Pierre-Gilles de Gennes winter school Cargèse 2008

Biophysical topics in cell adhesion, motility, and neuroscience


 February 18-22, 2008
Philippe Ascher  (U. Paris 5, France)
Laurent Blanchoin  (CEA  Grenoble, France)
Françoise Brochard  (Institut Curie, France)
Daniel Fletcher  (UC Berkeley, USA)
Ehud Isacoff  (UC Berkeley, USA)
L. Mahadevan  (Harvard University, USA)
Thomas Préat   (ESPCI, France)
Ulrich Schwarz   (Heidelberg U., Germany)
Margaret Titus  (U. Minnesota, USA)
Scientific Committee

Invited Speakers

Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie, France)
Bertrand Fourcade (CEA Grenoble, France)
Marileen Dogterom (AMOLF, Netherlands)

Topics

Tentative Calendar

- Actin assembly

- Myosin dynamics

-  Biomimetic membranes

- Cellular and molecular biomechanics

- Mechanisms of memory and olfaction

- Light-activated channels

- Synapse formation and plasticity

Noam Sobel (Weizmann Institute, Israel)