Tuesday, June 24

  8:30-9:00 Registration

  9:00-11:00 Olivier Espeli, Chairman (CIRB, Collège de france, Paris)

  9:00-9:40 Guy Tran van Nhieu (Collège de France, Paris)/Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie, Paris)

"Pathogens: going biophysical" & "Filopodia:  bacteria towing machine with weak points"

   9:40-10:20 Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
"Quantitative Cell Dynamics"

10:20-11:00 Emmanuel Lemichez (C3M, INSERM, Nice)
"Transcellular tunnel dynamics: control of cellular dewetting by actomyosin contractility and I-BAR proteins"

11:00-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:40 Eric Pérez, Chairman (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

11:20-12:00 Gisou van der Goot (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

“Hijacking multivesicular bodies enables long-term and exosome-mediated long-distance action of anthrax toxin”.

12:00-12:40 Nicolas Desprat (ENS, Paris)
"Spatial interactions in bacterial colonies"

12:40-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00 Timo Betz, Chairman (Institut Curie, Paris)

14:00-14:40 Evgeni Sokurenko (Univ. Washington, Seatttle, USA)
"Mechanics and allostery of bacterial adhesion"

14:40-15:20 Guillaume Duménil (Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris)
"Liquid behavior of Neisseria meningitidis bacterial aggregates"

15:20-16:00 Atef Asnascios (Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Univ. Paris Diderot, Paris)
"Mechanosensing: an interplay between cell-shape, contractility, and adhesion"

16:00-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-18:30 Alain Joliot, Chairman (CIRB, Collège de france, Paris)

16:20-17:00 Berenicke Meier (Biozentrum, Köln, Germany)
"Quantitative approaches to bacterial transformation"

17:00-18:30 Short talk session

Wednesday, June 25

  9:00-11:40 Marie-Hélène Verlhac, Chairman (CIRB, Collège de france, Paris)
  9:00-10:00 Alexander Bershadsky (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and Mechanobiology Institute, NUS, Singapore)
"Local and global self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton"

10:00-10:40 René-Marc Mège (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris)
"Force transduction and mechanosensing at cell-cell contacts."

10:40-11:20 Frank Lafont (Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité, Lille)
"Cell mechanics during early steps of infection"

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-12:20 Claire Wilhem (Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Paris)
"Magnetic nanoparticles for cellular and intracellular manipulations"

12:20-13:00 Stéphane Méresse (CIML, Marseille)
"How do effectors shape Salmonella-induced tubules"

 End of the meeting

TBA: To Be Announced
Program may be subjected to modifications