KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Jul 23, 2026
Day of Jul 23, 2026
2026
Thursday, Jul 23, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Vanessa Barone (Stanford) Few cells, endless forms: echinoderms as a model for morphogenetic variation in early development
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Mattia Serra (UCSD) Positional Information and Information Flows in Dynamic Tissues
- Katharina Sonnen (Hubrecht Inst.) Signalling oscillations and waves in somitogenesis
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) From Local Growth Fluctuations to Organ-Scale Coordination: Building Robust Plant Organ
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
01:30PM
- J1 Orientation
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- All participants () Meet and Greet
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Xavier Trepat (IBEC) Understanding and programming tissue shape transitions
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Ertugrul Ozbudak (Northwestern) Two distinct timers control somite segmentation
- Mary Lisa Manning (Syracuse) Features of rigidity transitions that depend on geometry (instead of coordination) in morphogenesis
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Simons Amphitheater
03:30PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- All participants () Meet and Greet
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Claude Edouard Hannezo (ISTA) Noise and cooperation in tissue morphogenesis
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Hadrien Oliveri (MPI-PZ) Hydromechanical field theory of plant morphogenesis
- Karen Alim (TU Munich) Morphing of vascular networks
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Vanessa Barone (Stanford) Few cells, endless forms: echinoderms as a model for morphogenetic variation in early development
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Mattia Serra (UCSD) Positional Information and Information Flows in Dynamic Tissues
- Katharina Sonnen (Hubrecht Inst.) Signalling oscillations and waves in somitogenesis
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Agata Burian (Univ. Silesia) Interplay between organ and vascular patterning in plants
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Aryeh Warmflash (Rice) Signaling dynamics and self-organization in stem-cell models of early development
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Anne Lise Routier Kierzkowska (U. de Montréal) The apical hook paradox: how to make an organ grow while keeping its shape
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Adrian Jacobo (CZ Biohub) How do cells count? Cell number control in a regenerating organ.
- Alessandro De Simone (Univ. of Geneva) Signaling dynamics and bone morphogenesis in regenerating zebrafish scales
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Matteo Rauzi (Univ. Côte d'Azur) Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same time
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Sidney Shaw (Indiana) Microtubule pattern specification in axially growing plant cells
- Allison Kann (Harvard) De novo organ regeneration requires coordinated multi-tissue morphogenesis
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Alexis Maizel (Univ. Heidelberg) On growth, form and polarity in plants
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Danelle Devenport (Princeton) Establishing tissue-scale polarity in an expansive epithelium
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Francis Corson (ENS Paris) The geometric basis of morphogenesis
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Dillon Cislo (Rockefeller Univ.) Shaping Fate: Geometric Methods for Cell Fate Transitions, Tissue Patterning, and Morphogenesis
- Akankshi Munjal (Duke) Under Pressure: How a developing tissue achieves robust form
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
02:00PM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- group discussion () Polarity Discussion
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
09:00AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Manu Prakash (Stanford) Information propagation in structured environments: From biomineral lattices to ecological scale patterns
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Fred Kavli Auditorium
10:40AM Geometry and Intercellular Interactions in Morphogenesis of Animals and Plants
- Laura Rustarazo Calvo (EMBL Heidelberg) TBA
- Yusuke Mori (Duke) TBA
- Susie Wopat (UCSB) TBA
- Matt Lefebvre (UCSB) DV Patterning Directs Morphogenesis During Drosophila Gastrulation
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Jul 20 - Jul 26, 2026
Week of Jul 20 - Jul 26, 2026
2026
Monday, Jul 20, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Jul 21, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Jul 22, 2026
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Thursday, Jul 23, 2026
2026
Friday, Jul 24, 2026
2026
Saturday, Jul 25, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Jul 26, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Jul 27 - Aug 02, 2026
Week of Jul 27 - Aug 02, 2026
2026
Monday, Jul 27, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Jul 28, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Jul 29, 2026
2026
Thursday, Jul 30, 2026
2026
Friday, Jul 31, 2026
2026
Saturday, Aug 01, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Aug 02, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of July, 2026
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