Session 1 - Traversing the nuclear-cytoplasmic divide

Chair: Professor Timothy Saunders

09.30-10.00 - Dr Kate Miroshnikova

Nuclear mechanotransduction and stem cell fate regulation

10.00-10.30 - Professor Pere Roca Cusachs Soulere

Controlling nuclear mechanics from the extracellular matrix and intermediate filaments

10.30-11.00 - Dr Chris Toseland

Roles for myosin in the nucleus

Session 2 - Spatial dynamics of chromatin

Chair: Dr Nils Krietenstein

11.30-12.00 - Dr Daniel Jost

Phase transition in nucleo: from (micro)phase separation to liquid crystal

12.00-12.30 - Dr Christoph Zechner

Statistical inference of chromatin looping dynamics from live-cell measurements

12.30-12.50 - Dr Andrew Bowman

Chromatin motion in a nuclear ocean

Session 3 - Nuclear forces: cells to embryos

Chair: Dr Darius Koester and Dr Michael Smutny

Keynote Speech - Professor Dennis Discher

The mechano-regulated genescape and nuclear protection against curvature-induced rupture

14.45-15.15 - Professor Jorg Renkawitz

Adaptive Pathfinding by Nuclear Repositioning during Amoeboid Cell Migration

15.15-15.45 - Dr Elena Scarpa

Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological tissue confinement

15.45-16.05 - Dr Aparna Ratheesh

Control of nuclear mechanics in vivo during Drosophila embryonic hemocyte migration

Session 4 - Sequencing approaches in chromatin and transcription

Chair: Dr Daniel Jost

16.30-17.00 - Dr Robert Beagrie

Measuring chromatin structure with Genome Architecture Mapping

17.00-17.30 - Dr Nils Krietenstein

Mapping 3D genome organization with nucleosome resolution

17.30-17.50 - Professor Daniel Hebenstreit

Assembly dynamics of nuclear condensates are critical for transcriptional effects