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May 27, 2026
Session 1
13:00 - 13:10 Welcome
13:10 - 13:40 Stephan Grill:
Mechanics at the nuclear periphery
13:40 -14:10 Nicoletta Petridou:
Tissue phase transitions in development: More than just mechanics
14:10 - 14:40 Jakub Sedzinski:
Mechanics of basal body patterning during multiciliated cell development
14:40 - 14:50 Short Talk 1: Diana Khoromskaia
Modelling spatio-temporal control of mitotic furrowing
14:50 - 15:00 Short Talk 2: Karthik Subramaniam Kalyankumar
Unraveling the Structural and Mechanistic Basis of α-Latrotoxin Action at the
Synapse
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
Session 2
15:30 - 16:00 Matthieu Piel:
Water movements in and out of the nucleus
16:00 - 16:30 Abin Biswas:
Intracelllular density homeostasis
16:30 - 17:00 Jop Kind:
High throughput multiplexed epigenetic profiling in single cells with MAbID
17:00 - 17:10 Short talk 3: Nelly Drobjazko
Biomechanical control of cell fate transitions
17:10 - 17:20 Short talk 4: Shashank Jaitly
Immune Tolerance at the Embryo–Maternal Interface
17:20 - 19:30 Posters and Pizza (even numbers)
May 28, 2026
Session 3
09:00 - 09:30 Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich:
Regulation of plasma membrane tension through hydrostatic pressure and actin
protrusion forces
09:30 - 10:00 Timo Betz:
Dystrophin as a homeostatic tension regulator in reconstituted muscle tissue
10:00 - 10:30 Rashmi Priya:
Morphogenesis in chaos: Building a beating heart
10:30 - 11:00 Edouard Hannezo:
Emergent mechanism of mechano-sensing and shape sensing
11:00 - 11:10 Short Talk 5: Mauricio Rocha-Martins
From chaos to order: how developing tissues regrow and self-reorganize to repair
damage
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break (30 min)
Session 4
11:40 - 12:10 Herve Turlier:
Inverse design of mechanochemical tissue patterning
12:10 - 12:40 Brian Stramer:
Dynamic regulation of extracellular matrix stability during development
12:40 - 13:10 Anna Erzberger:
Information processing and feedback at cellular interfaces
13:10 - 13:20 Short Talk 6: Maik Bischoff
Coiling a Duct – How Cell Motion Shapes Chiral Organ Architecture
13:20 - 15:30 Posters and lunch (odd numbers)
Session 5
15:30 - 16:00 Morgan Delarue:
Cell biosynthesis under mechanical pressure
16:00 - 16:30 Frank Schnorrer:
Muscle building: the making of a fly steak
16:30 - 17:00 Yohanns Bellaiche:
Scaling of tissue flow with animal size
17:00 - 17:10 Short talk 7: Dorothee Bornhorst
Not Just ‘Lining the Pipes’: Endothelial Regulation of Organ Homeostasis
May 29, 2026
Session 6
09:00 - 09:30 Laura Capolupo:
Villus driven coordination of intestinal crypt morphogenesis
09:30 - 10:00 Katja Röper:
Mechanisms and mechanics of tube morphogenesis
10:00 - 10:30 Saskia Suijkerbuijk:
Spatiotemporal regulation of cell competition in intestinal cancer
10:30 - 10:40 Short Talk 8: Stefanie Grosswendt
Uncovering ligand–receptor dialogues between individual cells
10:40 - 10:50 Short Talk 9: Gitanjali
Elucidating the role of YY1 in type R vessel specialisation and function in long bone
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
Session 7
11:20 - 11:50 Diana Pinheiro:
Linking fate and form during vertebrate gastrulation
11:50 - 12:20 Katarina Wolf:
Impact of lamin-A/C expression modulation on cancer invasion and metastasis in vivo
12:20 - 12:50 Erik Sahai:
Signalling and spatial patterns at tumour-stroma interfaces
12:50 - 13:00 Conclusion
