Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Singapore

Mechanobiology of Disease

Program Schedule

14:00 – 14:30

Adam Engler, University of California, San Diego, USA Improving iPSC Disease Modeling with Dynamic Matrices

14:30 – 15:00

Krystyn J. Van Vliet, MIT, USA Crawling Toward a Cure: Mechanobiology of Cell Migration and Differentiation in the Disease Microenvironment Yunn Hwen Gan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Bacterial Pathogen Induces Host Cell Fusion and Triggers the Type I Interferon response through cGAS and STING

15:00 – 15:30

15:30 – 16:00

Samuel Safran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel* Self-healing of Holes in the Nuclear Envelope

16:00 – 16:15

Nicolas Plachta, Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology & Research, Singapore Imaging How Cells Choose their Fate, Shape, and Position in the Mouse Embryo

Coffee Break and Posters Session II

Level 2 Hall Foyer

16:15 – 18:15

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Registration/Information

Level 1 Theatre Foyer

9:00 – 16:00

Session VII

Virgile Viasnoff, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore, Chair

9:30 – 10:00

Thomas Lecuit, Insitut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, France Biomechanical Control of Tissue Morphogenesis

10:00 – 10:30

Timothy Saunders, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Muscle Specification in the Zebrafish Myotome

10:30 – 11:00

Lars Dietrich, Columbia University, USA Interplay Between Morphology and Metabolism in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Biofilms

Coffee Break

Level 1 Hall Foyer

11:00 – 11:30

Session VIII

Koh Cheng Gee, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore, Chair

11:30 – 12:00

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria The Physical Basis of Coordinated Tissue Spreading in Zebrafish Gastrulation

12:00 – 12:30

Stuti K. Desai, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore SsrB as a Driver of Lifestyle Changes in Salmonellae

12:30 – 13:00

Andrew W. Holle, Max Planck Institute of Intelligent Systems, Germany Cancer Cells Sense and Respond to Their Mechanical Environment During Confined Invasion

Lunch

Level 1 Hall Foyer

13:00 – 14:00

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