Kickoff symposium quantitative Biology Leiden

Thursday 27 August Gorlaeus Building, room BM.1.33 Organisers: Roeland Merks (MI/IBL), Lu Cao (LIACS), Joost Beltman (LACDR), Silke Henkes (LION)

9:00-9:30 coffee + registration

9:30-10:00 Opening: Quantitative Biology Leiden (qBio ) - Organisers

10:00-10:30 Talk 1 Erik Danen (LACDR) Quantitative microscopy based assays for drug development in the context of fibrosis and tumor immunology

10:30-11:00 Talk 2 Kim Bonger (LIC) Chemical tools to study biological immune processes

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:30 Networking session

12:30:13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 Talk 3 Arjen Doelman (MI) The dynamics of invasion fronts & the resilience of ecosystems

14:00-14:30 Talk 4 Jeroen van Zon (IBL) TBA

14:30-15:00 Talk 5 Lu Cao (LIACS) Application of deep learning in microscopy image analysis

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-16:00 Talk 6 John van Noort (LION) How DNA Sequence Shapes Chromatin Architecture: Single-Molecule Insights

16:00-16:30 Talk 7 Anna Alemany (LUMC) Exploring the role of cellular memory during cell fate commitment

16:30-17:00 Closure: next steps for the network

17:00-18:00 Drinks