Speakers

June 8th, 2022:

Session 1: If Newton and Angström had ever met Förster

Kristian Franze

Kristian Franze

Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen

The chemo-mechanical regulation of brain development

Alexander Dunn

Alexander Dunn

Stanford University

Mechanosensing at afadin-based cellular adhesion complexes

Christos Gatsogiannis

Christos Gatsogiannis

University of Münster

Molecular Mechanism of LTX neurotoxic action

June 8th, 2022:

Session 2: Engineering and analyzing bottom up from single cells

Seraphine Wegner

Seraphine Wegner

University of Münster

Optogenetic regulation of cell-cell adhesions

Peter Horvath

Peter Horvath

Biological Research Centre Hungary

Life beyond the pixels: single-cell analysis using deep learning and image analysis methods

Ivo Sbalzarini

Ivo Sbalzarini

MPI Dresden

Machine Learning of Spatio-Temporal Models from Image Data

June 9th, 2022:

Session 3a: Barrier and polarity dynamics

Alf Honigmann

Alf Honigmann

MPI Dresden

Assembly of Tight Junctions: A Reconstitution Approach

Ian Macara

Ian Macara

Vanderbilt University

Imaging the dynamics of polarity complex delivery to the apical plasma membrane

June 9th, 2022:

Session 3b: The in´s and out´s, cis´ and trans´ of cell mechanobiology

Yanlan Mao

Yanlan Mao

MRC London

Coping with mechanical stress: tissue dynamics during development and repair

Alba Diz-Munoz

Alba Diz-Munoz

EMBL Heidelberg

Mechanobiology at the cell surface

Ada Cavalcanti-Adam

Ada Cavalcanti-Adam

MPI Heidelberg

Engineering the local control of cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesion receptors

June 9th, 2022:

Session 4: It´s a long long way endo

Anne Spang

Anne Spang

University of Basel

Compartmentalisation in the Endosomal System

Marta Miaczynska

Marta Miaczynska

IIMCB Warszaw

AXL-driven plasma membrane dynamics in cancer cell biology 

Ludger Johannes

Ludger Johannes

Institute Pasteur Paris

Mechanisms of acute regulation of GlycoLipid-Lectin (GL-Lect) endocytosis

June 10th, 2022:

Session 5a: Cytoskeletal dynamics and lipid networks

Michael Way

Michael Way

Francis Crick Institute London

Analysis of Vaccinia virus release from infected cells using cryo-ET

Maria Bohnert

Maria Bohnert

University of Münster

Systematic approaches to uncover new players in lipid droplet biology

June 10th, 2022:

Session 5b: Morphodynamics of embryonic development

Ivan Bedzhov

Ivan Bedzhov

MPI Münster

Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation

Verena Ruprecht

Verena Ruprecht

Centre for Genomic Regulation Barcelona

Mechanical control of morphodynamic cell plasticity in development

June 10th, 2022:

Session 6: Fold, stretch, attach: May the dynamic forces be with you

Carien Niessen

Carien Niessen

CECAD Köln

Integrating adhesion, mechanics and signaling to shape epithelial barriers

Christian Dahmann

Christian Dahmann

University of Dresden

Cellular forces guiding epithelial folding

Anne-Kathrin Classen

Anne-Kathrin Classen

University of Freiburg

Cell surface affinity controls soma-germline morphogenesis