Thursday May 27th

08h00-09h15      Registration
09h15-09h30      Welcome by the Organizers

Session 1
09h45-10h45      Keynote Lecture: Benny Geiger (Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel) "A nano-scale view of the integrin adhesome: from function to structure and back"
10h45-11h45      Andy Oates/Luis Morelli (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany) "Patterning embryos with oscillations: Intercellular signaling regulates the period"
11h45-12h15      coffee break
12h15-13h00      Lance Davidson (University of Pittsburgh, USA) "Unraveling the physical mechanics of morphogenesis"

lunch

Session 2
14h15-15h15      Keynote Lecture: Yves Couder (University Paris 7, Paris, France) "Plant growth : on the difference in approaches of biologists and physicists"
15h15-16h15      François-Yves Bouget/Marc Lefranc (Laboratoire Arago, Banyuls, France/PHLAM, Lille, France) "Coupling the circadian clock to environmental cycles in the smallest free-living eukaryote"
16h15-16h45      coffee break
16h45-17h45      Visio Conference: Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada) "How visual computing provides insights into plant morphogenesis"
17h45-18h30      Franck Varenne (University of Rouen and GEMAS UMR 8598 / CNRS - Paris IV Sorbonne) "Modeling Plant Growth in three Steps: Pluriformalization, 4D Simulation, Remathematization"
 
19h00 dinner
20h30-24h00      Poster Session 1 Wine and Beer

Friday May 28th

Session 3
09h00-10h00      Keynote Lecture: Scott Fraser (Beckman Institute Caltech, Pasadena, USA) "Confronting the challenges of in toto imaging of embryonic development"
10h00-10h45      Verônica Grieneisen (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK) "The (aux)inside-out perspective of morphogen gradients in plant development"
10h45-11h15      coffee break
11h15-12H00      François Graner (Curie Institute, France) "From cells to tissues: physical modelling of the collective behaviour of embryonic cells"
12h00-12h45      Lars Hufnagel (EMBL, Germany) "Growth regulation during development: Mechanical interactions"

lunch

Session 4
14h30-15h30      Keynote Lecture: Sunney Xiaolang Xie (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) "Life at the Single Molecule Level"
15h30-16h15      Olivier Pourquié (IGBMC, Strasbourg, France) "Physical principles underlying vertebrate embryo patterning"
16h15-16h45      coffee break
16h45-17h30      Rusty Lansford (Caltech, Pasadena, USA) "Dynamic analysis of organogenesis: Let's start with the heart"
17h30-18h15      Emmanuel Beaurepaire (LOB Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, INSERM, Palaiseau, France) "Nonlinear imaging for the reconstruction of living systems embryogenesis"

18h45 dinner

20h15-24h00      Poster Session 2 Wine and Beer and special session with Yves Couder (University Paris 7, Paris France): "Bouncing droplets, how can a physical particle be driven by a memory of its recent trajectory?", if you do not know about this work, do not miss it !

Saturday May 29th

Session 5
09h00-10h00     Adam Arkin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA): "Complexity in bacterial cell-cell communication: quorum signal integration and subpopulation  signaling in the Bacillus subtilis phosphorelay"
10h00-11h00      François Schweisguth/Vincent Hakim (Pasteur Institute/ENS rue d'Ulm, Paris France) "Genome-wide identification of cis-regulatory motifs and modules underlying
gene co-regulation"
11h00-11h30      coffee break
11h30-12h15      Marie-Anne Félix (Jacques Monod Institute, Paris, France) "Robustness and evolution of the Caenorhabditis vulva signaling network"  

lunch

Session 6
14h30-15h15      Patrick Lemaire (IBDML, Marseille, France) "Sequential activation of apical and basolateral contractility drives ascidian endoderm invagination"
15h15-16h00      Jean-Louis Giavitto (IBISC Evry, France) "Declarative simulation of dynamical structure"
16h00-16h30      coffee break
16h30-17h15      Michael Elowitz (Caltech, Pasadena, USA) "Signal Encoding in Single Cells: The Notch-Delta System"

18h30  ...   Aperitif, Banquet, Live Music and Dancing

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