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Mechanobiology of Disease
Program Schedule
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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
14:30 – 15:00
Marvin Whiteley, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Biogeography of in vivo Microbial Biofilms
15:00 – 15:30
Alexander Dunn, Stanford University, USA
Single Molecule Force Measurements in Living Cells Reveal a Minimally
Tensioned Integrin State
15:30 – 15:45
Pere Roca-Cusachs, University of Barcelona, Spain*
Force Loading Explains How Substrate Rigidity and Ligand Nano-distribution
Regulate Cell Response.
15:45 – 16:00
Priyamvada Chugh, University College London, United Kingdom*
Cortex Architecture Regulates Cortex Tension during the Cell Cycle
16:00 – 18:00
Coffee Break and Posters Session III
Level 2 Hall Foyer
18:15
Bus departs UCC for banquet
18:30 – 20:30
Banquet
Republic of Singapore Yacht Club
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
10:00 – 10:30
Kevin Chalut, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mechanical Signalling in Embryonic Stem Cell Self-renewal and Differentiation
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
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Level 1 Hall Foyer
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
12:30 – 13:00
Shee Mei Lok, DUKE-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Near Atomic Resolution CryoEM Structure of the Thermally Stable Zika Virus