Mechanics and Growth of Tissues: From Development to Cancer

Date

Mar 21, 2011 - Mar 25, 2011

Time

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Speaker

Suzanne Eaton, Jean-François Joanny, Frank Jülicher, Jacques Prost

Affiliation

MPI-CBG, Institut Curie, MPI-PKS, Ècole Supèrieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles

Series

MPI-PKS Workshops, Seminare und Konferenzen

Language

en

Main Topic

Physik

Other Topics

Physik, Biologie, Medizin, Informatik

Host

Sofja Roscina

Description

This workshop aims to bring together physicists and biologists, with an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to tissue organization, patterning and growth. Tissue mechanics plays a key role for the formation of complex morphologies during development. It also plays an important role for the formation of tumors in cancer. Growth by cell division and apoptosis is a fundamental process for tissue formation. Cell division can trigger cell rearrangements and is associated with active mechanical stresses. Active processes that drive cell rearrangements are regulated by signaling pathways and morphogens. Other protein systems also control or depend on cellular rearrangements in tissues. An example are the planar polarity proteins which organize cellular polarity patterns on large scales. A deeper understanding of the dynamic organization of tissues requires an interdisciplinary approach, combining theory and quantitative studies with cell and developmental biology.

Links

• registration and full program

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