Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
#cellbio2023
Keynote and Symposia
2023 Keynote
Saturday, December 2, 4:30 pm EST
Cell Biologists and Climate Change: What Can Cell Biologists Do to Address Climate-Scale Problems?
Natalie Kofler
Founder, Editing Nature and Senior Advisor, Scientific Citizenship Initiative, Harvard Medical School
Manu Prakash
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Daniel Goodwin
Founding Co-Director, Homeworld Collective
Schmidt Climate Innovation Fellow
Drs. Kofler and Prakash will each deliver short talks followed by an interactive and moderated panel discussion where Daniel Goodwin will join them in conversation moderated by Jing-Ke Weng from Whitehead Institute, MIT.
2023 Symposia
The Symposia have been designed around conceptual themes that cross scales, disciplines and organisms. The goal is for each session to attract a more varied mixture of attendees and to foster cross-fertilization of ideas. In this way, we hope that the symposia serve as a new lens for thinking about the problems faced by cells at multiple scales.
Communication
Sunday, December 3, 2023, 8:45 am to 10:15 am
This session addresses languages of communication including chemical signaling, cellular signal transduction, and communication through sound.
Anna Greka
Harvard Medical School
Erich D. Jarvis
Rockefeller University/HHMI
Satoshi Toda
Kanazawa University
Migration
Sunday, December 3, 2023, 8:45 am to 10:15 am
This session investigates how cell migration leads to tissue development, how cancer cells migrate to escape a tumor, and then compares these processes to the collective migration of groups of organisms.
D. André Green II
University of Michigan
Danijela Matic Vegnevic
Institut Curie
Kandice Tanner
Center for Cancer Research, NIH
Networks
Monday, December 4, 2023, 8:45 am to 10:15 am
Networks govern information flow, and in this session, it is compared at the scale of signaling networks, organelles, and organisms in the environment.
Jose R. Dinneny
Stanford University
Samantha Lewis
University of California, Berkeley
Lukas Pelkmans
University of Zürich
Time
Monday, December 4, 2023, 8:45 am to 10:15 am
This session examines how time is measured and used at the level of a single cell, in communities of microbes, and through the development of organisms.
John F. Brooks
Princeton University
Miki Ebisuya
Physics of Life, TU Dresden
Jennifer Hurley
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Excitability
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 9:15 am to 10:15 am
Excitability generates emergent properties in systems and in this session it is featured in actin networks in vitro and in embryos and extracellular electricity generated in bacteria.
Moh El Nagger
University of Southern California
Margaret Gardel
University of Chicago
Rejuvenation and Regeneration
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 9:15 am to 10:15 am
This session considers the power of repair and regeneration in the nervous system and the germline.
Frank Bradke
The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
Melina Schuh
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Perception and Sensation
Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 11:15 am to 12:15 pm
This session compares how single cells sense their shape to how organisms perceive and integrate their experiences.
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University
Alba Diz-Muñoz
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
** Heinz Herrmann Symposium. Heinz Herrmann was Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut. A symposium in his honor was endowed at the ASCB in 1990. A founder of the ASCB, Professor Herrmann was well known for his pioneering approach to research in developmental biology, which has led to over 100 publications. He also wrote two books—Cell Biology and From Biology to Sociopolitics.