| 09:30 to 10:00 | Registration, Tea and Coffee | |||
| 10:00 to 10:10 | Welcome and Introduction |
Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute), (University of Oxford), (Isaac Newton Institute) Clare Merritt (Newton Gateway to Mathematics) Jamie Hobbs (University of Sheffield) |
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| Session 1: Mechanics (Chair: Jamie Hobbs (University of Sheffield)) | 10:10 to 10:35 | Mechanical control of seed morphogenesis | Benoit Landrein (ENS - Lyon) |
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| 10:35 to 11:00 | Using simulations to investigate the mechanical properties of peptidoglycan | Marco Mauri (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) |
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| 11:00 to 11:25 | Deciphering the adaption of bacterial cell wall mechanical integrity and turgor to different chemical or mechanical environments | Vicky Chen (Newcastle University) |
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| 11:25 to 11:50 | Tea and Coffee Break | |||
| Session 2: Growth (Chair: Andrew Fleming (University of Sheffield)) | 11:50 to 12:15 | How do grasses grow? | Annis Richardson (University of Edinburgh) |
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| 12:15 to 12:40 | How do bacteria control their shape during cell elongation? | Sven Van Teeffelen (Université de Montréal) |
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| 12:40 to 13:05 | How do you build a wall? Using live cell single molecule microscopy to investigate physical principles of bacterial cell wall remodelling | Séamus Holden (University of Warwick) |
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| 13:05 to 14:00 | Lunch | |||
| Session 3: Function (Chair: Andrew Fleming (University of Sheffield)) | 14:00 to 14:25 | Plasmodesmata Cell Walls | Yoselin Benitez Alfonso (University of Leeds) |
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| 14:25 to 14:50 | Molecular simulations of the E. coli cell wall: successes and challenges | Syma Khalid (University of Oxford) |
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| 14:50 to 15:15 | Tea and Coffee Break | |||
| Session 4: Applications in Industry (Chair: Jamie Hobbs (University of Sheffield)) | 15:15 to 15:40 | Antibiotic discovery – where do we go from here…..? | Christopher Dowson (University of Warwick) |
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| 15:40 to 16:00 | 5 Minute Summary From One of the Organisers Followed by Industry Questions and Challenges – Q&A | Andrew Fleming (University of Sheffield) | ||
| 16:00 to 17:00 | Informal discussion and posters | |||
| 17:00 to 18:00 | Networking Reception | |||
| 19:00 | College Dinner in St. Catherine's College (for speakers and academic organisers) |
