This interdisciplinary School is focused on the investigation of the biophysical and biomechanical processes in living matter with a special attention to medical problems. The School is addressed to PhD and post-doctoral students, as well as young independent researchers, belonging to different scientific communities (e.g. physics, applied mathematics, biology, mechanics). Its aim is favoring cross-fertilization in the study of frontier problems concerning biological systems.

Participants are invited to submit an abstract for a seminar (30min talk), short communication (15min talk) or a poster.

 Main topics will include

• modelling of tumor growth
• cell motility and tissue engineering
• biofilms and biorheology
• pattern formation and morphogenesis of living systems
• mechanobiology

 Confirmed speakers

• Davide Ambrosi, Politecnico di Milano
• Antonio De Simone, SISSA, Trieste
• Oliver Jensen, University of Nottingham, UK
• Frank Jülicher, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
• Ellen Kuhl, Stanford University
• Michel Labouesse, IGBMC, Strasbourg
• Caterina La Porta, University of Milan
• Vladimir Lorman, Université Montpellier 2
• John Lowengrub, UC Irvine
• Pascal Silberzan, Institut Curie, Paris
• Claude Verdier, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
• Joao Xavier, MSKCC, New York
• Stefano Zapperi, CNR IENI, Milan

 Important dates :

• End of February : online registration will open
• 31 March 2012 : application deadline
• 15 April 2012 : notification of acceptance

 Organizers

• Martine Ben Amar, LPS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
• Pasquale Ciarletta, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
• Martin Michael Müller, Université de Lorraine
• Luigi Preziosi, Politecnico di Torino