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| Upcoming Meetings & Schedule | Location and Directions | Steering Committee | |||
| Meeting Schedule: | |||||
| 2:30
- 3:00 pm Arrival, registration, badge pick-up, poster set-up, speaker
A/V check 3:00 - 7:00 pm six talks with 15 minute break midway 7:00 - 8:00 pm Posters, refreshments, social hour |
Contact:
Dr. Holly Goodson (Notre Dame University) hgoodson (at) nd.edu |
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| Upcoming Meetings: | |||||
October
21, 2011 |
Huges Auditorium, Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center | ||||
Moe
Gupta |
Spatial
regulation of microtubule dynamics by kinesin-8 Kip3 |
University
of Chicago |
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Bill
Brieher |
Biochemical
dissection of cadherin-actin interactions |
University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Greg
Voth |
A
molecular scale perspective on actin filament structure and dynamics |
University
of Chicago |
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Kate
Eisenmann |
A
role for mDia formins in epithelial ovarian cancer spheroid invasion |
University
of Toledo |
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Erik
Dent |
Lifting
a veil on neurite formation: An F-Bar protein acting unconventionally |
University
of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Steve
Rosenfeld |
Switches
and transmissions in kinesin motors |
Case
Western Reserve University |
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Past
Meetings this year: |
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Sepetmber
16, 2011 |
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Devin
Strickland |
Optical
control of cell signaling in budding yeast |
University
of Chicago |
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Dennis
Zimmerman |
Two
transport systems, one goal: How is networking of the cytoskeleton achieved? |
Ludwig-Maximilians
University |
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| Holly
Goodson |
The
microtubule plus-end tracking protein EB1 binds to actin and promotes
actin |
University
of Notre Dame |
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polymerization |
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Sadie
Wignall |
Building
a spindle without centrosomes: Oocyte meiosis in C. elegans |
Northwestern
University |
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Anders
Carlsson |
Waves
and patches of F-actin in dendritic actin nucleation |
Washington
University, St. Louis |
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Kurt
Amann |
Form and function of the bacterial cytoskeleton and their implications for the | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
| evolution of large, squishy cells like yours | |||||
April
22, 2011 |
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| Michael Werner | The cytoskeleton promotes the establishment of rotational polarity by connecting | Northwestern University | |||
| individual basal bodies and regulating their distribution in multiciliated cells | |||||
Rania
Rizk |
Regulation of anaphase spindle length by the Kinesin-8 Kip3 | Northwestern University | |||
Mark
Seeger |
The Kinesin-1 C-terminal tail is intrinsically disordered | Northwestern University | |||
Jessica
Henty |
ADF4 is important for actin turnover in the cortical array of plant cells | Purdue University | |||
| Dr. Smith Freeman Endowed Lecture | |||||
Rebecca
Heald |
Mitotic Spindle Assembly and Scaling | University of California-Berkeley | |||
| September 17 , 2010 | |||||
| Shahir Rizk | Generating conformationally specific synthetic antibodies for modulating cytoskeletal | University of Chicago | |||
| structure and controlling ligand binding affinity | |||||
| Nava Segev | Ypt/Rab GTPases and traffic coordination | Univ of Illinois-Chicago | |||
| Ed Munro | Dynamics of cell polarization in the early C. elegans embryos | University of Chicago | |||
| Alan Hunt | High microtubule growth variability indicates near-kHz assembly kinetics | University of Michigan | |||
| Primal de Lanerolle | A pseudogene that regulates the expression of a cytoskeletal protein in human cancer | Univ of Illinois-Chicago | |||
| Michael Glotzer | The great divide: Positioning the plane of cell division | University of Chicago | |||
| October 22, 2010 | |||||
Crislyn
D’Souza-Schorey |
Early events in epithelial gland disruption | Notre Dame University | |||
Jon
Audhya |
From the simple worm to regulatory mechanisms that govern tissue architecture | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
Magdalena
Bezanilla |
PI(3,5)P2 is critical for formin function in tip growth | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | |||
Beth
Weaver |
Aneuploidy acts both oncogenically and as a tumor suppressor | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
| Robert
Goldman |
Insights into the role of intermediate filaments in cell motility: Vimentin assembly | Northwestern University | |||
| modulates the formation of lamellipodia | |||||
Wei-Lih
Lee |
Regulated cortical targeting of cytoplasmic dynein in budding yeast | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | |||
| March 18, 2011 | |||||
Chung
Tse |
Astral microtubules sequester anillin to induce cortical myosin polarization | University of Chicago | |||
James
Bartles |
Stereociliary Defects in Espin-Null Mice: Does Espin’s Cooperative Over-Twisting of | Northwestern University | |||
| Actin Filaments Hold the Key? | |||||
Dave
Kovar |
Fimbrin: To crosslink actin filaments or not? | University of Chicago | |||
Jocylyn
McDonald |
Mechanisms regulating collective cell migration: a new role for Par-1 in actomyosin | Cleveland Clinic | |||
| dynamics | |||||
Margaret
Gardel |
Mechanics of the Lamellar Actomyosin Cytoskeleton | University of Chicago | |||
| Past meetings: | 2007-2008 | ||||
| 2008-2009 | |||||
| 2009-2010 | |||||