Schedule
17. April 2018, NW1, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, Room H2
15:00 Registration & Coffee
16:00 - 16:15 Hans-Günther Döbereiner, Universität Bremen, Physarum & beyond
16:15 - 16:55 Klaudia Brix, Jacobs University, Proteases as cellular decision-making molecules – imaging proteolytic activities on the spot
16:55 - 17:35 Marcus Hauser, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Migratory behaviour of Physarum polycephalum microplasmodia
17:35 - 18:00 Coffee
18:00 - 18:30 Christina Oettmeier, Universität Bremen, The fluidic circuitry of Physarum polycephalum
18:30 - 19:10 Mark Fricker, University of Oxford, Quantitation of Physarum networks and foraging behavior
20:00 + Informal dinner at Stadtwirt, Katharinenklosterhof 7, 28195 Bremen
18. April 2018, Cartesium, Rotunde, Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5
09:00 - 09:40 Martin Grube, KFU Graz, Microscopic analyses of slime mold plasmodia
09:40 - 10:20 Gernot Glöckner, Universität Köln, The Physarum genome: A reconstruction
10:20 - 11:00 Wolfgang Marwan, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, The developmental decision in Physarum polycephalum taken during a walk
through the Waddington landscape
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:10 Markus Bär, PTB Berlin, Modeling Physarum microdroplets as active poroelastic two-phase media: deformation patterns and waves and comparison
to experiments
12:10 - 12:40 Jakob Löber, MPI Dresden, Two-fluid model for crawling cell motility
12:40 - 13:10 Dirk Kulawiak, TU Berlin, Poroelastic two-phase model for moving droplets of Physarum polycephalum with free boundaries
13:10 - 14:20 Lunch
14:20 - 14:50 Daniel Schenz, Hokkaido University, Routing while scouting: How a slime mold optimizes its transportation network during exploration
14:50 - 15:30 Karen Alim, MPI Göttingen, Mechanism of signal propagation in Physarum polycephalum
15:30 - 16:15 Coffee
16:15 - 17:45 Audrey Dussutour, U Toulouse, Basal Cognition in Slime Molds Workshop keynote, ring lecture scheduled in the series Universal Mechanisms
of Decision-Making
19:00 Workshop Dinner at Ratskeller
19. April 2018, NW1, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, W1180
09:00 - 09:40 Heather Barnett, University of the Arts London, Interspecies Encounters: slime mould as bisocial mediator
09:40 - 10:20 Ursula Damm, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, How to make decisions like an artist?
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 Tanja Huxoll, Universität Bremen, Binary decision-making of Physarum polycephalum
11:30 - 12:00 Jonghyun Lee, Universität Bremen, Alternative growth of Physarum polycephalum
12:00 - 12:30 Adrian Fessel, Universität Bremen, Topological dynamics of (planar) transportation networks
12:30 - 13:00 Jean Daniel Julien, MPI Göttingen, A model for the organization of contractions by fluid flows in Physarum polycephalum
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Free slots & Closing
16:00 - 18:00 Time to meet and discuss and visit local labs