All talks will take place in Royal School of Mines 228. All other events will take place in the City and Guilds Building.
Day 1 — 3 September 2026
09:15–10:00
Registration
10:00–10:30
Invited Talk
Robert Endres
Imperial College London
How do cells reach the physical limits of sensing? Shape, pseudopods, and the energetic cost of chemotaxis
10:30–11:00
Invited Talk
Neelima Sharma
UCL
Stability considerations in the form and function of musculoskeletal linkages
11:00–11:15
Contributed Talk
William Hilton
Imperial College London
Unravelling causal interactions of coding and non-coding RNA from genome wide single-cell data
11:15–11:45
Coffee break
11:45–12:15
Invited Talk
Lewis Mosby
The Francis Crick Institute
Combining morphogen and juxtacrine signalling to pattern at the single-cell scale
12:15–12:30
Contributed Talk
Gopinath Sadhu
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
How hypoxic memory shapes tumor invasion dynamics in a oxygen heterogeneous environment
12:30–12:45
Contributed Talk
Arianna Ceccarelli
University of Oxford
Structural identifiability of stochastic processes: from single-particle trajectories to total particle density data
12:45–15:00
Lunch break
15:00–15:30
Invited Talk
Giulia Celora
University of Oxford / Bristol
The Diverse Roles of Proliferation in Collective Cell Migration
15:30–15:45
Contributed Talk
Léonard Dekens
The Francis Crick Institute
Pleiotropy, compensation, and epistasis under adaptive conflict: a quantitative-genetic model
15:45–16:00
Contributed Talk
Hollie Hindley
University of Edinburgh
Heterogeneity in responses to ribosome-targeting antibiotics mediated by bacterial RNA repair
16:00–16:30
Coffee break
16:30–17:00
Invited Talk
Vincent Jansen
Royal Holloway, University of London
A delicate balance? Diversity, stability and feasibility in competitive ecosystems
17:00–17:15
Contributed Talk
Smitha Maretvadakethope
Imperial College London
Let there be multifunctionality: uncovering the dynamical zoo of the AC-DC genetic circuit
17:15–17:30
Contributed Talk
David Morselli
UCL
The role of extracellular matrix in antitumour immunotherapy: insights from modelling T-cell migration
17:30–17:50
Human Frontier Science Program grant opportunities
Guntram Bauer
HFSP
17:50–19:30
Session
Day 2 — 4 September 2026
09:45–10:15
Invited Talk
Kyle Wedgwood
University of Exeter
A Closed-loop Framework for Model Discrimination and Parametrisation Using Optimal Control
10:15–10:30
Contributed Talk
Weida Liao
Imperial College London
Cellular resource allocation in budding yeast beyond steady state
10:30–10:45
Contributed Talk
Amy Milne
UCL
Coupled PDE/agent-based modelling of reversible decision-making in Dictyostelium
10:45–11:00
Contributed Talk
Maximilian Strobl
The Institute of Cancer Research
Data-driven discovery of tumor dynamics using sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy)
11:00–11:30
Coffee break
11:30–12:00
Invited Talk
Anthea Monod
Imperial College London
Persistent Homology for Inferencing on Cancer Imaging
12:00–12:15
Contributed Talk
Rahil Valani
University of Oxford
Hamiltonian dynamics of a microswimmer in confined flows
12:15–12:30
Contributed Talk
Marine Fontaine
University of Warwick
On modelling cell fate decisions
12:30–15:00
Lunch break
15:00–15:30
Invited Talk
Carles Falcó i Gandia
University of Oxford
Modelling and quantifying interactions in collective cell behaviour
15:30–15:45
Contributed Talk
Eleonora Agostinelli
University of Oxford
Multiscale discrete-to-continuum modelling of structured populations with applications to early atherosclerosis
15:45–16:00
Contributed Talk
Daniel Booth
UCL
The mechanical structure of bacterial biofilms
16:00–16:30
Invited Talk
J Krishnan
Imperial College London
A structured systems dissection of different facets of cell signalling
16:30–16:45
Closing
Closing remarks