October 6th, 2022



Biophysique Québec
2nd Annual Symposium
2e Symposium annuel

October 6th, 2022 / 6 octobre 2022


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starting 9h30 /à partir de 9h30

McGill Faculty Club
3450 Mc Tavish St
Montreal
Quebec H3A 1X9


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Program / Programme

9h00 Registration 9h40 - 11h05 Session 1
9h40 Welcome 9h45 Lucien Weiss (PolyMTL)
Throughput or resolution - Why not both? 3D imaging of cells in flow.
10h10 Ré Mansbach (Concordia)
Learning from Life: Understanding and Design of Complex Biophysical Systems through Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning
10h35 Francois Bourassa (McGill)
Antigen Encoding and Antagonism in T Cell Activation Dynamics
10h50 Natalia Fagundes Borges Teruel (UdeM)
Dynamical study of viral glycoproteins and evolutionary fitness simulation

11h05 - 11h30 Coffee Break / Pause café 11h30 - 12h50 Session 2
11h30 Paul Wiseman (McGill)
Mining the biomechanical noise of podosome networks in living dendritic cells using imaging and fluorescence fluctuation analysis
11h55 Cécile Berne (UdeM)
Probing the adhesion of Caulobacter crescentus bioadhesive  
holdfast by Atomic Force Microscopy
12h20 Nicholas Wong (McGill)
Mechanical Stiffening of Extracellular Matrix by Neutrophil
Extracellular Traps Promotes Breast Cancer Cell Invasion
12h35 Melis Gencel (UdeM)
Intra-species and community-level evolutionary dynamics
in mouse gut revealed by high-resolution lineage tracking

12h50 - 15h00 Lunch & Poster Presentation /
Lunch & présentation des affiches
15h00 - 16h35 Session 3
15h00 Brandon Helfield (Concordia)
Targeted drug delivery using biomedical ultrasound
15h25 Susanne Bechstedt (McGill)
The mitotic spindle protein CKAP2 is the most potent microtubule assembly factor
15h50 Euan Joly-Smith (UofT / Concordia)
Exploiting stochastic fluctuations in gene expression to detect interacting genes
16h05 Maddy Shred (McGill)
Divergence in the intrinsic dynamic instability of Drosophila melanogaster microtubules
16h20 Emmanuelle Richer (CrHMR)
Mapping Pulsatile Optic Nerve Head Deformation using OCT

16h35 - 17h00 Coffee Break / Pause café 17h00 - 17h35 Session 4
17h00 Mohamed Chahine (U. Laval)
Gating pore current: its biophysical property and related diseases
17h25 Poster and Talk Prizes /
Prix pour les meilleurs présentations

17h35 Fin
9h00 - 9h45Registration
 
9h40 - 11h05Session 1
    9h40 - 9h45  Welcome / Mots de bienvenu
    9h45 - 10h10   Lucien Weiss (Polytechnique Montréal)
      Throughput or resolution - Why not both? 3D imaging of cells in flow.
    10h10 - 10h35   Ré Mansbach (Concordia University)
      Learning from Life: Understanding and Design of Complex Biophysical Systems
through Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning
    10h35 - 10h50   Francois Bourassa (McGill University)
      Antigen Encoding and Antagonism in T Cell Activation Dynamics
    10h50 - 11h05   Natalia Fagundes Borges Teruel (Université de Montréal)
      Dynamical study of viral glycoproteins and evolutionary fitness simulation
 
11h05 - 11h30Coffee Break / Pause café
 
11h30 - 12h50Session 2
    11h30 - 11h55   Paul Wiseman (McGill University)
      Mining the biomechanical noise of podosome networks in living dendritic cells using imaging and fluorescence fluctuation analysis
    11h55 - 12h20   Cécile Berne (Université de Montréal)
      Probing the adhesion of Caulobacter crescentus bioadhesive  
holdfast by Atomic Force Microscopy
    12h20 - 12h35   Nicholas Wong (McGill University)
      Mechanical Stiffening of Extracellular Matrix by Neutrophil
Extracellular Traps Promotes Breast Cancer Cell Invasion
    12h35 - 12h50   Melis Gencel (Université de Montréal)
      Intra-species and community-level evolutionary dynamics
in mouse gut revealed by high-resolution lineage tracking
 
12h50 - 15h00Lunch & Poster Presentation / Lunch & présentation des affiches
 List of posters / Liste des affiches
15h00 - 16h35Session 3
 
    15h00 - 15h25   Brandon Helfield (Concordia University)
      Targeted drug delivery using biomedical ultrasound
    15h25 - 15h50   Susanne Bechstedt (McGill University)
      The mitotic spindle protein CKAP2 is the most potent microtubule assembly factor
    15h50 - 16h05   Euan Joly-Smith (University of Toronto / Concordia University)
      Exploiting stochastic fluctuations in gene expression to detect interacting genes
    16h05 - 16h20   Maddy Shred (McGill University)
      Divergence in the intrinsic dynamic instability of Drosophila melanogaster microtubules
    16h20 - 16h35   Emmanuelle Richer (Centre de recherche de l'hopital Maisonneuve)
      Mapping Pulsatile Optic Nerve Head Deformation using OCT
 
16h35 - 17h00Coffee Break / Pause café
 
17h00 - 17h35Session 4
    17h00 - 17h25   Mohamed Chahine (Université Laval)
      Gating pore current: its biophysical property and related diseases
    17h25 - 17h35  Poster and Talk Prizes / Prix pour les meilleurs présentations
 
17h35--- Fin ---