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Preliminary Program

Each session will have four invited speakers and in addition another 3-4 speakers chosen from the abstracts submitted, with preference given to students and postdocs and young investigators.
In addition to the oral presentations we will also hold a poster session for those who didn’t get a chance to present orally. A cultural tour will be organized as well (more details will be provided to attendees).

The Workshop is postponed until further notice

Preliminary Workshop Schedule

Day 01

9:00-12:15 Session 1: Single and collective cell migration

9:00-9:30

Roberto Mayor (University College London)

9:30-9:55

Assaf Zaritsky (Ben Gurion University)

9:55-10:20

Ronen Alon (Weizmann Institute)

10:20-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-12:10

Ashley E. Bruce (University of Toronto)

12:10-12:40

Short talks chosen from abstracts

12:40-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-17:20 Session 2: Cytoskeletal dynamics in embryogenesis

14:00-14:30

Nicolas Plachta (University of Pennsylvania)

14:30-15:00

Yusuke Toyama (National University of Singapore)

15:00-15:25

Chen Luxenburg (Tel Aviv University)

15:25-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-16:10

Tom Shemesh (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

16:10-17:35

Ronen Zaidel Bar

17:35-19:00 Poster session

19:00-21:00 Dinner

Day 02

9:00-12:15 Session 3: Mechanobiology of disease and wound repair

9:00-9:30

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez (University of Toronto)

9:30-10:00

Maté Biro (EMBL Australia)

10:00-10:25

Hava Gil-Henn (Bar Ilan University)

10:25-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-11:10

Eli Zelzer (Weizmann Institute)

11:10-12:15

Short talks chosen from abstracts

12:15-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-17:15 Session 4: Cell adhesion dynamics in tissue morphogenesis

14:00-14:30

Christoph Ballestrem (University of Manchaster)

14:30-15:00

Natalie Dye (Technical University Dresden)

15:00-15:30

Caren Norden (Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência)

15:30-15:50 Coffee break

15:50-16:15

Smadar Ben-Tabou de-Leon (Haifa University)

16:15-17:15

Short talks chosen from abstracts

Cultural tour 

Day 03

9:00-12:15 Session 5: Mechanosensing: from theory to development

9:00-9:25

Haguy Wolfenson (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

9:25-9:50

Assaf Zemel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

9:50-10:15

Shelly Tzlil (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

10:15-10:40 Coffee break

10:40-11:05

Talila Volk (Weizmann Institute)

11:05-12:15

Short talks chosen from abstracts

12:15-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-17:15 Session 6: Mechanochemical patterning

14:00-14:30

Jerome Gros (Institut Pasteur)

14:30-15:00

Danelle Devenport (Princeton University)

15:00-15:25

Tom Schultheiss (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

15:25-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-16:10

David Sprinzak (Tel Aviv University)

16:10-17:15

Short talks chosen from abstracts

19:00-21:00 Farewell Dinner

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