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| Upcoming Meetings & Schedule | Location and Directions | Steering Committee | |||
| Meeting Schedule: | |||||
| 2:30
- 3:00 pm Arrival, registration, badge pick-up, poster set-up, speaker
A/V check 3:00 - 7:00 pm six talks with 15 minute break midway 7:00 - 8:00 pm Posters, refreshments, social hour |
Contact:
Dr. Holly Goodson (Notre Dame University) hgoodson (at) nd.edu |
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Upcoming
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| March 26, 2010 | 5 talks and the poster session | ||||
| April 23, 2010 | 4 student talks and | ||||
| Keynote lecture by Dr. Tim Mitchison | |||||
| Past Meetings: | |||||
| October 23, 2009 | Huges Auditorium, Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center | ||||
| Witchuda Saengsawang | Molecular mechanisms for G2α modulation of microtubule dynamics | University of Illinois-Chicago | |||
| Crista Brawley | Unconventional myosin motor tracking on native actin cytoskeletons | University of Chicago | |||
| Roop Malik | Tug-of-war between many dyneins and one kinesin regulates transport and | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, | |||
| fission of endosomes | India | ||||
| Shabeen Ally | Opposite-polarity motors activate one another to drive cargo transport in live cells | Northwestern University | |||
| Gerardo Morfini | Axxon-autonomous effects of mutants SOD1 on fast axonal transport | University of Illinois-Chicago | |||
| Eric Weiss | Cell architecture control by an Ndr/LATs signalling network | Northwestern University | |||
| September 18 , 2009 | Huges Auditorium, Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center | ||||
| Sofia Zaichick | A 330 KDa viral structural protein is a herpesvirus microtubule motor receptor | Northwestern University | |||
| Kevin Hamil | ß4 regulates keratinocyte lamellipodia formation and persistence in a BPAG1e- | Northwestern University | |||
| dependent and plectin-independent fashion | |||||
| Xiaoqi Liu | Phosphorylation of CLIP-170 by both Plk1 and CK2 is essential for formation of | Purdue University | |||
| kinetochore-microtubule attachments | |||||
| Teng-Leong Chew | Modulation of endothelial contractile function during breast cancer transcellular | Northwestern University | |||
| intravasation | |||||
| Kris DeMali | Vinculin regulates cell surface E-cadherin expression | University of Iowa | |||
| Meg Titus | An unconventional myosin required for cell polarization and chemotaxis | University of Minnesota | |||
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| Past meetings: | 2007-8 | ||||
| 2008-9 | |||||