Schedule for: 23w5120 - Mechanics of Cells and Polymer Networks: Bridging Theory, Simulation and Experiment

Beginning on Sunday, September 10 and ending Friday September 15, 2023

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, September 10
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Other (See Description))
Monday, September 11
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:40 Rae Robertson-Anderson: Emergent micro-mechanics of active cytoskeletal composites (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:20 Michael Murrell: Energetic constraints on biological assembly and motion (TCPL 201)
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:40 - 11:20 Vivek Shenoy: Chemo-mechanical diffusion waves orchestrate collective dynamics of immune cell podosomes (TCPL 201)
11:20 - 12:00 John Berezney (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 20:10 Moumita Das: From Rigidity to Resilience: How Rigidity Transitions Modulate Bipolymer Network Mechanics in Cells and Tissues (TCPL 201)
20:10 - 20:50 Ming Guo: Nonlinear effect in cell-matrix interactions (TCPL 201)
Tuesday, September 12
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:40 Alison Patteson: Vimentin intermediate filaments are critical for 3D cell migration and nuclear translocation (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:20 Alexander Bershadsky: Integrin-mediated adhesions in a crosstalk with actomyosin cytoskeleton and microtubules (TCPL 201)
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:40 - 11:20 Jean-Francois Joanny: Geometry and rheology of epithelial tissues (TCPL 201)
11:20 - 12:00 Dan Fletcher: Polymers on surfaces: Quantifying cell surface crowding and its effects (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 20:10 Christoph Schmidt: Slender-filament microrheology in vitro and in vivo (TCPL 201)
20:10 - 20:50 Veronica Ciocanel: Agent-based modeling and data analysis for actomyosin dynamics and organization (TCPL 201)
Wednesday, September 13
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:40 Jian Liu: Mechanochemistry of focal adhesion dynamics (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:20 Jennifer Ross: Self-organization of microtubule asters from crosslinker protein condensates (TCPL 201)
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:40 - 11:20 Itai Cohen: The mechanical phase transition organizing cartilage shear properties and function (TCPL 201)
11:20 - 12:00 Fred MacKintosh: Mechanical phase transitions and fiber network mechanics (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 20:10 Pete Galie: Measuring and mimicking the mechanics of spinal cord tissue following contusion injury (TCPL 201)
20:10 - 20:50 Daniel Needleman: Mechanics of spindle positioning and orientation in human cells (TCPL 201)
Thursday, September 14
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:40 Arpita Upadhyaya: Transcription factor dynamics in gene expression: the long and short of it (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:20 Stéphanie Portet: Modelling intermediate filaments – from filament elongation to network organization (TCPL 201)
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:40 - 11:20 Jordan Shivers: Morphological transitions in growing membranes (TCPL 201)
11:20 - 12:00 Xiaoming Mao: Isostaticity, fracturing, and topological polarization of fiber networks (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 20:10 Paul Janmey: Polymer physics of metabolically active nuclei (TCPL 201)
20:10 - 20:50 Emannuela Del Gado: The hidden hierarchical nature of soft particulate gels (TCPL 201)
Friday, September 15
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:40 - 09:00 David Sept (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:40 Nancy Forde: Unravelling the mechanics of collagen, one molecule at a time (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:20 Omar Saleh: DNA nanostar networks: Structures, mechanics, and functions (TCPL 201)
10:20 - 11:00 Jonathan Michel: The role of heterogeneity and nonlinearity in cartilage mechanics (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)