Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Singapore

Mechanobiology of Disease

Program Schedule

Session IX

Ashok Venkitaraman, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Chair

14:00 – 14:30

Yusuke Toyama, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Mechanical Impact of Apoptosis in a Tissue Marvin Whiteley, University of Texas at Austin, USA Biogeography of in vivo Microbial Biofilms

14:30 – 15:00

15:00 – 15:30

Alexander Dunn, Stanford University, USA Single Molecule Force Measurements in Living Cells Reveal a Minimally Tensioned Integrin State Pere Roca-Cusachs, University of Barcelona, Spain* Force Loading Explains How Substrate Rigidity and Ligand Nano-distribution Regulate Cell Response. Priyamvada Chugh, University College London, United Kingdom* Cortex Architecture Regulates Cortex Tension during the Cell Cycle

15:30 – 15:45

15:45 – 16:00

Coffee Break and Posters Session III

Level 2 Hall Foyer

16:00 – 18:00

18:15

Bus departs UCC for banquet

Banquet

Republic of Singapore Yacht Club

18:30 – 20:30

Friday, September 30, 2016 9:00 – 13:00

Information

Level 1 Theatre Foyer

Session X

Linda J. Kenney, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore, Chair

9:30 – 10:00

Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain* A Mechanically Active Heterotypic Adhesion Enables Fibroblasts to Drive Cancer Cell Invasion Kevin Chalut, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Mechanical Signalling in Embryonic Stem Cell Self-renewal and Differentiation

10:00 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:00

G.V. Shivashankar, Mechanobiology Insitute, Singapore Nuclear Mechano-genomics and Disease Diagnosis

Session XI

Linda J. Kenney, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore, Chair

Coffee Break

Level 1 Hall Foyer

11:00 – 11:30

11:30 – 12:00

Daniela Rhodes, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Telomerase and G-quadruplexes

12:00 – 12:30

Ashok Venkitaraman, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Cancer Suppression and the Mechanics of Nucleoprotein Assemblies in DNA Recombination Shee Mei Lok, DUKE-NUS Medical School, Singapore Near Atomic Resolution CryoEM Structure of the Thermally Stable Zika Virus

12:30 – 13:00

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