ulrike Köhl
(Hannover Medical School, Germany) |
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11:45 – 12:15
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Collectively
Emerging Nematic Order in Populations of Fibroblasts
Pascal Silberzan
(Institut Curie Paris, France) |
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12:15 – 12:30
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Disrupting
Chemotaxis Using Contact Guidance of Nanotopography
Sebastian Schmidt
(University of Maryland, USA) |
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Poster Session
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12:30 – 15:00
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- Presentation of contributed posters with discussions
and lunch buffet -
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Afternoon
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Social Event for Invited Speakers
(guided tours "St. Thomas Church" and "Bach Museum", followed by
dinner) |
Friday - October 6, 2017
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Session III: Cellular Organization
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08:15 – 08:30
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Non-Linear
Compliance of Elastic Layers to Indentation
Adrian Fessel
(University of Bremen, Germany) |
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08:30 – 09:00
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Mechanotransduction
in Collective Cell Migration
Joachim Spatz
(Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and University of Heidelberg,
Germany) |
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09:00 – 09:30
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Of
Active Motors and Passive Crosslinker: Reconstituting Adaptive Microtubule
Networks
Stefan Diez
(Technical University Dresden, Germany) |
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09:30 – 10:00
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Multiscale
Cell Motility: From Substrate Deformation to Collective Migration
Erwin Frey
(Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany) |
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10:00 – 10:30
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Coffee break |
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10:30 – 11:00
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Emergent
Cancer-like Phenomenology in a Simple Model of Cells with Growth and Chemical
Signalling
Ramin Golestanian
(University of Oxford, UK) |
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11:00 - 11:15
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Electron
Irradiated Hydrogels: Reagent-Free Modification towards Biomedical Applications
Stefanie Riedel
(Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification, Germany) |
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11:15 – 11:45
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Establishing
Nuclear Subcompartments and Chromatin Patterns to Regulate Gene Expression
Karsten Rippe
(German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Germany) |
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11:45 – 12:15
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Strain-Controlled
Rigidity Transitions in Cells and the Role of the Cell Nucleus
Jennifer Schwarz
(Syracuse University, USA) |
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12:15 – 12:45
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Physicochemical
Properties of Basement Membranes Formed by a Cell Culture Model of Human
Breast Glands
Rudolf Merkel
(Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) |
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13:00 – 14:00
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Lunch |
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Session IV: Tissue Organization
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14:00 – 14:30
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Morphology
Control by Active Fluid Flows
Karen Alim
(Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen,
Germany) |
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14:30 - 14:45
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An Intriguing
Similarity between Cancer Metastasis and Financial Markets
Christoph Mark
(Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
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14:45 – 15:15
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t.b.a.
Ana-Suncana Smith
(Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
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15:15 – 15:45
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Physical
Aspects of Successful Cell Circulation and Migration
Jochen Guck
(Technical University Dresden, Germany) |
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15:45 - 16:15
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Coffee break |
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16:15 – 16:45
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Mapping Cadherin-Dependent
Cell Adhesion and Elasticity Changes in Tissue Explants during the Transition
from Collective to Single-Cell Migration
Clemens Franz
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) |
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16:45 – 17:15
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Regulation
of Actin Cytoskeleton during Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition - The
Ocular Lens Perspective
Aftab Taiyab
(McMaster University, Canada) |
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17:15 - 17:45
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In Situ Mechanobiology
of Epithelia in Health and Disease
Marija Plodinec
(University Center Basel, Switzerland) |
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18:00
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Prospective End |
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