Thursday, March 23, 2017

Time Event  
13:00 - 13:30 Welcome - Foreword by Christian Colliex, LPS, Orsay  
13:30 - 14:15 Opening lecture - “Active behaviour of tissues” - Jacques Prost, Institut Curie, Paris  
14:15 - 17:00 Session 1 - Chair Brigitte Pansu  
14:15 - 15:00 “Progress in Focal Conic Domains” - Randall Kamien, UPenn, Philadelphia  
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break  
15:30 - 16:15 “Surveying Metric Frustration in Chiral Columnar Packings” - Gregory Grason, UMass, Amherst  
16:15 - 17:00 "Geometry, topology and chirality: DNA, Collagen and fibrous molecules" - Jean-François Sadoc, LPS, Orsay  
17:00 - 18:00 Cocktail  

Friday, March 24, 2017

Time Event  
09:15 - 12:45 Session 2 - Chair Martin LENZ  
09:15 - 10:00 "Liquid crystals formation in aqueous solution of ultrashort nucleic acids" - Tommaso Bellini, Univ. Milano  
10:00 - 10:45 "Ionic Membranes" - Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern Univ., Evanston  
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break  
11:15 - 12:00 "Titration of proteinaceous capsids" - Rudolf Podgornik, IJS, Ljubljana  
12:00 - 12:45 "What Makes RNA Genomes Special?" - Bill Gelbart, UCLA, Los Angeles  
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:45 Poster Session  
14:45 - 17:15 Session 3 - Chair Amélie Leforestier  
14:45 - 15:30 “Distributions of Proteins Embedded in Dense-Phase DNA" - Alasdair Steven, NIH, Bethesda  
15:30 - 16:15 "Reshaping membranes with septins" - Aurélie Bertin, Institut Curie, Paris  
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break  
16:30 - 17:15 "Mechanics of a Bacillus subtilis biofilm" - Eric Raspaud, LPS, Orsay  
17:15 - 18:00 Closing lecture - Françoise Gaill, MNHN, Paris