GENERAL INFORMATION
Slots for contributing talks on Tuesday and Wednesday are 20min, slots for talks contributing to the Julia-Fest are 25min.
Official poster sessions accompany the lunch breaks on Wednesday and Thursday, but posters will be accessible anytime throughout the conference.
The conference dinner will take place on Thursday (Sept 24th). Please arrive at St Hilda's College (see Venue) by 19:20 the latest.
Please find the full details of the conference program in the dropdown list below.
Invited Talks: 40min Contributed Talks: 20min
9:00 - 9:50 Arrival & Registration
9:50 - 10:00 Welcome from the organisers
10:00 - 10:40 INVITED TALK
10:40 - 11:00 A structural transition ensures robust formation of skeletal muscle (Timothy Saunders, University of Warwick)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50 Deciphering the biomechanics of sea urchin gastrulation (Nicolas Cuny, University of Geneva)
11:50 - 12:10 Mean-field vertex models of lumina (Chandraniva Guha Ray, MPI PKS Dresden)
12:10 - 12:30 Micromechanical Feedback Shapes Proliferating Cell Collectives (Fidel Álvarez-Murphy, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster set up
14:00 - 14:40 INVITED TALK
14:40 - 15:00 Growth and Intrinsic Curvature of the Extracellular Matrix in a Simple Multicellular Organism (Jane Chui, University of Cambridge)
15:00 - 15:20 Data-driven numerical twin to decipher the interplay between mechanics and protein synthesis regulation in cancer cells proliferation (Adélaïde Raguin, CNRS Institute for Computer Sciences)
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20 Growth-driven shape transitions in developing Gonium colonies (Zhao Wang, University of Cambridge)
16:20 - 16:40 Cell density regulates a bimodal motility switch in Dictyostelium discoideum (Joel Ching Kuma Mbanghanih, FSU Jena)
16:40 - 17:00 Colony structure controls function in a multicellular choanoflagellate (Satyam Anand, University of Cambridge)
Invited Talks: 40min Contributed Talks: 20min
9:30 - 10:10 INVITED TALK
10:10 - 10:30 A structural transition ensures robust formation of skeletal muscle (Suzanne Fielding, Durham University)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20 Unpinning the mechanism of membrane self-organisation in polarised epithelia (Rebecca Hobbs, Rosalind Franklin Institute and University of Oxford)
11:20 - 11:40 Looking beyond boundaries: the role of heterotypic cell interactions in early tissue formation (Michael Smutny, Warwick Medical School)
11:40 - 12:00 Division of labor during bacterial warfare (Divya Choudhary, Harvard University)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break & Poster session I
14:00 - 14:40 INVITED TALK
14:40 - 15:00 Pinching and Topology Change in Biological Surfaces (Farzan Vafa, University of Copenhagen)
15:00 - 15:20 Spontaneous Flow and Non-singular Topological Defects in Confined Active Nematics (Enef Caf, University of Warwick)
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20 Monolayer stress inference in 2.5D (Pablo Gottheil, Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, University of Erlangen)
16:20 - 16:40 A mechanical theory of ovulatory follicle rupture (Tobias Kiehntopf, University of Oxford)
All Talks: 25min
9:30 - 9:55 Hydrodynamic simulations of shape-deforming swimming cells (Andreas Zöttl)
9:55 - 10:20 Bifurcations of the fluid flows created by microswimmers confined to a flat layer (Mitya Pushkin)
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:25 Flow and Ordering Transitions in Active Nematics (Sumesh Thampi)
11:25 - 11:50 Phase Separation Kinetics in Polar Active Matter (Giuseppe Gonnella)
11:50 - 13:20 PHOTO & Lunch break & Poster Session II
13:20 - 13:45 Diffusion beyond the Gaussian paradigm: fluctuating diffusivities, polymers, and search processes (Flavio Seno)
13:45 - 14:10 Self-assembly of giant polymer melts (Cristian Micheletti)
14:10 - 14:35 Combinatorial and topological weight of chromatin loop networks (Enzo Orlandini)
14:35 - 15:10 Coffee break
15:10 - 15:35 Topological Excitations Govern Ordering Kinetics in Endothelial Cell Layers (Kristian Thijssen)
15:35 - 16:00 Charged topological defects in nematics (Miha Ravnik)
CONFERENCE DINNER @ ST HILDA'S COLLEGE (see Venue): ARRIVAL BY 19:20
All Talks: 25min
9:00 - 9:25 Self-propulsion-mediated fluidisation in a 3D epithelium monolayer model (Jan Rozman)
9:25 - 9:50 Generalised Ellipsoid Model of Deformable Cells (Tyler Shendruk)
9:50 - 10:15 Phase-field modelling of cell clusters with YAP-regulated activity (Yavor Novev)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:10 Learning neuro-mechanical models of animal behavior (Jörn Dunkel, MIT)
11:10 - 11:35 Self-organisation of invasive breast cancer driven by the interplay of active and passive nematic dynamics (Saraswat Bhattacharyya, MPI PKS Dresden)
11:35 - 12:00 Microbial traffic jams: Braess paradox in collective network exploration (Arnold Mathijssen, University of Pennsylvania)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch & Departure
Mechanical Integration of Cell Shape across Scales in Epithelial Morphogenesis (Abhirami Anil Gayathry, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter)
Universal Packing of Cell Monolayers (Abel John Abraham, MIT)
Chevron Instability in Active Smectics as a Model for Muscle Tissue in Zebrafish (Cameron Smith, University of Warwick)
Uncovering Multigenerational Cell States in Bacteria (Divya Choudhary, Harvard University)
When Active Nematic Matter Grows and Adapts (Hengdong Lu, EPFL)
Bioactive Microbubbles as Drug Delivery Agents (Niyati Bhupendra Shah, IIT Gandhinagar)
Mechanically Induced Synchronisation and Emergence of Contraction Waves in Thermodynamically Consistent Active Solids (Abdullah Mohamed Fouzuddeen, University of Cambridge)
Self-assembled DNA-collagen bioactive scaffolds for enhanced cellular uptake and neuronal differentiation (Nihal Singh, IIT Gandhinagar)