Morphogenesis I

Presentations

• AlphaMorph – A data-driven mechanistic framework to understand and predict morphogenesis

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Xuan Ouyang

    • UC San Diego

  Authors

  • Xuan Ouyang

    • UC San Diego

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• Growth instabilities and margin patterns in an active solid tissue

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Suraj Shankar

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Suraj Shankar

    • University of Michigan

  • Daniel Duffy

    • University of Michigan

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• Mechanical fracturing of the extracellular matrix patterns the vertebrate heart

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.641942v1

  Presenters

  • Daniel Santos-Olivan

    • European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (EMBL)

  Authors

  • Daniel Santos-Olivan

    • European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (EMBL)

  • Christopher Chan Jin Jie

  • Rashmi Priya

  • Alejandro Torres Sánchez

    • Univ Politecnica de Catalunya

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• Combinatorial cell signals encode cell fate patterns

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Bassit Fijabi

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Bassit Fijabi

    • University of Michigan

  • Seth Teague

  • Emily Freeburne

  • Hina Khan

  • Craig Johnson

  • David Brückner

  • Idse Heemskerk

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• Strain-Mediated Feedback Governs Muscle Alignment in Developing Heart Organoids

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Divyoj Singh

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Divyoj Singh

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Fridtjof Brauns

    • Max-Planck-Institut for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Markus Merk

  • Sebastian Streichan

    • University of California Santa Barbara

  • Cristina Marchetti

    • UC Santa Barbara

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• Basic interactions responsible for thymus function explain the convoluted medulla shape

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: D Muramatsu, H Weyer, F Gartner, E Frey (2025). Basic interactions responsible for thymus function explain the convoluted medulla shape, PNAS 122(25), e2415288122.

  Presenters

  • Henrik Weyer

    • Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Henrik Weyer

    • Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara

  • David Muramatsu

  • Florian Gartner

    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Munich)

  • Erwin Frey

    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU-Munich)

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• Positional information in dynamic tissues

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Alex Plum

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Alex Plum

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Mattia Serra

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Near-critical gene expression in embryonic boundary precision

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: Phys. Rev. E 112, 034410 – Published 15 September, 2025

  Presenters

  • Krishna Prahlaadh Ramachandran

    • University of Pittsburgh

  Authors

  • Krishna Prahlaadh Ramachandran

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Michael Vennettilli

    • University of California, Merced

  • Andrew Mugler

    • University of Pittsburgh

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• Mechanisms driving vertebrate embryonic curvature.

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • DEVIKA GIREESAN SUDHA

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • DEVIKA GIREESAN SUDHA

    • Yale University

  • Scott Holley

  • Dörthe Jülich

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• Cooperative short- and long-range interactions enable robust symmetry breaking and axis formation

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: Guoye Guan, Suxuan Wang, T. Glenn Shields, Seong Ho Pahng, Claire Xinyu Shao, Juns Ye, Christoph Budjan, Sahand Hormoz. bioRxiv, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.27.678924.

  Presenters

  • Guoye Guan

    • Harvard Medical School & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  Authors

  • Guoye Guan

    • Harvard Medical School & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  • Suxuan Wang

  • T. Glenn Shields

  • Seong Ho Pahng

    • Harvard University

  • Claire Xinyu Shao

  • Juns Ye

  • Christoph Budjan

  • Sahand Hormoz

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• Mechanobiological Regulation of Symmetry Breaking During Zebrafish Embryogenesis: Interplay of Myosin Activity, Mechanical Forces, and External Flows

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Rajendra Negi

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Rajendra Negi

    • Syracuse University

  • Emma Retzlaff

  • Cora Lyon

  • Anna Hinman

  • Yiling Lan

  • Osama Abdel-Razek

  • Raj Kumar Manna

    • Syracuse University

  • Heidi Hehnly

  • Jeffrey Amack

  • M Lisa Manning

    • Syracuse University

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