Opening Banquet: Nathalie Balaban, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - "Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance under Treatment: from in-vitro Insight to the Clinic and back”

 Confirmed speakers: 

• Chase Broedersz, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - “Dynamics of confined cell migration”
• Mary Dunlop, Boston University  - “Dynamics, Noise, and antibiotic resistance in Single Cells”
• Marina Elez, CNRS - Sorbonne Universite “Mutation dynamics and fitness effects followed in single cells”
• Stacey Finley, University of Southern California “Multiscale model predicts dynamics of metabolic reprogramming in tumor spheroids”
• Zev Gartner, University of California, San Francisco "Building Tissues to Understand how Tissue Build Themselves”
• Sahand Hormoz, Harvard Medical School "What can single-cell profiling tell us about blood cancers?”
• Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Yale University “Together is better than alone: Modulating transcription elongation efficiency through RNA polymerase group dynamics”
• Minsu Kim, Emory University “Stochastic nature of bacterial eradication using antibiotics”
• Megan McClean, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Single-cell measurement and control to unravel yeast gene expression heterogeneity”
• Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hokkaido University “Transparent network in living systems by current- reinforcement rule”
• Ilya Nemenman, Emory University “Automated, predictive, and interpretable inference of phenomenological models of biological dynamics”
• Kiran Patil, European Molecular Biology Laboratory “Model-guided evolution of microbial species and communities”
• Teuta Pilizota, University of Edinburgh “Single-cell bacterial electrophysiology”
• Arjun Raj, University of Pennsylvania “Single cell analysis in cancer”
• Allyson Sgro, Boston University “Identifying the key control parameters driving collective multicellular signaling and pattern formation”
• Sabrina Spencer, University of Colorado Boulder “Real-time visualization of the inception of drug tolerance in single melanoma cells”
• Jeff Tabor, Rice University “Engineering bacterial two-component systems”

Closing Banquet: Wallace Marshall, University of California, San Francisco “The flagellar length control system”