| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Guatam Menon | Biophysics: The Theoretical Minimum |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Thomas Pucadyil | Membrane Fission - Background and assays for a mechanistic understanding of the process |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Aurnab Ghose | Manipulating activities, microcontact printing and traction forces |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 to 13:00 | ASR Koti | AFM based Dynamic Force Spectroscopy (DFS) |
| Time | Speaker | Title | Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Pramod Pullarkat (RRI, India) | An optical fiber based high-resolution force apparatus |