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(Preliminary)
A G E N D A
Monday - September 30, 2024
| From 10:00 |
Conference check-in |
| 13:00 – 13:15 |
Opening & Welcome |
| Session I: Cell and tissue mechanics |
| 13:15 – 13:45 |
Keynote Speaker
Role of microtubules in axonal degeneration caused by chemotherapeutic agents
Pramod Pullarkat
(Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India) |
| 13:45 – 14:15 |
Hanna Engelke
(University of Graz, Austria) |
| 14:15 – 14:30 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 14:30 – 15:00 |
Coffee break |
| 15:00 – 15:30 |
Viola Vogel
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 15:30 – 15:45 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 15:45 – 16:15 |
Debora Monego
(Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany) |
| 16:15 – 16:45 |
Coffee break |
| 16:45 – 17:00 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 17:00 – 17:30 |
Alexander Dunn
(Stanford University, USA) |
| 17:30 – 18:00 |
Stiff matrix indues exosome secretion to promote tumor growth
Wei Guo
(University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| from 18:00 |
Social event with buffet dinner
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Tuesday - October 1, 2024
| Session II: Intermediate filaments |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 |
Keynote Speaker
Vimentin promotes collective cell migration through collagen networks via increased matrix remodeling and spheroid fluidity
Alison Patteson
(Syracuse University, USA) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Consequences of intermediate filament´s influence on glioblastoma cell mechanics
Sandrine Etienne-Manneville
(Institut Pasteur, France) |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 10:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee break |
| 10:45 – 11:15 |
Rudolf Merkel
(Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) |
| 11:15 – 11:30 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 11:30 – 12:00 |
Cécile Leduc
(Institut Jacques Monod, France) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 |
Rudolf Leube
(University Hospital Aachen, Germany) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
| 14:00 – 14:15 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 14:15 – 14:45 |
Harald Herrmann
(University Hospital Erlangen, Germany) |
| 14:45 – 18:00 |
P O S T E R S E S S I O N
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Wednesday - October 2, 2024
| Session III: Innovative ex-vivo cancer models |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 |
In vivo tumors & ex vivo tumoroids establish physics-driven genetic changes & tumoricidal macrophages
Dennis Discher
(University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Achim Aigner
(Leipzig University, Germany) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Anna Taubenberger
(TU Dresden, Germany) |
| 11:00 – 11:15 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 11:15 – 11:45 |
Modeling cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment
Erik Danen
(Leiden University, The Netherlands) |
| 11:45 – 12:00 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 12:00 – 13:30 |
Lunch break |
| Session IV: Mechanical immune escape mechanisms |
| 13:30 – 14:00 |
Keynote Speaker
Mechanobiology of cytototoxic lymphocyte-mediated solid tumour rejection
Maté Biro
(UNSW, Australia) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 |
Development of a 3D ex vivo human model to test the efficacy and safety of CAR-T cells
Emmanuel Donnadieu
(Institut Cochin, France) |
| 14:30 – 14:45 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 14:45 – 15:15 |
Coffee break |
| 15:15 – 15:45 |
Engineering self-propelled tumor-infiltrating CAR-T cells using synthetic velocity receptors
Denis Wirtz
(Johns Hopkins University, USA) |
| 15:45 – 16:15 |
Angela Riedel
(University of Würzburg) |
| 16:15 – 16:30 |
Contributed Talk - t.b.a.
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| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Immune cells employ intermittent integrin-mediated traction forces for 3D migration
Christoph Mark
(FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) |
| 17:00 – 17:30 |
Closing remarks & Young Scientist Awards |
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