Confirmed Speakers
Dr. Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, University of Toronto, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research
Oxidative stress orchestrates cell polarity during embryonic wound repair
Dr. Masakazu Akiyama, Hokkaido University
A mathematical model of collective cell migration based on cell polarity
Dr. Yasuhiro Inoue, Kyoto University
Computational simulation on multiple cell dynamics in tissue deformation
Dr. Naoto Ueno, National Institute for Basic Biology
Calcium dynamics and tissue mechanics of vertebrate neural tube closure
Dr. Shizue Ohsawa, Kyoto University
3D morphogenesis of adult appendages from the folded epithelial sheets in Drosophila
Dr. Shigeru Kondo, Osaka University
The reversed ORIGAMI mechanism that determines the 3D shape of the exoskeleton
Dr. Toru Kawanishi, University of Tokyo
Coordinated tissue elongation in the zebrafish posterior body
Dr. Yue Tong, University of Tokyo
Rotational cell migration: a new logic behind 3D somite morphogenesis
Dr. Hisashi Haga, Hokkaido University
Collective movement and 3D morphogenesis of epithelial cells responding to viscoelastic substrates
Dr. Kenji Matsuno, Osaka University
Cell chirality drives left-right asymmetric morphogenesis
Dr. Takeo Matsumoto, Nagoya Institute of Technology
Biomechanical approaches toward elucidation of mechanical environment in Xenopus laevis embryos
Dr. Rudolf Winklbauer, University of Toronto
Cell-cell attachment mechanisms and the range of adhesion strengths
Dr. Ulrich Tepass, University of Toronto
Integration of polarity, adhesion, cytoskeletal dynamics and vesicle trafficking during epithelial cell ingression
Dr. Yu Sun, University of Toronto
Tools for measuring physical properties in vivo
Dr. Sid Goyal, University of Toronto
Heart development
Dr. Brian Ciruna, University of Toronto
Understanding the causes of idiopathic scoliosis: a twisted ‘tail’ of cilia and CSF defects
Dr. Ran Kafri, University of Toronto
Size sensing mechanisms in animal cells
Dr. Sevan Hopyan, University of Toronto
Mesenchymal cell rearrangements that shape tissue in the mouse embryo
Dr. Jennifer Schwartz, Syracuse University
TBD
Dr. Matthias Merkel, Syracuse University
TBD
Dr. Guy Tanentzapf, University of British Columbia
TBD
Dr. Jie Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago
TBD