Jamming in Biological Systems (Aug. 6-17, 2018)

  • Published: 2018-07-03

August 6-17, 2018

Kavli ITS & IOP, Beijing

Date: August 6 - 17, 2018

Venue: M235, IOP M-Building;

             Rm S102, Kavli ITS [View Map]

 

 

Program

 

WEEK 1
August 6, Monday (M253, IOP M Building)
08:30-09:00 [Registration]
09:00-09:45

Daan Frenkel

Cambridge

09:45-10:30 Ignacio Pagonabarraga CECAM
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45

Michael Murrell

Yale

Epithelial Wound Healing Coordinates Distinct Actin Network Architectures to Conserve Mechanical Work and Balance Dissipation
11:45-12:30   

Penger Tong

HKUST

August 7, Tuesday (M 253, IOP M Buidling)
09:00-09:45

Erika Eiser

Cambridge

09:45-10:30

Rudolf Podgornik

UCAS

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Group Photo
11:00-11:45

Erik Luijten

Northwestern Univ.

11:45-12:30

Shuji Ishihara

Univ. of Tokyo

A continuum model for epithelial tissue deformation
August 8, Wednesday (S102, Kavli ITS, UCAS Teaching Building)
08:45-09:00

Fu-Chun Zhang

Kavli ITS, UCAS

[ Introduction to Kavli ITS ]
09:00-09:45

Alexander Bershadsky

Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore

Cytoskeletal self-organization and cell morphogenesis
09:45-10:30

Ming Guo

MIT

Spontaneous cell swelling, softening and migration in 3D tumor micro-dynamics
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45

Jure Dobnikar

IOP, CAS

11:45-12:30

Max Bi

Northeastern University

Decoding the unjamming and the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in human bronchial epithelial cells
August 9, Thursday (S102, Kavli ITS, UCAS Teaching Building)
09:00-09:45

Ian Wong

Brown Univ.

Collective Unjamming and the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition?
09:45-10:30

Shane Hutson

Vanderbilt Univ.

Planar cell polarity and cell packing in morphologically active epithelia
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45

Daniel Ouyang

Lehigh Univ.

Active mechanical fluctuations in a living cell: their consequences to a non-linear system
11:45-12:30

Baohua Ji

Zhejiang University

Quantification of collective cell behaviors
August 10, Friday (S102, Kavli ITS, UCAS Teaching Building)
09:00-09:45 

Shiladytia Banerjee

UCL

Tissue fluidity promotes wound repair
09:45-10:30

Tony Harris

Univ. of Toronto

Collision of expanding actin caps with actomyosin borders for cortical bending and mitotic rounding in a syncytium
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45

Jay Tang

Brown Univ.

Jamming in Swarms of Bacteria
11:45-12:30

Xiqiao Feng

Tsinghua Univ.

Dynamics of collective cells
WEEK 2
August 13, Monday (S102, Kavli ITS, UCAS Teaching Building)
09:00-09:45

Josef Käs

Univ. of Leipzig

Tumor progression requires jamming and unjamming
09:45-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-10:55

Lior Atia

Harvard

Geometric constraints on epithelial cell jamming
10:55-11:40

Xinghua Shi

NCNT, CAS

August 14, Tuesday (S102, Kavli ITS, UCAS Teaching Building)
09:00-09:45

Yuan Lin

HKU

Substrate viscosity and plasticity regulated adhesion and spreading of cells
09:45-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-10:55

Bin Chen

Zhejiang Univ.

Cell reorientation under stretch
10:55-11:40

Dongshi Guan

HKUST

Probing the local and global mechanical properties of living cells using atomic force microscopy
August 15, Wednesday (S102, Kavli ITS, UCAS Teaching Building)
09:00-09:45

Timon Idema

TU Delft

Mechanics of epithelial tissue formation
09:45-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-10:55

Chunyang Xiong

Peking Univ.

Quantifying cellular mechanics using Traction Force Microscopy and Deformability Cytometry by Electrodeformation
10:55-11:40

Gaurav Arya

Duke Univ.

Polymer-directed assembly of nanoparticles into anisotropic structures
August 16, Thursday (S102, Kavli ITS, UCAS Teaching Building)
09:00-09:45

Qi Wang

Univ. of South Carolina/CSRC

Collective dynamics of active particles on surfaces
09:45-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-10:55

Alexandra Signoriello

Yale

Computational modelling of immune cells in tumor development using the deformable particle model
10:55-11:40

Xinpeng Xu

Guangdong Technion

Elastic interactions between adherent cells and their extracellular matrix
August 17, Friday (S102, Kavli ITS, UCAS Teaching Building)
09:00-09:45

Ali Naji

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran

09:45-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-10:55

Hui Li

IOP, CAS

10:55-11:40

Qihui Fan & Xiaochen Wang

IOP, CAS

11:40-11:45

Fangfu Ye

IOP, CAS 

 Closing remarks

 

 

 

 

 

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