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| April 18, 2014 |
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| Jeijei Li (Staiger lab) |
Actin Dynamics is a central node for innate immune signaling in plants |
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| Hui-Chia Yu (Brieher lab) |
Collapsin response mediator protein-1 regulates Arp2/3-dependent actin structure |
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| Yusuke Fukuda (Gupta lab) |
Spatial control of microtubule length and lifetime by opposing stabilizing and destabilizing functions of Kinesin 8 |
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| John Winkelman (Kovar lab) |
Ena/VASP Enabled is a highly processive actin polymerase tailored to self- assemble parallel-bundled F-actin networks with Fascin |
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Dr. Smith Freeman Endowed Lecture |
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| Tom Pollard (Yale University) |
Molecular mechanisms of cytokinesis and endocytosis |
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| March 14, 2014 |
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| Alpha Yap |
Active junctions: balancing contractility and actin homeostasis |
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| Adriana Dawes |
Initiation of polarization in the early C. elegans embryo |
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| Orly Lazarov |
Title TBA |
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| Daniel Suter |
Src and cortactin regulate growth cone lamellipodia and filopodia |
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| Sally Horne-Badovinac |
Round and Round – epithelial rotation and planar polarity in elongating egg chambers |
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| Past Meetings: |
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October 25, 2013
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Seth Corey
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BAR none: remodeling membranes and the cytoskeleton in platelets biogenesis
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Northwestern University
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Alexander Jilkine
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Establishment and maintenance of a unique front and back during cell polarization
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University of Notre Dame
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Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan
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Myosin lever arm directs emergence of collective movement patterns |
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University of Michigan |
Moe Gupta
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The kinesin-8 Kip3 functions as both a spatially controlled microtubule stabilizer and
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destabilizer during spindle alignment
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Mark Burkard
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Cell fate after failed cytokinesis
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University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Sid Shaw
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Reorganization of the cortical microtubule arrays in acentriolar plant cells
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Indiana University |
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September 27, 2013
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| Patrick Oakes (Gardel Lab) |
Geometry regulates traction stresses in adherent cells |
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University of Chicago |
| Primal de Lanerolle |
Nuclear actin dynamics regulate nuclear structure and transcription |
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University of Illinois-Chicago |
| Joshua Shrout |
Surface motility and group behavior of Pseudomonas aeriginosa |
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University of Notre Dame |
| Ed Munro |
Dynamic coupling of actin assembly and Rho activation underlies pulsed |
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contraction in C. elegans
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| Bill Brieher |
Compare and contrast Aip1 and capping protein in actin filament disassembly |
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Robert Goldman
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Rare diseases provide remarkable new insights into the regulation of |
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