Seminars take place every other Thursday at 10AM ET (GMT+3; 9AM Chicago, 11AM Buenos Aires, 3PM London, 4PM Madrid, 5PM Tel Aviv).
Each one-hour seminar consists of two 25-minute presentations followed by a dedicated Q&A session. Select presentations will be recorded and made temporarily available on our YouTube channel. Speakers will remain available after the formal conclusion for additional discussion. We encourage professional yet open dialogue during the Q&A period.
Upcoming Seminars:
Spring 2026 Series
January 22nd 2026
Guy Tanentzapf, University of British Columbia , Canada "Strength in diversity: why cell adhesion molecules have many ways to link to the cytoskeleton"
Juan Manuel Gomez Elliff, Prevedel Lab, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany "From molecules to mechanics: uncovering regulators of material properties during morphogenesis using Brillouin microscopy"
February 5th 2026
Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska, Université de Montréal, Canada "Mechanical interactions between tissues shape organs in 3D"
Alessandra Gentile, Long Lab, Kings College London, UK "Fibronectin instructs regionalized morphogenesis in the human fetal cortex"
February 19th 2026
Prashant Tewari, Ben-Tabou de-Leon Lab, University of Haifa Canada "p21 activated kinases (PAKs) expression, regulation and role in sea urchin development and skeletogenesis"
Pablo Vicente Munuera, Mao Lab, UCL, UK "Three-Dimensional Mechanical Cooperativity Optimises Epithelial Wound Healing"
March 5th 2026
Jonah Rosas, Akhmmanova Lab, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA "Physical Confinement Alters Cellular Dynamics from the Multi-Cellular to the Single-Cell Scale"
Gerald Lerchbaumer, Tepass Lab, University of Toronto, Canada, "Optogenetic clustering of E-cadherin as a tool to study cell adhesion during morphogenesis"
March 19th 2026
Chih-Wen Chu, Sokol Lab, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA, "Tension-dependent cell polarization during embryonic morphogenesis and wound healing"
April 2nd 2026
Antonia Weberling, University of Oxford, UK "Epiblast lumenogenesis is not a mammalian specific trait"