09.45

Introduction to IFOM

Marco Foiani

IFOM Scientific Director

Introduction to MBI

Michael Sheetz

MBI Director

Introduction to DBS-NUS

Paul Matsudaira

MBI Co-Director

Session I - Chair: G.V. Shivashankar

Cell Matrix Interactions and Cell-Cell interactions

10.45

Michael Sheetz

MBI and Columbia University

Mechanosensing by Tropomyosin-Controlled Myosin Contractions Inhibits Transformation

11.15

Lim Chwee Teck

MBI

Microfluidic Technology for the Retrieval of Viable Circulating Tumor Cells from Peripheral Blood

11.45

Virgile Viasnoff

MBI

Micro-environmental control of cell/cell interactions

12.15

Aldo Ferrari

ETH Zurich

Interstitial cancer migration through microengineered obstacles

12.45

Lunch

Session II - Chair: Paul Matsudaira

Mechanotransduction & Genome Programs

14.30

Marco Foiani

IFOM - University of Milan

ATR-mediated control of nuclear plasticity

15.00

G.V. Shivashankar

MBI

Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation

15.30

Linda Kenney

MBI

A novel FRET biosensor monitors bacterial pH in the macrophage vacuole

16.00

Lab Tour