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Program Kick-off meeting BIOPOL public Flyer
ITN-‐BIOPOL Biochemical and mechanochemical signaling in polarized cells Kick-‐Off Meeting Where?: INOX conference suite 3 (same floor as INOX restaurant) Level 5, Students’ Union Building, Durham Road, Sheffield, S10 2TG 9:00-‐9:10 9:10-‐9:40 Tuesday 14.04.15 Welcome Ewa Paluch, University College London, UK Cell surface tension generation: actin cortex and plasma membrane mechanics 9:40-‐10:10 Monnier Sylvain, Institute Curie, France How accurate volume measurements can bring new insights on fundamental biological processes. Examples for cell division and size homeostasis 10:10-‐10:40 David Strutt, University of Sheffield, UK Understanding mechanisms of coordinated cell polarization 10:40-‐11:10 Coffee break 11:10-‐11:40 Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge, UK Collective dynamics in mucociliary tissues: links with PCP 11:40-‐12:10 Kai Erdmann, University of Sheffield, UK Multi-PDZ domain proteins in epithelial cell polarization 12:10-‐12:40 Ludger Johannes, Institute Curie, France: Building endocytic pits without clathrin: Functions in cell migration and polarity 12:40-‐13:10 Christophe Lamaze, Institute Curie, France Mechanosensing and mechanosignaling by caveolae 13:10-‐14:30 Break 14:30-‐15:00 Miguel del Pozo, CNIC, Madrid, Spain Caveolae mechanobiology and stromal biomechanics 15:00-‐15:30 Stefano Piccolo, University of Padua, Italy Yap/Taz in organ regeneration and cancer 15:30-‐16:00 Jochen Guck, TU Dresden, Germany Mechanosensing of macrophages - towards finding the molecular mechanism 16:00-‐16:30 Coffee break 16:30-‐17:00 Pere Roca-Cusachs, IBC, Barcelona, Spain Understanding the cell-extracellular matrix mechanical link: from molecular roles to emerging behaviors 17:00-‐17:30 Henriette Lanz (MIMETAS), Netherlands Mimetas, the organ-on-a-chip company 17:30-‐18:00 JPK Instruments, Berlin, Germany An Introduction to JPK, our instruments and their applications Guests are welcome!!! In case of questions: Please contact, Dr. Kai Erdmann Dept. Biomedical Science University of Sheffield ([email protected])