EMBO Conference on Morphogenesis and Dynamics of Multicellular Systems

Event Website & Registration: www.embl.de/conference/morphogenesis/2009 Topics

The conference will deal with seven topics over a period of 4 days:

1. Cell Surface Mechanics
2. Collective Migration
3. Organ Morphogenesis
4. Cancer as a Morphogenetic Process
5. Increasing and Decreasing Order within Tissues
6. New Methodologies for Addressing Tissue Dynamics (+Panel Discussion).
7. Coupling Morphogenetic Domains across the Developing Embryo (+Panel Discussion).

Ivited Speakers

Markus Affolter , Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland Suzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics , Germany Andrew Ewald , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Peter Friedl, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands Holger Gerhardt, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, United Kingdom Morteza Gharib, California Institute of Technology, USA Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Lars Hufnagel, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany Michel Labouesse, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France Thomas Lecuit, IBDML - Development Biology Institute of Marseille Luminy, France Maria Leptin, Cologne University, France Andrea McClatchey, MGH/Harvard Medical School, USA Denise Montell, Johns Hopkins University/The Department of Biological Chemistry, USA Ed Munro, University of Washington, USA Ichiro Nishii, Riken , Japan Pernille Rorth, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory , Singapore Erik Sahai, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, United Kingdom Ralf Schnabel, TU Braunschweig Developmental Genetics, Germany Lila Solnica-Krezel , Vanderbilt University, USA Angelike Stathopoulos, California Institute of Technology, USA John Wallingford , University of Texas at Austin, USA Cornelius Weijer, WellcomeTrust Biocentre, University of Dundee, United Kingdom Jochen Wittbrodt, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany Jennifer Zallen, Sloan-Kettering Institute, USA