Programme

July 9: Arrival and Registration. World Cup Final!
July 10-14: Invited and contributed talks.
July 15: Departure.

Monday, July 10
08:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 13:00 Posters of Poster Session 1 go up
13:00 - 17:00 Lunch break
17:00 - 17:45 Cornelis Weijer, Chemotaxis and Tissue Morphogenesis
18:00 - 18:15 Break
18:00 - 19:00 Andreas Deutsch, Cellular Automata and Biological Pattern Formation
19:15 - 20:00 Opening of Poster Session 1 (posters stay up until Wednesday noon)
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner
Tuesday, July 11
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Cell-level patterning
09:00 - 09:45 Cornelis Weijer, Chemotaxis and Tissue Morphogenesis
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00 Andreas Deutsch, Cellular Automata and Biological Pattern Formation
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 - 12:05 Anna Marciniak-Czochra, Pattern formation and regeneration in hydra: Mathematical modelling versus new experimental findings
12:15 - 12:35 Jos Kafer, Cell shape matters (adhering, sorting and developing as a slime mould)
12:45 - 17:00 Lunch break
Cell-cell interactions
17:00 - 17:20 Katarzyna Rejniak, Modelling multicellular growth with discrete visco-elastic cells
17:30 - 17:50 Michael Block, Modelling cell population growth of in-vitro monolayers
18:00 - 18:20 Fernando Peruani, Swarming of gliding rod-shaped bacteria
18:30 - 18:45 Break
18:45 - 19:30 Jonathan Sherratt, Continuum modelling of cell-cell adhesion
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner
Wednesday, July 12
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Mathematical Methods & Applications
09:00 - 10:00 Hans Metz, Geometrical Techniques for the Study of Adaptive Processes
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 Yannis Kevrekidis, Equation-free Methods for Biologically Inspired Models
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:15 Radek Erban, From microscopic to macroscopic behaviour in biological systems
12:15 - 12:45 Moran Elishmereni, Cancer immunotherapy by Interleukin-21: theoretical evaluation of potential treatment stragegies
12:45 - 13:00 Posters of Poster Session 2 go up
13:00 - 17:00 Lunch break
Pattern formation and pattern in disease
17:00 - 18:00 Philip Maini, Morphogenesis, Turing Patterns and Chemotaxis
18:00 - 18:15 Break
18:15 - 19:15 Daphne Manoussaki, Chemical and mechanical forces in vascular network formation
19:15 - 20:00 Opening of Poster Session 2 (posters stay up until Friday noon)
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner
Thursday, July 13
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Mathematical Methods & Applications
09:00 - 10:00 Hans Metz, Geometrical Techniques for the Study of Adaptive Processes
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 Yannis Kevrekidis, Equation-free Methods for Biologically Inspired Models
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:30 Benoit Perthame, Asymmetry and movement
13:00 - 17:00 Lunch break
Cytoskeletal modeling
17:00 - 17:20 Dmitri Miroshnychenko, Liquid Crystal Pre-Patterning as a Mechanism for Mitosis
17:30 - 17:50 Tasos Matzavinos, A theoretical approach to actin filament dynamics
18:00 - 18:15 Break
18:15 - 19:00 Christian Schmeiser, Cytoskeleton Dynamics in Lamellipodia of Crawling Cells
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner
Friday, July 14
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Mathematical Methods & Applications
09:00 - 09:50 Philip Maini, Morphogenesis, Turing Patterns and Chemotaxis
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:35 Hyung Ju Hwang, Hyperbolic Models for Bacterial Chemotaxis in Interacting Cell Systems
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20 Vincent Calvez, Energy methods in chemotaxis models
11:30 - 11:50 Guillemette Chapuisat, Existence of curved traveling fronts solutions of a model of spreading depression
12:00 - 12:10 Closing of Euroconference
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch