Mechanics of Life Workshop

  • Organized by
  • Michael Shelley, Ph.D.Director, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute
  • Portrait photo of Saverio SpagnolieSaverio Spagnolie, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date & Time


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.

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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.

  • 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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