Program
BioSoft Frontiers 2016 Program
Print Full program| Time | Session/Lecture info |
|---|---|
| 12:00-14:00 | Opening - Weizmann Institute of Science- the David Lopatie Conference Centre
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| 12:00-13:45 |
Arrival and Lunch Lopatie Centre
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| 13:45-14:00 |
Opening
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| 14:00-16:20 | Session 1
Chair: Jacques Prost - Institut Curie, Paris |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Fred MacKintosh, VU University, Amsterdam
Phase transitions and non-equilibrium behavior in living systems
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| 14:30-14:50 |
Ayelet Lesman, Tel Aviv University
The influence of contractile forces on biological processes
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| 14:50-15:05 |
Xingpeng Xu, Weizmann Institute of Science
Nonlinear elastic responses of biopolymer gels under compression
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| 15:05-15:25 |
Tsvi Tlusty, IAS, Princeton
Proteins as learning amorphous matter: dimension and spectrum of the
genotype-to-phenotype map
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| 15:25-16:20 |
Coffee Break
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| 16:20-17:25 | Session 2
Chair: Nihat Berker- Sabanci University, Istanbul |
| 16:20-16:50 |
Christoph Schmidt , Universitaet Goettingen
Active soft matter builds life
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| 16:50-17:05 |
Kinjal Dasbiswas, University of Chicago
Mechanobiological induction of long-range contractility by diffusing
biomolecules and size scaling in cell assemblies
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| 17:05-17:25 |
Yoram Burak, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Encoding of an animal's trajectory by grid cells in the entorhinal cortex
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| 18:00-20:30 | Dinner
Lopatie |