About the Workshop
The ability of cells to polarize is essential for organismal development and physiology, and its impairment underlies numerous diseases. The establishment and maintenance of cell polarity requires a dynamic interplay of biochemical signalling, intracellular transport, and dynamic remodelling of cytoskeletal and membrane systems, both within cells and across multicellular tissues. Recent advances in light and electron microscopy are transforming our abilities to visualize, perturb and quantify cellular organization and dynamics across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. The combination of these methods with molecular genetics, biochemistry, biophysical theory and modelling has opened many new opportunities for mechanistic discovery. To exploit these opportunities requires integrative approaches combining experiments with quantitative analysis and modelling and engaging scientists working on different biological systems at multiple scales from molecules to multicellular tissues. This latest iteration of a well-established, highly popular series of EMBO workshops will gather a highly diverse group of scientists to discuss recent advances at the interface of cell polarity and membrane dynamics, with an emphasis on state-of-the art microscopy.
About EMBO Courses and Workshops
EMBO Courses and Workshops are selected for their excellent scientific quality and timelines, provision of good networking activities for all participants and speaker gender diversity (at least 40% of speakers must be from the underrepresented gender).
Organisers are encouraged to implement measures to make the meeting environmentally more sustainable.
