About the Workshop
The control of animal homeostasis and repair has been studied for decades, mostly from a molecular and biochemical perspective. Recent research shows that biophysical factors, such as mechanical forces, play essential roles in tissue homeostasis and repair. However, the molecular biologists and the physical scientists who work on tissue homeostasis and repair rarely interact. The time is ripe, with the surge of multi-omics imaging, experimental, and computational techniques, to combine biophysics and molecular biology to create an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to studying tissue homeostasis and repair. This meeting will create an interactive environment where biologists and biophysicists can discuss and share concepts and techniques to tackle the same problems. Sessions will be organised such that the biological problem being addressed (e.g., DNA repair, liver regeneration) is the same, but the speakers will present their molecular or biophysical approaches to this problem. This will create stimulating interdisciplinary discussions on how to combine emerging concepts and tools from the separate fields. Speakers will have a broad background, from molecular biochemistry to advanced imaging to biophysics and theoretical modelling. Hopefully, each scientist will leave the meeting as an interdisciplinary thinker, with new perspectives on tissue homeostasis and repair.
This EMBO Workshop was made possible by funding provided by The Company of Biologists.
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.