Mechanical Forces in Biology

100 year after the publication of the seminal work of d’Arcy Thompson “On growth and form”, the contribution of mechanical forces to the organization and homeostasis of living matter has gain more and more interest. This symposium aims to foster interactions between researchers in Institut Pasteur and from Paris sharing interests for the role of forces in biological matter, from the molecular scale to subcellular, cellular and tissular levels.

Program:

9:15am: Welcoming

9:30am-10:00am: Anne Houdusse (Institut Curie)

10:00am-10:30am: Thierry Rose (Institut Pasteur)

10:30am-11:00am: Jean-Léon Maître (Institut Curie)

11:00am-11:30am: Alexandre Dufour (Institut Pasteur)

11:30am-1:20pm: Free lunch buffet (cafeteria « The 25 »)

1:20pm-1:35pm: Romain Levayer (Institut Pasteur)

1:35pm-2:05pm: Pascal Silberzan (Institut Curie)

2:05pm-2:30pm: Jérome Gros (Institut Pasteur)

2:30pm-3:00pm: Sandrine Etienne-Manneville (Institut Pasteur)

3:00pm-3:30pm: Pierre Sens (Institut Curie)

3:30pm-4:00pm: Coffee break (cafeteria « The 25 »)

4:00pm-4:30pm: Sven van Teeffelen (Institut Pasteur)

4:30pm-5:00pm: Frank Lafont (Institut Pasteur Lille)

5:00pm-5:45pm: Pannel discussion on the needs in mechanobiology in the Institut Pasteur

(with Benoît Ladoux, Pascal Silberzan, Frank Lafont, Sandrine Etienne-Manneville, François Schweisguth, Sven van Teeffelen)

5:45pm-6pm: Conclusions