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Friday, 24 April 2015
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09:15 to 09:30 Organizers Welcome Note
09:30 to 09:50 Roop Mallik (TIFR, Mumbai, India) Cholesterol assembles armies of Motor proteins on Phagosomes
09:50 to 10:10 Gautam Soni Nanopore Biophysics: From Molecular Detection to Biology
10:10 to 10:30 Ravikrishnan Elangovan Minimum and Maximum Limit to Number of Myosin II Motors Participating in an Ensemble Motility
10:30 to 11:00 -- Coffee Break/Discussion
11:00 to 11:20 Aurnab Ghose On Growth and FORMIN(g) neuronal filopodia
11:20 to 11:40 Ranjith Padinhatheeri Microtubule shrinkage: Powerful elastic bending or stochastic thermal unzippering?
11:40 to 12:00 Anita Joanna Kosmalska Physical principles of membrane remodelling during cell mechanoadaptation
12:00 to 12:20 Rishita Changede Integrin Clusters of 100nm Form Early Adhesions and Depend on Talin
12:20 to 12:40 Rumi De Dynamics of focal adhesions under time varying stretch
12:40 to 13:00 Sampada Mutalik Regulation and functions of mechanical forces in neurons
13:00 to 14:00 -- Lunch
14:00 to 14:20 Mandar Inamdar Cell-cell adhesion, ECM topography and propensity of ECM proteolysis dictate the migration pattern of cancer cell collectives
14:20 to 14:40 Mithilesh Mishra Studying cytokinesis in vitro
14:40 to 15:00 Thomas Pucadyil Membrane curvature controls epsin-induced clathrin assembly
15:00 to 15:20 Mohammed Saleem Membrane elasticity and polymerization energy modulate the shape
15:20 to 15:40 Sukrut Kamerkar Biochemical screen for potential membrane fission catalysts
15:40 to 17:00 -- Poster Session I (with tea/coffee/snacks)
17:00 to 17:20 Rahul Roy Hybrid Fluorescence-Force measurements for DNA-protein interactions
17:20 to 17:40 ASR Koti Quantification of Protein Dynamics in terms of Flexibility/Rigidity by Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Experiments
17:40 to 18:00 Debasish Chaudhuri Forced desorption of semiflexible polymers, adsorbed and driven by molecular motors
18:00 to 18:20 Manindra Bera Force spectroscopy of lamins
18:20 to 18:45 Jyoti Sharma Role of fumarate ion in changing bacterial flagellar motor from clockwise rotation to counterclockwise rotation
18:45 to 19:30 Shivashankar Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation
19:30 to 20:30 -- Dinner
Saturday, 25 April 2015
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09:00 to 09:45 -- networking discussion/round table about cell mechanics and its perspectives in India
09:30 to 09:50 Abhijit Majumdar Feel Thy Neighbor: Inter-cellular Force Interaction via Deformable Matrix
09:45 to 10:30 -- Transport to NGMA
09:50 to 10:10 Ramanujan Srinivasan Cytoskeleton in Prokaryotes: Assembly, Dynamics & Diversity
10:10 to 10:40 Sriram Ramaswamy Activating Membranes
10:40 to 11:10 -- Coffee Break/Discussion
11:10 to 11:40 Madan Rao (NCBS, India) Actomyosin Pulsation and Symmetry Breaking Flows drive Tissue Remodeling
11:40 to 12:25 Pere Roca-Cusachs Understanding the cell-extracellular matrix mechanical link: from molecular roles to emerging behaviors
12:25 to 13:30 -- Lunch
13:30 to 13:50 Deepak Sinha Three-dimensional environment induces monocyte to macrophage differentiation
13:50 to 14:10 Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy (ICTS, India) PAR polarity in C. elegans zygotes
14:10 to 14:30 Maitrey Narasimha (TIFR, Mumbai, India) Anisotropies in cytoskeletal organisation induced by ROS and Rho signalling underlie multicellular sensing and spatial patterning in a Drosophila epithelium
14:30 to 14:50 Sitikantha Roy Atomic Force Microscopy in Cell Mechanics
14:50 to 15:10 Namrata Gundiah Directing cell migrations
15:10 to 15:30 Dipanjan Bhattacharya Mechanobiological understanding of neurulation during zebrafish embryogenesis
15:30 to 16:00 -- Coffee Break
16:00 to 16:20 Bidisha Sinha (IISERK, India) Mapping membrane fluctuations in adherent cells
16:20 to 16:40 Gautam Menon Spatio-temporal fluctuations in chromatin compaction states of stem cells
16:40 to 17:00 Abhishek Chaudhuri Active clustering and pattern regulation in living cells
17:00 to 17:20 Sarbari Bhattacharya Fine Tuning Membrane Stiffness of Red blood Cells with Bovine Serum Albumin
17:20 to 17:40 Nagaraj Balasubramanian Integrin dependent caveolar trafficking in 3D microenvironments
17:40 to 18:00 -- Coffee break
18:00 to 18:20 Madhulika Dixit Glucose metabolism and vascular progenitors: Is mechanosensing the missing link?
18:20 to 18:40 Shamik Sen Crosstalk between matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) and the actomyosin cytoskeleton in breast cancer
18:40 to 19:25 Joseph Thottacherry Transient modulation of clathrin-independent endocytosis during cellular strain-relaxation offers a mechanism for regulating membrane tension
19:25 to 20:25 -- Dinner & discussion
Sunday, 26 April 2015
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10:30 to 12:00 Carl Flink Presentation by BLM & Bodystorm hits Bangalore
12:00 to 12:30 -- Transport back to RRI
12:30 to 13:30 -- Lunch
Monday, 27 April 2015
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12:00 to 13:00 Guatam Menon Biophysics: The Theoretical Minimum
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
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12:00 to 13:00 Thomas Pucadyil Membrane Fission - Background and assays for a mechanistic understanding of the process
Thursday, 30 April 2015
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12:00 to 13:00 Aurnab Ghose Manipulating activities, microcontact printing and traction forces
Friday, 01 May 2015
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12:00 to 13:00 ASR Koti AFM based Dynamic Force Spectroscopy (DFS)
Saturday, 02 May 2015
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12:00 to 13:00 Pramod Pullarkat (RRI, India) An optical fiber based high-resolution force apparatus