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| THE CHICAGO CYTOSKELETON | |||||||||||||
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| Meetings & Schedule | Location and Directions | Steering Committee | |||||||||||
| Meeting Schedule: | |||||||||||||
2:30 - 3:00 pm Arrival, registration, speaker A/V check 3:00 – 5:00 pm 4 talks with 15 minute break midway 5:30-7:00 pm refreshments, poster session |
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| 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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| Past meetings: | 2007-2008 | ||||||||||||
| 2008-2009 | |||||||||||||
| 2009-2010 | |||||||||||||
| 2010-2011 | |||||||||||||
| 2011-2012 | |||||||||||||
| 2012-2013 | |||||||||||||
| 2013-2014 | |||||||||||||
| 2014-2015 |
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| 2015-2016 | |||||||||||||
| 2016-2017 |
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| 2017-2018 | |||||||||||||
| 2018-2019 | |||||||||||||
| 2019-2020 | |||||||||||||
| 2020-2021 | |||||||||||||