Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting| Aussois 2019

Biology and Physics Confront Cell-Cell Adhesion

Daily Schedule

Biology and Physics Confront Cell-Cell Adhesion Aussois, France October 14 – 17, 2019 PROGRAM

All scientific sessions will be held in the La Parrachée Room

Sunday, October 13, 2019 15:00 – 18:00

Registration/Information

Lobby

18:30 – 20:00

Opening Dinner

Restaurant

Monday, October 14, 2019 8:30 – 19:35

Registration/Information

Lobby

9:00 – 9:10

Virgile Viasnoff, National University of Singapore, Singapore Welcome & Opening Remarks

Virgile Viasnoff, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Chair

Session I

9:10 – 9:45

Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Australia Cell-Cell Adhesion: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns Francoise Brochard-Wyart, Curie Institute, France Hybrid Active Matter: Particles and Cellular Aggregates

9:45 – 10:20

10:20 – 10:30

General Discussion

10:35 – 11:00

Coffee Break

Mezzanine

Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Australia, Chair

Session II

11:00 – 11:35

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, IST Austria, Austria Tension-Dependent Stabilization of E-Cadherin Limits Cell-Cell Contact Expansion

11:35 – 12:00

Qilin Yu, University of Melbourne Biomedical Engineering, Australia* A Computational Model Coupling E-Cadherin Dynamics and Actomyosin Network Illustrates the Cell-Cell Contact Maturation

12:00 – 12:35

Costantino Creton, ESPCI ParisTech, France Adhesion and Stickiness of Soft Matter

12:35 – 13:30

Lunch

Restaurant

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, IST Austria, Austria, Chair

Session III

13:30 – 15:00

Roundtable

15:00 – 15:35

Virgile Viasnoff, National University of Singapore, Singapore Overview of the Biophysical Aspects of Cell-Cell Adhesion

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