Invited byRoshan Kumar Vijendravarma (Courtier Lab), Jan Clemens (European Neuroscience Institute, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany) will give a seminar entitled : Neural computations underlying social behavior in Drosophila    Neural Computation and Behavior Our brain is constantly confronted with sensory information, yet it manages to filter out relevant bits to produce appropriate behavior. Our lab is interested in…

Invited by René-Marc Mège, Carien M. Niessen (Department Cell Biology of the Skin and CECAD Cologne, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne) will give a seminar entitled: Biomechanical regulation of cell fate and position in epithelial barrier morphogenesis, renewal and disease   Our research: How epithelia coordinate cell and tissue structure with growth and metabolic activity to control…

Invited by Jérôme Collignon, Takashi Hiiragi (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands /ASHBi Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) will give a seminar entitled: Multicellular coordination in context   The Hiiragi group studies robustness in development and aims to understand the design principle of self-organising multi-cellular systems. Self-organisation is a defining feature of living systems and entails complex interplay between molecular,…

Invited by Benoit Ladoux, Ada Cavalcanti (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research) will give a seminar entitled: Mechanical regulation of receptor-mediated cell adhesion   Growth Factor Mechanobiology Group leader: Priv. Doz. Dr. Dr. E. Ada Cavalcanti-Adam Mechanical forces exerted by cells during adhesion and migration are adjusted through molecular interactions of receptors at the cell membrane. Adhesive molecules…

Invited by Benoit Ladoux, Pierre Nassoy (UMR 5298 CNRS, Laboratoire de Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences) will give on October 7th a seminar entitled: Self-assembly and mechanosensing in bloody, nervous, fat or tumoral organoids   BIOF LAB : BIOIMAGING & OPTOFLUIDICS LABORATORY Our lab has developed a microfluidics-assisted technique, the Cellular Capsule Technology (CCT) that enables to…

Invited by Nicolas Minc, Morgan Delarue (Team MILE, LAAS-CNRS) will give on September 30th a seminar entitled: Cell growth under mechanical pressure   Team MILE, LAAS-CNRS Our research focuses on compressive mechanicalstress: What happens when cells are squished? What are the biological and physical determinants of the response to compression? Is there an evolutionarily conserved response? How does…

Invited by Maxim Greenberg, Rob Klose (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford) will give on September 20th a seminar entitled: Understanding how CpG islands regulate gene expression   Epigenetic regulation of chromatin function Every human begins as a single cell that has the instructions, encoded within its DNA and genes, necessary to build a fully functioning human being.…

Invited by Hugo Wioland, Stephanie Höhn (Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge) wiil give on September 15th a seminar entitled: Cut it out - Residual torques in dynamic cellular monolayers   Research How do cells generate the forces that shape our tissues and organs? In developing embryos, its cells move and change their shape in an astoundingly…

Invited by Maxim Greenberg, Edda Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany) will give on September 8th a seminar entitled: Epigenetic decision-making at the Xist locus   Schulz lab / Lise Meitner Research Group Systems Epigenetics Complex regulatory networks are the molecular foundation of cell fate decisions and allow cells to acquire and stably maintain…