Subgroup Chair: Yun Chen, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Program Chair: Jennifer Curtis, Georgia Tech, USA

Symposium Day and Time:  Saturday, 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 202AB  

Business Meeting:  3:05 PM - 3:15 PM EST

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

1:35 PM Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland, USA
Mechanical Cues Modulate Transcription Factor Dynamics, Binding and Activity

2:00 PM Fumio Motegi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Mechano-Chemical Crosstalk Induced by Microtubules in Directed Cell Migration

2:25 PM Sheng-Hong Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Self-organization Orchestrates Propagating Cell Death Waves through Signaling and Mechanics

2:50 PM Break

3:05 PM Subgroup Business Meeting

3:15 PM Student/Postdoc Talk

3:25 PM Melissa Rinaldin, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands
Cytoplasmic Partitioning in Early Embryogenesis

3:50 PM Student/Postdoc Talk

4:00 PM Hitoshi Ishiwata, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) / Chiba University, Japan
Development of Multiplatform Quantum Sensing Methods for Biofunctional Imaging

4:25 PM Lingchong You, Duke University, USA
Emerging Simplicity in Microbiomes — From Quantitative Principles to Predictive Engineering 

4:50 PM Early Career Award in Physical Cell Biology Awardee Talk and Student Award in Physical Cell Biology Awardee Talk 

5:18 PM Closing Remarks