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| Meetings & Schedule | Location and Directions | Steering Committee | |||
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2:30 - 3:00 pm Arrival, registration, speaker A/V check 3:00 – 5:30 pm five talks with 15 minute break midway 5:30 - 6:30 pm Keynote address 6:30-7:30 pm refreshments, social hour |
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| Dates for 2015-2016 meetings |
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| April 22nd 2016 | |||||
Ahmed Athamneh (Suter Lab - Purdue University)
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Modeling mechanically-induced growth cone advance reveals the importance of micrometer-scale elastic adhesion structures in rigidity sensing |
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Jenna Christensen (Kovar Lab - University of Chicago)
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Competitive and cooperative interactions between actin binding proteins drive their sorting to different actin cytoskeleton networks |
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Kevin Kruse (Komarova Lab - University of Illinois at Chicago)
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The role of N-cadherin signaling on endothelial barrier integrity |
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Patrick McCall (Gardel Lab - University of Chicago)
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ADF/Cofilin drives rapid turnover to fluidize entangled F-actin solutions |
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Michael Winding (Gelfand Lab - Northwestern University)
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Kinesin-1 based microtubule sliding is essential for Drosophila nervous system development |
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Julie Theriot (Stanford University)
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| March 18th 2016 | |||||
Jing Zheng (Northwestern University)
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A story of Camsap3 in Usher syndrome 1D: Does Cadherin 23 have any role in regulating MT network |
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Sarah Rice (Northwestern University)
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Src kinase phosphoregulation of the human mitotic kinesin, Eg5 |
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Jian-Qiu Wu (Ohio State University)
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Membrane dynamics during fission yeast cytokinesis |
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Trina Schroer (Johns Hopkins University)
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The Dynein/Dynactin Motor: From structure to the Clinic |
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Annual Poster Session!!!!
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4 winners will be selected to give oral presentations at the april meeting |
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| October 16th 2015 | |||||
Elizabeth Wagner (Glotzer lab-University of Chicago)
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RhoA activation is suffecient to induce cleavage furrow formation in metaphase and anaphase: an optogenetic analysis of cytokinesis |
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Derrick McVicker (Dent lab- University of Wisconsin Madison)
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Direct transport of a kinesin/cargo pair along newly polymerized microtubules into dendritic spines undergoing synapitic plasticity |
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Derek Walsh (Northwestern University)
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The role of microtubules in herpesvirus infection |
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Vivian Tang (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Regulation of alpha-actinin and actin assmbly at cell adhesive contacts by actomyosin contractility |
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Clare Waterman (National Institutes of Health)
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A novel actin-adhesion strucutre requiring the formin FMN2 positions the nucleus and protects it from mechanically induced DNA damage |
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| September 25th 2015 | |||||
Tina Tootle (The University of Iowa)
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Fascin regulates nuclear actin during Drosophila oogenesis |
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Jenifer Prosperi (IU School of Medicine - South Bend)
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Regulation of APC-mediated epithelial dynamics |
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Gant Luxton (University of Minnesota)
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Dystonia and Defective Nuclear-Cytoskeletal Coupling |
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Ted Hinchcliffe (University of Minnesota)
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A fail-safe device that monitors inadvertent aneuploidy caused by chromosome missegregation during mitosis |
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Sergey Troyanovsky (Northwestern University)
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Actin-dependent mechanisms of adherens junction assembly and dynamics |
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Mark Rasenick (University of Illinois - Chicago)
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G protein signaling and the microtubule cytoskeleton |
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