Day 3: Wednesday, 22/06/2016

Session 4: Forces in cell motility and migration

Talk: 9:00-9:30 Michael Sixt, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

“Adaptation of lamellipodial actin to mechanical load.”

Short talk: 9:30-9:45

Mechanics of filopodia adhesion: involvement of myosin II and formins

Selected Oral Communication - Naila Alieva (Mechanobiology Institute NUS, Singapore)

Talk: 9:45-10:15 Brian Stramer, King’s College London, UK

“Contact inhibition of locomotion in development.”

Short talk: 10:15-10:30

FMNL formins are required for lamellipodial force generation

Selected Oral Communication - Frieda Kage (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany)

Coffee break: 10:30-11:00

Talk: 11:00-11:30 Kinneret Keren, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

“Front to rear membrane tension gradient in rapidly moving cells.”

Short talk: 11:30-11:45

Architecture and mechanics of the macrophage podosome

Selected Oral Communication - Renaud Poincloux (IPBS, France)

Short talk: 11:45-12:00

Actin-mediated force production in malaria parasites

Selected Oral Communication - Catherine Moreau (University of Heidelberg Medical School, Germany)

Lunch break 12:00-13:30

13:00 - 13:30

New tools to study cell migration with live cell microscopy

Sponsored Seminar - Tina Freisinger (ibidi GmbH, Munich, Germany)

Session 5: Control of cell migration

Talk: 13:30-14:00 Olivier Pertz, University of Bern, Switzerland

“Spatio-temporal Rho GTPase signaling networks regulating fibroblast migration.”

Short talk: 14:00-14:15

A MAPK-driven feedback loop suppresses Rac activity to promote RhoA-driven cancer cell invasion

Selected Oral Communication - Joseph Hetmanski (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

Short talk: 14:15-14:30

Identification of cancer-associated mutations in p190RhoGAP affecting its localization and function

Selected Oral Communication - Violaine Moreau (INSERM, France)

Talk: 14:30-15:00 Ana-Maria Lennon-Dumenil, Institute Curie, Paris, France

"New insights on leukocyte polarity and migration."

Short talk: 15:00-15:15

Lamellipodial Persistence Requires Tropomyosin-Containing Actin Filaments at theLeading Edge Which Are Derived From the Arp2/3 Actin Network

Selected Oral Communication - Peter Gunning (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Short talk: 15:15-15:30

Shaping cells into tissue - Fat2 acts through the WAVE regulatory complex to drive collective follicle cell migration

Selected Oral Communication - Sven Bogdan (University of Münster, Germany)

Talk: 15:30-16:00 Claudia Linker, King’s College London, UK

“Collective cell migration: real-life insights from the neural crest.”

Coffee break: 16:00-16:30

Flash poster presentations 2: 16:30-17:30

Poster Session 2: (with dinner and drinks) odd numbers present 18:00-21:00

21:00- Bar open