Subgroup Co-Chairs: Ekaterina Grishchuk, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, USA, and Brett Colson, University of Arizona, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 303/304 

Business Meeting:  10:35 -10:45 AM PST

8:30 AM Tom Surrey, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, SPAIN
Motor Properties Required to Organize Microtubule Networks into Bipolar Spindles

 

9:00 AM Doug Swank, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Does Stretch Activation Increase Skeletal Muscle Endurance?

 

9:15 AM Luke Rice, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Teaching a TOG New Tricks

 

9:30 AM Charlie Scarff, Leeds School of Medicine, UK
Myosin in Motion: Mechanistic Insights and Molecular Modulation

 

9:45 AM Spotlight Awardee Talk: Jeff Moore, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA
Emergent Motility Across Scales: Mechanism, Mentorship, and Muscle

 

10:00 AM Student/Postdoc Flash Talk Introduction

 

10:01 AM  Andrew Hensley, University of Michigan, USA
Enhanced Processivity and Collective Force Production of Kinesins at Low Radial Forces

 

10:05 AM Sanjana Nistala, Yale University, USA
Y261 Tropomyosin Variants Alter Calcium Sensitivity and Relaxation Kinetics via Disrupted Troponin T Interactions

 

10:09 AM Kahmina Ford, University of California-Berkeley, USA
Matrix Stress Relaxation Switches the Role of Cofilin-1 in Regulating Glioblastoma 3D Cell Invasion

 

10:13 AM Flash Talk Q&A

 

10:15 AM Matthew Childers, University of Washington, USA
Modeling Myosin’s Departure from the IHM with Molecular Simulation

 

10:25 AM Break

 

10:40 AM Business Meeting

 

10:45 AM Early Career Awardee Talk: Morgan DeSantis, University of Michigan, USA
 Mechanisms of Dynein Regulation

 

11:00 AM Iva Tolić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, CROATIA
Mechanobiology and Universal Scaling of the Mitotic Spindle

 

11:15 AM Chris Yengo, The Pennsylvania State University- College of Medicine, USA
Structural and Biochemical Insights into the Autoinhibition Mechanism in Cardiac Muscle Myosin

 

11:30 AM Matt Caporizzo, The University of Vermont, USA
Measuring Diastolic Function In Myocardial Slices from HFpEF Rats

 

11:45 AM Steve Rosenfeld, Mayo Clinic, USA
Non-Muscle Myosin II is a Therapeutic Target in Cancer

 

12:00 PM Leslie Leinwand, BioFrontiers Institute, USA
KEYNOTE TALK: Translating Extreme Python Biology to Mammals