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P R E L I M I N A R Y
A G E N D A
Monday - September 24, 2018
11:00 – 13:00 |
Conference check-in and on-site registration |
13:00 – 13:15 |
Opening | Welcome Words |
Session I: Cell Mechanics & Migration |
13:15 – 13:45 |
The cancer-associated adhesion-protein ß-parvin functions as mechanoresponsive signaling hub that regulates cell size, shape, and contractility
Ingo Thievessen
(Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
13:45 – 14:15 |
Feeling the tension: Cell-induced
stresses in the extracellular matrix
Chase Broedersz
(Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany) |
14:15 – 14:45 |
Role of phosphoinositide signaling in mechanoresponse of liver cancer cells
Paul Janmey
(University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
14:45 – 15:00 |
Microenvironmental mechanics contribute to glioblastoma cell behaviour.
Katarzyna Pogoda
(Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland) |
15:00 – 15:30 |
Coffee break |
15:30 – 16:00 |
Focal adhesion - hemidesmosome crosstalk in migrating keratinocytes
Rudolf Leube
(RWTH Aachen University, Germany) |
16:00 – 16:30 |
Virtual fluidic channels: From single cell rheology to tissue mechanics
Oliver Otto
(University of Greifswald, Germany) |
16:30 – 17:00 |
Polarized dynamics of intermediate filament in glial cell migration
Cécile Leduc
(The Institut Pasteur, France) |
17:00 – 17:15 |
Mechanical cyclic stretching inhibits cancer cell growth but promotes normal cell growth
Ajay Tijore
(National University of Singapore, Singapore) |
17:30 |
Welcome Dinner / Round Table |
Tuesday - September 25, 2018
Session II: Membranes |
09:00 – 09:30 |
Modulation of cortical actin assembly
dynamics
Anne - Cécile Reymann
(Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, France) |
09:30 – 10:00 |
Physics of cell adhesion: The role of the membrane in the protein recognition process
Ana-Suncana Smith
(Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
10:00 – 10:15 |
Collective motion attenuates natural selection in crowded cellular populations
Jona Kayser
(University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee break |
Session III: Matrix |
10:45 – 11:15
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New peptide probes to map the tensional
states of ECM fibers in tumor tissue
Viola Vogel
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland) |
11:15 - 11:45
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Mechanics matters for cells: From extracellular
matrix via cytoskeleton to the nucleus
Florian Rehfeldt
(University of Göttingen, Germany) |
11:45 – 12:15
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Control of mechanosensitivity by integrin-ECM
binding and nucleocytoplasmic shuttling kinetics
Pere Roca - Cusachs
(Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain) |
12:15 – 12:30
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Biochemical and nanomechanical fingerprints of melanoma development
Justyna Bobrowska
(Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland) |
Poster Session
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12:30 – 15:00
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Location:
Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences
Linnéstr. 5, 04103 Leipzig
A snack buffet will be provided to go along with the poster session.
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Afternoon
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Social Event for Invited Speakers
(private concert at Bach-museum, followed by dinner at "Ratskeller
Leipzig") |
Wednesday - September 26, 2018
Session IV: Vasculature |
08:30 – 09:00 |
Search and kill - the immune response to cancer cells
Heiko Rieger
(Saarland University, Germany) |
09:00 – 09:30 |
Probing the physiology of physical transport
inside cells and developing tissues
Moritz Kreysing
(Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany) |
09:30 – 10:00 |
Mechanisms of cellular penetration
of vascular basement membranes - how biophysics could help us better understand
this process
Lydia Sorokin
(University of Münster, Germany) |
10:00 – 10:15 |
Loss of vimentin increases motility and nuclear damage in confined spaces
Alison Patteson
(University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) |
10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee break |
Session V: Tissue Organization |
10:45 - 11:15
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Ratchetaxis and cytokinesis
Daniel Riveline
(Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France) |
11:15 – 11:45
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PC3-Epi Prostate cancer cells become polyploid, resistant and
mesenchymal on a docetaxel gradient
Bob Austin
(Princeton University, USA) |
11:45 – 12:15
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Different modes of fluidization in human bronchial epithelial cells -- the unjamming transition vs. the epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Dapeng Bi
(Northeastern University, USA) |
12:15 – 12:30
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Biomechanics of glioblastoma cells by atomic force microscopy
Tomasz Zielinski
(Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland) |
12:30 – 13:30
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Lunch |
Session VI: Cancer and Embryology |
13:30 – 14:00
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Cancer resection within morphogenetic fields
Benjamin Wolf
(University Hospital Leipzig, Germany) |
14:00 - 14:30
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Coordination of tissue growth by cell
mechanics
Maryam Aliee
(Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
14:30 – 15:00
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WHY CANCER TREATMENT CAN BACKFIRE -
From non-linear dynamics to single-cell transcriptomics of cell state transitions
to preclinical studies
Sui Huang
(Institute for Systems Biology, USA) |
15:00 – 15:15
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Collective forces of tumor spheroids in three-dimensional biopolymer networks
Christoph Mark
(Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
15:15 - 15:45 |
Coffee break |
Session VII: Translational medicine |
15:45 – 16:15 |
Catch me if you can: Circulating and disseminated
tumor cells in breast cancer patients!
Bahriye Aktas
(University Hospital Leipzig, Germany) |
16:15 – 16:45 |
Integrated optofluidic devices
for cancer cell analysis and imaging
Roberto Osellame
(University of Milan, Italy) |
17:30 |
Prospective End |
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