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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 – 5:30 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, 20th 2018 | ||||||
| Nikita Divekar (Wignall Lab, Northwestern Univesity) | AIR-2/Aurora B kinase activity is essential for key events in C. elegans oocyte meiosis | |||||
| Alyssa Harker (Kovar Lab, University of Chicago) | Characterizing the processive mechanism of Ena/VASP on diverse F-actin bundles | |||||
| Mohammed Amin (Varma Lab, Northwestern University) | Antagonism between dynein and Ndc80 complexes at kinetochores controls the stability of kinetochore-microtubule attachments during mitosis | |||||
| Elizabeth Lawrence (Zanic Lab, Vanderbuilt University | Human CLASP2 specifically regulates microtubule catastrophe and rescue | |||||
| Dr. Smith Freem Endowed Lecture: | ||||||
| Jennifer Zallen (HHMI / Sloan Kettering Institute) | Signals, forces, and cells: Decoding tissue morphogenesis | |||||
| March, 16th 2018 | ||||||
| Robert Carrillo (University of Chicago) | Mechansims driving synaptic connectivity | |||||
| Puck Ohi (University of Michigan) | Total inhibition of mitotic spindle assembly in animal cells | |||||
Glen Hocky (Voth Lab, University of Chicago) |
Self-organization of actin binding proteins to different architectures |
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| Kristen Verhey (University of Michigan) | Structural and functional diversity across the kinesin superfamily | |||||
| POSTER SESSION!! | Please email your your abstracts to Holly Goodson by March 9th. | |||||
| The 4 winners of the poster competetion will be invited to present their work at the April 20th meeting. | ||||||
| Oct, 20th 2017 | ||||||
| Tyler Lewis (Joe Besharse Lab, Medical College of Wisconsin) | Cone myoid elongation involves unidirectional microtubule movement mediated by dynein-1 | |||||
| Kim Weirich (Margaret Gardel Lab, University of Chicago) | Self organization in active biopolymer droplets | |||||
| Dileep Varma (Northwestern University) | Human Replication Licensing Factor Cdt1 Serves as an Essential Link for Stabilizing Kinetochore Microtubule Attachments | |||||
| Sangyoon Han (Michigan Tech University) | Early Competition of actin and vinculin for talin-binding dictates NA’s maturation and force transmission | |||||
| Naomi Courtemanche (University of Minnesota) | All roads lead to the barbed end: Evaluating multiple pathways for subunit addition in formin-mediated actin filament elongation | |||||
| Subhojit Roy (University of Wisconsin, Madison) | Slow Axonal Transport of Actin | |||||
| Sept 15th, 2017 | ||||||
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| Mike Kelliher (Jill Wildonger Lab, University of Wiconsin, Madison) | Regulated autoinhibition of kinesin-1 is essential to polarized dendritic transport | |||||
Xiaoyang Wu (University of Chicago) |
ACF7 regulates inflammatory colitis and intestinal wound response by orchestrating microtubule and tight junction dynamics | |||||
Jordan Beach (Loyola University Chicago) |
Live-cell Dynamics of Myosin 2: New Models from New Imaging | |||||
| Luke Rice (UT Southwestern Medical Center) | Design principles of a microtubule polymerase | |||||
Bill Brieher (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
Re-examining the function of an actin filament crosslinking protein | |||||
| Kevin Vaughan (University of Notre Dame) | StARD9 is a Novel Transmembrane Kinesin in Late Endosomes and Lysosomes Required for Purkinje Neuron Survival | |||||
| Upcoming meetings: | ||||||
April 20, 2018 (Special Guest Seminar by Jen Zallen, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center). |
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| Past meetings: | 2007-2008 | |||||
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