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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 2014-2015 meetings |
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| April 24, 2015 | |||||
| Talks from the winners of the March poster session | |||||
| Kristen Witte, (Glotzer lab) University of Chicago | Optogenetic control of symmetry breaking in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
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| Erin Jonasson, (Goodson lab) University of Notre Dame | Reconsidering the concept of critical concentrationas it applies to microtubules and other steady-state polymers | ||||
Dennis Zimmerman (Kovar lab) Univeristy of Chicago |
Force-dependent regulation of formin Cdc12 by the class II myosin Myo2 during the in vitro reconstituted cytokinesis Search-Capture-Pull event | ||||
| Wen Lu (Gelfand lab) Northwestern University | Kinesin-1-powered microtubule sliding drives axonal regeneration in Drosophila cultured neurons | ||||
| Dr. Smith Freeman Endowed Lecture | |||||
| Eva Nogales, HHMI UC-Berekely | Structural Insights into Microtubule Dynamic Instability and its Regulation using Cryo-EM |
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| March 20, 2015 | |||||
Virginie Buggia-Prevot, Gopal Lab University of Chicago |
BACE1 takes the scenic route to axons: the significance of transcytosis to Alzheimer's disease | ||||
Mojgan Naghavi, Northwestern University |
HIV-1 capsids bind and exploit the kinesin-1 adaptor FEZ1 for inward movement to the nucleus | ||||
| Dileep Varma, Northwestern University | Role of the Ndc80 loop domain and Cdt1 in kinetochore microtubule attachements | ||||
| R. Claudio Aguilar, Purdue University | From basic cell biology research to novel theraputic approaches: The case of Lowe syndrome | ||||
| Brenda Russell, University of Illinois-Chicago | Mechanics regulates actin assembly in human stem cell derived cardiomyocytes | ||||
| Annual Poster session!!!! | 4 winners will be selected to give oral presentations at the April meeting | ||||
| October 17, 2014 | |||||
Cara Gottardi, Northwestern University |
Cell-cell adhesion regulation by the F-actin binding protein alpha catenin | ||||
| Michal Cifra, Czech Republic, University of Chicago | Microtubule electrodynamics associated with vibrational normal modes | ||||
| Yulia Komarova, University of Illinois, Chicago | Microtubule tip as a central node for amplification of calcium signals | ||||
| Scott Brady, University of Illinois, Chicago | Kinases and fast axonal transport: regulation and deregulation | ||||
| Dan Szymanski, Purdue University | Arp2/3 mediated patterning of cytoskeletal and cell wall systems during leaf trichome morphogenesis | ||||
| Margaret Titus, University of Minnesota | MyTH-FERM myosins regulate actin polymerization | ||||
| September 26, 2014 | |||||
Michael Glotzer, University of Chicago |
Closing the GAP - RhoA activation during cytokinesis | ||||
| Sadie Wignall, Northwestern University | A balance of forces drives congression and segregation in C. elegans oocytes | ||||
| Kyle Miller, Michigan State University | Cytoplasmic dynein pushes the cytoskeletal meshwork forward during axonal elongation | ||||
| Allen Liu, University of Michigan | Cell spreading size regulates clathrin-coated pit dynamics through membrane tension | ||||
| Ajit Joglekar, University of Michigan | How microtubule attachment to the kinetochore disrupts the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint | ||||
| Margaret Titus, University of Minnesota | MyTH-FERM myosins regulate actin polymerization | ||||
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