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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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| April 21st, 2017 | ||||||
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Timothy Mullen (Wignall Lab, Northwestern University) |
Minus-end kinesins and SPD-1(PRC1) provide complementary mechanisms to organize acentriolar C. elegans oocyte spindles | |||||
| Michael Kelliher (Wildonger Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Polarized dendritic transport in neurons relies on kinesin-1 autoinhibition | |||||
Katie Homa (Kovar Lab, University of Chicago) |
Competition between fimbrin and tropomyosin is required for their proper sorting to distinct F-actin networks in fission yeast | |||||
Sahezeel Awadia (Garcia-Mata Lab, University of Toledo) |
The RhoG exchange factor SGEF forms a ternary complex with two members of the Scribble polarity complex, Scribble and Dlg1 at junction in epithelial cells | |||||
| Torey Arnold (Miller Lab, University of Michigan) | Anillin regulates epithelial cell mechanics by structuring the medial-apical actin network | |||||
Keynote Address: Laurent Blanchoin (CNRS, Grenoble, France) |
Directed actin cytoskeleton self-organization, contractility and motility |
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| March 24th, 2017 | ||||||
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Chunhua Zhang (Purdue University) |
Chemical Genetics and Membrane Trafficking Pathways in Plants | |||||
| Alexandra Naba (University of Illinois-Chicago) | The Matrisome Project: in silico prediction and proteomic characterization of the extracellular matrix of tissues and tumors | |||||
Marija Zanic (Vanderbilt University) |
Processive motility of multi-motor kinesin-14 teams underlies regulation of microtubule minus-end dynamics | |||||
Bill Bement (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
Pattern formation in cell repair | |||||
| Patricia Wadsworth (UMass- Amherst) | Regulation of mitotic motors in mammalian cells | |||||
| October 21st, 2016 | ||||||
Holly Goodson (Notre Dame) |
Interactions between tau and microtubules: old dog, new tricks? | |||||
| Alex French (Rock Lab - University of Chicago) | Optogenetically controlled cargo shows full length human myosin VI integrates activation signals in vivo and in vitro | |||||
| Daniel Shaye (UIC College of Medicine) | Regulation of tubulogenesis by a formin network in C. elegans | |||||
| Jared Cochran (Indiana University) | Noncanonical Microtubule Interaction of Yeast Kinesin-5 Cin8 | |||||
| Brian Mitchell (Northwestern University) | The microtubule stabilizing protein, CLAMP, regulates planar cell polarity | |||||
| Chris Staiger (Purdue University) | Myosin XI plays a role in cellulose production and membrane protein trafficking | |||||
| September 23rd, 2016 | ||||||
| Brian Galleta (NIH-NHLBI) | A Detailed Centrosome Interactome Reveals A Novel Role Of Plk4 And Provides Insight Into The Mechanisms Of Human Centrosome Disease | |||||
| Ruth Sommese (University of Minnesota) | Dissecting the regulation of myosin motility through the motor-cargo interface | |||||
| Colleen Skau (NIH-NHLBI) | FMN2 is a melanoma metastasis-promoter that mediates formation of a perinuclear actin/adhesion system to protect nuclei and DNA from damage during confined cell migration | |||||
| Andrei Karginov (University of Illinois, Chicago) | How to train your enzymes: engineered control of protein kinases and phosphatases in living cells | |||||
| Spiro Getsios (Northwestern University) | Eph/ephrin signaling in epithelial tissue compartment organization | |||||
| David Kovar (University of Chicago) | Single molecule imaging of reconstituted F-actin networks | |||||
| March 24th, 2017 | ||||||
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