Although talks will be upon invitation only, advisors are welcome to recommend outstanding students and postdocs working in relevant subject areas to biomech2015.lptms@u-psud.fr for junior talks. Lunch will be free with registration.

9:00-9:30: welcome coffee

Really small biomechanics – single molecule

9:30-10:15	Frédéric Pincet (plenary)	Mechanics of molecular assembly and membrane rearrangement during neurotransmission: pore dynamics, energy and regulation
10:15-10:37	Sarah Klein	Stochastic cargo transport by teams of molecular motors
10:37-11:00	Shashank Shekhar	Ménage à trois – Mechanics of formin and its competition with other proteins at the actin filament barbed end

11:00-11:30: coffee break

Kind of small biomechanics – cell scale

11:30-12:15	Karsten Kruse (plenary)	Spontaneous actin polymerization waves and amoeboidal cell motility
12:15-12:37	David Gonzalez-Rodriguez	Mechanical Instability of Mitochondrial Shape
12:37-13:00	Marco Leoni	Cell polarization driven by substrate-mediated intracellular interactions – consequences for migration and chemotaxis

13:00-14:00: lunch

Kind of large biomechanics – tissues

14:00-14:45	Michel Milinkovitch (plenary)	The Physics of Skin Appendages and Skin Colour in Vertebrates
14:45-15:07	François Robin	Sequential contraction and exchange of apical junctions drives zippering and neural tube closure in a simple chordate
15:07-15:30	Sham Tlili	Cellular aggregates in microfluidic channels : a way to probe tissue mechanics at the cell scale

15:30-16:00: coffee break

Really large biomechanics – organisms

16:00-16:45	Fritz-Olaf Lehmann (plenary)	The Physics and Biology of Insect Flight Propulsion
16:45-17:07	Hervé Elettro	Elasto-capillary windlass : from spider webs to synthetic meta-actuators
17:07-17:30	Florine Paraz	Flapping flexible plate: from caudal fin to submarine propulsor