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THE CHICAGO CYTOSKELETON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Meetings & Schedule | Location and Directions | Steering Committee | |||||||||||||||||||||
Meeting Schedule: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2:30 - 3:00 pm Arrival, registration, speaker A/V check 3:00 – 4:00 pm Long talks (15 min each + 5 min for questions) 4:00 - 4:35 pm Short talks (10 min each + 2 min for questions) 4:50 - 5:50 pm Chicago Cytoskeleton Keynote Address by Tarun Kapoor |
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April, 21st Poster Contest Winners and Keynote Lecture 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Alexia Caillier (Lab of Patrick Oakes, Loyola University Chicago) | T cells switch migration mode to maneuver complex environments | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Destiny Wallace (Lab of Dileep Varma, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine) | Nuclear Envelope Reformation is Linked to Centromere Assembly | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Enzo Bresteau (Lab of Brian Mitchell, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine) | Macropinocytosis Regulates Membrane Tension During Epithelial Morphogenesis | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Chen (Lab of Courtney Schroeder, University of Texas Southwestern) | Diversification of alpha-tubulin for tissue-specific roles with functional consequences in cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Shreya Chandrasekar (Lab of Patrick Oakes, Loyola University Chicago) | Deciphering the role of RhoA and cell geometry in septin recruitment to the actin cortex | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Shailaja Seetharaman (Lab of Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago) | LIM domain protein FHL2 drives an atherosclerotic phenotype by altering cytoskeleton-adhesion crosstalk | Tarun Kapoor, The Rockefeller University | Regulating when and where a microtubule assembles: put a gamma-tubulin ring on it | ||||||||||||||||||||
March, 24th 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Mohan Gupta (Iowa State) | Orchestrating groups of microtubules in a shared cytoplasm | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Luke Rice (UT Southwestern) | Looking under the hood of microtubule dynamics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chris Staiger (Purdue) | Cooperative actin filament nucleation in the homeostatic cortical array of plant cells | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jordan Beach (Loyola Chicago) | Non-muscle myosin 2 filaments are processive in cells | ||||||||||||||||||||||
POSTER SESSION | |||||||||||||||||||||||
October, 21st 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Melissa Quintanilla (Lab of Jordan Beach, Loyola University Chicago) | It’s a trap! Mechanisms of non-muscle myosin 2 assembly | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur Molines (Lab of Fred Chang, UCSF) | Viscosity decouples microtubule lifetime from polymerization rate | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Ankur Saxena (University of Illinois Chicago) | Heartbreak: A non-canonical role for the cardiomyocyte cytoskeleton in atrial arrhythmia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Monica Lee (University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine) | Identifying the role of nuclear pore components in vascular function | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stephanie Eisenbarth (Northwestern University) | The role of the cytoskeleton in dendritic cell migration | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Margaret Gardel (University of Chicago) | How adherent cells find and use their force | ||||||||||||||||||||||
September, 23rd 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Jenna Christensen (lab of Sam Reck-Peterson, UCSD): | Uncovering novel modes and unifying themes of intracellular transport using fungal comparative biology | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Meenal Datta (University of Notre Dame) | Abnormal mechanics in brain tumors: implications for therapy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Functions of the small GTPase Rap1 in collective cell migration and tissue morphogenesis | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Jungsu Kim (Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis) | The role of ABI3 in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Kevin Vaughan (University of Notre Dame) | Lysosomal tubulation and neurodegeneration: a novel therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chris Staiger (Purdue University) | Cooperative actin filament nucleation in the homeostatic cortical array of plant cells | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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