Session III - Chair: Michael Sheetz

Cytoskeletal Regulation & Signaling in Cellular Homeostasis

9.00

Alexander Bershadsky

MBI - Weizmann Institute of Science

Local and global self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton

9.30

Giorgio Scita

IFOM - University of Milan

Endocytic control of collective cell motility

10.00

Colin Jamora

IFOM-inStem

Investigating the role of fibulin-5 in linking tissue stiffness with inflammation

10.30

Nicolai Sidenius

IFOM

Cancer, mechanotransduction and the urokinase system

11.00

Coffee Break

Session IV - Chair: Giorgio Scita

Tissue Mechanics and Early Cancer Diagnostics

11.30

Paul Matsudaira

MBI, DBS-NUS

The dynamics of embryonic and adult tissues in the zebrafish embryo

12.00

Pier Paolo Di Fiore

IFOM - IEO - University of Milan

A Numb/p53 circuitry couples control of replicative self-renewal and tumor suppression in normal and cancer mammary epithelial cells

12.30

Final remarks

13.00

Lunch