Subgroup Co-Chairs: Sophie Dumont, University of California, San Fransisco, USA and Radhika Subramanian, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM - 5:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 515A 

Business Meeting:  3:35PM-3:45PM PST

1:30 PM James Spudich, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
From Fundamental Biochemistry and Biophysics to Mechanisms to Unique Medicines

 

2:00 PM Christina Huechen, University of California, San Diego, USA
Gliding and Invasion of Toxoplasma gondii

 

2:15 PM Benjamin Larson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Principles of Cellular Behavior: Integrating Cellular Structure, Dynamics, and Decision Making in a Unicellular Walker

 

2:30 PM Sarah Heissler, Ohio State College of Medicine, USA
Mechanisms of Nonmuscle Myosin-2

 

2:45 PM Spotlight Awardee Talk: Dana Nikki Reinemann, University of Mississippi, USA

 

3:01 PM Flash Talks: Gopal Niraula, Crystal Noell, Leila Farhadi,

 

3:10 PM Selected Talk from Poster: Jing Xu, 

 

3:20 PM Break

 

3:35 Business Meeting

 

3:45 PM Ahmet Yildiz, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Regulation of Microtubule Motors by MAPs

 

4:00 PM Early Career Awarde Talk: Charlotte Aumeier, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The Dynamic Microtubule Lattice

 

4:15 PM Peter Bieling, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
Controlling Actin Dynamics at Filament Ends - Structural and Biochemical Insights

 

4:30 PM Kyoko Chiba, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS), Tohoku University, Japan
Biochemical and Biophysical Analysis of ALS-Associated KIF5A Mutant

 

4:45 PM Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, EMBL Australia Node for Single Molecule Science, Australia
Unravelling How Motors and Adaptor Proteins Work Together to Mediate Cargo Transport in Cells

 

5:00 PM KEYNOTE TALK: Tarun Kapoor, The Rockefeller University, USA
Regulating When and Where a Microtubule Assembles: Put a g-tubulin Ring On It