Seminars take place every other Thursday at 7:00AM Los Angeles / 8:00 AM Denver / 9:00 AM Chicago / 10:00 AM New York / 11:00 AM Buenos Aires / 3:00 PM London / 4:00 PM Madrid / 5:00 PM Tel Aviv / 7:30 PM Delhi *. (*except for special seminars)
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:
September 24th 2026
Ricardo Barrientos, Yanlan Mao's Lab, UCL, UK "Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape”
Marina Marchenko, Miki Ebisuya-Matsuda's Lab, TU Dresden, Germany "Synthetic lumen rounding directs neural progenitor division mode”
October 8th 2026
Hoang Anh Le, Roberto Mayor's Lab, UCL, UK "Tissue flow acts as a guidance cue for immune cell polarisation and directional migration"
Shivani Dharmadhikari, Jean-Leon Maitre's Lab, Institut Curie, France "Membrane in motion: Unfolding mechanics shape the mouse embryo"
October 22nd/23rd 2026 : SPECIAL SEMINAR! Different time to accommodate colleagues in Australia and Japan.
October 22: 4:00 p.m. Los Angeles / 6:00 p.m. Chicago
October 23: Midnight London / 8:00 a.m. Tokyo / 9:00 a.m. Brisbane / 10:00 a.m. Melbourne
Zoya Mann, Alpha Yap's Lab, University of Queensland, Australia "The way less obvious: how Piezo1 regulates apoptotic extrusion by tuning tissue tension"
Yu-Chiun Wang, Riken BDR, Japan
November 5th 2026
Babli Adhikary, Ann Miller's Lab, University of Michigan, USA "Calcium and actomyosin pulses drive Tricellular Zipping to remodel epithelial junctions and facilitate tissue packing"
Shantanu Pradhan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India "Fibroblast and Cancer Cell Morphogenesis in Soft Engineered Matrices"
November 19th 2026
Maja Matis, University of Münster, Germany "CLASP-dependent microtubule stabilization generates microtubule-based protrusive forces during Drosophila epithelial morphogenesis"
Jiarui Jian, Katy Rothenberg's Lab, University of Iowa, USA "Rapgap1 regulates actin-based protrusion during Drosophila embryonic wound healing"
December 3rd 2026
Miriam Osterfield, Konstantin Doubrovinski's Lab, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA "Alternating polarity integrates molecular and mechanical cues to drive tissue morphogenesis"
Ripla Arora, Michigan State University, USA "Mesenchymal and Contractile Forces Regulate Uterine Epithelial Folding for Implantation Success”