Programme

Invited Talks: 40min Contributed Talks: 20min

9:00 - 9:45 Arrival & Registration

9:45 - 10:00 Welcome from the organisers

10:00 - 10:40 INVITED TALK: Cell extrusions as mechanical instabilities: Yielding transition under growth

(Marko Popović, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

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: Mechanical control of epithelial morphogenesis by the basement membrane

(Stefan Hermansa, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter)

14:40 - 15:00 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)

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 15:50 Growth-driven shape transitions in developing Gonium colonies (Zhao Wang, University of Cambridge)

15:50 - 16:10 Cell density regulates a bimodal motility switch in Dictyostelium discoideum (Joel Ching Kuma Mbanghanih, FSU Jena)

16:10 - 16:30 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: From stress to flow - Mechanical self-organisation in confined epithelial monolayers (Hélène Delanoë-Ayari, University of Lyon)

10:10 - 10:30 Growth and Intrinsic Curvature of the Extracellular Matrix in a Simple Multicellular Organism (Jane Chui, University of Cambridge)

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: Patterns in the wake of expanding colonies - From velocity locking to splitting and collapse (Charlie Duclut, Sorbonne Université & Institut Curie Paris)

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 (Enej 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, University of Vienna)

9:55 - 10:20 Bifurcations of the fluid flows created by microswimmers confined to a flat layer (Mitya Pushkin, University of York)

10:20 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:25 Flow and Ordering Transitions in Active Nematics (Sumesh Thampi, IIT Madras)

11:25 - 11:50 Phase Separation Kinetics in Polar Active Matter (Giuseppe Gonnella, University of Bari)

11:50 - 13:30 PHOTO & Lunch break & Poster Session II

13:30 - 13:55 Diffusion beyond the Gaussian paradigm: fluctuating diffusivities, polymers, and search processes (Flavio Seno, University of Padova)

13:55 - 14:20 Self-assembly of giant polymer melts (Cristian Micheletti, SISSA)

14:20 - 14:45 Combinatorial and topological weight of chromatin loop networks (Enzo Orlandini, University of Padova)

14:45 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 15:55 Topological Excitations Govern Ordering Kinetics in Endothelial Cell Layers (Kristian Thijssen, University of Copenhagen)

15:55 - 16:20 Charged topological defects in nematics (Miha Ravnik, University of Ljubljana)

CONFERENCE DINNER @ ST HILDA'S COLLEGE (see Venue): ARRIVAL BY 19:20

All Talks: 25min

9:30 - 9:55 Self-propulsion-mediated fluidisation in a 3D epithelium monolayer model (Jan Rozman, University of Ljubljana)

9:55 - 10:20 Generalised Ellipsoid Model of Deformable Cells (Tyler Shendruk, University of Edinburgh)

10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 - 11:15 Learning neuro-mechanical models of animal behavior (Jörn Dunkel, MIT)

11:15 - 11:40 Self-organisation of invasive breast cancer driven by the interplay of active and passive nematic dynamics (Saraswat Bhattacharyya, MPI PKS Dresden)

11:40 - 12:05 Modelling the rheology of biological tissue (Suzanne Fielding, Durham University)

12:05 - 12:10 CLOSING REMARKS

12:10 Lunch & Departure

• Universal Packing of Cell Monolayers (Abel John Abraham, MIT)

• Control of Spatial Patterning in Active Fluids (Douglas Brown, University of Oxford)

• Uncovering Multigenerational Cell States in Bacteria (Divya Choudhary, Harvard University)

• Mechanically Induced Synchronisation and Emergence of Contraction Waves in Thermodynamically Consistent Active Solids (Abdullah Mohamed Fouzuddeen, University of Cambridge)

• Resonances in Overdamped Odd Materials (Julius Kiln, University of Oxford)

• Mechanical Integration of Cell Shape across Scales in Epithelial Morphogenesis (Abhirami Anil Gayathry, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter)

• When Active Nematic Matter Grows and Adapts (Hengdong Lu, EPFL)

• Chevron Instability in Active Smectics as a Model for Muscle Tissue in Zebrafish (Cameron Smith, University of Warwick)