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Mechanobiology of Disease
Program Schedule
5
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
15:00 – 15:30
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
15:30 – 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
16:15 – 18:15
Coffee Break and Posters Session II
Level 2 Hall Foyer
Thursday, September 29, 2016
9:00 – 16:00
Registration/Information
Level 1 Theatre Foyer
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
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Level 1 Hall Foyer
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
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
Level 1 Hall Foyer