Prospective program

All talks will take place in amphithéatre Gay Lussac. The conference dinner will take place in the evening of Thu. Jun. 27th at Ecole Polytechnique.

You may also download the conference program and book of abstracts.

Wednesday, June 26

10:15-11:00 | Andreas Möglich

U. Bayreuth, Germany Leveraging Phytochromes for Regulating Biological Processes by Light

11:00-11:45 | Dominik Bucher

T. U. Munich, Germany Towards single-cell NMR spectroscopy with quantum sensors in diamond

11:45-12:30 | Severine Le Gac

U. of Twente, the Netherlands Organ-on-chip platforms for biological and medical applications

13:30-13:45 | Mathilde Louçã

CEA, France Functional impacts of Huntingtin lowering on human cortical synapses

13:45-14:00 | Caroline Giuglaris

Inst. Curie, France Hydrodynamics of active cells migrating under mesoscopic confinement

14:00-14:15 | Marie-Charlotte Emperauger

U. Paris-Saclay, France Real time tracking of single nanoparticles motion and orientation in neurons

14:15-15:00 | Lara Koehler

MPI-PKS Dresden, Germany From waves to chaotic flows in the cytoplasm

15:30-16:15 | Chase Broedersz

Vrije U., the Netherlands Learning the statistical folding of bacterial chromosomes

16:30-16:15 | Roberto di Leonardo

Sapienza U. di Roma, Italy Programming bacterial dynamics with light

17:15-18:00 | Thomas Gregor

Princeton U., USA Precise and scalable self-organization in mammalian pseudo-embryos

Thursday, June 27

9:00-9:45 | Tony Stöcker

DZNE, Germany Structural and quantitative whole-brain MRI at 7 Tesla

9:45-10:30 | Manuel Maestre-Reyna

Natl Taiwan U., Taiwan 3D molecular movies of flavins at work

11:00-11:45 | Peter Dedecker

U. of Leuven, Belgium Information-enhanced fluorescence imaging using smart probes and novel instrumentation

13:30-13:45 | Samuel S. Gomez

U. Augsburg, Germany Diffusion, viscosity, and linear rheology of valence-limited disordered fluids

13:45-14:00 | Romain Rollin

U. Genève, Switzerland Mechanics of Cell Nuclei under Large Deformations

14:00-14:15 | Ivana Rondon

CICbioGUNE, Spain Integrative gene networks predict stromal changes in human prostate cancer upon PTEN protein loss

14:15-15:00 | Dounia Zamiati

U. Paris-Saclay, France From Fluorescence Signals to Molecular Insights: FRET-Based Techniques for Investigating ER-Phagosome Membrane Associations

15:30-16:15 | Miguel Munoz

U. of Granada, Spain Scaling of brain activity and optimal functionality: from real neurons to artificial intelligence.

16:30-17:15 | Laure Buhry

U. of Lorraine, France Computational modeling of electrophysiological signals in neurology and psychiatry: towards the identification of new therapeutic targets

17:15-18:00 | Cécile Charrier

ENS Paris, France Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development: insights from human-specific genes

Friday, June 28

9:00-9:45 | Sarah Robinson

U. of Cambridge, UK The relationship between cell division and mechanical properties

9:45-10:15 | Naomi Nakayama

Imperial College London, UK Future-proofing plant forms

11:00-11:45 | Benoît Landrein

ENS Lyon, France Mechanics of seed morphogenesis

11:45-12:30 | Jean-Christophe Baret

U. Bordeaux, France Botton-up construction of life-like synthetic cells

13:30-13:45 | Tom Burkart

LMU Munich, Germany Function Follows Form: Geometrical Guidance of Intracellular Self-Organization

13:45-14:00 | Laure Mancini

ENS Lyon, France Control of the spiral phyllotaxis from a single stem cell in the moss Physcomitrium patens

14:00-14:15 | Thomas Bugea

U. Paris-Saclay, France Visualising the self-assembly dynamics of icosahedral viruses through fluorescence microscopy at the single particle level

14:45-15:30 | Joe Howard

Yale U., USA Biophysics of branched cells: growth, scaling laws and the supply of metabolic demand

15:30-16:15 | Teuta Pilizota

U. of Edinburgh, UK On the most important thing you likely know little about: the ion motive force(s)