Schedule

Wednesday, July 31, 2019


NOTE:  NAMES FOR THOSE SHOWING POSTERS SESSIONS ARE STILL BEING ADDED-  ALL ATTENDEES BRINGING POSTERS CAN PARTICIPATE

2:30-5:00 pm

Registration and Tutorials 

location: Annex I

6:00 pm

Opening Banquet at Jack Adams Hall

Key Note Talk: "Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance under Treatment: from in-vitro Insight to the Clinic and back"

Nathalie Balaban, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 


Thursday, August 1, 2019


8:30-9:00 am

Breakfast

 

9:00-9:30 am

Invited Talk: "Mutation dynamics and fitness effects followed in single cells"

Marina Elez, CNRS - Sorbonne Universite

9:30-9:50 am

Contributed Talk: "Evolutionary stable coexistence of microbes"

Zhiyuan Li - Princeton University

9:50-10:10 am

Contributed Talk: "Combinatorial logic of BMP signaling"

Heidi Klumpe - California Institute of Technology

10:10-10:40 am 

Invited Talk: "Model-guided evolution of microbial species and communities"

Kiran Raosaheb Patil, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

10:40-11:10 am

Break

 

11:10-11:30 am

Contributed Talk: "Modeling the Regulation of Cellular Quiescence Depth by Circadian Clock Protein"

Guang Yao - University of Arizona

11:30-11:50 am

Contributed Talk: "Waddington’s Landscape of Cell Aging (Single cell aging dynamics yeast)"

Nan Hao - University of California, San Diego

11:50-12:10 pm

Contributed Talk: "Stochastic Activity of a Bacterial Sensory Network"

Remy Colin - Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

12:10-12:40 pm

Invited Talk: "Engineering bacterial two-component systems as sensors for synthetic biology applications"

Jeff Tabor, Rice University

12:40-1:40 pm

Lunch

Workshop by Dr. Craig Giroux, NIH Scientific Review Officer, 
Bioengineering Sciences and Technologies IRG

 

1:40-3:00 pm

Poster Spotlights
Andres Aranda-Diaz 
Jean-Benoit Lalanne
Rachel Nakagawa 
Elizabeth Read 
Paul Gerald Sanchez
Arvind Subramaniam

Poster Session
Samira Anbari
Ania-Ariadna Baetica
Francois Bourassa
RG Brajesh
Angeline Chemel
Maxwell DeJong
Robert Foreman
Yiben Fu
Andrew Halleran
Casey Hansen
Behzad Karkaria
Bor Kavcic
Seungchan Kim
Duncan Kirby
Yuta Koganezawa
Ryan Lannan
Juan Carlos Linares
Somya Mani
GW McElfresh
Anusorn Mudla
Ernesto Nakayasu 
Cesar Nieto-Acuna
Verdant Sachdeva
John Sekar
Handuo Shi
Natanael Spisak
Konstantine Tchourine
Marcus Thomas
Matthew Varga
John Vastola
Huijing Wang
Shangying Wang
Bin Zhang
Jiaxi Zhao

 

3:00-3:30 pm

Invited Talk: "Dynamics, Noise, and Antibiotic Resistance in Single Cells" 

Mary Dunlop, Boston University

3:30-3:50 pm

Contributed Talk: "Steering a bacterial pathogen through the phenotype space of multidrug resistance"

Kevin Wood - University of Michigan

3:50-4:10 pm

Break

 

4:10-4:40 pm

Invited Talk: "Stochastic nature of bacterial eradication using antibiotics"

Minsu Kim, Emory University

4:40-5:00 pm

Contributed Talk: "Antibiotic lethality depends directly on metabolic state"

Allison Lopatkin,Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5:00-5:20 pm

Break

 

5:20-5:40 pm

Contributed Talk: "Periodic treatments and immunity impact antimicrobial resistance evolution and spread"

Loic Marrec, Sorbonne Université - CNRS

5:40-6:00 pm

Contributed Talk: "Stochasticity, immortality, and mortality in E. coli"

Lin Chao, University of California, San Diego

 

 

 

 


Friday, August 2, 2019


8:30-9:00 am

Breakfast

 

9:00-9:30 am

Invited Talk: "Real-time visualization of the inception of drug tolerance in single melanoma cells"

Sabrina Spencer, University of Colorado Boulder   

9:30-9:50 am

Contributed Talk: "Inferring mechanisms of organelle biogenesis from organelle number and size fluctuations"

Shankar Mukherji, Washington University in St Louis

9:50-10:10 am

Contributed Talk: "Bayesian analysis as a tool for mechanistic inference in cell signaling systems"

Sanjana Gupta, University of Pittsburgh

10:10-10:40 am

Invited Talk: "Single-cell bacterial electrophysiology"

Teuta Pilizota, University of  Edinburgh 

10:40-11:10 am

Break

 

11:10-11:30 am

Contributed Talk: "An Accessible Microfluidic Platform to Probe the Capabilities of Single Cells"

Robin Lee, University of Pittsburgh

11:30-11:50 pm

Contributed Talk: "Programmable Protein Circuits in Living Cells"

Xiaojing Gao, Caltech

11:50-12:20 pm

Invited Talk: "Together is better than alone: Modulating transcription elongation efficiency through RNA polymerase group dynamics"

Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Yale University

12:20-1:20 pm

Lunch

 

1:20-2:40 pm

Poster Spotlights
Patrick van den Berg
Dixit Purushottam
Fumagalli Maria Rita
Tyler Guinn
Harold McNarmara
Alon Oyler-Yaniv
Vivek Srinivas

Poster Session
Gabriela Alvarez Azanedo
Francois Asperti
Lee Bardwell
Daniel Berenson
Julie Cass
Victor Chardes
Chun Tung Chou
Hirad Daneshpour
Aram Davtyan
Fangyuan Ding
Trang Dinh
Ali Ebrahimpour Boroojeny
Mariana Gomez-Schiavon
Leopold Green
Jungmin Han
Connor Horton
Wen Jia
Ekaterina Krasnopeeva
Theo Maire
John Marken
Joris Messelink
Pascal Odermatt
Owen Puls
Christian Ray
Nicole Rodrigues
Luca Rosa
Cynthia Sanchez-Tapia
Matthew Smart
Samuel Thompson
Takehito Tomita
David Williams
Lisa Willis
Zhibo Zhang

 

2:40-3:10 pm 

Invited Talk: "Automated, predictive, and interpretable inference of phenomenological models of biological dynamics"

Ilya Nemenman, Emory University

3:10-3:30 pm

Contributed Talk: "3D imaging of the mammalian microbiota reveals the spatial order of bacteria in the crypts of the intestinal mucosa"

Octavio Mondragon-Palomino, Caltech

3:30-3:50 pm

Contributed Talk: "Ultra-sensitive and fractal-like growth of cells"

Hyun Youk, TU Delft

3:50-4:20 pm

Invited Talk: "Single cell analysis in cancer"

Arjun Raj, University of Pennsylvania 

4:20-4:50 pm

Break

 

4:50-5:10 pm

Contributed Talk: “Microtubules Negatively Regulate Insulin Secretion in Pancreatic Beta Cells” Speaker

 William Holmes, Vanderbilt University

5:10-5:30 pm

Contributed Talk: "Synthetic 5’UTRs can either up-or down-regulate expression upon RBP binding"

Roee Amit, Israel Institute of Technology

5:30-6:00 pm

Invited Talk: "Single-cell measurement and control to unravel yeast gene expression heterogeneity"

Megan McClean, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 


Saturday, August 3, 2019


8:30-9:00 am

Breakfast

 

9:00-9:30 am 

Invited Talk: "Building Tissues to Understand how Tissues Build Themselves"

Zev Gartner, University of California, San Francisco 

9:30-9:50 am

Contributed Talk: "What a Lysis Pattern Tells about  Phage-Bacteria Co-Propagation"

Jing Chen, Virginia Tech

9:50 -10:20 am

Invited Talk: "Dynamics of confined cell migration"

Chase Broedersz, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

10:20-11:10 am

Break

 

11:10-11:30 am

Contributed Talk: "Probing Macromolecular Crowding in the Cell Nucleus"

Catherine Tan, University of California, San Francisco

11:30-11:50 pm

Contributed Talk: "Molecular Transport by a Propagating Diffusion Barrier"

Beatrice Ramm, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

11:50-12:20 pm

Invited Talk: "Transport network in living systems by current-reinforcement rule"

Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hokkaido University

12:20-1:20 pm

Lunch

 

1:20-2:40 pm

Poster Spotlights

Yasmine Ahmed
Rebecca Brouwers
Thomas Dupic
Tian Hong
Joel Lemiere
Silas Boye Nissen
Catalina Rivera

Poster Session

Eran Agmon
Anamika Agrawal
Sonali Chaturvedi
Hao Chen
Yanyan Chen
Zuo Cooley
Hamid Doosthosseini
Robert Foreman
Leonard Harris
Danh-Tai Hoang
Chuqiao Huyan
Yi Jiang
Barbara Jones
Pawel Kus
Diederik Laman Trip
Ariel Langevin
Greyson Lewis
Mingyang Lu
David Lubensky
Jean-Baptiste Lugagne
Hayden Nunley
Jai Padmkaumar
Michael Pargett
Vipul Periwal
Bryan Ramirez-Corona
Nadia Sampaio
Breanne Sparta
James Taggart
Michael Vennettilli
Shiyuan Wang
Li Ye

 

2:40-3:10 pm

Invited Talk: "Multiscale model predicts dynamics of metabolic reprogramming in tumor spheroids" 

Stacey Finley, University of Southern California

3:10-3:30 pm

Contributed Talk: "Faster Growth Reduces the Sensitivity of GeneCircuits to Environmental Signal"

Thomas Julou, Basel University

3:30-3:50 pm

Contributed Talk: "TNFαregulates the tradeoff between speed and accuracy of apoptosis to restrict viral infection"

Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv, University of California, Los Angeles

3:50-4:20 pm

Invited Talk: "What can single-cell profiling tell us about blood cancers"

Sahand Hormoz, Harvard Medical School

4:20-4:50 pm

Break

 

4:50-5:10 pm

Contributed Talk: "A compact synthetic pathway rewires cancer signaling to therapeutic effector release"

Kay Chung, Stanford University

5:10-5:30 pm

Contributed Talk: "Synchronizing mouse presomitic mesoderm cells Ex vivo and in silico approaches"

Christine Ho, EMBL Heidelberg - Germany

5:30-6:00 pm

Invited Talk: "Identifying the key control parameters driving collective multicellular signaling and pattern formation"

Allyson Sgro, Boston University

6:00 pm

Closing Banquet at Jack Adams Hall

Key Note Talk: "The flagellar length control system"

Wallace Marshall, University of California, San Francisco