Sunday, July 12 |
2:00 - 11:00 p.m. |
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Registration |
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. |
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Dinner |
Session 1 - Gravity Sensing I: Limits of Gravity Sensing |
7:30 - 7:40 |
Michael Evans
Ohio State Univ
Ruth Anne Eatock
Baylor Coll. Med. |
Welcome and Introduction |
7:40 - 8:20 |
Paul Todd
Univ. Colorado |
Physics of gravisensing |
8:20 - 9:00 |
David Klaus
Univ. Colorado |
Effects of microgravity on the development of microorganisms |
9:00 - 9:10 |
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General Discussion |
9:10 -10:00 |
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Reception |
Monday, July 13
Session 2 - Mechanotransduction I: 'Simple' Model Systems |
Discussion leaders: Cathy Morris and Robert Cleland
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9:00 - 9:10 |
Cathy Morris
Ottawa Civic Hospital
Robert Cleland
Univ. Washington |
Introduction |
9:10 - 9:50 |
Paul Blount
Univ. Texas Southwestern |
Bacterial mechanosensitive channels, from genes to
physiology |
9:50 - 10:30 |
Mike Gustin
Rice Univ |
Pressure-sensing pathways in yeast |
10:30 - 11:00 |
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BREAK: REFRESHMENTS & GROUP PHOTO SESSION |
11:00 - 11:40 |
Owen Hamill
Univ. of Texas, Galveston |
Stretch-activated channels |
11:40 - 12:20 |
Fred Sack
Ohio State Univ. |
Plant gravity sensing: receiving the masses |
12:20 - 12:30 |
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General discussion |
12:30 - 1:30 |
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LUNCH |
1:30 - 6:00 |
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INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS |
6:00 |
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DINNER |
Monday July 13
Session 3 - Mechanotransduction II: Specialized mechanosensors |
Discussion leaders: Andreas Sievers and Jaime Garcia-Añoveros
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7:30 - 7:40 |
Andreas Sievers
Bonn Univ.
Garcia-Añoveros
Harvard Univ. |
Introduction |
8:10 - 8:40 |
Zigmunt Hejnowicz
Silesian Univ. |
Plant responses to mechanical stress |
8:40 - 9:10 |
Monica Driscoll
Rutgers Univ. |
Genetics and models of mechanotransduction in the roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans |
9:10 - 9:20 |
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General discussion |
9:20 - 10:30 |
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POSTER SESSION I AND REFRESHMENTS |
Tuesday July 14
Session 4 - Mechanotransduction III: Specialized mechanosensors continued |
Discussion leaders: Lewis Feldman and Jonathan Ashmore
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9:00 - 9:10 |
Lewis Feldman
UC, Berkeley
Jonathan Ashmore
University College, London |
Introduction |
9:10 - 9:50 |
Birgit Klusener
Ruhr Univ. |
Mechanoreception and calcium channels in plants |
9:50 - 10:30 |
Maurice Kernan
SUNY Stonybrook |
Using Drosophila mutants to find the molecular bases of mechanotransduction |
10:30 - 11:00 |
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Break, Refreshments |
11:00 - 11:40 |
Patrick Masson
Univ. Wisconsin |
Genetics of Arabidopsis root gravitropism |
11:40 - 12:20 |
Peter Gillespie
Johns Hopkins |
Molecular and biophysical approaches to transduction and adaptation in vertebrate hair cells |
12:20 - 12:30 |
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General discussion |
12:30 |
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LUNCH |
1:30 - 6:00 |
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INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS
Put up posters for POSTER SESSION II |
6:00 |
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DINNER |
Tuesday July 14
Session 5 - Gravity sensing I: Functional and genetic models |
Discussion leaders: Stan Roux and Jonathan Ashmore
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7:30 - 7:40 |
Stan Roux
U. Texas Austin
Jonathan Ashmore
University College, London |
Introduction |
7:40 - 8:10 |
Ruth Hemmersbach
Inst. Aerospace Medicine, Köln |
Gravireorientation in protists |
8:10 - 8:40 |
Teresa Nicolson
Max Planck Inst. for Devel. Biol., Tübingen |
Mechanotransduction mutants in Zebrafish |
8:40 - 9:10 |
David Cove
Univ. Leeds, England |
Gravitropism and phototropism in moss |
9:10 - 9:40 |
David Corey
Harvard Univ. |
Genetic approaches to normal function and disease in the inner ear |
9:40 - 9:50 |
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General Discussion |
9:50 - 10:30 |
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POSTER SESSION II, Refreshments |
Wednesday July 15
Session 6 - Gravity sensing II: Structure/function in gravity sensing organs |
Discussion Leaders: Mike Wiederhold and Philip White
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9:00 - 9:10 |
Mike Wiederhold
U Texas San Antonio
Philip White
Univ. Warwick |
Introduction |
9:10 - 9:50 |
Jay Goldberg
Univ. Chicago |
Why do amniote vestibular organs have type I hair cells? |
9:50 - 10:30 |
Andrew Staehelin
Univ. Colorado |
Morphology of the gravisensing apparatus of root columella cells |
10:30 - 11:00 |
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Break, Refreshments |
11:00 - 11:40 |
Guy Richardson
Univ. Sussex, England |
Tectorins: Matrix molecules of the inner ear |
11:40 - 12:20 |
Elison Blancaflor
Penn State |
Selective laser ablation of gravisensing cells in roots of Arabidopsis |
12:20 - 12:30 |
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General Discussion |
12:30 |
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LUNCH |
1:30 - 6:00 |
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INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS |
6:00 |
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DINNER |
Wednesday July 15
Session 7 - Gravity Sensing III: Systems Level |
Discussion Leaders: Laurence Young and Rainer Hertel
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7:30 - 7:40 |
Laurence Young
MIT
Rainer Hertel
Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany |
Introduction |
7:40 - 8:05 |
Dora Angelaki
U. Miss. Med. Center, Jackson |
How does the brain distinguish gravity from linear acceleration? |
8:05 - 8:30 |
Terri Lomax
Oregon State |
Gravitropic response mutants of tomato: Interactions with multiple hormones and light |
8:30 - 8:55 |
Dan Merfeld
R.S. Dow Neurol. Institute, Portland |
Do humans use an "internal model" to separate gravity from linear acceleration? |
8:55 - 9:20 |
Roger Hangarter
Indiana Univ. |
Interactions between phytochromes and gravitropic response systems in Arabidopsis |
9:20 -9:30 |
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General discussion |
9:30 - 10:30 |
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POSTER SESSION II, AND REFRESHMENTS |
Thursday July 16
Session 8 - Gravity sensing IV: Development/Cellular Mechanisms |
Discussion Leaders: Gloria Muday and Jeff Corwin
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9:00 - 9:10 |
Gloria Muday
Wake Forest University
Jeff Corwin
Univ. Virginia |
Introduction |
9:10 - 9:50 |
Klaus Palme
Max Planck Inst., Köln |
Polar auxin transport - molecular-genetic dissection of an elusive pathway |
9:50 - 10:30 |
Donna Fekete
Purdue Univ. |
Development of the inner ear |
10:30 - 11:00 |
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BREAK, REFRESHMENTS |
11:00 - 11:40 |
Richard Cyr
Penn State Univ. |
Plant gravity sensing: receiving the masses
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11:40 - 12:20 |
Bernd Fritzsch
Creighton Univ. |
Mechanisms that guide and maintain proper connections between the ear and the brain |
12:20 - 12:30 |
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General Discussion |
12:30 |
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LUNCH |
1:30 - 6:00 |
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INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS |
6:00 |
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BANQUET |
Thursday July 16
Session 9 - The Big Picture |
Discussion Leader: Tom Scott
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7:30 - 7:35 |
Tom Scott
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC |
Introduction |
7:35 - 8:35 |
Jay Buckey
NASA-Johnson Space Center |
Neuroscience Research in Space: The Neurolab Spacelab Mission. |
8:35 - 9:35 |
Jack Cohen
Univ. Warwick, England |
Evolution and extraterrestrial life forms |
9:35 - 9:55 |
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General discussion |
9:55 - 10:30 |
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Business Meeting
(Advisability of 7th Bi-annual meeting and if so, election of Vice - Chair) |
Friday, July 17 |
8:00 a.m. |
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Breakfast |
9:00 a.m. |
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Departure |