Integrating Biophysics into Stem Cell Biology
Program Description: The emerging field of stem cell mechanobiology explores how stem cells integrate biochemical and physical cues from their microenvironment to influence cell fate. This program brings together the tissue engineering and the ISSCR communities to highlight the critical role of biophysics in stem cell research. Biologists collaborate with theoreticians to measure biophysical changes using models based on physical and mathematical principles. The webinar presentations are organized in pairs, each featuring a biologist and a theoretician, to emphasize the collaborative nature of these projects. The discussions will span biological scales, from subcellular structures to macroscale tissue organization, illustrating how these factors, along with the biomechanical properties of stem cells and their environment, influence cell fate establishment and regeneration.
Moderators:
- Alberto Elosegui Artola, PhD, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
- Windie Höfs, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany
Speakers:
- Zena Hadjivasiliou, PhD, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
- Asa Kalish, University of California San Francisco, USA
- Yonit Maroudas-Sacks, PhD, Physics of Life Cluster of Excellence, TU Dresden and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
- Carl Modes, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, Germany
- Caren Norden, PhD, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal
- Nicoletta Petridou, PhD, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
- Marko Popović, PhD, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
- Vasudha Srivastava, PhD, University of California San Francisco, USA