From April 01 to 03, there will be a two-day workshop about Physical Biology at Max Planck Institute for complex system in Dresden. Topics will be about:

• Dynamic systems models of processes in cell
• Theoretic and experimental studies about microtubules and actins
• cell migration
• Lipid sorting etc.

More details can be found in the following program:

program

Wednesday, April 1
18:00 – 20:00 Registration
19:00 – Reception with food and beverages

Thursday, April 2
08:50 – 09:00 Introduction
09:00 – 09:25 Léa-Laetitia Pontani
Reconstituted systems for the study of cell shape changes
09:25 – 09:50 Elisabeth Fischer
Min proteins in growing Escherichia coli: from stochastic switching to
oscillations
09:50 – 10:15 Marc Neef
Stress generation and polarity sorting in active filament bundles attached
to a membrane
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:10 Mirjam Mayer
Contractile Cortical Flow
11:10 – 11:35 Ludovic Brun
Computational reconstitution of the Type II Plasmid Segregation
11:35 – 12:00 José Alvarado
The material properties of actin structures
12:00 – 12:10 Group Photo
12:10 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:25 Svenja-Marei Kalish
Towards regulated microtubule dynamics under constant force
14:25 – 14:50 Markus Basan
Homeostatic pressure and tissue growth
14:50 – 15:15 Sven Vogel
How Meiotic Nuclear Oscillations are Generated in Fission Yeast
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:10 Phillip Khuc Trong
Symmetry breaking in C. elegans: A reaction-diffusion system for PAR polarity
16:10 – 16:35 Tatiana Makushok
Tea1p organizes growth sites in fission yeast by positioning sterol-rich membranes
16:35 – 17:00 Jakub Sedzinki
Cleavage furrow and cortex stability during cytokinesis
17:00 – 19:00 Poster session I (odd numbers)
19:00 Supper
20:00 – 22:00 Poster session II (even numbers)

Friday, April 3
09:00 – 09:25 Liedewij Laan
Pulling forces position dynamic microtubule asters more efficiently in
microfabricated chambers
09:25 – 09:50 Beat Rupp
A model for the regulation of dynamic instability
09:50 – 10:15 Jonathan Saragosti
Collective behavior of bacteria in microfabricated environments
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:10 Peer Mumcu
Morphogen dynamics and growth control during development
11:10 – 11:35 Simon Tindemans
Microtubules as molecular bumper cars: the formation of the transverse cortical
array in plant cells
11:35 – 12:00 Christian Hentrich
In-vitro competition of cross-linking molecular motors
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:25 Sebastian Streichan
Migration in cell collectives
14:25 – 14:50 Benoit Sorre
Lipid sorting in membrane nanotubes
14:50 – 15:15 Elyes Mabrouk
Bursting of polymersomes
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:10 Wiet de Ronde
Mutual Information as a function of network topology
16:10 – 16:35 Ludovic Disseau
A novel way to combine magnetic tweezers and fluorescence microscopy for
single molecule studies
16:35 – 17:00 Volker Bormuth
Direct measurement of protein friction between single kinesin-8 motor proteins
and microtubules
18:00 Supper

http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~pbcm09/

Everybody is welcomed! :-)