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Our upcoming international symposium in 2026 is entitled "Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces". This three-day meeting will foster interdisciplinary exchange and networking by bringing together leading scientists in the fields of cell and developmental biology, mechanobiology, biophysics, and multiscale imaging. Join us in Münster to discuss the latest advances on signaling at cellular interfaces and its impact on cell states across scales!

Speaker

Yohanns Bellaiche
Institut Curie, Paris
"Scaling of tissue flow with animal size"

Timo Betz
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
tba

Laura Capolupo
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel
"Villus driven coordination of intestinal crypt morphogenesis"

Morgan Delarue
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse
"Transcription is limiting biosynthesis under mechanical pressure"

Anne Erzberger
EMBL Heidelberg
"How geometry drives the self-organisation of living matter"

Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
TU Dresden
"Regulation of plasma membrane tension through hydrostatic pressure and actin protrusion forces"

Stephan Grill
MPI Dresden
tba

Edouard Hannezo
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg
tba

Jop Kind
Hubrecht Institut, Utrecht
tba

Nicoletta Petridou
EMBL Heidelberg
"Tissue phase transitions in development: More than just mechanics"

Matthieu Piel
Institut Curie, Paris
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Diana Pinheiro
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Wien
"Linking fate and form during vertebrate gastrulation"

Rashmi Priya
The Crick Institute, London
"Living machines: how to build a functional heart"

Simone Reber
MPI Berlin
tba

Katja Röper
MRC Cambridge University
"Mechanisms and mechanics of tube morphogenesis’"

Erik Sahai
The Crick Institute, London
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Frank Schnorrer
Institute for Developmental Biology Marseille 
"Muscle building: the making of a fly steak"

Jakub Sedzinski
University of Copenhagen
"Mechanics of basal body patterning during multiciliated cell development"

Brian Stramer
King's College London
tba

Saskia Suijkerbuijk
University of Utrecht
Spatiotemporal regulation of cell competition in intestinal cancer

Hervé Turlier
CNRS Toulouse
"Inverse design of mechanochemical tissue patterning"

Katarina Wolf
Radboud University
tba

Program

More information will follow soon.