Program

embocellsize Program

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Monday, June 21

Time Session/Lecture info
16:00-18:00
Session 1
Chair: Mike Fainzilber 
16:00-16:05
Intro and welcome
16:05-16:30
Mikael Bjorklund, Zhejiang University
Size scaling from molecules to cells
16:30-16:55
Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Instituto Gulbenkian
Centrosome number and size in development and disease
16:55-17:20
Rebecca Heald, UC Berkeley
Mechanisms of subcellular size scaling
17:20-17:40
Chantal Roubinet, MRC-LMCB
Asymmetric nuclear division generates sibling nuclei with different identities
17:40-18:00
Break
18:00-20:00
Session 2
Chair: Sven van Teeffelen  
18:00-18:25
Sander Tans, AMOLF, Amsterdam
Cell size and ppGpp
18:25-18:50
Petra Levin, Washington University
The environment as a mediator of cell size
18:50-19:15
James Locke, Cambridge University
Modulation of cell size control by the circadian clock and environment in cyanobacteria
19:15-19:40
Ariel Amir, Harvard University
Coupling between DNA replication and division in E. coli
19:40-20:00
Naama Brenner, Technion
Multiple Timescales in Bacterial Homeostasis

Organizing committee

  • Mike Fainzilber
    Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Ariel Amir
    Harvard University
  • Britta Eickholt
    Charite Medical Faculty
  • Mario Pende
    Institut Necker
  • Jan Skotheim
    Stanford University
  • Min Wu
    Yale University
  • Supporters

  • EMBO
  • weizmann Institute of Science
  • The Chorafas Institute for
    Scientific Exchange
  • Azrieli Institute for systems Biology
     

Coordinator

Irit Veksler
irit.veksler@weizmann.ac.il
+972 8 934 4245