7 SPEAKERS, 14 LECTURES:
1 historical introduction of quantitative approaches and 1 in depth course on each subject.
Michael Glotzer (MGCB, University of Chicago, USA) – Cytokinesis, RhoA, Cell Polarity, Optogenetics
Lecture 1: Cytokinesis – historical primer and overview
Lecture 2: The centralspindlin complex: from division plane positioning to cell separation
Michael Levine (University of California, Berkley, USA) – Gene networks, genetic regulatory codes
Lecture 1: Gradient thresholds pattern the precellular Drosophila embryo
Lecture 2: Mechanisms of transcriptional precision
Rong Li (Stowers Institute, Kansas, USA) – Cytoskeleton dynamics, GTPase signaling, cell cycle regulation, cellular evolution
Lecture 1: Dynamic processes governing asymmetric cell division in budding yeast
Lecture 2: Mechanisms of cell polarization and establishment of asymmetric cell fate in yeast
Andrew Oates (MRC, London, UK)- Embryogenesis, Pattern formation, Oscillations,
Lecture 1: Quantitative approaches to patterning in developmental biology
Lecture 2: Measuring and modeling oscillations in embryonic patterning
Guillaume Salbreux (MPI, Dresden, Germany) – Soft matter physics, Theoretical physics, Physics of the cytoskeleton
Lecture 1: Physics of the cytoskeleton: from microscopic properties to coarse-grained descriptions
Lecture 2: From cytoskeletal forces to cell and tissue motion
Julie Thériot (Stanford, USA) – Chemistry and physics of cell motility
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Lecture 2:
Jan Traas (ENS, Lyon, France) – Plant Development, Morphogenesis
Lecture 1: Morphogenesis in plants
Lecture 2: The making of a flower: morphodynamics at the shoot apical meristem
