10:00 – 10:40 Registration
10:40 – 10:45 Welcome

10:45 – 11:15

Antoine Deblais (UvA)
From Active Polymer-like Worms to Soft Filamentous Robotics

11:15 – 11:45

Matan Yah Ben Zion (RU)
From Robot Uprising to Rise of the Dead — Lessons in Engineering and Biology from Active Matter
11:45 – 12:30 Soundbites I
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:15

Keynote: Joel Marthelot (Marseille)
Morphing without Muscles: Hydraulic Actuation in Drosophila and Mimosa Pudica

14:15 – 14:45 Miguel Cabrera (TUD)
Monodisperse behavior of polydisperse flows: A look through the granular column collapse
14:45 – 15:15 Soundbites II
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 – 16:15

Quirine Braat (TUE)
Understanding the mechanics of tumor invasion: Linking computer simulations to integrin knockout experiments
16:15 – 16:45 Bert van Herck (TUD)
Getting in shape: deforming GUVs in microfluidic traps to study the positioning and reorganization of a reconstituted actin cytoskeleton
16:45 – ∞ Borrel

Soundbites

Please find below the list of soundbites for the upcoming meeting: