Mini-symposium: Exploring the Forces, Structures and Signals that Shape Life: From Molecules to Cellular Scales

On October 2, 2026 from 14:00 to 17:30

Venue: BBS


In the frame of Olivier Rossier’s HDR defense.

Program

14h00 – 14h30 : Sophie BRASSELET (Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France)

“Deciphering the organization of proteins at the nanoscale with polarized microscopy”

14h30 – 15h00 : Benoit LADOUX (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg ; Max Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, Erlangen, Germany & Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France)

“Epithelial Tissue Mechanics Through the Lens of Ion Transport and Pressure Regulation”

15h00 – 15h30 : Patricia BASSEREAU (Institut Curie, UMR168 CNRS, Paris, France)

“TBD”

15h30 – 16h00 : Pere ROCA-CUSACHS (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain)

“The forces shaping nucleocytoplasmic transport”

Coffee break

16h30 – 17h00 : Vesa HYTÖNEN (Tampere University, Tampere, Finland)

“Insights into talin: Disease-associated variants and novel force reporter module”

17h00 – 17h30 : Violaine MOREAU (Bordeaux Institute of Oncology INSERM, Bordeaux, France)

“Geodesic actin networks in cancer cells”

  • Place
    BBS
  • Dates
    On October 2, 2026 from 14:00 to 17:30