Morphogenesis II

Presentations

• How mechanical canalization shapes the gut tube

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Noah Mitchell

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Noah Mitchell

    • University of Chicago

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• Establishing a robust analysis workflow for studying hiPSC shapes in 3D lumenoids

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Alex Khang

    • Allen Institute for Cell Science

  Authors

  • Alex Khang

    • Allen Institute for Cell Science

  • Derek Thirstrup

  • Leigh Harris

  • Gokhan Dalgin

  • Max Hedayati

  • Jacob McCarley

  • Julie Theriot

    • University of Washington

  • Susanne Rafelski

  • Matheus Viana

    • Allen Institute for Cell Science

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• Bilateral symmetry and robustness during axis elongation in Drosophila

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Tammy Qiu

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Tammy Qiu

    • Columbia University

  • Andrew Countryman

  • Samuel Gunz

  • Beini Wang

  • Bianca Dumitrascu

    • Columbia University

  • Karen Kasza

    • Columbia University

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• Tension-driven topological transitions in a 3D Epithelial Vertex Model

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: No

  Presenters

  • Xinzhi Li

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Xinzhi Li

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Erika Kusaka

  • Karen Kasza

    • Columbia University

  • Shiladitya Banerjee

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Condensate-driven Morphogenesis: Mechanisms of Patagium Formation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Xiaolong Chen

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Xiaolong Chen

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Harsha Sen

  • Ricardo Mallarino

  • Pearson Miller

    • UC San Diego

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• Extracting Gene Expression Patterns from High-Dimensional Transcriptomic Data

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Jeremy Lauro

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Jeremy Lauro

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Boris Shraiman

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Nicholas Noll

    • University of Basel

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• Wetting Dynamics and Somite Pattern Formation in Human in vitro Somitogenesis

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Wenhui Tang

    • Harvard Medical School

  Authors

  • Wenhui Tang

    • Harvard Medical School

  • Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan

    • Harvard University

  • Olivier Pourquie

    • Harvard Medical School

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• An active wetting transition times a fate decision in zebrafish embryonic explants

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Hazen Hildebolt

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Hazen Hildebolt

    • University of Michigan

  • Usha Kadiyala

    • University of Michigan

  • Owen Blanchard

  • Nick Marschlich

  • Steve Ho

  • Linyuan Li

  • Jessica Dawson

    • SUNY Geneseo

  • Vikas Trivedi

  • Qiong Yang

    • University of Michigan

  • Suraj Shankar

    • University of Michigan

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• Dynamics of cell rearrangements during tissue morphogenesis

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.21.666048

  Presenters

  • Prakhar Bandil

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Prakhar Bandil

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Franck Vernerey

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• From 2D Conformal Growth to 3D Morphogenesis: The Case of Fresh Leaf Development

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Publication: [1] A. Dai, M. Ben Amar, Minimizing the elastic energy of growing leaves by conformal mapping, Physical Review Letters 129(21), 218101 (2022).
  [2] A. Dai, M. Ben Amar, Conformal Patterns in 3D: Growth-Driven Shape Transitions in Thin Biological Systems. planned papers, 2025.

  Presenters

  • Anna Dai

    • Tsinghua University

  Authors

  • Anna Dai

    • Tsinghua University

  • Martine Ben Amar

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• Model Based Optimal Inverse Design: Muscle-Epithelial Bilayer Morphing System

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Yenan Shen

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Yenan Shen

    • Princeton University

  • Andrej Kosmrlj

    • Princeton University

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• Injury-induced electrochemical coupling triggers organ growth

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Publication: Jinghui Liu*, Elisa Nerli*, Charlie Duclut, Amit Singh Vishen, Naomi Berbée, Sylvia Kaufmann, Cesar Ponce, Aristides B Arrenberg, Frank Jülicher†, Rita Mateus†. Injury-induced electrochemical coupling triggers organ growth. In Revision. | bioRxiv

  Presenters

  • Jinghui Liu

    • Center for Systems Biology Dresden

  Authors

  • Jinghui Liu

    • Center for Systems Biology Dresden

  • Elisa Nerli

  • Charlie Duclut

  • Amit Vishen

  • Naomi Berbee

  • Sylvia Kauffman

  • Cesar Ponce

  • Aristides Arrenberg

  • Frank Julicher

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Rita Mateus

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