Invited Speakers

Biological circuits: from genes to neurons

Genetic Circuits that Adapt: Design Principles and Genetic Implementation
Mustafa Khammash (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Mechanisms for functional noise in gene regulation
James Locke (University of Cambridge, UK)
Biomolecular assemblies and condensates

Location and concentration of aromatic-rich segments dictates the percolating inter-molecular network and viscoelastic properties of ageing condensates
Jorge Rene Espinosa (University of Cambridge, UK)

Multiscale modelling of liquid-like chromatin organisation
Rosana Collepardo Guevara (University of Cambridge, UK)
Biomolecular structure, dynamics and interactions

How do Biomolecules Walk?
Sarah Harris (University of Leeds, UK)

Minutes-long single molecule tracking in live bacteria reveals that molecular motor tug-of-war regulates elongasome dynamics and bacterial cell shape in Bacillus subtilis
Stuart Middlemiss (Newcastle University, UK)

Cancer, disease and ageing

Mechanobiology of ageing
Kevin Chalut (Altos Labs, UK)

Cancers Exploit Diverse Mechanical Features of the Stroma
Erik Sahai (Francis Crick Institute, UK)
Cell membranes, cell architecture and forces

Control of cortical mechanics by signalling
Guillaume Charras (University College London, UK)

Mechanical control of immune synapse organisation and function
Katelyn Spillane (Kings College London, UK)
Cell metabolism and energetics

Mitochondrial dynamics as a new mechanics-to-biology transduction module
Sirio Dupont (University of Padova, Italy)

Mechanosensitive polyol pathway regulates biomolecular condensates
Stéphanie Torrino (Université Côte d'Azur, France)
Chromatin and gene regulation

Understanding the link between 3D gene structure and transcription by computer simulations
Davide Marenduzzo (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Approaches to deconstruct transcription - from high resolution techniques to mathematical modelling
Jane Mellor (University of Oxford, UK)
Clocks, timers and cell cycle dynamics

Dissecting a slow cold temperature dependent timer
Martin Howard, John Innes Centre

On the role of cell rearrangements in pattern formation
Berta Verd (University of Oxford, UK)
Complex systems: climate, ecology and epidemiology

Using Critical Slowing Down to suggest statistical indicators of disease emergence and elimination
Louise Dyson (Warwick University, UK)

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of fluctuating populations
Mauro Mobilia (University of Leeds, UK)
Differentiation and development

Navigating the Waddington landscape: Geometric models of cell fate decision
James Briscoe (Francis Crick Institute, UK)

Spermatogenesis: a paradigm of stem cell regulation
Ben Simons (University of Cambridge, UK)
Engineering biomolecules, cells and organoids

Patterning DNA-based artificial cells with reaction-diffusion
Lorenzo Di Michele (University of Cambridge, UK)

Life-like motility in droplet systems
Nathalie Katsonis (Stratingh Institute of Chemistry of the University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Evolution

Does evolution have an in-built Occam's Razor
Ard Louis (University of Oxford, UK)

Quantitatively Understand Microbial Community Traits During Evolution
Wenying Shou (University College London, UK)
Imaging across scales

Community-driven super-resolution microscopy
Dylan Owen (University of Birmingham, UK)

Cell shape control: from molecules to cellular forces
Ruby Peters (University of Cambridge, UK)
Immunity, resistance and host/pathogen dynamics
Clare Bryant (University of Cambridge, UK)

Environmental conditions define the energetics of bacterial dormancy and its antibiotic susceptibility
Teuta Pilizota (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Machine learning at the physics/biology interface

Title to be confirmed
Pietro Liò (University of Cambridge, UK)
Patterns, waves, transport and flows

Algal phototaxis and the evolution of multicellularity
Ray Goldstein (University of Cambridge, UK)

Towards controlling bacterial cell behaviours using electricity and light
Munehiro Asally (University of Warwick, UK)
Single molecule biology

Tackling Topology using TopoStats
Alice Pyne (University of Sheffield, UK)

The NEOtrap, DyeCycling, NEO-FRET & Co: expanding the single-molecule toolbox
Sonja Schmid (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Tissue function, mechanics and mechanosensing

Emergence of cell tissue shape during development
Tim Saunders (Warwick University, UK)

Mechanical impact of cell delamination on tissue dynamics, in developmental and tumoral contexts
Magali Suzanne (University of Toulouse, France)