SLCU will host a two day symposium focusing on quantitative approaches to development on 22-23 July. Featuring early career scientists from around the world as speakers, this event is free to attend. A timetable of talks can be found below.
Tuesday 22 July, 2014
14:00-14:20 Welcome and introduction
Professor Ottoline Leyser, Director, Sainsbury Laboratory
14:20-15:05 Steering (or not) towards light: Flagellar photoresponse in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Kyriacos Leptos, University of Cambridge
15:05-15:50 Resource-aware auxin signalling in Arabidopsis?
Micha Hersch, University of Lausanne
15:50-16:10 Tea Break
16:10-16:55 Computational modelling of growth regulation by auxin responses during gravitropism
John Fozzard, Nottingham University
16:55-17:40 A simple model of the interaction between tropisms and perceptions
Renaud Bastien, Harvard University
Wednesday 23 July 2014
09:30-10:15 Root microbiome assembly: the search for host modulation factors
Sur Herrera Paredes, University of North Carolina
10:15-10:35 Coffee Break
10:35-11:20 Extending plants - a novel method to understand the mechanics of development
Sarah Robinson, University of Bern
11:20-12:05 Mechanotransductive activation of mesoderm invagination triggered by stochastic apex cell pulsations in early Drosophila embryos
Démosthène Mitrossilis, Institut Curie, Paris
12:05-13.30 Break
13:30-14:15 Quantitative Investigation of Transcription Dynamics in Development and Growth
Adam Corrigan, University College, London
14:15-15:00 Transcription Factor Kinetics in Living Cells
Petter Hammar, Uppsala University
15:00-15:20 Tea Break
15:20-16:05 A theoretical approach to investigate how boundaries are shaped in developing tissues
Maryam Aliee, ENS-Lyon
16:05-16:30 Open Discussion
