Mechanics of Life Workshop

Workshop

When

  • – ET

  • All Day

  • – ET

Where

Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (IDA)

160 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

The Mechanics of Life Workshop will bring together researchers working in biological soft matter, active suspensions, complex fluids, and fluid-structure interactions to share recent discoveries and new tools, and to foster new scientific relationships and collaborations in our field. From the active metropolis inside each living cell to the slow, alluring motions of the world’s largest organisms, mechanical insight continues to advance our understanding of the living world.

Agenda

Mechanics of Life Workshop – 24 May 2022 – 26 May 2022, Flatiron Institute, Center for
Computational Biology .
Daily Programme: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Break: BREAKFAST
Time and Place: 162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Contribution: Insect Flight: Equations, Behavior, and Models
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Jane Wang
Contribution: Coarse-grained Theories of Schooling Wings in Fast Flows
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Anand Oza
Break: COFFEE
Time and Place: 162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Contribution: Motor Guidance by Long-Range Communication on the Microtubule Lattice
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Meredith Betterton
Contribution: The Physics of Highly Crosslinked Cytoskeletal Networks
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Sebastian Fürthauer
Contribution: Turnover and Mechanics of Dendritic Actin Networks
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Dimitrios Vavylonis
Break: LUNCH
Time and Place: 162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Contribution: Nuclear Size Control by Osmotic Forces in S. Pombe
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Thomas Fai
Contribution: From 2D Patterns to 3D Structures in Morphogenesis
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Stanislav Y. Shvartsman
Break: COFFEE
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Contribution: Self-Organized Twisters Inside Drosophila Oocytes
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Reza Farhadifar
Contribution: Symmetry-Informed Model Inference for Living Matter
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Jörn Dunkel
Contribution: Methods
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (24 May 2022 – 24 May 2022)
Presenter: : Michael Shelley
Mechanics of Life Workshop – 24 May 2022 – 26 May 2022, Flatiron Institute, Center for
Computational Biology .
Daily Programme: Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Break: BREAKFAST
Time and Place: 162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Contribution: Interphase Chromatin Undergoes a Local Sol-Gel Transition upon Cell
Differentiation
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : Alexandra Zidovska
Contribution: Active Hydrodynamics of Interphase Chromatin: From Coherent Motion to Phase
Separation
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : David Saintillan
Break: COFFEE
Time and Place: 162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Contribution: Mechanics of the Spindle
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : Daniel Needleman
Contribution: Centrosome Movements during Mitosis
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : Sarah Olson
Break: COFFEE
Time and Place: 162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Contribution: Swimming in Complex Fluids
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : Saverio Spagnolie
Contribution: Emergent Properties of Flagellar Waveforms in Vscoelastic Fluids
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : Becca Thomases
Break: LUNCH
Time and Place: 162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Contribution: Q-tensor Model for Undulatory Swimming in Lyotropic Liquid-Crystalline
Polymers
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : Tony Gao
Contribution: Passive and Active Particles in a Lattice of Obstacles
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : Jean-Luc Thiffeault
Break: COFFEE
Time and Place: 162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Contribution: Transition vs. Cross-Over in Dilute Suspensions of Microswimmers
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : Alexander Morozov
Contribution: Genes and the Mechanics of Early Cell Shape Change in the Drosophila Embryo
Time and Place: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenter: : Eric Wieschaus
Contribution: RECEPTION & POSTER SESSION
Time and Place: 162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)
Presenters: : Abby Pekoske Fulton; Adam Lamson; Alasdair Hastewell; Alexis Clavijo; Brato
Chakrabarti; Elizabeth Lawson-Keister; Ercag Pince; Jay Zhang; Katherine Copenhagen;
Kathryn Link; Laurel Ohm; Lijie Ding; Nicholas Romeo; Nikitas Kanellakopoulos; Peter
Foster; Purvil Jani; Sadjah Arzash; Sebastian Gonzalez la Corte; Surya Maddu; Tatyana
Gavrilchenko; Tatyana Gavrilchenko; Xiaoxuan Zhang; XinXin Du
Break: DINNER
Time and Place: 11th Floor Dining Room (25 May 2022 – 25 May 2022)

Participants

Daniel Alber (Princeton University)

Maya Anjur-Dietrich (Harvard University )

Paulo Arratia (University of Pennsylvania)

Sadjad Arzash (Syracuse University)

Aparna Baskaran (Brandeis University)

Meredith Betterton (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Brato Chakrabarti (Center for Computational Biology/Flatiron Institute)

Thomas Chandler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Alexis Clavijo (New York University)

Kate Copenhagen (Princeton University)

Sujit Datta (Princeton University)

David Denberg (Princeton University)

Lijie Ding (Brown University)

XinXin Du (Center for Computational Biology)

Jörn Dunkel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Reza Farhadifar (Center for Computational Biology)

Thomas Fai (Brandeis University)

Peter Foster (Brandeis University)

Sebastian Fürthauer (Institut of Applied Physics, TU Wien)

Tony Gao (Michigan State University)

Krishna Garikipati (University of Michigan)

Tatyana Gavrilchenko (Center for Computational Biologe)

Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte (Princeton University)

Alasdair Hastewell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Jasmin Imran Alsous (Center for Computational Biology)

Olenka Jain (Princeton University)

Purvil Jani (Cornell University)

Leroy Jia (Center for Computational Biology)

Nikitas Kanellakopoulos (New York University)

Elizabeth Lawson-Keister (Syracuse University)

Adam Lamson (Center for Computational Biology)

Chen Lin (Center for Computational Biology)

Kathryn Link (University of California, Davis)

Wilson Lough (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Surya Maddu (Center for Computational Biology)

Pearson Miller (Center for Computational Biology)

Alexander Morozov (University of Edinburgh)

Daniel Needleman (Harvard University/Center for Computational Biology)

Jacob Notbohm (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Hayden Nunley (Center for Computational Biology)

Hadrien Oliveri (University of Oxford)

Laurel Ohm (Princeton University)

Sarah Olson (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Anand Oza (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Bryce Palmer (Michigan State University/Center for Computational Biology)

Abby Pekoske Fulton (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Erçağ Pinçe (University of Pennsylvania)

Thomas Powers (Brown University)

Ranjiangshang Ran (University of Pennsylvania)

Nicolas Romeo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

David Saintillan (University of California, San Diego)

Joshua W. Shaevitz (Princeton University)

Michael Shelley (Center for Computational Biology/New York University)

Stanislav Y. Shvartsman (Center for Computational Biology/Princeton University)

Saverio Spagnolie (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Celia Smits (Princeton University)

David Stein (Center for Computational Biology/Flatiron Institute)

Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Becca Thomases (University of California, Davis)

SM Bargeen Turzo (The Ohio State University/Center for Computational Biology)

Dimitrios Vavylonis (Lehigh University)

Jane Wang (Cornell University)

Scott Weady (New York University/Center for Computational Biology)

Eric Wieschaus (Princeton University)

Min Wu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute )

Yuan-Nan Young (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Alexandra Zampetaki (Institute for Applied Physics)

Jay Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Xiaoxuan Zhang (University of Michigan)

Ying Zhang (Brandeis University)

Alexandra Zidovska (New York University)

Posters

Please submit your poster title to Indira Goris ([email protected]) no later than Friday, May 20th.

Some key notes that to keep in mind as you prepare your posters:

Printing is not available on site. Make sure you have a printing plan and enough time to execute it! You can print your poster and bring it with you, or plan to print and pick it up in NYC.
Printing resources recommended by Simons Foundation scientists are:
FedEx at E 21st Street & Park Avenue
FedEx at E 23rd Street & Broadway
Posters should be 3 feet x 4 feet, and can be either vertical or horizontal.

acommodations

Hotel Accomodations
The James New York – NoMad

22 E 29th Street

New York, NY 10016

Hotel Direct: 212-532-4100

Check-in time: 3:00 pm

https://www.jameshotels.com/new-york/nomad

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