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| Meetings & Schedule | Location and Directions | Steering Committee | ||||||||||||||||
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2:30 - 3:00 pm Speaker log on and A/V check 3:00 – 6:00 pm four student/postdoc talks an our Keynote Address 6:00-7:30 pm Reception
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| April 15th, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Xiayi Liao (IUPUI) |
A novel population of short actin filaments at stereocilia tips | |||||||||||||||||
| Samuel Gonzalez (University of Minnesota) | Rapid binding to protofilament edge sites can explain tip tracking of EB1 at growing microtubule tips | |||||||||||||||||
Weiwei Zhang (Purdue University) |
Arabidopsis myosin XIK interacts with the exocyst complex to facilitate vesicle tethering during exocytosis | |||||||||||||||||
Veronica Farmer (Vanderbilt University) |
XMAP215 promotes microtubule catastrophe by disrupting the growing microtubule end | |||||||||||||||||
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (HHMI - Janelia) |
Emerging imaging technologies to study cell architecture, dynamics and function | |||||||||||||||||
March 18th, 2022 |
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Patrick Oakes (Loyola University Chicago ) |
Mechanosensitivity of the LIM Domain protein Testins | |||||||||||||||||
| Taeyoon Kim (Purdue University) | Reconstructing Actomyosin Contractility in Silico | |||||||||||||||||
Ian Schneider (Iowa State University) |
Uncovering F-actin regulation that drives cell decisions during directional migration | |||||||||||||||||
Dileep Varma (Northwestner University) |
The Ndc80 complex coordinates with the kinetochore motors for the initial kinetochore-microtubule capture during early mitosis | |||||||||||||||||
| October 15th, 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Joshua Bembenek (University of Michigan) |
Cell Cycle Control of Oocyte Meiosis | |||||||||||||||||
| Morgan DeSantis (University of Michigan) | A novel dynein regulatory protein controls cell migration | |||||||||||||||||
Mira Krendel (Upstate Medical University) |
Force generation in phagocytosis: the role of actin polymerization and myosin motor activity | |||||||||||||||||
Rafael Garcia-Mata (University of Toledo) |
The Cdc42-GAP ARHGAP17 targets to invadopodia and regulates their turnover as part of an ARHGAP17/Cdc42/CIP4 complex | |||||||||||||||||
| September 17th, 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Pinar Zorlutuna (University of Notre Dame) |
Influence of Aged Tissue Matrix on Epithelial Cell Phenotype | |||||||||||||||||
| Wen Lu (Northwestern University) | Microtubule gliding by cortical dynein transfers cytoplasm to Drosophila oocytes | |||||||||||||||||
Ekram Emrah Er (University of Illinoi- Chicago) |
Biophysical characteristics of disseminated cancer cells sensitize them to mechanosurveillance | |||||||||||||||||
Katherine White (university of Notre Dame) |
Role for single-cell pH dynamics in cel-cycle progression and cytokinesis | |||||||||||||||||
| Past meetings: | 2007-2008 | |||||||||||||||||
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