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: 3:25PM-3:45PM PST
Speakers:
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 Jan Brugues, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Robust Cytoplasmic Partitioning by Solving an Intrinsic Cytoskeletal Instability
3:05 PM Flash Talks: TBA
3:45 PM Ahmet Yildiz, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Regulation of Microtubule Motors by MAPs
4:00 PM 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 Tarun Kapoor, The Rockefeller University, USA
Regulating When and Where a Microtubule Assembles: Put a g-tubulin Ring On It