The meeting is fully in-person.
It will take place in Auditorium Buffon (Institut Jacques Monod).
Sessions do not correspond to topics. We tried to mix things up as much as possible.
Including Q&A: keynote talks are 40 minutes, invited talks 30 minutes, short talks 15 minutes.
8:45 Welcome coffee
09:00 Opening remarks
09:05 Stefan Diez (TU Dresden, Germany) – Emergence of directional reversals and torsional forces in cytoskeletal motor systems
09:45 Aude Nommick (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris) – Actin-microtubule interactions promote the emergence of mitotic spindle planarity in early embryos
10:00 Danijela Matic Vignjevic (Institut Curie, Paris) – Cancer-associated fibroblasts compress cancer cells modulating their growth and drug resistance
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Christophe Le Clainche (I2BC, Gif-sur-Yvette) – Understanding cellular mechanotransduction through in vitro reconstitution of actomyosin-dependent mechanosensitive protein machineries
11:30 Priyanka Sasmal (Institut Curie, Paris) – Investigating the Role of Domain Swapping in Determining Kinesin Motor Directionality and Function in vivo
11:45 Tamara Advedissian (Institut Pasteur, Paris) – Cytokinetic abscission requires Cofilin-1 and Arp2/3-dependent microtubule severing before membrane scission
12:00 Artem Fokin (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) – Inactivating Negative Regulators of Cortical Branched Actin Enhances Persistence of Single Cell Migration
12:15 Lunch break
+ POSTER SESSION
14:45 Chiara Zurzolo (Institut Pasteur, Paris) – Reshaping connectivity with tunneling nanotubes: structure-function and role in the spreading of amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases
15:15 Ryszard Wimmer (Institut Curie, Paris) – Interphasic Somal Translocation is a prominent mode of bRG cell dissemination into the human developing neocortex
15:30 Anumita Jawahar (ESPCI, Paris) – Mechanical Polarity of the Cell Cortex
15:45 Chad Pearson (University of Colorado) – Poc1 is a triplet microtubule inner junction protein that stabilizes basal bodies against ciliary forces
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Nicolas Minc (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris) – How Large Cells Do It? Spindle Positioning and Cytoplasm Mechanics in Early Embryos
17:00 Frances Edwards (Institut Curie, Paris) – Beyond clustering: A centrosome amplified response to chemotherapy in epithelial ovarian cancer
17:15 Ewa Paluch (University of Cambridge, UK) – Cell surface mechanics: from molecular processes to cellular forces
17:55 Closing remarks
18:00 END
Drinks and discussions
