Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you participate in the Biology and Physics Confront Cell-Cell Adhesion thematic meeting, to be held at the Centre Paul Langevin, Aussois, France, October 14-17, 2019.

Cell-cell adhesion is a fundamental biological and physical determinant of tissue organization, both in health and disease. However, the biology and physics of adhesion are often treated very differently. Cell and developmental biologists commonly focus on the molecular mechanisms responsible for cell-cell adhesion, whereas soft matter physicists consider principally the rheological properties of the contact interface. This meeting aims to bring these views and communities together, along with biophysicists and computational scientists, to develop a unified perspective on cell-cell adhesion that could not be achieved by any one community alone.

Visit the website for the program overview and list of speakers. We encourage you to share this information with colleagues who may be interested in attending.

The deadline to submit an abstract and register for the meeting is June 14, 2019. Registration rates for the meeting include registration, accommodation, and meals for 5 days.

We look forward to seeing you in Aussois!

The Organizing Committee,
Sandrine Etienne-Manneville (Institut Pasteur, France)
Jean-Leon Maître (Institut Curie, France)
Alpha Yap (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Virgile Viasnoff (Mechanobiology Institute of Singapore)